AD PAGESFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK. By George Barr McCutcheon. With Color Frontispiece and other illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Beautiful inlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.“The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season’s novels.”—Boston Herald.“‘Beverly’ is altogether charming—almost living flesh and blood.”—Louisville Times.“Better than ‘Graustark’.”—Mail and Express.“A sequel quite as impossible as ‘Graustark’ and quite as entertaining.”—Bookman.“A charming love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.HALF A ROGUE. By Harold MacGrath. With illustrations and inlay cover picture by Harrison Fisher.“Here are dexterity of plot, glancing play at witty talk, characters really human and humanly real, spirit and gladness, freshness and quick movement. ‘Half a Rogue’ is as brisk as a horseback ride on a glorious morning. It is as varied as an April day. It is as charming as two most charming girls can make it. Love and honor and success and all the great things worth fighting for and living for the involved in ‘Half a Rogue.’”—Phila. Press.THE GIRL FROM TIM’S PLACE. By Charles Clark Munn. With illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.“Figuring in the pages of this story there are several strong characters. Typical New England folk and an especially sturdy one, old Cy Walker, through whose instrumentality Chip comes to happiness and fortune. There is a chain of comedy, tragedy, pathos and love, which makes a dramatic story.”—Boston Herald.THE LION AND THE MOUSE. A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, and Scenes from the Play.The novel duplicated the success of the play; in fact the book is greater than the play. A portentous clash of dominant personalties that form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon but briefly in the short space of four acts. All this is narrated in the novel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it one of the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given to the world in years.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.BARBARA WINSLOW, REBEL. By Elizabeth Ellis. With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.The following, taken from story, will best describe the heroine: A TOAST:“To the bravest comrade in misfortune, the sweetest companion in peace and at all times the most courageous of women.”—Barbara Winslow.“A romantic story, buoyant, eventful, and in matters of love exactly what the heart could desire.”—New York Sun.SUSAN. By Ernest Oldmeadow. With a color frontispiece by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color on front cover.Lord Ruddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom he sees in one of her walks accompanied by her maid, Susan. Through a misapprehension of personalities his lordship addresses a love missive to the maid. Susan accepts in perfect good faith, and an epistolary love-making goes on till they are disillusioned. It naturally makes a droll and delightful little comedy; and is a story that is particularly clever in the telling.WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE. By Jean Webster. With illustrations by C. D. Williams.“The book is a treasure.”—Chicago Daily News.“Bright, whimsical, and thoroughly entertaining.”—Buffalo Express.“One of the best stories of life in a girl’s college that has ever been written.”—N. Y. Press.“To any woman who has enjoyed the pleasures of a college life this book cannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and to those who have not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm of Patty are sure to be no less delightful.”—Public Opinion.THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.“You can’t drop it till you have turned the last page.”—Cleveland Leader.“Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution, almost takes one’s breath away. The boldness of its denouement is sublime.”—Boston Transcript.“The literary hit of a generation. The best of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterly story.”—St. Louis Dispatch.“The story is ingeniously told, and cleverly constructed.”—The Dial.THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by John Campbell.“Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a passion for gambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has a high sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a very human, lovable character, and love saves her.”—N. Y. Times.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by Martin Justice.“As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in the reading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it is handled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionably novel.”—Boston Transcript.“A feast of humor and good cheer, yet subtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, or whimsicality. A merry thing in prose.”—St. Louis Democrat.ROSE O’ THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by George Wright.“‘Rose o’ the River,’ a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully written and deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book—daintily illustrated.”—New York Tribune.“A wholesome, bright, refreshing story, an ideal book to give a young girl.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. As story-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true to the life.”—London Mail.TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn.The little“Mennonite Maid”who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end.“Tillie is faulty, sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last and always lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, the characters skilfully developed.”—The Book Buyer.LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy.“The most marvellous work of its wonderful author.”—New York World.“We touch regions and attain altitudes which it is not given to the ordinary novelist even to approach.”—London Times.“In no other story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady Rose’s Daughter.”—North American Review.THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.“An exciting and absorbing story.”—New York Times.“Intensely thrilling in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There is a love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is a run on the bank which is almost worth a year’s growth, and there is all manner of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the book into high and permanent favor.”—Chicago Evening Post.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKNATURE BOOKSWith Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance with 150 Birds Commonly Found in the Woods, Fields and Gardens About Our Homes. By Neltje Blanchan. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, and many plates of birds in natural colors. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8, Cloth. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.As an aid to the elementary study of bird life nothing has ever been published more satisfactory than this most successful of Nature Books. This book makes the identification of our birds simple and positive, even to the uninitiated, through certain unique features. I. All the birds are grouped according to color, in the belief that a bird’s coloring is the first and often the only characteristic noticed. II. By another classification, the birds are grouped according to their season. III. All the popular names by which a bird is known are given both in the descriptions and the index. The colored plates are the most beautiful and accurate ever given in a moderate-priced and popular book. The most successful and widely sold Nature Book yet published.BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED. Life Histories of 170 Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan. With Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 24 photographic illustrations in color. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.No work of its class has ever been issued that contains so much valuable information, presented with such felicity and charm. The colored plates are true to nature. By their aid alone any bird illustrated may be readily identified. Sportsmen will especially relish the twenty-four color plates which show the more important birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKNATURE BOOKSWith Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.NATURE’S GARDEN. An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors. 24 colored plates, and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature. Text by Neltje Blanchan. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Cloth. Formerly published at $3.00 net. Our special price, $1.25.Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowers in their living tints, and no less beautiful pictures in black and white of others—each blossom photographed directly from nature—form an unrivaled series. By their aid alone the novice can name the flowers met afield.Intimate life-histories of over five hundred species of wild flowers, written in untechnical, vivid language, emphasize the marvelously interesting and vital relationship existing between these flowers and the special insect to which each is adapted.The flowers are divided into five color groups, because by this arrangement any one with no knowledge of botany whatever can readily identify the specimens met during a walk. The various popular names by which each species is known, its preferred dwelling-place, months of blooming and geographical distribution follow its description. Lists of berry-bearing and other plants most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the International Botanical Congress which has now superseded all others, combine to make“Nature’s Garden”an indispensable guide.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE. By Edith Elmer Wood. With illustrations by Rufus Zogbaum.The standards and life of“the new navy”are breezily set forth with a genuine ring impossible from the most gifted“outsider.”“The story of the destruction of the ‘Maine,’ and of the Battle of Manila, are very dramatic. The author is the daughter of one naval officer and the wife of another. Naval folks will find much to interest them in ‘The Spirit of the Service.’”—The Book Buyer.A SPECTRE OF POWER. By Charles Egbert Craddock.Miss Murfree has pictured Tennessee mountains and the mountain people in striking colors and with dramatic vividness, but goes back to the time of the struggles of the French and English in the early eighteenth century for possession of the Cherokee territory. The story abounds in adventure, mystery, peril and suspense.THE STORM CENTRE. By Charles Egbert Craddock.A war story; but more of flirtation, love and courtship than of fighting or history. The tale is thoroughly readable and takes its readers again into golden Tennessee, into the atmosphere which has distinguished all of Miss Murfree’s novels.THE ADVENTURESS. By Coralie Stanton. With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, and attractive inlay cover in colors.As a penalty for her crimes, her evil nature, her flint-like callousness, her more than inhuman cruelty, her contempt for the laws of God and man, she was condemned to bury her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent beauty, her superhuman charms, in gilded obscurity at a King’s left hand. A powerful story powerfully told.THE GOLDEN GREYHOUND. A Novel by Dwight Tilton. With illustrations by E. Pollak.A thoroughly good story that keeps you guessing to the very end, and never attempts to instruct or reform you. It is a strictly up-to-date story of love and mystery with wireless telegraphy and all the modern improvements. The events nearly all take place on a big Atlantic liner and the romance of the deep is skilfully made to serve as a setting for the romance, old as mankind, yet always new, involving our hero.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKERRATACHAPTER IChanged: girl in thefairy talewho left jewelsTo: girl in thefairy-talewho left jewelsCHAPTER IChanged: ever walked infairy tale. But she sawTo: ever walked infairy-tale. But she sawCHAPTER IIIChanged: before, but coveredwthconfusion and shame,To: before, but coveredwithconfusion and shame,CHAPTER IIIChanged: and she turneddelberately, one dainty, slipperedTo: and she turneddeliberately, one dainty, slipperedCHAPTER VChanged: her that thiswholsaledisposal of MarciaTo: her that thiswholesaledisposal of MarciaCHAPTER VChanged: Phoebe takes your place and then come back.To: Phoebe takes your place and then come back.”CHAPTER VChanged: fine places, totea drinkingsand the like,To: fine places, totea-drinkingsand the like,CHAPTER VIChanged: out radiant andchildlikethrough her tears.To: out radiant andchild-likethrough her tears.CHAPTER XChanged: was always somethingchildlikeabout Marcia’sTo: was always somethingchild-likeabout Marcia’sCHAPTER XChanged: her old homeplentfullysupplied with thoseTo: her old homeplentifullysupplied with thoseCHAPTER XIIChanged: got David that’s worth everything.To: got David that’s worth everything.”CHAPTER XIIChanged: position on thehairclothsofa. But ifTo: position on thehair-clothsofa. But ifCHAPTER XIIIChanged: had Mary Ann’shand-writinglooked so pleasantTo: had Mary Ann’shandwritinglooked so pleasantCHAPTER XIIIChanged: seemed half alife-timeto the girlTo: seemed half alifetimeto the girlCHAPTER XIIIChanged: my old calicotomorrowmorning again, andTo: my old calicoto-morrowmorning again, andCHAPTER XIIIChanged: house with bigcollumsto the frontTo: house with bigcolumnsto the frontCHAPTER XVChanged: table, and thetea-kettlewas singing onTo: table, and thetea kettlewas singing onCHAPTER XVChanged: The neighbor hadstaidlonger than usual,To: The neighbor hadstayedlonger than usual,CHAPTER XVIChanged: thus melted intochildlikeenthusiasm, felt hisTo: thus melted intochild-likeenthusiasm, felt hisCHAPTER XVIIIChanged: with the flickeringcandle-lightmaking grotesqueTo: with the flickeringcandle lightmaking grotesqueCHAPTER XVIIIChanged: Bible where thecandle-lightplayed at glancesTo: Bible where thecandle lightplayed at glancesCHAPTER XXIChanged: if he wouldabsordthe vision forTo: if he wouldabsorbthe vision forCHAPTER XXIIChanged: and let thefloodtideof his sorrowTo: and let theflood-tideof his sorrowCHAPTER XXIIChanged: an’ hopin’ an’tryinfer somebody bigger.To: an’ hopin’ an’tryin’fer somebody bigger.CHAPTER XXIIChanged: There’s no place like home.’To: There’s no place like home.CHAPTER XXIVChanged:Miranda Griscom.”To:“Miranda Griscom.”CHAPTER XXVIChanged: all items accuratetechnicalities of preparation;To: all items accurate;technicalities of preparation;CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: need all the rest you can get.To: need all the rest you can get.”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: had before—all your own I mean?To: had before—all your own I mean?”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: any bonnet. Nothing but a pink sunbonnet.To: any bonnet. Nothing but a pink sunbonnet.”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: a little oldhairclothtrunk, her ownTo: a little oldhair-clothtrunk, her ownCHAPTER XXVIIChanged: had done whena boy Aunt ClarindaTo: had done whenasa boy Aunt ClarindaCHAPTER XXVIIChanged: Kate a merecommon-place? What was thisTo: Kate a merecommonplace? What was thisCHAPTER XXIXChanged: Marcia lift herflowerlikeface, all brightTo: Marcia lift herflower-likeface, all brightAD PAGESChanged: love story well told.”—Boston Transcript,To: love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.AD PAGESChanged: by Frank Haviland.Medalionin color onTo: by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color onAD PAGESChanged:Suberbcolor portraits of many familiar flowersTo:Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowersAD PAGESChanged: her magnificentpersonalty, her transcendentTo: her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent
AD PAGESFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK. By George Barr McCutcheon. With Color Frontispiece and other illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Beautiful inlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.“The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season’s novels.”—Boston Herald.“‘Beverly’ is altogether charming—almost living flesh and blood.”—Louisville Times.“Better than ‘Graustark’.”—Mail and Express.“A sequel quite as impossible as ‘Graustark’ and quite as entertaining.”—Bookman.“A charming love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.HALF A ROGUE. By Harold MacGrath. With illustrations and inlay cover picture by Harrison Fisher.“Here are dexterity of plot, glancing play at witty talk, characters really human and humanly real, spirit and gladness, freshness and quick movement. ‘Half a Rogue’ is as brisk as a horseback ride on a glorious morning. It is as varied as an April day. It is as charming as two most charming girls can make it. Love and honor and success and all the great things worth fighting for and living for the involved in ‘Half a Rogue.’”—Phila. Press.THE GIRL FROM TIM’S PLACE. By Charles Clark Munn. With illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.“Figuring in the pages of this story there are several strong characters. Typical New England folk and an especially sturdy one, old Cy Walker, through whose instrumentality Chip comes to happiness and fortune. There is a chain of comedy, tragedy, pathos and love, which makes a dramatic story.”—Boston Herald.THE LION AND THE MOUSE. A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, and Scenes from the Play.The novel duplicated the success of the play; in fact the book is greater than the play. A portentous clash of dominant personalties that form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon but briefly in the short space of four acts. All this is narrated in the novel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it one of the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given to the world in years.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.BARBARA WINSLOW, REBEL. By Elizabeth Ellis. With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.The following, taken from story, will best describe the heroine: A TOAST:“To the bravest comrade in misfortune, the sweetest companion in peace and at all times the most courageous of women.”—Barbara Winslow.“A romantic story, buoyant, eventful, and in matters of love exactly what the heart could desire.”—New York Sun.SUSAN. By Ernest Oldmeadow. With a color frontispiece by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color on front cover.Lord Ruddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom he sees in one of her walks accompanied by her maid, Susan. Through a misapprehension of personalities his lordship addresses a love missive to the maid. Susan accepts in perfect good faith, and an epistolary love-making goes on till they are disillusioned. It naturally makes a droll and delightful little comedy; and is a story that is particularly clever in the telling.WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE. By Jean Webster. With illustrations by C. D. Williams.“The book is a treasure.”—Chicago Daily News.“Bright, whimsical, and thoroughly entertaining.”—Buffalo Express.“One of the best stories of life in a girl’s college that has ever been written.”—N. Y. Press.“To any woman who has enjoyed the pleasures of a college life this book cannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and to those who have not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm of Patty are sure to be no less delightful.”—Public Opinion.THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.“You can’t drop it till you have turned the last page.”—Cleveland Leader.“Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution, almost takes one’s breath away. The boldness of its denouement is sublime.”—Boston Transcript.“The literary hit of a generation. The best of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterly story.”—St. Louis Dispatch.“The story is ingeniously told, and cleverly constructed.”—The Dial.THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by John Campbell.“Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a passion for gambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has a high sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a very human, lovable character, and love saves her.”—N. Y. Times.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by Martin Justice.“As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in the reading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it is handled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionably novel.”—Boston Transcript.“A feast of humor and good cheer, yet subtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, or whimsicality. A merry thing in prose.”—St. Louis Democrat.ROSE O’ THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by George Wright.“‘Rose o’ the River,’ a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully written and deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book—daintily illustrated.”—New York Tribune.“A wholesome, bright, refreshing story, an ideal book to give a young girl.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. As story-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true to the life.”—London Mail.TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn.The little“Mennonite Maid”who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end.“Tillie is faulty, sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last and always lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, the characters skilfully developed.”—The Book Buyer.LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy.“The most marvellous work of its wonderful author.”—New York World.“We touch regions and attain altitudes which it is not given to the ordinary novelist even to approach.”—London Times.“In no other story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady Rose’s Daughter.”—North American Review.THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.“An exciting and absorbing story.”—New York Times.“Intensely thrilling in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There is a love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is a run on the bank which is almost worth a year’s growth, and there is all manner of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the book into high and permanent favor.”—Chicago Evening Post.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKNATURE BOOKSWith Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance with 150 Birds Commonly Found in the Woods, Fields and Gardens About Our Homes. By Neltje Blanchan. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, and many plates of birds in natural colors. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8, Cloth. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.As an aid to the elementary study of bird life nothing has ever been published more satisfactory than this most successful of Nature Books. This book makes the identification of our birds simple and positive, even to the uninitiated, through certain unique features. I. All the birds are grouped according to color, in the belief that a bird’s coloring is the first and often the only characteristic noticed. II. By another classification, the birds are grouped according to their season. III. All the popular names by which a bird is known are given both in the descriptions and the index. The colored plates are the most beautiful and accurate ever given in a moderate-priced and popular book. The most successful and widely sold Nature Book yet published.BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED. Life Histories of 170 Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan. With Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 24 photographic illustrations in color. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.No work of its class has ever been issued that contains so much valuable information, presented with such felicity and charm. The colored plates are true to nature. By their aid alone any bird illustrated may be readily identified. Sportsmen will especially relish the twenty-four color plates which show the more important birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKNATURE BOOKSWith Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.NATURE’S GARDEN. An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors. 24 colored plates, and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature. Text by Neltje Blanchan. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Cloth. Formerly published at $3.00 net. Our special price, $1.25.Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowers in their living tints, and no less beautiful pictures in black and white of others—each blossom photographed directly from nature—form an unrivaled series. By their aid alone the novice can name the flowers met afield.Intimate life-histories of over five hundred species of wild flowers, written in untechnical, vivid language, emphasize the marvelously interesting and vital relationship existing between these flowers and the special insect to which each is adapted.The flowers are divided into five color groups, because by this arrangement any one with no knowledge of botany whatever can readily identify the specimens met during a walk. The various popular names by which each species is known, its preferred dwelling-place, months of blooming and geographical distribution follow its description. Lists of berry-bearing and other plants most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the International Botanical Congress which has now superseded all others, combine to make“Nature’s Garden”an indispensable guide.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE. By Edith Elmer Wood. With illustrations by Rufus Zogbaum.The standards and life of“the new navy”are breezily set forth with a genuine ring impossible from the most gifted“outsider.”“The story of the destruction of the ‘Maine,’ and of the Battle of Manila, are very dramatic. The author is the daughter of one naval officer and the wife of another. Naval folks will find much to interest them in ‘The Spirit of the Service.’”—The Book Buyer.A SPECTRE OF POWER. By Charles Egbert Craddock.Miss Murfree has pictured Tennessee mountains and the mountain people in striking colors and with dramatic vividness, but goes back to the time of the struggles of the French and English in the early eighteenth century for possession of the Cherokee territory. The story abounds in adventure, mystery, peril and suspense.THE STORM CENTRE. By Charles Egbert Craddock.A war story; but more of flirtation, love and courtship than of fighting or history. The tale is thoroughly readable and takes its readers again into golden Tennessee, into the atmosphere which has distinguished all of Miss Murfree’s novels.THE ADVENTURESS. By Coralie Stanton. With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, and attractive inlay cover in colors.As a penalty for her crimes, her evil nature, her flint-like callousness, her more than inhuman cruelty, her contempt for the laws of God and man, she was condemned to bury her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent beauty, her superhuman charms, in gilded obscurity at a King’s left hand. A powerful story powerfully told.THE GOLDEN GREYHOUND. A Novel by Dwight Tilton. With illustrations by E. Pollak.A thoroughly good story that keeps you guessing to the very end, and never attempts to instruct or reform you. It is a strictly up-to-date story of love and mystery with wireless telegraphy and all the modern improvements. The events nearly all take place on a big Atlantic liner and the romance of the deep is skilfully made to serve as a setting for the romance, old as mankind, yet always new, involving our hero.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKERRATACHAPTER IChanged: girl in thefairy talewho left jewelsTo: girl in thefairy-talewho left jewelsCHAPTER IChanged: ever walked infairy tale. But she sawTo: ever walked infairy-tale. But she sawCHAPTER IIIChanged: before, but coveredwthconfusion and shame,To: before, but coveredwithconfusion and shame,CHAPTER IIIChanged: and she turneddelberately, one dainty, slipperedTo: and she turneddeliberately, one dainty, slipperedCHAPTER VChanged: her that thiswholsaledisposal of MarciaTo: her that thiswholesaledisposal of MarciaCHAPTER VChanged: Phoebe takes your place and then come back.To: Phoebe takes your place and then come back.”CHAPTER VChanged: fine places, totea drinkingsand the like,To: fine places, totea-drinkingsand the like,CHAPTER VIChanged: out radiant andchildlikethrough her tears.To: out radiant andchild-likethrough her tears.CHAPTER XChanged: was always somethingchildlikeabout Marcia’sTo: was always somethingchild-likeabout Marcia’sCHAPTER XChanged: her old homeplentfullysupplied with thoseTo: her old homeplentifullysupplied with thoseCHAPTER XIIChanged: got David that’s worth everything.To: got David that’s worth everything.”CHAPTER XIIChanged: position on thehairclothsofa. But ifTo: position on thehair-clothsofa. But ifCHAPTER XIIIChanged: had Mary Ann’shand-writinglooked so pleasantTo: had Mary Ann’shandwritinglooked so pleasantCHAPTER XIIIChanged: seemed half alife-timeto the girlTo: seemed half alifetimeto the girlCHAPTER XIIIChanged: my old calicotomorrowmorning again, andTo: my old calicoto-morrowmorning again, andCHAPTER XIIIChanged: house with bigcollumsto the frontTo: house with bigcolumnsto the frontCHAPTER XVChanged: table, and thetea-kettlewas singing onTo: table, and thetea kettlewas singing onCHAPTER XVChanged: The neighbor hadstaidlonger than usual,To: The neighbor hadstayedlonger than usual,CHAPTER XVIChanged: thus melted intochildlikeenthusiasm, felt hisTo: thus melted intochild-likeenthusiasm, felt hisCHAPTER XVIIIChanged: with the flickeringcandle-lightmaking grotesqueTo: with the flickeringcandle lightmaking grotesqueCHAPTER XVIIIChanged: Bible where thecandle-lightplayed at glancesTo: Bible where thecandle lightplayed at glancesCHAPTER XXIChanged: if he wouldabsordthe vision forTo: if he wouldabsorbthe vision forCHAPTER XXIIChanged: and let thefloodtideof his sorrowTo: and let theflood-tideof his sorrowCHAPTER XXIIChanged: an’ hopin’ an’tryinfer somebody bigger.To: an’ hopin’ an’tryin’fer somebody bigger.CHAPTER XXIIChanged: There’s no place like home.’To: There’s no place like home.CHAPTER XXIVChanged:Miranda Griscom.”To:“Miranda Griscom.”CHAPTER XXVIChanged: all items accuratetechnicalities of preparation;To: all items accurate;technicalities of preparation;CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: need all the rest you can get.To: need all the rest you can get.”