A NEW NOVEL OF UNUSUAL MERIT
3rd printing. $1.50
A happily written English story with a theme of wide appeal. A likable youth with artistic tendencies is converted, for a time at least, to the ways, and works, and daughter of a puritan family. The situation is worked out with humor and in an atmosphere of good breeding.
“A really charming narrative. They’re all very real, these good people, even the most lightly sketched among them, while Broggers, and lisping Chris, the good old Lomax, and sweet, human Margaret, and brave, brave Betty, these are altogether too nice and wholesomely lovable to shut away with the memory of their story’s single reading. There’s too much to be learned and enjoyed to think of perusing but once.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“Those critics who have asserted that all possible plots have been used will be compelled to retreat. More than one noteworthy figure, carefully finished and consistent and adding to the general merit of a remarkable first novel.”—The Living Age.“Extremely clever and charming. It reminds one here and there of the manner of De Morgan, which is praise enough for anybody.”—Wm. Lyon Phelps, Professor of English Literature at Yale.“Somewhat of the temperament of Miss Sinclair’s ‘The Divine Fire.’ ... One of those unusual novels which gather force as they advance. Will be one of the notable books of the season.”—Washington (D. C.) Star.“A rarely interesting novel.”—Hartford Courant.
“A really charming narrative. They’re all very real, these good people, even the most lightly sketched among them, while Broggers, and lisping Chris, the good old Lomax, and sweet, human Margaret, and brave, brave Betty, these are altogether too nice and wholesomely lovable to shut away with the memory of their story’s single reading. There’s too much to be learned and enjoyed to think of perusing but once.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“Those critics who have asserted that all possible plots have been used will be compelled to retreat. More than one noteworthy figure, carefully finished and consistent and adding to the general merit of a remarkable first novel.”—The Living Age.
“Extremely clever and charming. It reminds one here and there of the manner of De Morgan, which is praise enough for anybody.”—Wm. Lyon Phelps, Professor of English Literature at Yale.
“Somewhat of the temperament of Miss Sinclair’s ‘The Divine Fire.’ ... One of those unusual novels which gather force as they advance. Will be one of the notable books of the season.”—Washington (D. C.) Star.
“A rarely interesting novel.”—Hartford Courant.
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The dramatic story of some modern English people in a strange situation. $1.75.
“A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction,”—The Nation.“Dear familiar friends, companions, playmates of his are these men and women and children, and he tells you about them so vividly and tenderly that they must be your friends and familiars, too—for their mere charm and their humanness’ sake—in their jests and idle pastimes, not less than in their tragedies and joys.... If you love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and have your reward.”—New York Times Review.“Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal. A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America. Absolutely masterly. The plot is extremely ingenious and complicated.”—The Dial.
“A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction,”—The Nation.
“Dear familiar friends, companions, playmates of his are these men and women and children, and he tells you about them so vividly and tenderly that they must be your friends and familiars, too—for their mere charm and their humanness’ sake—in their jests and idle pastimes, not less than in their tragedies and joys.... If you love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and have your reward.”—New York Times Review.
“Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal. A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America. Absolutely masterly. The plot is extremely ingenious and complicated.”—The Dial.
The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family. Seventh printing. $1.75.
“Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan.”—Boston Transcript.“It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Page by page the new book is as rich, piquant, and interesting as its predecessor.... Everywhere are wit, learning, and scholarship ... the true creative imagination.... Will be remembered as Dickens’s novels are remembered.”—Springfield Republican.
“Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan.”—Boston Transcript.
“It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Page by page the new book is as rich, piquant, and interesting as its predecessor.... Everywhere are wit, learning, and scholarship ... the true creative imagination.... Will be remembered as Dickens’s novels are remembered.”—Springfield Republican.
A novel of life near London in the 50’s. Eighth printing. $1.75.
“The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.”—Lewis MelvilleinNew York Times Saturday Review.“If the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can find the two books in this one.”—The Independent.
“The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.”—Lewis MelvilleinNew York Times Saturday Review.
“If the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can find the two books in this one.”—The Independent.
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By Ramsey Benson.
326 pp., 12mo. $1.50.
The unusual and convincing narrative of the experiences of a man of good sense, with wages of $50 a month and five children, following his determination to leave the city and farm it in the Northwest.
