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Other Book to Read

By Arthur Stanwood Pier

Author of ”The Pedagogues”

THE TRIUMPH

The Triumph has fire and pathos and romance and exhilarating humor. It is a capital story that will keep a reader's interest from the first appearance of its hero, the young doctor Neal Robeson, to his final triumph--his triumph over himself and over the lawless, turbulent oil-drillers, his success in his profession and in his love affair. It displays a delightful appreciation of the essential points of typical American characters, a happy outlook on everyday life, a vigorous story-telling ability working in material that is thrilling in interest, in a setting that is picturesque and unusual. The action takes place in a little western Pennsylvania village at the time of the oil fever, and a better situation can scarcely be found. Mr. Pier's account of the fight between the outraged villagers and the oil-drillers around a roaring, blazing gas well is a masterpiece of story telling.

_Ill.u.s.trations by W. D. Stevens_

By James Weber Linn

Author of ”The Second Generation”

THE CHAMELEON

The author uses as his theme that trait in human nature which leads men and women to seek always the lime light, to endeavor always to be protagonists even at the expense of the truth. His book is a study of that most interesting and pertinent type in modern life, the sentimentalist, the man whose emotions are interesting to him merely as a matter of experience, and shows the development of such a character when he comes into contact with normal people. The action of the novel pa.s.ses in a college town and the hero comes to his grief through his attempt to increase his appearance of importance by betraying a secret.

His love for his wife is, however, his saving sincerity and through it the story is brought to a happy ending.

By M. Imlay Taylor

Author of ”The House of the Wizard”

THE REBELLION OF THE PRINCESS

A book that is a story, and never loses the quick, on-rus.h.i.+ng, inevitable quality of a story from the first page to the last. Stirring, exciting, romantic, satisfying all the essential requirements of a novel. The scene is laid in Moscow at the time of the election of Peter the Great, when the intrigues of rival parties overturned the existing government, and the meeting of the National Guard made the city the scene of a hideous riot. It resembles in some points Miss Taylor's successful first story, ”On the Red Staircase,” especially in the date, the princ.i.p.al scenes and the fact that the hero is a French n.o.bleman.

By Edward W. Townsend

Author of ”Chimmie Fadden,” ”Days Like These,” etc.

LEES AND LEAVEN

No novel of New York City has ever portrayed so faithfully or so vividly our new world Gotham--the seething, rus.h.i.+ng New York of to-day, to which all the world looks with such curious interest. Mr. Townsend, gives us not a picture, but the bustling, nerve-racking pageant itself. The t.i.tan struggles in the world of finance, the huge hoaxes in sensational news-paperdom, the gay life of the theatre, opera, and restaurant, and then the calmer and comforting domestic scenes of wholesome living, pa.s.s, as actualities, before our very eyes. In this turbulent maelstrom of ambition, he finds room for love and romance also.

There is a bountiful array of characters, admirably drawn, and especially delightful are the two emotional and excitable lovers, young Bannister and Gertrude Carr. The book is unlike Mr. Townsend's ”Chimmie Fadden” in everything but its intimate knowledge of New York life.

By S. R. Crockett