Part 50 (1/2)
”You can't drop it till you have turned the last page.”--_Cleveland Leader._ ”Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution, almost takes one's breath away. The boldness of its denouement is sublime.”--_Boston Transcript._ ”The literary hit of a generation.
The best of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterly story.”--_St. Louis Dispatch._ ”The story is ingeniously told, and cleverly constructed.”--_The Dial._
THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With ill.u.s.trations by John Campbell.
”Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a pa.s.sion for gambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has a high sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a very human, lovable character, and love saves her.”--_N. Y. Times._
THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With ill.u.s.trations by Martin Justice.
”As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in the reading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it is handled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionably novel.”--_Boston Transcript._ ”A feast of humor and good cheer, yet subtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, or whimsicality. A merry thing in prose.”--_St. Louis Democrat._
ROSE O' THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With ill.u.s.trations by George Wright.
”'Rose o' the River,' a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully written and deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book--daintily ill.u.s.trated.”--_New York Tribune._ ”A wholesome, bright, refres.h.i.+ng story, an ideal book to give a young girl.”--_Chicago Record-Herald._ ”An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. As story-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true to the life.”--_London Mail._
TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With ill.u.s.trations by Florence Scovel s.h.i.+nn.
The little ”Mennonite Maid” who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end.
”Tillie is faulty, sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last and always lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, the characters skilfully developed.”--_The Book Buyer._
LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With ill.u.s.trations by Howard Chandler Christy.
”The most marvellous work of its wonderful author.”--_New York World._ ”We touch regions and attain alt.i.tudes which it is not given to the ordinary novelist even to approach.”--_London Times._ ”In no other story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady Rose's Daughter.”--_North American Review._
THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.
”An exciting and absorbing story.”--_New York Times._ ”Intensely thrilling in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There is a love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is a run on the bank which is almost worth a year's growth, and there is all manner of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the book into high and permanent favor.”--_Chicago Evening Post._
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