"From any point of view it is an unusual novel, as much better than some of the 'best sellers' as a painting is better than a chromo."—World's Work.
THE DIVINE FIRE
By MAY SINCLAIR
$1.50
The story of a London poet.
Boston Transcript: "It is rare indeed to come across a novel in which there is so much genuine greatness."N. Y. Tribune, in notice of over a column: "We venture to countthe hero already among the memorable figures in romance, a great character ... breathlessly interesting....It ought to give May Sinclair at once high rank among the novelists of the day....A novel which it is a pleasure to praise."Nation: "The hero is extremely interesting."N. Y. Times Review: "... The story isas well written as it is strongly conceived."N. Y. Post: "Told cleverly and well, and always with a frankness that carries conviction.The humorous element is not lacking."N. Y. Globe: "The biggest surprise of the whole season's fiction."Chicago Evening Post: "If you wish to be interested, amused, tormented, discouraged and finally satisfied,you will do well to read it."Providence Journal: "Rare artistic power...."
Boston Transcript: "It is rare indeed to come across a novel in which there is so much genuine greatness."
N. Y. Tribune, in notice of over a column: "We venture to countthe hero already among the memorable figures in romance, a great character ... breathlessly interesting....It ought to give May Sinclair at once high rank among the novelists of the day....A novel which it is a pleasure to praise."
Nation: "The hero is extremely interesting."
N. Y. Times Review: "... The story isas well written as it is strongly conceived."
N. Y. Post: "Told cleverly and well, and always with a frankness that carries conviction.The humorous element is not lacking."
N. Y. Globe: "The biggest surprise of the whole season's fiction."
Chicago Evening Post: "If you wish to be interested, amused, tormented, discouraged and finally satisfied,you will do well to read it."
Providence Journal: "Rare artistic power...."
The Diary of a Musician
Edited by DOLORES M. BACON
With decorations and illustrations byCharles Edward HooperandH. Latimer Brown
$1.50
Authorities agree that no particular musical celebrity is described or satirized; all review the book with enthusiasm, though some damn while others praise.
Times Review: "Of extraordinary interest as a study from the inside of the inwardness of a genius."Bookman: "Much of that exquisite egotism, the huge, artistic Me and the tiny universe, that gluttony of the emotions, of the whole peculiar compound of hysteria, inspiration, vanity, insight and fidgets, which goes to make up that delightful but somewhat rickety thing which we call the artistic temperament is reproduced.... The 'Diary of a Musician' does what most actual diaries fail to do—writes down a man in full."
Times Review: "Of extraordinary interest as a study from the inside of the inwardness of a genius."
Bookman: "Much of that exquisite egotism, the huge, artistic Me and the tiny universe, that gluttony of the emotions, of the whole peculiar compound of hysteria, inspiration, vanity, insight and fidgets, which goes to make up that delightful but somewhat rickety thing which we call the artistic temperament is reproduced.... The 'Diary of a Musician' does what most actual diaries fail to do—writes down a man in full."
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Two Noteworthy Detective Stories by Burton E. Stevenson
The Marathon Mystery
With five scenes in color byEliot Keen
4th printing. $1.50
This absorbing story of New York and Long Island to-day has been republished in England. Its conclusion is most astonishing.
N. Y. Sun: "Distinctly an interesting story—one of the sort that the reader will not lay down before he goes to bed."N. Y. Post: "By comparison with the work of Anna Katharine Green ... it is exceptionally clever ... told interestingly and well."N. Y. Tribune: "The Holladay Casewas a capital story of crime and mystery. InThe Marathon Mysterythe author is in even firmer command of the trick. He is skillful in keeping his reader in suspense, and every element in it is cunningly adjusted to preserving the mystery inviolate until the end."Boston Transcript: "The excellence of its style, Mr. Stevenson apparently knowing well the dramatic effect of fluency and brevity, and the rationality of avoiding false clues and attempts unduly to mystify his readers."Boston Herald: "This is something more than an ordinary detective story. It thrills you and holds your attention to the end. But besides all this the characters are really well drawn and your interest in the plot is enhanced by interest in the people who play their parts therein."Town and Country: "The mystery defies solution until the end. The final catastrophe is worked out in a highly dramatic manner."
N. Y. Sun: "Distinctly an interesting story—one of the sort that the reader will not lay down before he goes to bed."
N. Y. Post: "By comparison with the work of Anna Katharine Green ... it is exceptionally clever ... told interestingly and well."
N. Y. Tribune: "The Holladay Casewas a capital story of crime and mystery. InThe Marathon Mysterythe author is in even firmer command of the trick. He is skillful in keeping his reader in suspense, and every element in it is cunningly adjusted to preserving the mystery inviolate until the end."
Boston Transcript: "The excellence of its style, Mr. Stevenson apparently knowing well the dramatic effect of fluency and brevity, and the rationality of avoiding false clues and attempts unduly to mystify his readers."
Boston Herald: "This is something more than an ordinary detective story. It thrills you and holds your attention to the end. But besides all this the characters are really well drawn and your interest in the plot is enhanced by interest in the people who play their parts therein."
Town and Country: "The mystery defies solution until the end. The final catastrophe is worked out in a highly dramatic manner."
The Holladay Case
With frontispiece byEliot Keen
7th printing. $1.25
A tale of a modern mystery of New York and Etretat that has been republished in England and Germany.
N. Y. Tribune: "Professor Dicey recently said, 'If you like a detective story take care you read a good detective story.' This is a good detective story, and it is the better because the part of the hero is not filled by a member of the profession.... The reader will not want to put the book down until he has reached the last page.Most ingeniously constructed and well written into the bargain."
N. Y. Tribune: "Professor Dicey recently said, 'If you like a detective story take care you read a good detective story.' This is a good detective story, and it is the better because the part of the hero is not filled by a member of the profession.... The reader will not want to put the book down until he has reached the last page.Most ingeniously constructed and well written into the bargain."
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TWO ROMANCES OF TRAVEL
The Lightning Conductor
The Strange Adventures of a Motor Car
By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON
12mo. $1.50
The love story of a beautiful American and a gallant Englishman, who stoops to conquer. Two almost human automobiles, the one German, heavy and stubborn, and the other French, light and easy-going, play prominent parts. There is much humor. Picturesque scenes in Provence, Spain and Italy pass before the reader's eyes in rapid succession.
Twenty printings of this novel have been called for.
Nation: "Such delightful people, and such delightful scenes.... It should be a good, practical guide to those about to go over the same course, while its charming descriptions of travel afford an ample new fund of pleasure, tinged with envy here and there to the stay-at-homes."N. Y. Sun: "A pleasant and felicitous romance."Springfield Republican: "Wholly new and decidedly entertaining."Chicago Post: "Sprightly humor ... the story moves."
Nation: "Such delightful people, and such delightful scenes.... It should be a good, practical guide to those about to go over the same course, while its charming descriptions of travel afford an ample new fund of pleasure, tinged with envy here and there to the stay-at-homes."
N. Y. Sun: "A pleasant and felicitous romance."
Springfield Republican: "Wholly new and decidedly entertaining."
Chicago Post: "Sprightly humor ... the story moves."
The Pursuit of Phyllis
By J. HARWOOD BACON
With two illustrations by H. Latimer Brown
12mo. $1.25
A humorous love story with scenes in England, France, China and Ceylon.
Boston Transcript: "A bright and entertaining story of up-to-date men and women."N. Y. Tribute: "Very enjoyable.... Its charm consists in its naturalness and the sparkle of the dialogue and descriptions."N. Y. Evening Post: "The story is brisk, buoyant and entertaining."Bookman: "Sparkling in fun, clean-cut and straightforward in style as the young hero himself."
Boston Transcript: "A bright and entertaining story of up-to-date men and women."
N. Y. Tribute: "Very enjoyable.... Its charm consists in its naturalness and the sparkle of the dialogue and descriptions."
