TWO WOMEN AND A FOOL
The story of an actress, an artist and a very sweet girl. The scenes are laid in Chicago, London, and Paris; in theatres, studios, and bachelor apartments. It is the history of an infatuation—with moral interludes.
Mr. H. C. Chatfield-Taylor, whom Paul Bourget has named as the most promising novelist of American social life, has given us a clever story in "Two Women and a Fool." The tale is retrospective; one hears it from the lips of Guy, an artist; and it concerns his love for two women, a very naughty and an extremely nice one, Moira and Dorothy respectively. Moira, who becomes a soubrette, leads Guy, who becomes a successful artist, a tremendous pace, wearying him at length, but still holding the power to revive him with her look that allures. The romance leaps from Chicago to London and Paris and back to the Windy City again. It is steadily entertaining, and its dialogue, which is always witty, is often brilliant. C. D. Gibson's pictures are really illustrative.—Philadelphia Press.
18mo. Cloth. With frontispiece by C. D. Gibson. Ninth thousand. $0.75.
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THE JESSAMY BRIDE
One of the best stories of recent years. It had no large success on publication but the sale has steadily increased, every reader recommending it to others. Mr. George Merriam Hyde writes in theBook Buyer:
"The story seems to me the strongest and sincerest bit of fiction I have read since "Quo Vadis."
TheBookmansays of it:
"A novel in praise of the most lovable of men of letters, not even excepting Charles Lamb, must be welcome, though in it the romance of Goldsmith's life may be made a little too much of for strict truth * * * Mr. Moore has the history of the time and of the special circle at his finger-ends. He has lived in its atmosphere, and his transcripts are full of vivacity. * * * "The Jessamy Bride" is a very good story, and Mr. Moore has never written anything else so chivalrous to man or woman."
12mo. Cloth. Third impression. $1.50.
THE IMPUDENT COMEDIAN AND OTHERS
A volume of capital short stories relating to seventeenth and eighteenth centuries characters—Nell Gwynn, Kitty Olive, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, and David Garrick. They are bright, witty and dramatic.
The person who has a proper eye to the artistic in fiction will possess them ere another day shall dawn.—Scranton Tribune.
Full of the mannerisms of the stage and thoroughly Bohemian in atmosphere.—Boston Herald.
The celebrated actresses whom he takes for his heroines sparkle with feminine liveliness of mind.—New York Tribune.
A collection of short stories which has a flash of the picturesqueness, the repartee, the dazzle of the age of Garrick and Goldsmith, and Peg Wellington and Kitty Clive.—Hartford Courant.
Mr. F. Frankfort Moore had a capital idea when he undertook to throw into story form some of the traditional incidents of the history of the stage in its earlier English days. Nell Gwynn, Kitty Clive, Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Abbington and others are cleverly depicted, with much of the swagger and flavor of their times.—The Outlook.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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A GOLDEN SORROW
This novel was running serially inGodey's Magazineat the time of Miss Pool's death. It will not, however, be completed in that periodical, but will be issued at once in book form. It is a story of love and adventure in St. Augustine, much more exciting than Miss Pool's stories usually are, but with all her delightful sense of humor.
16mo. Cloth. $1.25.
IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY
"In Buncombe County" is bubbling over with merriment—one could not be blue with such a companion for an hour.—Boston Times.
It is brimming over with humor, and the reader who can follow the fortunes of the redbird alone, who flutters through the first few chapters, and not be moved to long laughter, must be sadly insensitive. But laugh as he may, he will always revert to the graver vein which unobtrusively runs from the first to the last page in the book. He will lay down the narrative of almost grotesque adventure with a keen remembrance of its tenderness and pathos.—New York Tribune.
16mo. Boards. Second impression, $1.25.
IN A DIKE SHANTY
Of the same general character as this author's "Tenting on Stony Beach," but written with more vigor and compactness. Each of the persons in this outing-sketch is strongly individualized, and an effective little love story is interwoven. The author has a certain hardness of tone which gives strength to her work.—Atlantic Monthly.
With a cover designed by Frank Hazenplug. 16mo. Cloth. 11.25.
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PIPPINS AND CHEESE
A book of stories and conversations telling how a number of persons ate a number of dinners at various times and places.
A group of stories which bear the marks of faithful care and polishing, of deep feeling and an understanding of the heights and depths of the soul, stories which must be a satisfaction to their author, are included in the gray-and-green volume, with its quaint title, "Pippins and Cheese," with the name of Mrs. Elia W. Peattie below.—Chicago Daily News.
