The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan novels.Mr. OWEN WISTERThe VirginianA Horseman of the PlainsWITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONSBY ARTHUR I. KELLERCloth, 12mo, $1.50“There is not a page in Mr. Wister’s new book which is not interesting. This is its first great merit, that it arouses the sympathy of the reader and holds him absorbed and amused to the end. It does a great deal more for him. ‘Whoever reads the first page will find it next to impossible to put the book down until he has read every one of the five hundred and four in the book, and then he will wish there were more of them.’”—New York Tribune.“Mr. Wister has drawn real men and real women.... In ‘The Virginian’ he has put forth a book that will be remembered and read with interest many years hence.”—Chicago American.“The story is human and alive. It has the ‘touch and go’ of the vibrating life of the expansive American West and puts the country and the people vividly before the reader.”—Philadelphia Times-Saturday Review.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New YorkBy OWEN WISTERLady BaltimoreIllustrated, cloth, 12mo, $1.50“It is pleasant to be able to say that ... his reputation will be more than merely maintained by his new venture.... It would be difficult to speak too highly of this delightful volume.... ‘Lady Baltimore,’ as may be gathered from what we have said above, is a many-sided book.... In fine, here is an author of whom America may well be proud, not only for his literary accomplishments, but for his generous, yet discriminating, love of his country.”—The Spectator, London.“Full of the tenderest human interest, sufficiently dramatic, with a decided touch of originality.”—Daily News, Chicago.“A delightful story; the reader is captivated from the start.”—New York Globe.“As a picture it is charming; as a story it has genuine strength.”—New York Mail.“Wholly charming from end to end.”—Toronto Globe.“The story maintains a rare quality of sincerity and indefinable charm.”—North American, Philadelphia.“A most charming story ... one of the most exquisite done in years.”—Citizen, Brooklyn.“A love story that even excels that between Molly Wood and ‘The Virginian.’”—The Advance, Chicago.“We have been wholly charmed with ‘Lady Baltimore,’ and wish sincerely that it was our luck to read books like it every day.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New YorkBy OWEN WISTERThe Seven Ages of WashingtonCloth, gilt top, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail, $2.16CRITICAL COMMENDATION“It is a curious fact that the life of Washington has never been really easy to write.... But in these matters the character of the historian means everything. If we have the right man we may be sure of a good book. As regards the true Washington we have in Mr. Wister the right man.“‘The Seven Ages of Washington’ ... gives a remarkable interpretation of its subject.... It is plain that the author has been moved to the depths of him by his hero’s worth, finding in the traditionally ‘cold’ figure of Washington a type to touch the emotions as vividly as Napoleon touches them in even his most dramatic moments. He passes on his impression in a few chapters which gather up everyday traits as they come out in letters and other records. The salient events in Washington’s career, military and political, are indicated rather than dwelt upon. The object of interest is always his character; the things placed in the foreground are the episodes, great or small, which show us that character in action or point to the sources of its development....“The background is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Washington, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here.”—From a column review of the book inThe New York Tribune, Nov. 23, 1907.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New YorkBy OWEN WISTERHow Doth the Simple Spelling BeeIllustrated, decorated cloth, 16mo, $0.50“Mr. Wister’s humor is always genuine and racy, and in this little burlesque he fairly riots in absurd specimens of supersimplified spelling. This fantastic skit is intensely amusing.”—Outlook.“It is a clever extravaganza, and points a moral without possibility of mistake.”—Louisville Post.“Its spirit is the spirit of pure farce, and the vein of satire that runs through it only adds to the hilarity of the tale.”—Critic.Philosophy FourIllustrated, decorated cloth, 16mo, $0.50“Told well and with a reserve which betokens a ripe literary craft.”—Daily Chronicle.“Owen Wister is a born story-teller. If you have ever read any of his books you have doubtless discovered this for yourself. In this charming story of undergraduate life at Harvard, Mr. Wister has shown that he has great skill in character delineation.”—The Boston Globe.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New YorkNEW MACMILLAN NOVELS OF UNUSUAL INTERESTMRS. ROGER A. PRYOR’S New NovelThe Colonel’s StoryCloth, $1.20 net; by mail, $1.32For those who have a tenderness for the old days of the South, or who know the charm of Mrs. Pryor’s books of personal experience therein—“My Day” and “Reminiscences of Peace and War”—this book has an unusual charm.F. MARION CRAWFORD’SWandering GhostsCloth, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35It is uncommonly interesting that the last volume to be added to the long shelf of Mr. Crawford’s novels should be this in which he makes the supernatural so vividly felt.GUSTAV FRENSSEN’SKlaus Hinrich BaasCloth, $1.50“One of those rare novels that is so veracious, so packed with the veritable stuff of life, that it is a genuine human document—true, but also universal.”—Louisville Evening Post.“A big, strong, life-size portrait of a real man.”—Chicago Record-Herald.JACK LONDON’SAdventureCloth, $1.50“There’s a real story to ‘Adventure,’ and a quite unusually good love interest.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.“A rapidly shifting panorama of exciting incident.”—Boston Transcript.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan novels.
The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan novels.
Mr. OWEN WISTER
The VirginianA Horseman of the Plains
WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONSBY ARTHUR I. KELLER
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50
“There is not a page in Mr. Wister’s new book which is not interesting. This is its first great merit, that it arouses the sympathy of the reader and holds him absorbed and amused to the end. It does a great deal more for him. ‘Whoever reads the first page will find it next to impossible to put the book down until he has read every one of the five hundred and four in the book, and then he will wish there were more of them.’”—New York Tribune.
“Mr. Wister has drawn real men and real women.... In ‘The Virginian’ he has put forth a book that will be remembered and read with interest many years hence.”—Chicago American.
