Part 35 (1/2)
”One of the most remarkable novels of the year.”--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
”Powerful in conception, treatment, and influence.”--_Boston Globe._
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_A STREET IN SUBURBIA._ By EDWIN PUGH. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
”Simplicity of style, strength, and delicacy of character study will mark this book as one of the most significant of the year.”--_New York Press._
”Thoroughly entertaining, and more--it shows traces of a creative genius something akin to d.i.c.kens.”--_Boston Traveller._
”In many respects the best of all the books of lighter literature brought out this season.”--_Providence News._
”Highly pleasing and gracefully recorded reminiscences of early suburban life and youthful experience told in a congenial spirit and in very charming prose.”--_Boston Courier._
_MAJESTY._ A Novel. By LOUIS COUPERUS. Translated by A.
TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS and ERNEST DOWSON. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
”There have been many workers among novelists in the field of royal portraiture, but it may be safely stated that few of those who have essayed this dubious path have achieved more striking results than M.
Couperus. 'Majesty' is an extraordinarily vivid romance of autocratic imperialism.”--_London Academy._
”No novelist whom we can call to mind has ever given the world such a masterpiece of royal portraiture as Louis Couperus's striking romance ent.i.tled 'Majesty.'”--_Philadelphia Record._
”There is not an uninteresting page in the book, and it ought to be read by all who desire to keep in line with the best that is published in modern fiction.”--_Buffalo Commercial._
_THE NEW MOON._ By C. E. RAIMOND, author of ”George Mandeville's Husband,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
”A delicate pathos makes itself felt as the narrative progresses, whose cadences fall on the spirit's consciousness with a sweet and soothing influence not to be measured in words.”--_Boston Courier._
”One of the most impressive of recent works of fiction, both for its matter and especially for its presentation.”--_Milwaukee Journal._
”An intensely interesting story. A curious interweaving of old superst.i.tions which govern a nervous woman's selfish life, and the brisk, modern ways of a wholesome English girl.”--_Philadelphia Ledger._
_THE WISH._ A Novel. By HERMANN SUDERMANN. With a Biographical Introduction by ELIZABETH LEE. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
”Contains some superb specimens of original thought.”--_New York World._
”The style is direct and incisive, and holds the unflagging attention of the reader.”--_Boston Journal._
”A powerful story, very simple, very direct.”--_Chicago Evening Post._
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GILBERT PARKER'S BEST BOOKS.
_THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY._ Being the Memoirs of Captain ROBERT MORAY, sometime an Officer in the Virginia Regiment, and afterward of Amherst's Regiment. 12mo. Cloth, ill.u.s.trated, $1.50.
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance.