The following pages contain advertisements ofbooks by the same author or on kindred subjects.THE WORKS OF JACOB A. RIISThe death on May 26, 1914, of JACOB A. RIIS, social reformer and civil worker, “New York’s Most Useful Citizen,” as he was deservedly called by one who best knew the scope and extent of his efforts—ex-President Roosevelt—awakens renewed interest in the works of this “Ideal American,” books that should find a place in every American home.They illustrate as few other books can the possibilities of American life and reveal how from an almost penniless and friendless immigrant, at times on the verge of want in the search for work, he rose through trying and strenuous experiences by the sheer force of will and character, to well-deserved fame and an honored position in the councils of the mightiest of the land.THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN. An Autobiography“It is refreshing to find a book so unique and captivating as ‘The Making of an American,’ the volume in which Jacob A. Riis tells the strange story of his life. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Riis has been a police reporter on a New York newspaper and he still believes there is no more desirable position to be found anywhere.... Incidentally he has gained a national reputation by writing ‘How the Other Half Lives’ and ‘A Ten Years’ War,’ and this ingenious autobiography will carry his fame still further, for it is the most irresistibly entertaining book he has written ... one of the brightest, wholesomest, most fascinating books of the season.”—Record Herald, Chicago.With over 100 illustrations from photographs and original drawingsCloth, gilt top, $1.50 net; postage extraAlso published in The Macmillan Standard Library Edition50 cents net; postage extraTHE OLD TOWN“It has a double charm, the charm that is associated with an old place, shut off from the world’s main currents, and the charm of showing the origins of an interesting personality. The old town is Ribe, Mr. Riis’s native town in little Denmark, where the big winter storms sometimes drive the sea up with a rush and a swirl to the old-fashioned houses, where railroads were not known, where semi-mediæval customs still prevailed. It is a book of the heart.”Illustrated by Wlatyslaw T. Benda; $2.00 net; postage extraHERO TALES OF THE FAR NORTH“True stories of the famous heroes of Scandinavia, retold with all the charm of style and sympathetic interpretation distinctive of Jacob A. Riis. Seldom, if ever, has history appeared in so interesting a guise as in these fascinating, stirring, and exciting stories of adventure.”Illustrated with 25 full-page plates; decorated cloth, $1.35 net; postage extraTHEODORE ROOSEVELT: The Citizen“It is written from the heart. It breathes sincerity and conviction in every line. It emphasizes not so much the forces and influences which lifted Theodore Roosevelt to the Presidency, as the qualities that make his personality and underlie his character. It gives a vivid impression of his mental and moral self—his point of view, and the ideals on which his public career has been based.... It is a refreshing and stimulating picture—one that will carry encouragement to every reader whose heart is enlisted in the struggle to exorcise corruption and oppression from our body politic.”—New York Tribune.Cloth, illustrated, $2.00 net; postage extraAlso published in The Macmillan Standard Library Edition50 cents net; postage extraTHE BATTLE WITH THE SLUMTaking the subject of his earlier book, “The Ten Years’ War,” Mr. Riis has completely rewritten it and added practically a third more new material, bringing the whole up to date. The “War” was with the Slum, hence the new title.“It is not enough to say of Mr. Riis and his works that he is one man among a thousand. He is unique. He does his work of benevolence and reform under conditions that would harden the hearts of many men and certainly excite disgust; but he comes out of the grime and dust with some cheery note or some heroic incident, some story of self-sacrifice among the poor, or some thought which ennobles the struggle.”—New York Mail.Profusely illustrated with reproductions from photographs by the author andoriginal drawings by Thomas Fogarty. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net; postage extraCHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS“Deeply human, sympathetic stories of the youngsters of all nationalities who crowd the parks, the newsboys’ homes, and swarm in the big tenements of the East Side of New York.”“Mr. Riis is a man who does not theorize, but who knows. His book is full of pathetic pictures, painful in their truth but beautiful in their meaning. No one who is interested in sociology can afford to miss what he has to say.”—Current Literature.Cloth, illustrated, $1.50 net; postage extraIS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?“A classic of childhood, one of Jacob Riis’s most charming and attractive books for boys and girls, one that will always live as a popular gift-book.”Cloth, 75 cents net; postage extraWith Poor Immigrants to AmericaBySTEPHEN GRAHAMDecorated cover, 8vo, illustrated, $2.00 net; postage extra“We collected on the quay at Liverpool—English, Russians, Jews, Germans, Swedes, Finns, all staring at one another curiously and trying to understand languages we had never heard before. Three hundred yards out in the harbor stood the red funneled Cunarder which was to bear us to America.” These words describe the beginning of the colorful travels of which Mr. Graham writes in this book. Mr. Graham has the spirit of the real adventurer. He prefers people to Pullmans, steerage passage to first cabin. In his mingling with the poorer classes he comes in contact intimately with a life which most writers know only by hearsay, and interesting bits of this life and that which is picturesque and romantic and unlooked for he transcribes to paper with a freshness and vividness that mark him a good mixer with men, a keen observer, and a skillful adept with the pen.By the Same AuthorWith the Russian Pilgrims to JerusalemDecorated cloth, 8vo, illustrated, $2.75 netThe journey of the Russian peasants to Jerusalem has never been described before in any language, not even in Russian. Yet it is the most significant thing in the Russian life to-day. In the story lies a great national epic.A Tramp’s SketchesCloth, 8vo, illustrated, $1.75 net“Mr. Graham has seen many interesting parts of the world, and he tells of his travels in a pleasing way.”—Suburban Life.NEW MACMILLAN FICTIONThe Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanBy H. G. WELLS.Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net.The name of H. G. Wells upon a title page is an assurance of merit. It is a guarantee that on the pages which follow will be found an absorbing story told with master skill. In the present book Mr. Wells surpasses even his previous efforts. He is writing of modern society life, particularly of one very charming young woman, Lady Harman, who finds herself so bound in by conventions, so hampered by restrictions, largely those of a well intentioned but short sighted husband, that she is ultimately moved to revolt. The real meaning of this revolt, its effect upon her life and those of her associates are narrated by one who goes beneath the surface in his analysis of human motives. In the group of characters, writers, suffragists, labor organizers, social workers and society lights surrounding Lady Harman, and in the dramatic incidents which compose the years of her existence which are described by Mr. Wells, there is a novel which is significant in its interpretation of the trend of affairs today, and fascinatingly interesting as fiction. It is Mr. Wells at his best.Saturday’s ChildByKATHLEEN NORRISAuthor of “Mother,” “The Treasure,” etc.With Frontispiece in Colors by F. Graham CootesDecorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net“A more ambitious piece of work than any Mrs. Norris has before attempted. It has the same qualities of sincerity and humor which have helped to make her former stories popular.... Mrs. Norris’s admirers will find this new book greatly to their liking.”—New York Times.“This story will have a long and healthful period of popularity. Like ‘Mother,’ this new book has a heart in it. Like ‘The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne,’ it has knowledge of life and an informed conception of living.”—New York World.“‘Saturday’s Child’ is a study of young energy—its struggles, its groping for use, for a place, and an achievement in the world of men and women—and a study, moreover, of marked ability and sympathy.... The effect is absolutely tonic.... It is a book to commend to all women.”—Louisville Post.The Game of Life and DeathStories of the SeaByLINCOLN COLCORDAuthor of “The Drifting Diamond,” etc.With FrontispieceDecorated cloth, 12mo, $1.25 netUpon the appearance of Mr. Colcord’s “The Drifting Diamond,” critics throughout the country had a great deal to say on the pictures of the sea which it contained. Mr. Colcord was compared to Conrad, to Stevenson, and to others who have written of the sea with much success. It is gratifying, therefore, that in this book the briny deep furnishes the background—in some instances the plot itself—for each one of its eleven tales. Coupled with his own intimate knowledge and appreciation of the oceans and the life that is lived on them—a knowledge and appreciation born in him through a long line of seafaring ancestry and fostered by his own love for the sea—he has a powerful style of writing. Vividness is perhaps its distinguishing characteristic, though fluency and a peculiar feeling for words also mark it.The Three SistersBy MAY SINCLAIR, Author of “The Divine Fire,” “The Return of the Prodigal,” etc.Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.Every reader ofThe Divine Fire, in fact every reader of any of Miss Sinclair’s books, will at once accord her unlimited praise for her character work.The Three Sistersreveals her at her best. It is a story of temperament, made evident not through tiresome analyses but by means of a series of dramatic incidents. The sisters of the title represent three distinct types of womankind. In their reaction under certain conditions Miss Sinclair is not only telling a story of tremendous interest but she is really showing a cross section of life.The Rise of Jennie CushingBy MARY S. WATTS, Author of “Nathan Burke,” “Van Cleve,” etc.Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.InNathan BurkeMrs. Watts told with great power the story of a man. In this, her new book, she does much the same thing for a woman. Jennie Cushing is an exceedingly interesting character, perhaps the most interesting of any that Mrs. Watts has yet given us. The novel is her life and little else, but that is a life filled with a variety of experiences and touching closely many different strata of humankind. Throughout it all, from the days when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif, Jennie is sent to a reformatory, to the days when her beauty is the inspiration of a successful painter, there is in the narrative an appeal to the emotions, to the sympathy, to the affections, that cannot be gainsaid.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
The following pages contain advertisements ofbooks by the same author or on kindred subjects.
