Part 33 (1/2)
_LOVE STORIES._
This book is exactly what its t.i.tle indicates, a collection of love affairs--sparkling with humor, tenderness and sweetness.
_”K.”_ Ill.u.s.trated.
K. LeMoyne, famous surgeon, goes to live in a little town where beautiful Sidney Page lives. She is in training to become a nurse. The joys and troubles of their young love are told with keen and sympathetic appreciation.
_THE MAN IN LOWER TEN._ Ill.u.s.trated by Howard Chandler Christy.
An absorbing detective story woven around the mysterious death of the ”Man in Lower Ten.”
_WHEN A MAN MARRIES._ Ill.u.s.trated by Harrison Fisher and Mayo Bunker.
A young artist, whose wife had recently divorced him, finds that his aunt is soon to visit him. The aunt, who contributes to the family income, knows nothing of the domestic upheaval. How the young man met the situation is entertainingly told.
_THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE._ Ill.u.s.trated by Lester Ralph.
The occupants of ”Sunnyside” find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong on the circular staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing interest.
_THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS._ (Photoplay Edition.)
Harmony Wells, studying in Vienna to be a great violinist, suddenly realizes that her money is almost gone. She meets a young ambitious doctor who offers her chivalry and sympathy, and together with world-worn Dr. Anna and Jimmie, the waif, they share their love and slender means.
STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER
_MICHAEL O'HALLORAN._ Ill.u.s.trated by Frances Rogers.
Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in Northern Indiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also a.s.sumes the responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward and onward.
_LADDIE._ Ill.u.s.trated by Herman Pfeifer.
This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. The Story is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.
_THE HARVESTER._ Ill.u.s.trated by W. L. Jacobs.
”The Harvester,” is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable.
But when the Girl comes to his ”Medicine Woods,” there begins a romance of the rarest idyllic quality.
_FRECKLES._ Ill.u.s.trated.
Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in which he takes hold of life; the nature friends.h.i.+ps he forms in the great Limberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succ.u.mbs to the charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with ”The Angel” are full of real sentiment.
_A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST._ Ill.u.s.trated.
The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, loveable type of the self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindness towards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beauty of her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren and unpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.