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Whispering Smith

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by Frank H. Spearman


  THE NOVELS OF

  WINSTON CHURCHILL

  THE INSIDE OF THE CUP. Illustrated by Howard Giles.

  The Reverend John Hodder is called to a fashionable church in amiddle-western city. He knows little of modern problems and in histheology is as orthodox as the rich men who control his church coulddesire. But the facts of modern life are thrust upon him; an awakeningfollows and in the end he works out a solution.

  A FAR COUNTRY. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.

  This novel is concerned with big problems of the day. As The Inside ofthe Cup gets down to the essentials in its discussion of religion, soA Far Country deals in a story that is intense and dramatic, withother vital issues confronting the twentieth century.

  A MODERN CHRONICLE. Illustrated by J. H. Gardner Soper.

  This, Mr. Churchill's first great presentation of the EternalFeminine, is throughout a profound study of a fascinating youngAmerican woman. It is frankly a modern love story.

  MR. CREWE'S CAREER. Illus. by A. I. Keller and Kinneys.

  A new England state is under the political domination of a railway andMr. Crewe, a millionaire, seizes a moment when the cause of the peopleis being espoused by an ardent young attorney, to further his owninterest in a political way. The daughter of the railway presidentplays no small part in the situation.

  THE CROSSING. Illustrated by S. Adamson and L. Baylis.

  Describing the battle of Fort Moultrie, the blazing of the Kentuckywilderness, the expedition of Clark and his handful of followersin Illinois, the beginning of civilization along the Ohio andMississippi, and the treasonable schemes against Washington.

  CONISTON. Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn.

  A deft blending of love and politics. A New Englander is the hero, acrude man who rose to political prominence by his own powers, and thensurrendered all for the love of a woman.

  THE CELEBRITY. An episode.

  An inimitable bit of comedy describing an interchange of personalitiesbetween a celebrated author and a bicycle salesman. It is the purest,keenest fun--and is American to the core.

  THE CRISIS. Illustrated with scenes from the Photo-Play.

  A book that presents the great crisis in our national life withsplendid power and with a sympathy, a sincerity, and a patriotism thatare inspiring.

  RICHARD CARVEL. Illustrated by Malcolm Frazer.

  An historical novel which gives a real and vivid picture of Colonialtimes, and is good, clean, spirited reading in all its phases andinteresting throughout.

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  WITHIN THE LAW. By Bayard Veiller & Marvin Dana. Illustrated by Wm.Charles Cooke.

  This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran fortwo years in New York and Chicago.

  The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directedagainst her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison for threeyears on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.

  WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY. By Robert Carlton Brown. Illustrated withscenes from the play.

  This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girl who issuddenly thrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of herdreams," where she is exposed to all sorts of temptations anddangers.

  The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played intheatres all over the world.

  THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM. By David Belasco.

  Illustrated by John Rae.

  This is a novelization of the popular play in which David Warfield asOld Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.

  The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal, powerful,both as a book and as a play.

  THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.

  This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlitbarbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.

  It is a book of rapturous beauty, vivid in word painting. The play hasbeen staged with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.

  BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace.

  The whole world has placed this famous Religious-Historical Romance ona height of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has reached.The clashing of rivalry and the deepest human passions, the perfectreproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce atmosphereof the arena have kept their deep fascination. A tremendous dramaticsuccess.

  BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. By George Broadhurst and Arthur Hornblow.Illustrated with scenes from the play.

  A stupendous arraignment of modern marriage which has created aninterest on the stage that is almost unparalleled. The scenes are laidin New York, and deal with conditions among both the rich and poor.

  The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments whichshow the young wife the price she has paid.

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