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STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY
GENE STRATTON-PORTER
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MICHAEL O'HALLORAN. Illustrated by Frances Rogers.
Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in NorthernIndiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also assumesthe responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward andonward.
LADDIE. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.
This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. Thestory is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family,but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the loveaffairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that ofLaddie and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in theneighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.
THE HARVESTER. Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.
"The Harvester," is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book hadnothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable.But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," there begins a romanceof the rarest idyllic quality.
FRECKLES. Illustrated.
Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in whichhe takes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the greatLimberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succumbsto the charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with "TheAngel" are full of real sentiment.
A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST. Illustrated.
The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, loveable type ofthe self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindnesstowards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beautyof her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren andunpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.
AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW. Illustrations in colors.
The scene of this charming love story is laid in Central Indiana. Thestory is one of devoted friendship, and tender self-sacrificing love.The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature, andits pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.
THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL. Profusely illustrated.
A love ideal of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with delicacy andhumor.
KATHLEEN NORRIS' STORIES
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MOTHER. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
This book has a fairy-story touch, counterbalanced by the sturdyreality of struggle, sacrifice, and resulting peace and power of amother's experiences.
SATURDAY'S CHILD.
Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes.
Out on the Pacific coast a normal girl, obscure and lovely, makes aquest for happiness. She passes through three stages--poverty, wealthand service--and works out a creditable salvation.
THE RICH MRS. BURGOYNE.
Illustrated by Lucius H. Hitchcock.
The story of a sensible woman who keeps within her means, refuses to beswamped by social engagements, lives a normal human life of variedinterests, and has her own romance.
THE STORY OF JULIA PAGE.
Frontispiece by Allan Gilbert.
How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, liftedherself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life.
THE HEART OF RACHAEL.
Frontispiece by Charles E. Chambers.
Rachael is called upon to solve many problems, and in working outthese, there is shown the beauty and strength of soul of one offiction's most appealing characters.
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THE NOVELS OF
STEWARD EDWARD WHITE
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THE BLAZED TRAIL. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty.
A wholesome story with gleams of humor, telling of a young man whoblazed his way to fortune through the heart of the Michigan pines.
THE CALL OF THE NORTH. Ills. with Scenes from the Play.
The story centers about a Hudson Bay trading post, known as "TheConjuror's House" (the original title of the book.)
THE RIVERMAN. Ills. by N. C. Wyeth and C. F. Underwood.
The story of a man's fight against a river and of a struggle betweenhonesty and grit on the one side, and dishonesty and shrewdness on theother.
RULES OF THE GAME. Illustrated by Lejaren A. Killer.
The romance of the son of "The Riverman." The young college hero goesinto the lumber camp, is antagonized by "graft," and comes into theromance of his life.
GOLD. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty.
The gold fever of '49 is pictured with vividness. A part of the storyis laid in Panama, the route taken by the gold-seekers.
THE FOREST. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty.
The book tells of the canoe trip of the author and his companion intothe great woods. Much information about camping and outdoor life. Asplendid treatise on woodcraft.
THE MOUNTAINS. Illustrated by Fernand Lungren.
An account of the adventures of a five months' camping trip in theSierras of California. The author has followed a true sequence ofevents.
THE CABIN. Illustrated with photographs by the author.
A chronicle of the building of a cabin home in a forest-girdled meadowof the Sierras Full of nature and woodcraft, and the shrewd philosophyof "California John."
THE GRAY DAWN. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty.
This book tells of the period shortly after the first mad rush for goldin California. A young lawyer and his wife, initiated into the gaylife of San Francisco, find their ways parted through his downwardcourse, but succeeding events bring the "gray dawn of better things"for both of them.
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