MYRTLE REED'S NOVELS
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LAVENDER AND OLD LACE.
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygoneromance finds a modern parallel. The story centers round the comingof love to the young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it isone of the prettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old fashioned lovestories, * * * a rare book, exquisite in spirit and conception,full of delicate fancy, of tenderness, of delightful humor andspontaneity.
A SPINNER IN THE SUN.
Miss Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in whichpoetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever andentertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she alwaysdisplays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathoswhich give a touch of active realism to all her writings. In "ASpinner in the Sun" she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiledlady who lives in solitude and whose features her neighbors have neverseen. There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over itthe glamour of romance.
THE MASTER'S VIOLIN.
A love story in a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old Germanvirtuoso is the reverent possessor of a genuine "Cremona." He consentsto take for his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an aptitudefor technique, but not the soul of an artist. The youth has led thehappy, careless life of a modern, well-to-do young American and hecannot, with his meagre past, express the love, the passion and thetragedies of life and all its happy phases as can the master who haslived life in all its fulness. But a girl comes into his life--abeautiful bit of human driftwood that his aunt had taken into herheart and home, and through his passionate love for her, he learns thelessons that life has to give--and his soul awakes.
Founded on a fact that all artists realize.
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CHARMING BOOKS FOR GIRLS
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WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE, By Jean Webster.
Illustrated by C. D. Williams.
One of the best stories of life in a girl's college that has ever beenwritten. It is bright, whimsical and entertaining, lifelike, laughableand thoroughly human.
JUST PATTY, By Jean Webster.
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.
Patty is full of the joy of living, fun-loving, given to ingeniousmischief for its own sake, with a disregard for pretty conventionwhich is an unfailing source of joy to her fellows.
THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL, By Eleanor Gates.
With four full page illustrations.
This story relates the experience of one of those unfortunate childrenwhose early days are passed in the companionship of a governess,seldom seeing either parent, and famishing for natural love andtenderness. A charming play as dramatized by the author.
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, By Kate Douglas Wiggin.
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, By Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
Additional episodes in the girlhood of this delightful heroine thatcarry Rebecca through various stages to her eighteenth birthday.
REBECCA MARY, By Annie Hamilton Donnell.
Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green.
This author possesses the rare gift of portraying all the grotesquelittle joys and sorrows and scruples of this very small girl with apathos that is peculiarly genuine and appealing.
EMMY LOU: Her Book and Heart, By George Madden Martin.
Illustrated by Charles Louis Hinton.
Emmy Lou is irresistibly lovable, because she is so absolutely real.She is just a bewitchingly innocent, hugable little maid. The book iswonderfully human.
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