GOOD FICTION
The Shadow of Victory
A Romance of Fort Dearborn. By MYRTLE REED, author of "Love Letters of a Musician," "Lavender and Old Lace," etc.
12o. (By mail, $1.35) net, $1.20
This latest work by the author of "Lavender and Old Lace" is a vigorous novel showing the development of character amid the rough and stirring scenes of an early Western trading post. The people of the book are real and attractive, and the heroine belongs to the best type of a strong fascinating American womanhood. The story is full of Miss Reed's characteristic breezy humor and has many touches of genuine sentiment. This book will appeal strongly to the readers who have been charmed by the grace and wit of Miss Reed's earlier works, and it is also sure of a warm reception from all those who love an exciting story well told.
Free, Not Bound
By KATRINA TRASK, author of "Under King Constantine," "Christalan," etc.
12o. (By mail, $1.20) net, $1.10
The story of a woman's love. The time of the story is in the year 1777, but it is in no sense an historical novel; in fact, the evident artistic purpose of the author has been to make the type of her heroine universal rather than local. The atmosphere of Revolutionary times is purely incidental.
The motifs of the book are the evolution of love, which the author treats not as a sentimental emotion but as a larger and more exalted passion, and the evolution of the moral nature from traditional formalism to a wider though more radical morality. The picture of this evolution is given as a picture of life, not with any evident purpose. The story is dramatic rather than didactic.
A Master Hand
The Story of a Crime. By RICHARD DALLAS.
12o. (By mail, $1.10) net, $1.00
This is a detective story of unusual interest. A young bachelor of quiet tastes, a few warm friends, and no enemies, is found dead, stabbed while he slept in his New York apartment. There is no emphasis on the horrors of the deed, but the reader's entire attention is held to the detection of the mysterious murderer. Those who begin this book will sit up and finish it.
New York--G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS--London
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