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The Idyl of Twin Fires

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by Walter Prichard Eaton


  NOVELS OF SOUTHERN LIFE By THOMAS DIXON, JR.

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  THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS: A Story of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900.

  With illustrations by C. D. Williams.

  A tale of the South about the dramatic events of Destruction,Reconstruction and Upbuilding. The work is able and eloquent and theverifiable events of history are followed closely in the development of astory full of struggle.

  THE CLANSMAN. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller.

  While not connected with it in any way, this is a companion volumeto the author's "epoch-making" story _The Leopard's Spots_. Itis a novel with a great deal to it, and which very properly is goingto interest many thousands of readers. * * * It is, first of all, aforceful, dramatic, absorbing love story, with a sequence of eventsso surprising that one is prepared for the fact that much of it isfounded on actual happenings; but Mr. Dixon has, as before, a deeperpurpose--he has aimed to show that the original formers of the KuKlux Klan were modern knights errant taking the only means at hand toright intolerable wrongs.

  THE TRAITOR. A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.

  Illustrations by C. D. Williams.

  The third and last book in this remarkable trilogy of novels relating toSouthern Reconstruction. It is a thrilling story of love, adventure,treason, and the United States Secret Service dealing with the declineand fall of the Ku Klux Klan.

  COMRADES. Illustrations by C. D. Williams.

  A novel dealing with the establishment of a Socialistic Colony upon adeserted island off the coast of California. The way of disillusionmentis the course over which Mr. Dixon conducts the reader.

  THE ONE WOMAN. A Story of Modern Utopia.

  A love story and character study of three strong men and two fascinatingwomen. In swift, unified, and dramatic action, we see Socialism adeadly force, in the hour of the eclipse of Faith, destroying thehome life and weakening the fiber of Anglo Saxon manhood.

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  THE NOVELS OF STEWART EDWARD WHITE

  THE RULES OF THE GAME. Illustrated by Lajaren A. Hiller

  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.

  ARIZONA NIGHTS. Illus. and cover inlay by N. C. Wyeth.

  A series of spirited tales emphasizing some phases of the life of theranch, plains and desert. A masterpiece.

  THE BLAZED TRAIL. With illustrations by Thomas Fogarty.

  A wholesome story with gleams of humor, telling of a young man who blazedhis way to fortune through the heart of the Michigan pines.

  THE CLAIM JUMPERS. A Romance.

  The tenderfoot manager of a mine in a lonesome gulch of the Black Hillshas a hard time of it, but "wins out" in more ways than one.

  CONJUROR'S HOUSE. Illustrated Theatrical Edition.

  Dramatized under the title of "The Call of the North."

  Conjuror's House is a Hudson Bay trading post where the head factor isthe absolute lord. A young fellow risked his life and won a bride on thisforbidden land.

  THE MAGIC FOREST. A Modern Fairy Tale. Illustrated.

  The sympathetic way in which the children of the wild and their life istreated could only belong to one who is in love with the forest and openair. Based on fact.

  THE RIVERMAN. Illus. by N. C. Wyeth and C. 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.

  THE SILENT PLACES. Illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin.

  The wonders of the northern forests, the heights of feminine devotion,and masculine power, the intelligence of the Caucasian and the instinctof the Indian, are all finely drawn in this story.

  THE WESTERNERS.

  A story of the Black Hills that is justly placed among the best Americannovels. It portrays the life of the new West as no other book has donein recent years.

  THE MYSTERY. In collaboration with Samuel Hopkins Adams. Withillustrations by Will Crawford.

  The disappearance of three successive crews from the stout ship"Laughing Lass" in mid-Pacific, is a mystery weird and inscrutable. Inthe solution, there is a story of the most exciting voyage that manever undertook.

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  TITLES SELECTED FROM GROSSET & DUNLAP'S LIST

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  THE SILENT CALL. By Edwin Milton Royle. Illustrated with scenes from theplay.

  The hero of this story is the Squaw Man's son. He has been taken toEngland, but spurns conventional life for the sake of the untamed Westand a girl's pretty face.

  JOHN MARCH, SOUTHERNER. By George W. Cable.

  A story of the pretty women and spirited men of the South. As fragrantin sentiment as a sprig of magnolia, and as full of mystery and racialtroubles as any romance of "after the war" days.

  MR. JUSTICE RAFFLES. By E. W. Hornung.

  This engaging rascal is found helping a young cricket player out of thetoils of a money shark. Novel in plot, thrilling and amusing.

  FORTY MINUTES LATE. By F. Hopkinson Smith. Illustrated by S. M. Chase.

  Delightfully human stories of every day happenings; of a lecturer'slaughable experience because he's late, a young woman's excursion intothe stock market, etc.

  OLD LADY NUMBER 31. By Louise Forsslund.

  A heart-warming story of American rural life, telling of the adventuresof an old couple in an old folk's home, their sunny, philosophicalacceptance of misfortune and ultimate prosperity.

  THE HUSBAND'S STORY. By David Graham Phillips.

  A story that has given all Europe as well as all America much food forthought. A young couple begin life in humble circumstances and rise inworldly matters until the husband is enormously rich--the wife in themost aristocratic European society--but at the price of their happiness.

  THE TRAIL OF NINETY-EIGHT. By Robert W. Service.

  Illustrated by Maynard Dixon.

  One of the best stories of "Vagabondia" ever written, and one of themost accurate and picturesque descriptions of the stampede of goldseekers to the Yukon. The love story embedded in the narrative isstrikingly original.

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