THE WORKS OF JACOB A. RIIS
The death on May 26, 1914, of JACOB A. RIIS, social reformer and civil worker, “New York’s Most Useful Citizen,” as he was deservedly called by one who best knew the scope and extent of his efforts—ex-President Roosevelt—awakens renewed interest in the works of this “Ideal American,” books that should find a place in every American home.
They illustrate as few other books can the possibilities of American life and reveal how from an almost penniless and friendless immigrant, at times on the verge of want in the search for work, he rose through trying and strenuous experiences by the sheer force of will and character, to well-deserved fame and an honored position in the councils of the mightiest of the land.
THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN. An Autobiography
“It is refreshing to find a book so unique and captivating as ‘The Making of an American,’ the volume in which Jacob A. Riis tells the strange story of his life. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Riis has been a police reporter on a New York newspaper and he still believes there is no more desirable position to be found anywhere.... Incidentally he has gained a national reputation by writing ‘How the Other Half Lives’ and ‘A Ten Years’ War,’ and this ingenious autobiography will carry his fame still further, for it is the most irresistibly entertaining book he has written ... one of the brightest, wholesomest, most fascinating books of the season.”—Record Herald, Chicago.
With over 100 illustrations from photographs and original drawingsCloth, gilt top, $1.50 net; postage extraAlso published in The Macmillan Standard Library Edition50 cents net; postage extra
THE OLD TOWN
“It has a double charm, the charm that is associated with an old place, shut off from the world’s main currents, and the charm of showing the origins of an interesting personality. The old town is Ribe, Mr. Riis’s native town in little Denmark, where the big winter storms sometimes drive the sea up with a rush and a swirl to the old-fashioned houses, where railroads were not known, where semi-mediæval customs still prevailed. It is a book of the heart.”
Illustrated by Wlatyslaw T. Benda; $2.00 net; postage extra
HERO TALES OF THE FAR NORTH
“True stories of the famous heroes of Scandinavia, retold with all the charm of style and sympathetic interpretation distinctive of Jacob A. Riis. Seldom, if ever, has history appeared in so interesting a guise as in these fascinating, stirring, and exciting stories of adventure.”
Illustrated with 25 full-page plates; decorated cloth, $1.35 net; postage extra
THEODORE ROOSEVELT: The Citizen
“It is written from the heart. It breathes sincerity and conviction in every line. It emphasizes not so much the forces and influences which lifted Theodore Roosevelt to the Presidency, as the qualities that make his personality and underlie his character. It gives a vivid impression of his mental and moral self—his point of view, and the ideals on which his public career has been based.... It is a refreshing and stimulating picture—one that will carry encouragement to every reader whose heart is enlisted in the struggle to exorcise corruption and oppression from our body politic.”—New York Tribune.
Cloth, illustrated, $2.00 net; postage extraAlso published in The Macmillan Standard Library Edition50 cents net; postage extra
THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM
Taking the subject of his earlier book, “The Ten Years’ War,” Mr. Riis has completely rewritten it and added practically a third more new material, bringing the whole up to date. The “War” was with the Slum, hence the new title.
