Cynthia's Chauffeur

by Louis Tracy

  A FEW OF GROSSET & DUNLAP'S Great Books at Little Prices

  QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. A Picture of New England Home Life. Withillustrations by C. W. Reed, and Scenes Reproduced from the Play.

  One of the best New England stories ever written. It is full of homelyhuman interest ... there is a wealth of New England village character,scenes and incidents ... forcibly, vividly and truthfully drawn. Fewbooks have enjoyed a greater sale and popularity. Dramatized, it madethe greatest rural play of recent times.

  THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. By Charles FeltonPidgin. Illustrated by Henry Roth.

  All who love honest sentiment, quaint and sunny humor, and homespunphilosophy will find these "Further Adventures" a book after their ownheart.

  HALF A CHANCE. By Frederic S. Isham. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.

  The thrill of excitement will keep the reader in a state of suspense,and he will become personally concerned from the start, as to thecentral character, a very real man who suffers, dares--and achieves!

  VIRGINIA OF THE AIR LANES. By Herbert Quick. Illustrated by William R.Leigh.

  The author has seized the romantic moment for the airship novel, andcreated the pretty story of "a lover and his lass" contending with anelderly relative for the monopoly of the skies. An exciting tale ofadventure in midair.

  THE GAME AND THE CANDLE. By Eleanor M. Ingram. Illustrated by P. D.Johnson.

  The hero is a young American, who, to save his family from poverty,deliberately commits a felony. Then follow his capture andimprisonment, and his rescue by a Russian Grand Duke. A stirringstory, rich in sentiment.

  THE MUSIC MASTER. By Charles Klein. Illustrated by John Rae.

  This marvelously vivid narrative turns upon the search of a Germanmusician in New York for his little daughter. Mr. Klein has wellportrayed his pathetic struggle with poverty, his varied experiencesin endeavoring to meet the demands of a public not trained to anappreciation of the classic, and his final great hour when, in therapidly shifting events of a big city, his little daughter, now abeautiful young woman, is brought to his very door. A superb bit offiction, palpitating with the life of the great metropolis. The playin which David Warfield scored his highest success.

  DR. LAVENDAR'S PEOPLE. By Margaret Deland. Illustrated by LuciusHitchcock.

  Mrs. Deland won so many friends through Old Chester Tales that thisvolume needs no introduction beyond its title. The lovable doctor ismore ripened in this later book, and the simple comedies and tragediesof the old village are told with dramatic charm.

  OLD CHESTER TALES. By Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Howard Pyle.

  Stories portraying with delightful humor and pathos a quaint people ina sleepy old town. Dr. Lavendar, a very human and lovable "preacher,"is the connecting link between these dramatic stories from life.

  HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE. By E. P. Roe. With frontispiece.

  The hero is a farmer--a man with honest, sincere views of life. Bereftof his wife, his home is cared for by a succession of domestics ofvarying degrees of inefficiency until, from a most unpromising source,comes a young woman who not only becomes his wife but commands hisrespect and eventually wins his love. A bright and delicate romance,revealing on both sides a love that surmounts all difficulties andsurvives the censure of friends as well as the bitterness of enemies.

  THE YOKE. By Elizabeth Miller.

  Against the historical background of the days when the children ofIsrael were delivered from the bondage of Egypt, the author hassketched a romance of compelling charm. A biblical novel as great asany since "Ben Hur."

  SAUL OF TARSUS. By Elizabeth Miller. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne.

  The scenes of this story are laid in Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome andDamascus. The Apostle Paul, the Martyr Stephen, Herod Agrippa and theEmperors Tiberius and Caligula are among the mighty figures that movethrough the pages. Wonderful descriptions, and a love story of thepurest and noblest type mark this most remarkable religious romance.

  WHEN A MAN MARRIES. By Mary Roberts Rinehart. Illustrated by HarrisonFisher and Mayo Bunker.

  A young artist, whose wife had recently divorced him, finds that avisit is due from his Aunt Selina, an elderly lady having ideas aboutthings quite apart from the Bohemian set in which her nephew is ashining light. The way in which matters are temporarily adjusted formsthe motif of the story.

  A farcical extravaganza, dramatized under the title of "Seven Days."

  THE FASHIONABLE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA CRAIG. By David Graham Phillips.Illustrated.

  A young westerner, uncouth and unconventional, appears in politicaland social life in Washington. He attains power in politics, and ayoung woman of the exclusive set becomes his wife, undertaking hiseducation in social amenities.

  "DOC." GORDON. By Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman. Illustrated by Frank T.Merrill.

  Against the familiar background of American town life, the authorportrays a group of people strangely involved in a mystery. "Doc."Gordon, the one physician of the place, Dr. Elliot, his assistant, abeautiful woman and her altogether charming daughter are all involvedin the plot. A novel of great interest.

  HOLY ORDERS. By Marie Corelli.

  A dramatic story, in which is pictured a clergyman in touch withsociety people, stage favorites, simple village folk, powerfulfinanciers and others, each presenting vital problems to this man "inholy orders"--problems that we are now struggling with in America.

  KATRINE. By Elinor Macartney Lane. With frontispiece.

  Katrine, the heroine of this story, is a lovely Irish girl, of lowlybirth, but gifted with a beautiful voice.

  The narrative is based on the facts of an actual singer's career, andthe viewpoint throughout is a most exalted one.

  THE FORTUNES OF FIFI. By Molly Elliot Seawell. Illustrated by T. deThulstrup.

  A story of life in France at the time of the first Napoleon. Fifi, aglad, mad little actress of eighteen, is the star performer in a thirdrate Parisian theatre. A story as dainty as a Watteau painting.