“The story is human and alive. It has the ‘touch and go’ of the vibrating life of the expansive American West and puts the country and the people vividly before the reader.”—Philadelphia Times-Saturday Review.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
By OWEN WISTER
Lady Baltimore
Illustrated, cloth, 12mo, $1.50
“It is pleasant to be able to say that ... his reputation will be more than merely maintained by his new venture.... It would be difficult to speak too highly of this delightful volume.... ‘Lady Baltimore,’ as may be gathered from what we have said above, is a many-sided book.... In fine, here is an author of whom America may well be proud, not only for his literary accomplishments, but for his generous, yet discriminating, love of his country.”—The Spectator, London.
“Full of the tenderest human interest, sufficiently dramatic, with a decided touch of originality.”—Daily News, Chicago.
“A delightful story; the reader is captivated from the start.”—New York Globe.
“As a picture it is charming; as a story it has genuine strength.”—New York Mail.
“Wholly charming from end to end.”—Toronto Globe.
“The story maintains a rare quality of sincerity and indefinable charm.”—North American, Philadelphia.
“A most charming story ... one of the most exquisite done in years.”—Citizen, Brooklyn.
“A love story that even excels that between Molly Wood and ‘The Virginian.’”—The Advance, Chicago.
“We have been wholly charmed with ‘Lady Baltimore,’ and wish sincerely that it was our luck to read books like it every day.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
By OWEN WISTER
The Seven Ages of Washington
Cloth, gilt top, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail, $2.16
CRITICAL COMMENDATION
“It is a curious fact that the life of Washington has never been really easy to write.... But in these matters the character of the historian means everything. If we have the right man we may be sure of a good book. As regards the true Washington we have in Mr. Wister the right man.
“‘The Seven Ages of Washington’ ... gives a remarkable interpretation of its subject.... It is plain that the author has been moved to the depths of him by his hero’s worth, finding in the traditionally ‘cold’ figure of Washington a type to touch the emotions as vividly as Napoleon touches them in even his most dramatic moments. He passes on his impression in a few chapters which gather up everyday traits as they come out in letters and other records. The salient events in Washington’s career, military and political, are indicated rather than dwelt upon. The object of interest is always his character; the things placed in the foreground are the episodes, great or small, which show us that character in action or point to the sources of its development....
“The background is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Washington, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here.”—From a column review of the book inThe New York Tribune, Nov. 23, 1907.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
By OWEN WISTER
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee
Illustrated, decorated cloth, 16mo, $0.50
“Mr. Wister’s humor is always genuine and racy, and in this little burlesque he fairly riots in absurd specimens of supersimplified spelling. This fantastic skit is intensely amusing.”—Outlook.
“It is a clever extravaganza, and points a moral without possibility of mistake.”—Louisville Post.
“Its spirit is the spirit of pure farce, and the vein of satire that runs through it only adds to the hilarity of the tale.”—Critic.
Philosophy Four
Illustrated, decorated cloth, 16mo, $0.50
“Told well and with a reserve which betokens a ripe literary craft.”—Daily Chronicle.
“Owen Wister is a born story-teller. If you have ever read any of his books you have doubtless discovered this for yourself. In this charming story of undergraduate life at Harvard, Mr. Wister has shown that he has great skill in character delineation.”—The Boston Globe.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
NEW MACMILLAN NOVELS OF UNUSUAL INTEREST
MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR’S New NovelThe Colonel’s Story
Cloth, $1.20 net; by mail, $1.32
For those who have a tenderness for the old days of the South, or who know the charm of Mrs. Pryor’s books of personal experience therein—“My Day” and “Reminiscences of Peace and War”—this book has an unusual charm.
F. MARION CRAWFORD’SWandering Ghosts
Cloth, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
It is uncommonly interesting that the last volume to be added to the long shelf of Mr. Crawford’s novels should be this in which he makes the supernatural so vividly felt.
GUSTAV FRENSSEN’SKlaus Hinrich Baas
Cloth, $1.50
“One of those rare novels that is so veracious, so packed with the veritable stuff of life, that it is a genuine human document—true, but also universal.”—Louisville Evening Post.
“A big, strong, life-size portrait of a real man.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
JACK LONDON’SAdventure
Cloth, $1.50
“There’s a real story to ‘Adventure,’ and a quite unusually good love interest.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
“A rapidly shifting panorama of exciting incident.”—Boston Transcript.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
FOOTNOTES:[1]Lately changed to Shoshone River by act of legislature. While we miss the old name, derived from certain sulphur springs, we agree that like the Indian and the cow-boy it belongs to the past.[2]For reasons, those who in 188—named this place after its chief inhabitant, wished to disguise his name. This they accomplished by changing the order of the letters which spelled it.[3]To-day the flourishing resort Thermopolis, connected with both north and south by an important line of railway. In those days this lonely spot must have been two hundred miles from any railway.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]Lately changed to Shoshone River by act of legislature. While we miss the old name, derived from certain sulphur springs, we agree that like the Indian and the cow-boy it belongs to the past.
[1]Lately changed to Shoshone River by act of legislature. While we miss the old name, derived from certain sulphur springs, we agree that like the Indian and the cow-boy it belongs to the past.
[2]For reasons, those who in 188—named this place after its chief inhabitant, wished to disguise his name. This they accomplished by changing the order of the letters which spelled it.
[2]For reasons, those who in 188—named this place after its chief inhabitant, wished to disguise his name. This they accomplished by changing the order of the letters which spelled it.
[3]To-day the flourishing resort Thermopolis, connected with both north and south by an important line of railway. In those days this lonely spot must have been two hundred miles from any railway.
[3]To-day the flourishing resort Thermopolis, connected with both north and south by an important line of railway. In those days this lonely spot must have been two hundred miles from any railway.