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: had before—all your own I mean?To: had before—all your own I mean?”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: any bonnet. Nothing but a pink sunbonnet.To: any bonnet. Nothing but a pink sunbonnet.”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: a little oldhairclothtrunk, her ownTo: a little oldhair-clothtrunk, her ownCHAPTER XXVIIChanged: had done whena boy Aunt ClarindaTo: had done whenasa boy Aunt ClarindaCHAPTER XXVIIChanged: Kate a merecommon-place? What was thisTo: Kate a merecommonplace? What was thisCHAPTER XXIXChanged: Marcia lift herflowerlikeface, all brightTo: Marcia lift herflower-likeface, all brightAD PAGESChanged: love story well told.”—Boston Transcript,To: love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.AD PAGESChanged: by Frank Haviland.Medalionin color onTo: by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color onAD PAGESChanged:Suberbcolor portraits of many familiar flowersTo:Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowersAD PAGESChanged: her magnificentpersonalty, her transcendentTo: her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent
AD PAGESFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK. By George Barr McCutcheon. With Color Frontispiece and other illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Beautiful inlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.“The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season’s novels.”—Boston Herald.“‘Beverly’ is altogether charming—almost living flesh and blood.”—Louisville Times.“Better than ‘Graustark’.”—Mail and Express.“A sequel quite as impossible as ‘Graustark’ and quite as entertaining.”—Bookman.“A charming love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.HALF A ROGUE. By Harold MacGrath. With illustrations and inlay cover picture by Harrison Fisher.“Here are dexterity of plot, glancing play at witty talk, characters really human and humanly real, spirit and gladness, freshness and quick movement. ‘Half a Rogue’ is as brisk as a horseback ride on a glorious morning. It is as varied as an April day. It is as charming as two most charming girls can make it. Love and honor and success and all the great things worth fighting for and living for the involved in ‘Half a Rogue.’”—Phila. Press.THE GIRL FROM TIM’S PLACE. By Charles Clark Munn. With illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.“Figuring in the pages of this story there are several strong characters. Typical New England folk and an especially sturdy one, old Cy Walker, through whose instrumentality Chip comes to happiness and fortune. There is a chain of comedy, tragedy, pathos and love, which makes a dramatic story.”—Boston Herald.THE LION AND THE MOUSE. A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, and Scenes from the Play.The novel duplicated the success of the play; in fact the book is greater than the play. A portentous clash of dominant personalties that form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon but briefly in the short space of four acts. All this is narrated in the novel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it one of the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given to the world in years.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.BARBARA WINSLOW, REBEL. By Elizabeth Ellis. With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.The following, taken from story, will best describe the heroine: A TOAST:“To the bravest comrade in misfortune, the sweetest companion in peace and at all times the most courageous of women.”—Barbara Winslow.“A romantic story, buoyant, eventful, and in matters of love exactly what the heart could desire.”—New York Sun.SUSAN. By Ernest Oldmeadow. With a color frontispiece by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color on front cover.Lord Ruddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom he sees in one of her walks accompanied by her maid, Susan. Through a misapprehension of personalities his lordship addresses a love missive to the maid. Susan accepts in perfect good faith, and an epistolary love-making goes on till they are disillusioned. It naturally makes a droll and delightful little comedy; and is a story that is particularly clever in the telling.WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE. By Jean Webster. With illustrations by C. D. Williams.“The book is a treasure.”—Chicago Daily News.“Bright, whimsical, and thoroughly entertaining.”—Buffalo Express.“One of the best stories of life in a girl’s college that has ever been written.”—N. Y. Press.“To any woman who has enjoyed the pleasures of a college life this book cannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and to those who have not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm of Patty are sure to be no less delightful.”—Public Opinion.THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.“You can’t drop it till you have turned the last page.”—Cleveland Leader.“Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution, almost takes one’s breath away. The boldness of its denouement is sublime.”—Boston Transcript.“The literary hit of a generation. The best of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterly story.”—St. Louis Dispatch.“The story is ingeniously told, and cleverly constructed.”—The Dial.THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by John Campbell.“Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a passion for gambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has a high sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a very human, lovable character, and love saves her.”—N. Y. Times.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by Martin Justice.“As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in the reading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it is handled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionably novel.”—Boston Transcript.“A feast of humor and good cheer, yet subtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, or whimsicality. A merry thing in prose.”—St. Louis Democrat.ROSE O’ THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by George Wright.“‘Rose o’ the River,’ a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully written and deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book—daintily illustrated.”—New York Tribune.“A wholesome, bright, refreshing story, an ideal book to give a young girl.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. As story-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true to the life.”—London Mail.TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn.The little“Mennonite Maid”who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end.“Tillie is faulty, sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last and always lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, the characters skilfully developed.”—The Book Buyer.LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy.“The most marvellous work of its wonderful author.”—New York World.“We touch regions and attain altitudes which it is not given to the ordinary novelist even to approach.”—London Times.“In no other story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady Rose’s Daughter.”—North American Review.THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.“An exciting and absorbing story.”—New York Times.“Intensely thrilling in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There is a love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is a run on the bank which is almost worth a year’s growth, and there is all manner of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the book into high and permanent favor.”—Chicago Evening Post.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKNATURE BOOKSWith Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance with 150 Birds Commonly Found in the Woods, Fields and Gardens About Our Homes. By Neltje Blanchan. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, and many plates of birds in natural colors. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8, Cloth. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.As an aid to the elementary study of bird life nothing has ever been published more satisfactory than this most successful of Nature Books. This book makes the identification of our birds simple and positive, even to the uninitiated, through certain unique features. I. All the birds are grouped according to color, in the belief that a bird’s coloring is the first and often the only characteristic noticed. II. By another classification, the birds are grouped according to their season. III. All the popular names by which a bird is known are given both in the descriptions and the index. The colored plates are the most beautiful and accurate ever given in a moderate-priced and popular book. The most successful and widely sold Nature Book yet published.BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED. Life Histories of 170 Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan. With Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 24 photographic illustrations in color. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.No work of its class has ever been issued that contains so much valuable information, presented with such felicity and charm. The colored plates are true to nature. By their aid alone any bird illustrated may be readily identified. Sportsmen will especially relish the twenty-four color plates which show the more important birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKNATURE BOOKSWith Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.NATURE’S GARDEN. An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors. 24 colored plates, and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature. Text by Neltje Blanchan. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Cloth. Formerly published at $3.00 net. Our special price, $1.25.Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowers in their living tints, and no less beautiful pictures in black and white of others—each blossom photographed directly from nature—form an unrivaled series. By their aid alone the novice can name the flowers met afield.Intimate life-histories of over five hundred species of wild flowers, written in untechnical, vivid language, emphasize the marvelously interesting and vital relationship existing between these flowers and the special insect to which each is adapted.The flowers are divided into five color groups, because by this arrangement any one with no knowledge of botany whatever can readily identify the specimens met during a walk. The various popular names by which each species is known, its preferred dwelling-place, months of blooming and geographical distribution follow its description. Lists of berry-bearing and other plants most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the International Botanical Congress which has now superseded all others, combine to make“Nature’s Garden”an indispensable guide.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORKFAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONSRe-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE. By Edith Elmer Wood. With illustrations by Rufus Zogbaum.The standards and life of“the new navy”are breezily set forth with a genuine ring impossible from the most gifted“outsider.”“The story of the destruction of the ‘Maine,’ and of the Battle of Manila, are very dramatic. The author is the daughter of one naval officer and the wife of another. Naval folks will find much to interest them in ‘The Spirit of the Service.’”—The Book Buyer.A SPECTRE OF POWER. By Charles Egbert Craddock.Miss Murfree has pictured Tennessee mountains and the mountain people in striking colors and with dramatic vividness, but goes back to the time of the struggles of the French and English in the early eighteenth century for possession of the Cherokee territory. The story abounds in adventure, mystery, peril and suspense.THE STORM CENTRE. By Charles Egbert Craddock.A war story; but more of flirtation, love and courtship than of fighting or history. The tale is thoroughly readable and takes its readers again into golden Tennessee, into the atmosphere which has distinguished all of Miss Murfree’s novels.THE ADVENTURESS. By Coralie Stanton. With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, and attractive inlay cover in colors.As a penalty for her crimes, her evil nature, her flint-like callousness, her more than inhuman cruelty, her contempt for the laws of God and man, she was condemned to bury her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent beauty, her superhuman charms, in gilded obscurity at a King’s left hand. A powerful story powerfully told.THE GOLDEN GREYHOUND. A Novel by Dwight Tilton. With illustrations by E. Pollak.A thoroughly good story that keeps you guessing to the very end, and never attempts to instruct or reform you. It is a strictly up-to-date story of love and mystery with wireless telegraphy and all the modern improvements. The events nearly all take place on a big Atlantic liner and the romance of the deep is skilfully made to serve as a setting for the romance, old as mankind, yet always new, involving our hero.GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORK
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Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.
BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK. By George Barr McCutcheon. With Color Frontispiece and other illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Beautiful inlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.
“The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season’s novels.”—Boston Herald.“‘Beverly’ is altogether charming—almost living flesh and blood.”—Louisville Times.“Better than ‘Graustark’.”—Mail and Express.“A sequel quite as impossible as ‘Graustark’ and quite as entertaining.”—Bookman.“A charming love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.
HALF A ROGUE. By Harold MacGrath. With illustrations and inlay cover picture by Harrison Fisher.
“Here are dexterity of plot, glancing play at witty talk, characters really human and humanly real, spirit and gladness, freshness and quick movement. ‘Half a Rogue’ is as brisk as a horseback ride on a glorious morning. It is as varied as an April day. It is as charming as two most charming girls can make it. Love and honor and success and all the great things worth fighting for and living for the involved in ‘Half a Rogue.’”—Phila. Press.
THE GIRL FROM TIM’S PLACE. By Charles Clark Munn. With illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.
“Figuring in the pages of this story there are several strong characters. Typical New England folk and an especially sturdy one, old Cy Walker, through whose instrumentality Chip comes to happiness and fortune. There is a chain of comedy, tragedy, pathos and love, which makes a dramatic story.”—Boston Herald.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE. A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, and Scenes from the Play.