  SHE THAT HESITATES. By Harris Dickson. Illustrated by C. W. Relyea.

  The scene of this dashing romance shifts from Dresden to St.Petersburg in the reign of Peter the Great, and then to New Orleans.

  The hero is a French Soldier of Fortune, and the princess, whohesitates--but you must read the story to know how she that hesitatesmay be lost and yet saved.

  HAPPY HAWKINS. By Robert Alexander Wason. Illustrated by Howard Giles.

  A ranch and cowboy novel. Happy Hawkins tells his own story with sucha fine capacity for knowing how to do it and with so much humor thatthe reader's interest is held in surprise, then admiration and at lastin positive affection.

  COMRADES. By Thomas Dixon, Jr. Illustrated by C. D. Williams.

  The locale of this story is in California, where a few socialistsestablish a little community.

  The author leads the little band along the path of disillusionment,and gives some brilliant flashes of light on one side of an importantquestion.

  TONO-BUNGAY. By Herbert George Wells.

  The hero of this novel is a young man who, through hard work, earns ascholarship and goes to London.

  Written with a frankness verging on Rousseau's, Mr. Wells still usesrare discrimination and the border line of propriety is never crossed.An entertaining book with both a story and a moral, and without a dullpage--Mr. Wells's most notable achievement.

  A HUSBAND BY PROXY. By Jack Steele.

  A young criminologist, but recently arrived in New York city, is drawninto a mystery, partly through financial need and partly through hisinterest in a beautiful woman, who seems at times the simplest childand again a perfect mistress of intrigue. A baffling detective story.

  LIKE ANOTHER HELEN. By George Horton. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.

  Mr. Horton's powerful romance stands in a new field and brings analmost unknown world in reality before the reader--the world ofconflict between Greek and Turk on the Island of Crete. The "Helen" ofthe story is a Greek, beautif
ul, desolate, defiant--pure as snow.

  There is a certain new force about the story, a kind ofmaster-craftsmanship and mental dominance that holds the reader.

  THE MASTER OF APPLEBY. By Francis Lynde. Illustrated by T. deThulstrup.

  A novel tale concerning itself in part with the great struggle in thetwo Carolinas, but chiefly with the adventures therein of twogentlemen who loved one and the same lady.

  A strong, masculine and persuasive story.

  A MODERN MADONNA. By Caroline Abbot Stanley.

  A story of American life, founded on facts as they existed some yearsago in the District of Columbia. The theme is the maternal love andsplendid courage of a woman.

  THE NOVELS OF GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

  GRAUSTARK.

  A story of love behind a throne, telling how a young American met alovely girl and followed her to a new and strange country. Athrilling, dashing narrative.

  BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK.

  Beverly is a bewitching American girl who has gone to that stirringlittle principality--Graustark--to visit her friend the princess, andthere has a romantic affair of her own.

  BREWSTER'S MILLIONS.

  A young man is required to spend _one_ million dollars in one year inorder to inherit _seven_. How he does it forms the basis of a livelystory.

  CASTLE CRANEYCROW.

  The story revolves round the abduction of a young American woman, herimprisonment in an old castle and the adventures created through herrescue.

  COWARDICE COURT.

  An amusing social feud in the Adirondacks in which an English girl istempted into being a traitor by a romantic young American, forms theplot.

  THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON CROW.

  The story centers about the adopted daughter of the town marshal in awestern village. Her parentage is shrouded in mystery, and the storyconcerns the secret that deviously works to the surface.

  THE MAN FROM BRODNEY'S.

  The hero meets a princess in a far-away island among fanaticallyhostile Musselmen. Romantic love making amid amusing situations andexciting adventures.

  NEDRA.

  A young couple elope from Chicago to go to London traveling as brotherand sister. They are shipwrecked and a strange mix-up occurs onaccount of it.

  THE SHERRODS.

  The scene is the Middle West and centers around a man who leads adouble life. A most enthralling novel.

  TRUXTON KING.

  A handsome good natured young fellow ranges on the earth looking forromantic adventures and is finally enmeshed in most complicatedintrigues in Graustark.

  KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN'S STORIES OF PURE DELIGHT

  Full of originality and humor, kindliness and cheer

  =THE OLD PEABODY PEW.= Large Octavo. Decorative text pages, printed intwo colors. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens.

  One of the prettiest romances that has ever come from this author'spen is made to bloom on Christmas Eve in the sweet freshness of an oldNew England meeting house.

  =PENELOPE'S PROGRESS.= Attractive cover design in colors.

  Scotland is the background for the merry doings of three very cleverand original American girls. Their adventures in adjusting themselvesto the Scot and his land are full of humor.

  =PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES.= Uniform in style with ="Penelope'sProgress"=.

  The trio of clever girls who rambled over Scotland cross the border tothe Emerald Isle, and again they sharpen their wits against newconditions, and revel in the land of laughter and wit.

  =REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.=

  One of the most beautiful studies of childhood--Rebecca's artistic,unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand out midst a circle ofaustere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenaldramatic record.

  =NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA.= With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.

  Some more quaintly amusing chronicles that carry Rebecca throughvarious stages to her eighteenth birthday.

  =ROSE O' THE RIVER.= With illustrations by George Wright.

  The simple story of Rose, a country girl and Stephen a sturdy youngfarmer. The girl's fancy for a city man interrupts their love andmerges the story into an emotional strain where the reader follows theevents with rapt attention.

  GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK

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  Transcriber's note:

  1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors;otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author'swords and intent.

  2. In the advertising pages, book titles that were underlined havebeen indicated by an equal sign (=) preceding and following theunderlined text.