N. Y. Evening Post: "The story is brisk, buoyant and entertaining."
Bookman: "Sparkling in fun, clean-cut and straightforward in style as the young hero himself."
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2d printing of "A novel in the better sense of a word much sinned against.... It is decidedly a book worth while."
The Transgression ofAndrew Vane
By GUY WETMORE CARRYL
12mo. $1.50.
Times' Saturday Review:—"A strong and original story; ... the descriptions of conditions in the American colony [in Paris] are convincingly clever. The story from the prologue—one of exceptional promise in point of interest—to the climax ... is full of action and dramatic surprise."N. Y. Tribune:—"The surprising developments we must leave the reader to find out for himself. He will find it a pleasant task; ... the surprise is not brought forward until precisely the right moment, and one is carried from the first chapter to the last with curiosity, and concern for the hero's fate kept well alive."N. Y. Evening Sun:—"Everybody who likes clever fiction should read it."Literary World:—"The prologue is as skilful a handling of a repellent theme as has ever been presented. The book is distinctly not one for the young person, but neither is it for the seeker after the risqué or the erotic.... In this novel are poured into a consistent and satisfying whole more of those vivid phases of Paris at which the author has shown himself a master hand."Chicago Evening Post:—"The reader stops with regret in his mind that Guy Wetmore Carryl's story-telling work is done."Chicago Tribune:—"A brilliant piece of work."Washington Star:—"a more engaging villain has seldom entered the pages of modern fiction; ... sparkles with quotable epigrams."Buffalo Express:—"The sort of a story which one is very apt to read with interest from beginning to end. And, moreover, ... very bright and clever."New Haven Journal:—"By far the most ambitious work he undertook, and likewise the most brilliant."
Times' Saturday Review:—"A strong and original story; ... the descriptions of conditions in the American colony [in Paris] are convincingly clever. The story from the prologue—one of exceptional promise in point of interest—to the climax ... is full of action and dramatic surprise."
N. Y. Tribune:—"The surprising developments we must leave the reader to find out for himself. He will find it a pleasant task; ... the surprise is not brought forward until precisely the right moment, and one is carried from the first chapter to the last with curiosity, and concern for the hero's fate kept well alive."
N. Y. Evening Sun:—"Everybody who likes clever fiction should read it."
Literary World:—"The prologue is as skilful a handling of a repellent theme as has ever been presented. The book is distinctly not one for the young person, but neither is it for the seeker after the risqué or the erotic.... In this novel are poured into a consistent and satisfying whole more of those vivid phases of Paris at which the author has shown himself a master hand."
Chicago Evening Post:—"The reader stops with regret in his mind that Guy Wetmore Carryl's story-telling work is done."
Chicago Tribune:—"A brilliant piece of work."
Washington Star:—"a more engaging villain has seldom entered the pages of modern fiction; ... sparkles with quotable epigrams."
Buffalo Express:—"The sort of a story which one is very apt to read with interest from beginning to end. And, moreover, ... very bright and clever."
New Haven Journal:—"By far the most ambitious work he undertook, and likewise the most brilliant."
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Romances of Italian Life
In the Twilight of the Medici
A Night with Alessandro
ByTreadwell W. Cleveland, Jr. With three scenes in color byEliot Keen. $1.25
A tale of adventure in Florence from dusk to dawn.
"A skilfully contrived bit of comedy. The author has not forgotten to write with care."—New York Tribune.
"Told with a zest that holds the reader to the page until the end."—Chicago Tribune.
In Garibaldi's Time
The Gadfly
ByE. L. Voynich. $1.25
"It is nothing more or less than one of the most powerful novels of the decade."—New York Tribune.
"One of the most interesting phases of the history of nineteenth-century Europe. The story of the Italian revolutionary movement ... is full of such incidents as the novelist most desires.... This novel is one of the strongest of the year, vivid in conception and dramatic in execution, filled with intense human feeling, and worked up to a tremendously impressive climax."—Dial.
Modern Sicily
On Etna
ByNorma Lorimer. $1.50
A vivid tale of the experiences of an English girl in which bandits and the Mafia play important parts.
