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_An Ingenious and Engrossing Romance_
THE PRINCESS THORA
By HARRIS BURLAND
_Author of "Dacobra." Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50_
A remarkably absorbing romance, conceived and planned with fineimagination, yet carried out with all the vivid actuality andplausibility of the most prosaic "detective" story. The nearestcounterpart of this engrossing and very unusual narrative is perhapsto be found in the work that first made Rider Haggard famous, thoughthe story owes literally nothing to anything that has gone before, sostartlingly novel is its theme and so boldly convincing is itsexecution.
_A Romance of Early Michigan_
THE WOLVERINE
By ALBERT L. LAWRENCE
_Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50_
A spirited story of love and politics, with its scenes laid in Detroitjust before Michigan became a state, and when disputes over the Ohioboundary line nearly led to open warfare. Perry North, a youngsurveyor of Puritan ideas, is sent to Detroit when he falls in lovewith Marie Beaucoeur, a charming French girl, of the Catholic faith.The English and French characters are strongly contrasted, theincidents are novel, and the story makes a continuous impression ofactuality.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, BOSTON
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_Richard Le Gallienne's New Book_
PAINTED SHADOWS
By the Author of "The Love-Letters of the King," etc.
12mo. $1.50
Mr. Le Gallienne's new book displays in a remarkable degree his fineimagination, charming style, and the high quality of his verse. "TheYouth of Lady Constantia," "The Wandering Home," "The Shadow of theRose," "Beauty's Portmanteau," and "Old Silver" are equal to his bestwork, and the story which bears the title "Poet take Thy Lute" willappeal especially to those who love what is best and most beautiful inliterature.
_The Heroine with the Marvellous Voice_
SWEET PEGGY
By LINNIE SARAH HARRIS
_With frontispiece. 12mo. $1.50_
A summer idyll, with love, music, and nature for its themes, and themountains and lakes for its scenes. The heroine, Peggy, is charming,fresh, and unconventional, with a genuine love for song. The countryneighbors with their peculiarities give touches of both humor andpathos to this appealing story.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, BOSTON
_At all Booksellers'_
_Far outside the common run of fiction.--Dial, Chicago_
THE WOOD-CARVER OF 'LYMPUS
By M.E. WALLER
Author of "A Daughter of the Rich," etc.
With frontispiece by Chase Emerson. 12mo. 311 pages. $1.50
A strong tale of human loves and hopes set in a background of thegranite mountain-tops of remote New England.--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
Hugh Armstrong, the hero, is one of the pronouncedly high classcharacter delineations of a quarter century.--_Boston Courier_.
It is a book which does one good to read and which is not readilyforgotten; for in it are mingled inextricably the elements of humorand pathos and also a strain of generous feeling which uplifts andhumanizes.--Harry Thruston Peck, Editor of _The Bookman_.
A few books are published every year that really minister to the tiredhearts of this hurried age. They are like little pilgrimages away fromthe world across the Delectable Mountains of Good.... This year it is"The Wood-Carver of 'Lympus."... It is all told with a primitivesweetness that is refreshing in these days when every writercultivates the clever style.--_Independent_, New York.
The book is as manly as "Ralph Connors," and written with a moresatisfying art.--Amos E. Wells, in _Christian Endeavor World_.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, BOSTON
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