The novel duplicated the success of the play; in fact the book is greater than the play. A portentous clash of dominant personalties that form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon but briefly in the short space of four acts. All this is narrated in the novel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it one of the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given to the world in years.
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Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.
BARBARA WINSLOW, REBEL. By Elizabeth Ellis. With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.
The following, taken from story, will best describe the heroine: A TOAST:“To the bravest comrade in misfortune, the sweetest companion in peace and at all times the most courageous of women.”—Barbara Winslow.“A romantic story, buoyant, eventful, and in matters of love exactly what the heart could desire.”—New York Sun.
SUSAN. By Ernest Oldmeadow. With a color frontispiece by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color on front cover.
Lord Ruddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom he sees in one of her walks accompanied by her maid, Susan. Through a misapprehension of personalities his lordship addresses a love missive to the maid. Susan accepts in perfect good faith, and an epistolary love-making goes on till they are disillusioned. It naturally makes a droll and delightful little comedy; and is a story that is particularly clever in the telling.
WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE. By Jean Webster. With illustrations by C. D. Williams.
“The book is a treasure.”—Chicago Daily News.“Bright, whimsical, and thoroughly entertaining.”—Buffalo Express.“One of the best stories of life in a girl’s college that has ever been written.”—N. Y. Press.“To any woman who has enjoyed the pleasures of a college life this book cannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and to those who have not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm of Patty are sure to be no less delightful.”—Public Opinion.
THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.
“You can’t drop it till you have turned the last page.”—Cleveland Leader.“Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution, almost takes one’s breath away. The boldness of its denouement is sublime.”—Boston Transcript.“The literary hit of a generation. The best of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterly story.”—St. Louis Dispatch.“The story is ingeniously told, and cleverly constructed.”—The Dial.
THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by John Campbell.
“Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a passion for gambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has a high sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a very human, lovable character, and love saves her.”—N. Y. Times.
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Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.
THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by Martin Justice.
“As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in the reading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it is handled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionably novel.”—Boston Transcript.“A feast of humor and good cheer, yet subtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, or whimsicality. A merry thing in prose.”—St. Louis Democrat.
ROSE O’ THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by George Wright.
“‘Rose o’ the River,’ a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully written and deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book—daintily illustrated.”—New York Tribune.“A wholesome, bright, refreshing story, an ideal book to give a young girl.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. As story-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true to the life.”—London Mail.
TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn.
The little“Mennonite Maid”who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end.“Tillie is faulty, sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last and always lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, the characters skilfully developed.”—The Book Buyer.
LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy.
“The most marvellous work of its wonderful author.”—New York World.“We touch regions and attain altitudes which it is not given to the ordinary novelist even to approach.”—London Times.“In no other story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady Rose’s Daughter.”—North American Review.
THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.
“An exciting and absorbing story.”—New York Times.“Intensely thrilling in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There is a love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is a run on the bank which is almost worth a year’s growth, and there is all manner of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the book into high and permanent favor.”—Chicago Evening Post.
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NATURE BOOKS
With Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.
BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance with 150 Birds Commonly Found in the Woods, Fields and Gardens About Our Homes. By Neltje Blanchan. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, and many plates of birds in natural colors. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8, Cloth. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.
As an aid to the elementary study of bird life nothing has ever been published more satisfactory than this most successful of Nature Books. This book makes the identification of our birds simple and positive, even to the uninitiated, through certain unique features. I. All the birds are grouped according to color, in the belief that a bird’s coloring is the first and often the only characteristic noticed. II. By another classification, the birds are grouped according to their season. III. All the popular names by which a bird is known are given both in the descriptions and the index. The colored plates are the most beautiful and accurate ever given in a moderate-priced and popular book. The most successful and widely sold Nature Book yet published.
BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED. Life Histories of 170 Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan. With Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 24 photographic illustrations in color. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.
No work of its class has ever been issued that contains so much valuable information, presented with such felicity and charm. The colored plates are true to nature. By their aid alone any bird illustrated may be readily identified. Sportsmen will especially relish the twenty-four color plates which show the more important birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORK
NATURE BOOKS
With Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.
NATURE’S GARDEN. An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors. 24 colored plates, and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature. Text by Neltje Blanchan. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4 x 10-3/8. Cloth. Formerly published at $3.00 net. Our special price, $1.25.
Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowers in their living tints, and no less beautiful pictures in black and white of others—each blossom photographed directly from nature—form an unrivaled series. By their aid alone the novice can name the flowers met afield.
Intimate life-histories of over five hundred species of wild flowers, written in untechnical, vivid language, emphasize the marvelously interesting and vital relationship existing between these flowers and the special insect to which each is adapted.
The flowers are divided into five color groups, because by this arrangement any one with no knowledge of botany whatever can readily identify the specimens met during a walk. The various popular names by which each species is known, its preferred dwelling-place, months of blooming and geographical distribution follow its description. Lists of berry-bearing and other plants most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the International Botanical Congress which has now superseded all others, combine to make“Nature’s Garden”an indispensable guide.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORK
FAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKSIN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONS
Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.
THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE. By Edith Elmer Wood. With illustrations by Rufus Zogbaum.
The standards and life of“the new navy”are breezily set forth with a genuine ring impossible from the most gifted“outsider.”“The story of the destruction of the ‘Maine,’ and of the Battle of Manila, are very dramatic. The author is the daughter of one naval officer and the wife of another. Naval folks will find much to interest them in ‘The Spirit of the Service.’”—The Book Buyer.
A SPECTRE OF POWER. By Charles Egbert Craddock.
