Part 35 (2/2)
With ill.u.s.trations by Lester Ralph.
In an extended notice the _New York Sun_ says: ”To readers who care for a really good detective story 'The Circular Staircase' can be recommended without reservation.” The _Philadelphia Record_ declares that ”The Circular Staircase” deserves the laurels for thrills, for weirdness and things unexplained and inexplicable.
THE RED YEAR, By Louis Tracy
”Mr. Tracy gives by far the most realistic and impressive pictures of the horrors and heroisms of the Indian Mutiny that has been available in any book of the kind * * * There has not been in modern times in the history of any land scenes so fearful, so picturesque, so dramatic, and Mr. Tracy draws them as with the pencil of a Verestschagin of the pen of a Sienkiewics.”
ARMS AND THE WOMAN, By Harold MacGrath
With inlay cover in colors by Harrison Fisher.
The story is a blending of the romance and adventure of the middle ages with nineteenth century men and women; and they are creations of flesh and blood, and not mere pictures of past centuries. The story is about Jack Winthrop, a newspaper man. Mr. MacGrath's finest bit of character drawing is seen in Hillars, the broken down newspaper man, and Jack's chum.
LOVE IS THE SUM OF IT ALL, By Geo. Cary Eggleston
With ill.u.s.trations by Hermann Heyer.
In this ”plantation romance” Mr. Eggleston has resumed the manner and method that made his ”Dorothy South” one of the most famous books of its time.
There are three tender love stories embodied in it, and two unusually interesting heroines, utterly unlike each other, but each possessed of a peculiar fascination which wins and holds the reader's sympathy. A pleasing vein of gentle humor runs through the work, but the ”sum of it all” is an intensely sympathetic love story.
HEARTS AND THE CROSS, By Harold Morton Cramer
With ill.u.s.trations by Harold Matthews Brett.
The hero is an unconventional preacher who follows the line of the Man of Galilee, a.s.sociating with the lowly, and working for them in the ways that may best serve them. He is not recognized at his real value except by the one woman who saw clearly. Their love story is one of the refres.h.i.+ng things in recent fiction.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, NEW YORK
FAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKS IN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONS
NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA,
By Kate Douglas Wiggin With ill.u.s.trations by F. C. Yohn
Additional episodes in the girlhood of the delightful little heroine at Riverboro which were not included in the story of ”Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” and they are as characteristic and delightful as any part of that famous story. Rebecca is as distinct a creation in the second volume as in the first.
THE SILVER b.u.t.tERFLY, By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
With ill.u.s.trations in colors by Howard Chandler Christy.
A story of love and mystery, full of color, charm, and vivacity, dealing with a South American mine, rich beyond dreams, and of a New York maiden, beyond dreams beautiful--both known as the Silver b.u.t.terfly.
_Well named is The Silver b.u.t.terfly!_ There could not be a better symbol of the darting swiftness, the eager love plot, the elusive mystery and the flas.h.i.+ng wit.
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