“A book of real adventure—an adventure in living. More thrilling than an African jungle story, and not lacking in humor and pathos. Nothing is more wonderful than the way the commonest details contribute to the homely interest, just as long ago we were fascinated by the ‘Swiss Family Robinson.’”—The Independent.“Does for the humble workingman what ‘The Fat of the Land’ did for the well-to-do. Will appeal instantly and throughout its entire length to the lover of the outdoor life.”—Boston Transcript.“Unique in literature ... holds many fascinations ... told with the utmost art.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
“A book of real adventure—an adventure in living. More thrilling than an African jungle story, and not lacking in humor and pathos. Nothing is more wonderful than the way the commonest details contribute to the homely interest, just as long ago we were fascinated by the ‘Swiss Family Robinson.’”—The Independent.
“Does for the humble workingman what ‘The Fat of the Land’ did for the well-to-do. Will appeal instantly and throughout its entire length to the lover of the outdoor life.”—Boston Transcript.
“Unique in literature ... holds many fascinations ... told with the utmost art.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
By Zephine Humphrey.
276 pp., 12mo. $1.25 net, by mail $1.33.
The homely experiences of a bright young woman and her Aunt Susan, not to mention the “hired girl,” in making a New England home.
“Verily it is a delicious piece of work and that last chapter is a genuine poem. Best of all is the charming sincerity of the book.”—George Cary Eggleston.“A record of country life far above the average of its class in the qualities which go to make such a book enjoyable.... The author sees the things that are worth seeing, and she has a rather unusual command of simple, dignified and effective English.”—The Nation.“Characters who are individualized and humor that is gentle and cheery ... the unmistakable air of literary grace and refinement.”—The Outlook.
“Verily it is a delicious piece of work and that last chapter is a genuine poem. Best of all is the charming sincerity of the book.”—George Cary Eggleston.
“A record of country life far above the average of its class in the qualities which go to make such a book enjoyable.... The author sees the things that are worth seeing, and she has a rather unusual command of simple, dignified and effective English.”—The Nation.
“Characters who are individualized and humor that is gentle and cheery ... the unmistakable air of literary grace and refinement.”—The Outlook.
By Eliza R. Scidmore.
Journal of a Russian Prisoner’s Wife in Japan.
Illustrated from photographs. 359 pp., 12mo. $1.50 net, by mail $1.62.
“In a class by itself. For sheer graphic force it has a kinship with Kipling’s ‘Soldiers Three.’ A brave love story, bravely told. Epic not only in subject, but in treatment.”—Philip Tillinghast in The Forum.“A remarkable book, and one that places the author in the very front rank of living writers of fiction.”—London Academy.“First worthy romance with scenes laid in our Eastern islands. The love story is the real thing.”—New York Times Review.
“In a class by itself. For sheer graphic force it has a kinship with Kipling’s ‘Soldiers Three.’ A brave love story, bravely told. Epic not only in subject, but in treatment.”—Philip Tillinghast in The Forum.
“A remarkable book, and one that places the author in the very front rank of living writers of fiction.”—London Academy.
“First worthy romance with scenes laid in our Eastern islands. The love story is the real thing.”—New York Times Review.
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An intense romance of the Italian rising against the Austrians early in the nineteenth century. Twenty-first printing. $1.25
“One of the most powerful novels of the decade.”—New York Tribune.
“One of the most powerful novels of the decade.”—New York Tribune.
Being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson. Fifty-first printing. $1.50.
A sequel to “The Prisoner of Zenda.” Illustrated by C. D. Gibson. Twenty-first printing. $1.50.
These stirring romances established a new vogue in fiction and are among the most widely-read novels. Each has been successfully dramatized.
New illustrated edition. Twenty-first printing. $1.50.
A humorous love story of a beautiful American and a gallant Englishman who stoops to conquer. Two almost human automobiles play prominent parts. There are picturesque scenes in Provence, Spain and Italy.
“Altogether the best automobile story of which we have knowledge, and might serve almost as a guide-book for highway travel from Paris to Sicily.”—Atlantic Monthly.
“Altogether the best automobile story of which we have knowledge, and might serve almost as a guide-book for highway travel from Paris to Sicily.”—Atlantic Monthly.
Illustrated by Edward Penfield. Eighth printing. $1.50.
“The authors have duplicated their success with ‘The Lightning Conductor.’ ... Unusually absorbing.”—Boston Transcript.
“The authors have duplicated their success with ‘The Lightning Conductor.’ ... Unusually absorbing.”—Boston Transcript.
This humorous Anglo-American tale made an instantaneous hit. Eighteenth printing. $1.25.
“He is probably funny because he cannot help it.... Must consent to be regarded as a benefactor of his kind without responsibility.”—The Nation.
“He is probably funny because he cannot help it.... Must consent to be regarded as a benefactor of his kind without responsibility.”—The Nation.
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