Miss Murfree has pictured Tennessee mountains and the mountain people in striking colors and with dramatic vividness, but goes back to the time of the struggles of the French and English in the early eighteenth century for possession of the Cherokee territory. The story abounds in adventure, mystery, peril and suspense.
THE STORM CENTRE. By Charles Egbert Craddock.
A war story; but more of flirtation, love and courtship than of fighting or history. The tale is thoroughly readable and takes its readers again into golden Tennessee, into the atmosphere which has distinguished all of Miss Murfree’s novels.
THE ADVENTURESS. By Coralie Stanton. With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, and attractive inlay cover in colors.
As a penalty for her crimes, her evil nature, her flint-like callousness, her more than inhuman cruelty, her contempt for the laws of God and man, she was condemned to bury her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent beauty, her superhuman charms, in gilded obscurity at a King’s left hand. A powerful story powerfully told.
THE GOLDEN GREYHOUND. A Novel by Dwight Tilton. With illustrations by E. Pollak.
A thoroughly good story that keeps you guessing to the very end, and never attempts to instruct or reform you. It is a strictly up-to-date story of love and mystery with wireless telegraphy and all the modern improvements. The events nearly all take place on a big Atlantic liner and the romance of the deep is skilfully made to serve as a setting for the romance, old as mankind, yet always new, involving our hero.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORK
ERRATACHAPTER IChanged: girl in thefairy talewho left jewelsTo: girl in thefairy-talewho left jewelsCHAPTER IChanged: ever walked infairy tale. But she sawTo: ever walked infairy-tale. But she sawCHAPTER IIIChanged: before, but coveredwthconfusion and shame,To: before, but coveredwithconfusion and shame,CHAPTER IIIChanged: and she turneddelberately, one dainty, slipperedTo: and she turneddeliberately, one dainty, slipperedCHAPTER VChanged: her that thiswholsaledisposal of MarciaTo: her that thiswholesaledisposal of MarciaCHAPTER VChanged: Phoebe takes your place and then come back.To: Phoebe takes your place and then come back.”CHAPTER VChanged: fine places, totea drinkingsand the like,To: fine places, totea-drinkingsand the like,CHAPTER VIChanged: out radiant andchildlikethrough her tears.To: out radiant andchild-likethrough her tears.CHAPTER XChanged: was always somethingchildlikeabout Marcia’sTo: was always somethingchild-likeabout Marcia’sCHAPTER XChanged: her old homeplentfullysupplied with thoseTo: her old homeplentifullysupplied with thoseCHAPTER XIIChanged: got David that’s worth everything.To: got David that’s worth everything.”CHAPTER XIIChanged: position on thehairclothsofa. But ifTo: position on thehair-clothsofa. But ifCHAPTER XIIIChanged: had Mary Ann’shand-writinglooked so pleasantTo: had Mary Ann’shandwritinglooked so pleasantCHAPTER XIIIChanged: seemed half alife-timeto the girlTo: seemed half alifetimeto the girlCHAPTER XIIIChanged: my old calicotomorrowmorning again, andTo: my old calicoto-morrowmorning again, andCHAPTER XIIIChanged: house with bigcollumsto the frontTo: house with bigcolumnsto the frontCHAPTER XVChanged: table, and thetea-kettlewas singing onTo: table, and thetea kettlewas singing onCHAPTER XVChanged: The neighbor hadstaidlonger than usual,To: The neighbor hadstayedlonger than usual,CHAPTER XVIChanged: thus melted intochildlikeenthusiasm, felt hisTo: thus melted intochild-likeenthusiasm, felt hisCHAPTER XVIIIChanged: with the flickeringcandle-lightmaking grotesqueTo: with the flickeringcandle lightmaking grotesqueCHAPTER XVIIIChanged: Bible where thecandle-lightplayed at glancesTo: Bible where thecandle lightplayed at glancesCHAPTER XXIChanged: if he wouldabsordthe vision forTo: if he wouldabsorbthe vision forCHAPTER XXIIChanged: and let thefloodtideof his sorrowTo: and let theflood-tideof his sorrowCHAPTER XXIIChanged: an’ hopin’ an’tryinfer somebody bigger.To: an’ hopin’ an’tryin’fer somebody bigger.CHAPTER XXIIChanged: There’s no place like home.’To: There’s no place like home.CHAPTER XXIVChanged:Miranda Griscom.”To:“Miranda Griscom.”CHAPTER XXVIChanged: all items accuratetechnicalities of preparation;To: all items accurate;technicalities of preparation;CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: need all the rest you can get.To: need all the rest you can get.”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: had before—all your own I mean?To: had before—all your own I mean?”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: any bonnet. Nothing but a pink sunbonnet.To: any bonnet. Nothing but a pink sunbonnet.”CHAPTER XXVIIChanged: a little oldhairclothtrunk, her ownTo: a little oldhair-clothtrunk, her ownCHAPTER XXVIIChanged: had done whena boy Aunt ClarindaTo: had done whenasa boy Aunt ClarindaCHAPTER XXVIIChanged: Kate a merecommon-place? What was thisTo: Kate a merecommonplace? What was thisCHAPTER XXIXChanged: Marcia lift herflowerlikeface, all brightTo: Marcia lift herflower-likeface, all brightAD PAGESChanged: love story well told.”—Boston Transcript,To: love story well told.”—Boston Transcript.AD PAGESChanged: by Frank Haviland.Medalionin color onTo: by Frank Haviland.Medallionin color onAD PAGESChanged:Suberbcolor portraits of many familiar flowersTo:Superbcolor portraits of many familiar flowersAD PAGESChanged: her magnificentpersonalty, her transcendentTo: her magnificentpersonality, her transcendent