Part 48 (1/2)

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.

SIX-CYLINDER COURTs.h.i.+P, By Edw. Salisbury Field

With a color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, and ill.u.s.trations by Clarence F. Underwood, decorated pages and end sheets. Harrison Fisher head in colors on cover. Boxed.

A story of cleverness. It is a jolly good romance of love at first sight that will be read with undoubted pleasure. Automobiling figures in the story which is told with light, bright touches, while a happy gift of humor permeates it all.

”The book is full of interesting folks. The patois of the garage is used with full comic and realistic effect, and effervescently, culminating in the usual happy finish.”--_St. Louis Mirror._

AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW, By Gene Stratton-Porter Author of ”FRECKLES”

With ill.u.s.trations in color by Oliver Kemp, decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour and inlay cover in colors.

The story is one of devoted friends.h.i.+p, and tender self-sacrificing love; the friends.h.i.+p that gives freely without return, and the love that seeks first the happiness of the object. The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature and its pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.

JUDITH OF THE c.u.mBERLANDS, By Alice MacGowan

With ill.u.s.trations in colors, and inlay cover by George Wright.

No one can fail to enjoy this moving tale with its lovely and ardent heroine, its frank, fearless hero, its glowing love pa.s.sages, and its variety of characters, captivating or engaging humorous or saturnine, villains, rascals, and men of good will. A tale strong and interesting in plot, faithful and vivid as a picture of wild mountain life, and in its characterization full of warmth and glow.

A MILLION A MINUTE, By Hudson Douglas.

With ill.u.s.trations by Will Grefe.

Has the catchiest of t.i.tles, and it is a ripping good tale from Chapter I to Finis--no weighty problems to be solved, but just a fine running story, full of exciting incidents, that never seemed strained or improbable. It is a dainty love yarn involving three men and a girl.

There is not a dull or trite situation in the book.

CONJUROR'S HOUSE, By Stewart Edward White Dramatized under the t.i.tle of ”THE CALL OF THE NORTH.”

Ill.u.s.trated from Photographs of Scenes from the Play.

_Conjuror's House_ is a Hudson Bay trading port where the Fur Trading Company tolerated no rivalry. Trespa.s.sers were sentenced to ”La Longue Traverse”--which meant official death. How Ned Trent entered the territory, took _la longue traverse_, and the journey down the river of life with the factor's only daughter is admirably told. It is a warm, vivid, and dramatic story, and depicts the tenderness and mystery of a woman's heart.

ARIZONA NIGHTS, By Stewart Edward White.

With ill.u.s.trations by N. C. Wyeth, and beautiful inlay cover.

A series of spirited tales emphasizing some phase of the life of the ranch, plains and desert, and all, taken together, forming a single sharply-cut picture of life in the far Southwest. All the tonic of the West is in this masterpiece of Stewart Edward White.

THE MYSTERY, By Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

With ill.u.s.trations by Will Crawford.