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STONEPASTURES.ByEleanor Stuart. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents.
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A HARD WOMAN.A Story in Scenes. ByViolet Hunt. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
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THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. An Episode of the American Civil War.ByStephen Crane. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
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IN DEFIANCE OF THE KING. A Romance of the American Revolution.ByChauncey C. Hotchkiss. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
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GILBERT PARKER’S BEST BOOKS.
GILBERT PARKER’S BEST BOOKS.
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GILBERT PARKER’S BEST BOOKS.
THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY.Being the Memoirs of CaptainRobert Moray, sometime an Officer in the Virginia Regiment, and afterward of Amherst’s Regiment. 12mo. Cloth, illustrated, $1.50.
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock’s defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe’s victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle-grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero’s imprisonment in Quebec.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTESSilently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
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