Mrs. Peattie proves without doubt her versatility and talent for short-story-telling, and "Pippins and Cheese" is a good example of the work of a Western writer Chicago is glad to claim.—Chicago Evening Post.
With a cover designed by Frank Hazenplug. 16mo. Cloth. $1.25.
A MOUNTAIN WOMAN
The collection of brief stories of Western life which Mrs. Elia W. Peattie put forth under the title of "A Mountain Woman" is decidedly out of the ordinary. These tales are vigorous in conception, and are gracefully and affectively told.—New York Tribune.
If anyone were to name the best quality of the Western school of fiction, it would be a very fine sincerity untouched by cynicism; faithfulness to reality, and yet a belief in the real human nature that it finds. This is the best democracy. * * * Mrs. Peattie has done some work very characteristic of her school, and yet individual. One is impressed at the very outset with the honesty and vitality of her observations.—The Bookman.
We wish to call most particular attention to a collection of short Western stories by Mrs. Peattie, entitled "A Mountain Woman." The book contains several of the best tales of Western life ever written. The Nebraska stories throw so true a light upon recent conditions in the sub-arid belt that they explain, better than any political speeches or arguments could do, the reasons why men in that part of the country are advocating free silver.—Review of Reviews.
With a cover designed by Bruce Rogers. 16mo. Cloth. $1.25.
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PINK MARSH
A story of the Streets and Town.
There is, underlying these character sketches, a refinement of feeling that wins and retains one's admiration.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Here is a perfect triumph of characterization ... Pink must become a household word.—Kansas City Star.
It is some time since we have met with a more amusing character than is "Pink Marsh," or to give him his full title, William Pinckney Marsh of Chicago.... "Pink" is not a conventional "coon" of the comic paper and the variety ball, but a genuine flesh and blood type, presented with a good deal of literary and artistic skill.—New York Sun.
16mo. Cloth. Uniform with "Artie." With forty full-page illustrations by John T. McCutcheon. Eighth thousand. $1.25.
ARTIE
A story of the Streets and Town.
Mr. Ade shows all the qualities of a successful novelist.—Chicago Tribune.
Artie is a character, and George Ade has limned him deftly as well as amusingly. Under his rollicking abandon and recklessness we are made to feel the real sense and sensitiveness, and the worldly wisdom of a youth whose only language is that of a street-gamin. As a study of the peculiar type chosen, it is both typical and inimitable.—Detroit Free Press.
16mo. Cloth. Uniform with "Pink Marsh." With many illustrations by John T. McCutcheon. Sixteenth thousand. $1.25.
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IN THE CAGE: A NOVELETTE
With every recent story Mr. James seems to have entered a new field. "What Maisie Knew" was certainly a wide departure from his previous work, and "In The Cage," the life of a girl behind the wire screen of an English telegraph office, is as novel as one could wish. The story is slight and the incidents are few, but the charm of Mr. James's style, the absolute precision of his expression, the keenness of the analysis make the book remarkable in contemporary fiction.
We could not wish for a better representation of the art of Mr. Henry James. In appearance it is only a sketch of a girl who works the telegraph in an office that is part of a grocer's shop in the West End, but as background there is the extravagant world of fashion throwing out disjointed hints of vice and intrigue in messages handed in as indifferently as if the operator were only part of the machine. Nevertheless, she is a woman, too, and feminine interest and curiosity so quicken her wits that she is able to piece together "the high encounter with life, the large and complicated game" of her customers. This, in fact, is the romance in her life, the awakening touch to her imagination, and it is brought into skilful contrast with the passionless commonplace of her own love.—Academy.
12mo. Cloth. Uniform with "What Maisie Knew." $1.25.
WHAT MAISIE KNEW: A NOVEL
Henry James's masterpiece.—Chicago Times-Herald.
It will rank as one of his most notable achievements.—New York Sun.
The book contains some of the author's cleverest dialogue.—New York Tribune.
"What Maisie Knew," taken all in all, contains some of the keenest, most profound analysis which has yet come from the pen of that subtle writer. There is no question that Henry James's latest work will sell.—New York Commercial Advertiser.
It is quite impossible to ignore that, if the word have any significance and is ever to be used at all, we are here dealing with genius. This is a work of genius as much as Mr. Meredith's best work.—Pall Mall Gazette.
12mo. Third impression. $1.50.
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