Part 49 (1/2)

ROSALIND AT REDGATE. Ill.u.s.trated by Arthur I. Keller.

The author of ”The House of a Thousand Candles” has here given us a bouyant romance br.i.m.m.i.n.g with lively humor and optimism; with mystery that breeds adventure and ends in love and happiness. A most entertaining and delightful book.

THE MAIN CHANCE. With ill.u.s.trations by Harrison Fisher.

A ”traction deal” in a Western city is the pivot about which the action of this clever story revolves. But it is in the character-drawing of the princ.i.p.als that the author's strength lies. Exciting incidents develop their inherent strength and weakness, and if virtue wins in the end, it is quite in keeping with its carefully-planned antecedents. The N. Y.

_Sun_ says: ”We commend it for its workmans.h.i.+p--for its smoothness, its sensible fancies, and for its general charm.”

ZELDA DAMERON. With portraits of the characters by John Cecil Clay.

”A picture of the new West, at once startlingly and attractively true. *

* * The heroine is a strange, sweet mixture of pride, wilfulness and lovable courage. The characters are superbly drawn; the atmosphere is convincing. There is about it a sweetness, a wholesomeness and a st.u.r.diness that commends it to earnest, kindly and wholesome people.”--_Boston Transcript._

BRILLIANT AND SPIRITED NOVELS AGNES AND EGERTON CASTLE

Handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents per volume, postpaid.

THE PRIDE OF JENNICO. Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico.

”What separates it from most books of its cla.s.s is its distinction of manner, its unusual grace of diction, its delicacy of touch, and the fervent charm of its love pa.s.sages. It is a very attractive piece of romantic fiction relying for its effect upon character rather than incident, and upon vivid dramatic presentation.”--_The Dial._ ”A stirring, brilliant and das.h.i.+ng story.”--_The Outlook._

THE SECRET ORCHARD. Ill.u.s.trated by Charles D. Williams.

The ”Secret Orchard” is set in the midst of the ultra modern society.

The scene is in Paris, but most of the characters are English speaking.

The story was dramatized in London, and in it the Kendalls scored a great theatrical success.

”Artfully contrived and full of romantic charm * * * it possesses ingenuity of incident, a figurative designation of the unhallowed scenes in which unlicensed love accomplishes and wrecks faith and happiness.”--_Athenaeum._

YOUNG APRIL. With ill.u.s.trations by A. B. Wenzell.

”It is everything that a good romance should be, and it carries about it an air of distinction both rare and delightful.”--_Chicago Tribune._ ”With regret one turns to the last page of this delightful novel, so delicate in its romance, so brilliant in its episodes, so sparkling in its art, and so exquisite in its diction.”--_Worcester Spy._

FLOWER O' THE ORANGE. With frontispiece.

We have learned to expect from these fertile authors novels graceful in form, brisk in movement, and romantic in conception. This Carries the reader back to the days of the bewigged and beruffled gallants of the seventeenth century and tells him of feats of arms and adventures in love as thrilling and picturesque, yet delicate, as the utmost seeker of romance may ask.

MY MERRY ROCKHURST. Ill.u.s.trated by Arthur E. Becher.

”In the eight stories of a courtier of King Charles Second, which are here gathered together, the Castles are at their best, reviving all the fragrant charm of those books, like _The Pride of Jennico_, in which they first showed an instinct, amounting to genius, for sunny romances.

The book is absorbing * * * and is as spontaneous in feeling as it is artistic in execution.”--_New York Tribune._

THE MASTERLY AND REALISTIC NOVELS OF FRANK NORRIS