"The situations are novel and daring, the style is epigrammatic and picturesque.... Ceres never forgets to be charming."—N. Y. Sun.
"It will engross the attention to the end."—Providence Journal.
"A story of strong human passion, showing deeply contrasting types and contains excellent descriptions of Sicilian life, told with unction and dramatic fire."—Boston Herald.
Modern Sardinia
After the Divorce. $1.50
ByGrazia Deledda. Translated byM. H. Lansdale
A dramatic Sardinian tale by an author who is popular in Italy and France, and whose fame has reached America. It opens with a man being unjustly imprisoned for murder. Thereupon his wife gets a divorce and remarries.
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FOOTNOTES:Porredda, female diminutive for Porru.[1]Piedino,—little foot.[2]An enclosed pasture, but of vast extent.[3]Che ti morsichi il cane,—"May the dog bite you."[4]A summer goblin, invoked in Sardinia to frighten children out of the sun.[5]In Sardinia, farm labourers often own cattle which are either turned out with their master's herds (whose partners they thus, in a manner, become), or are confided to some other shepherd, who receives half the profits in return for looking after them.[6]Ispana tristaorsanta, from which, according to tradition, the crown of thorns was made. The people use the leaves of this tree for medicinal purposes.[7]The custom of burying a person bitten by a tarantula in a dunghill, and putting him in an oven, is not so unreasonable as it at first appears, the effect of the poison being neutralised if the sufferer can be made to perspire freely; while the sickening odours of the dunghill induce nausea, also supposed to be very beneficial. Now, however, the people completely ignoring these practical results, the ceremony has come to be an act of pure superstition. The account given above describes such scenes as they have actually been known to occur.[8]Head of cattle.[9]In Sardinia the fireplaces almost always consist of four stones placed so as to form a square in the centre of the kitchen. They have no chimneys.[10]
Porredda, female diminutive for Porru.
Piedino,—little foot.
An enclosed pasture, but of vast extent.
Che ti morsichi il cane,—"May the dog bite you."
A summer goblin, invoked in Sardinia to frighten children out of the sun.
In Sardinia, farm labourers often own cattle which are either turned out with their master's herds (whose partners they thus, in a manner, become), or are confided to some other shepherd, who receives half the profits in return for looking after them.
Ispana tristaorsanta, from which, according to tradition, the crown of thorns was made. The people use the leaves of this tree for medicinal purposes.
The custom of burying a person bitten by a tarantula in a dunghill, and putting him in an oven, is not so unreasonable as it at first appears, the effect of the poison being neutralised if the sufferer can be made to perspire freely; while the sickening odours of the dunghill induce nausea, also supposed to be very beneficial. Now, however, the people completely ignoring these practical results, the ceremony has come to be an act of pure superstition. The account given above describes such scenes as they have actually been known to occur.
Head of cattle.
In Sardinia the fireplaces almost always consist of four stones placed so as to form a square in the centre of the kitchen. They have no chimneys.
Transcriber's Notes:A heading "ADVERTISEMENTS" has been inserted to divide the text from the advertisements which follow it. A page of advertisements at the front of the book has been moved to the end.There were two headings before the epilogue; one of these has been removed.On p. 138, the letter "n" in "no further" was not printed and is conjectural.The following are inconsistently hyphenated in the text:almond tree and almond-treebrandy bottle and brandy-bottledog roses and dog-rosesmountain side and mountain-sideunder lip and under-lipmean-time and meantimere-marriage and remarriageThe following errors have been corrected:p. 135 "homesicknness" changed to "homesickness"p. 168 "responsibilty" changed to "responsibility"p. 247 "if Isidoro," changed to "of Isidoro,"
A heading "ADVERTISEMENTS" has been inserted to divide the text from the advertisements which follow it. A page of advertisements at the front of the book has been moved to the end.
There were two headings before the epilogue; one of these has been removed.
On p. 138, the letter "n" in "no further" was not printed and is conjectural.
The following are inconsistently hyphenated in the text:
The following errors have been corrected: