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The story centers about one of the boys who has an ”active war” in his family and whose martial adventures with those of his grown-up brother give a strong appeal to the narrative and furnish an exciting climax.
”Good luck to this admirably written narrative, a model of direct and simple humor and very sincere human understanding.”--_The Bellman_.
”Certainly no romance of the Kentucky mountains ever told more that was amusing, or picturesque, or tragic than her chronicle does.”--_N. Y. Post_.
”Her style is graceful and clear, and her fascinating narrative cannot fail to widen the horizon of her readers in more ways than one.”--_N. Y. Times_.
”A charming story and it is well told.”--_Christian Advocate_.
”A story full of humor and pathos.”--_Chicago Evening Post_.
”The book forms a valuable link between an interesting and isolated people and the reading public.”--_San Francisco Chronicle_.
NEW MACMILLAN FICTION
Sat.u.r.day's Child
By KATHLEEN NORRIS, Author of ”Mother,” ”The Treasure,” etc. With frontispiece in colors by F. Graham Cootes.
”Friday's child is loving and giving, Sat.u.r.day's child must work for her living.”
The t.i.tle of Mrs. Norris' new novel at once indicates its theme. It is the life story of a girl who has her own way to make in the world. The various experiences through which she pa.s.ses, the various viewpoints which she holds until she comes finally to realize that service for others is the only thins that counts, are told with that same intimate knowledge of character, that healthy optimism and the belief in the ultimate goodness of mankind that have distinguished all of this author's writing. The book is intensely alive with human emotions. The reader is bound to sympathize with Mrs. Norris' people because they seem like _real_ people and because they are actuated by motives which one is able to understand. _Sat.u.r.day's Child_ is Mrs. Norris' longest work. Into it has gone the very best of her creative talent. It is a volume which the many admirers of _Mother_ will gladly accept.
The Game of Life and Death: Stories of the Sea
By LINCOLN COLCORD, Author of ”The Drifting Diamond,” etc. With frontispiece.
Upon the appearance of Mr. Colcord's _The Drifting Diamond_, critics throughout the country had a great deal to say on the pictures of the sea which it contained. Mr. Colcord was compared to Conrad, to Stevenson, and to others who have written of the sea with much success. It is gratifying, therefore, that in this book the briny deep furnishes the background--in some instances the plot itself--for each one of its eleven tales. Coupled with his own intimate knowledge and appreciation of the oceans and the life that is lived on them--a knowledge and appreciation born in him through a long line of seafaring ancestry and fostered by his own love for the sea--he has a powerful style of writing. Vividness is perhaps its distinguis.h.i.+ng characteristic, though fluency and a peculiar feeling for words also mark it.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
By JACK LONDON, Author of ”The Sea Wolf,” ”The Call of the Wild,”
etc. With frontispiece in colors by Anton Fischer.
Everyone who remembers _The Sea Wolf_ with pleasure will enjoy this vigorous narrative of a voyage from New York around Cape Horn in a large sailing vessel. _The Mutiny of the Elsinore_ is the same kind of tale as its famous predecessor, and by those who have read it, it is p.r.o.nounced even more stirring. Mr. London is here writing of scenes and types of people with which he is very familiar, the sea and s.h.i.+ps and those who live in s.h.i.+ps. In addition to the adventure element, of which there is an abundance of the usual London kind, a most satisfying kind it is, too, there is a thread of romance involving a wealthy, tired young man who takes the trip on the _Elsinore_ and the captain's daughter. The play of incident, on the one hand the s.h.i.+p's amazing crew and on the other the lovers, gives a story in which the interest never lags and which demonstrates anew what a master of his art Mr. London is.
Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half
By JACOB A. RIIS, Author of ”How the Other Half Lives,” etc. With ill.u.s.trations by W. T. Benda.
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