“It is not enough to say of Mr. Riis and his works that he is one man among a thousand. He is unique. He does his work of benevolence and reform under conditions that would harden the hearts of many men and certainly excite disgust; but he comes out of the grime and dust with some cheery note or some heroic incident, some story of self-sacrifice among the poor, or some thought which ennobles the struggle.”—New York Mail.
Profusely illustrated with reproductions from photographs by the author andoriginal drawings by Thomas Fogarty. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net; postage extra
CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS
“Deeply human, sympathetic stories of the youngsters of all nationalities who crowd the parks, the newsboys’ homes, and swarm in the big tenements of the East Side of New York.”
“Mr. Riis is a man who does not theorize, but who knows. His book is full of pathetic pictures, painful in their truth but beautiful in their meaning. No one who is interested in sociology can afford to miss what he has to say.”—Current Literature.
Cloth, illustrated, $1.50 net; postage extra
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
“A classic of childhood, one of Jacob Riis’s most charming and attractive books for boys and girls, one that will always live as a popular gift-book.”
Cloth, 75 cents net; postage extra
With Poor Immigrants to America
BySTEPHEN GRAHAM
Decorated cover, 8vo, illustrated, $2.00 net; postage extra
“We collected on the quay at Liverpool—English, Russians, Jews, Germans, Swedes, Finns, all staring at one another curiously and trying to understand languages we had never heard before. Three hundred yards out in the harbor stood the red funneled Cunarder which was to bear us to America.” These words describe the beginning of the colorful travels of which Mr. Graham writes in this book. Mr. Graham has the spirit of the real adventurer. He prefers people to Pullmans, steerage passage to first cabin. In his mingling with the poorer classes he comes in contact intimately with a life which most writers know only by hearsay, and interesting bits of this life and that which is picturesque and romantic and unlooked for he transcribes to paper with a freshness and vividness that mark him a good mixer with men, a keen observer, and a skillful adept with the pen.
By the Same Author
With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem
Decorated cloth, 8vo, illustrated, $2.75 net
The journey of the Russian peasants to Jerusalem has never been described before in any language, not even in Russian. Yet it is the most significant thing in the Russian life to-day. In the story lies a great national epic.
A Tramp’s Sketches
Cloth, 8vo, illustrated, $1.75 net
“Mr. Graham has seen many interesting parts of the world, and he tells of his travels in a pleasing way.”—Suburban Life.
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
By H. G. WELLS.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net.
The name of H. G. Wells upon a title page is an assurance of merit. It is a guarantee that on the pages which follow will be found an absorbing story told with master skill. In the present book Mr. Wells surpasses even his previous efforts. He is writing of modern society life, particularly of one very charming young woman, Lady Harman, who finds herself so bound in by conventions, so hampered by restrictions, largely those of a well intentioned but short sighted husband, that she is ultimately moved to revolt. The real meaning of this revolt, its effect upon her life and those of her associates are narrated by one who goes beneath the surface in his analysis of human motives. In the group of characters, writers, suffragists, labor organizers, social workers and society lights surrounding Lady Harman, and in the dramatic incidents which compose the years of her existence which are described by Mr. Wells, there is a novel which is significant in its interpretation of the trend of affairs today, and fascinatingly interesting as fiction. It is Mr. Wells at his best.
Saturday’s Child
ByKATHLEEN NORRISAuthor of “Mother,” “The Treasure,” etc.With Frontispiece in Colors by F. Graham Cootes
Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net
“A more ambitious piece of work than any Mrs. Norris has before attempted. It has the same qualities of sincerity and humor which have helped to make her former stories popular.... Mrs. Norris’s admirers will find this new book greatly to their liking.”—New York Times.
“This story will have a long and healthful period of popularity. Like ‘Mother,’ this new book has a heart in it. Like ‘The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne,’ it has knowledge of life and an informed conception of living.”—New York World.
“‘Saturday’s Child’ is a study of young energy—its struggles, its groping for use, for a place, and an achievement in the world of men and women—and a study, moreover, of marked ability and sympathy.... The effect is absolutely tonic.... It is a book to commend to all women.”—Louisville Post.
The Game of Life and DeathStories of the Sea
ByLINCOLN COLCORDAuthor of “The Drifting Diamond,” etc.With Frontispiece
Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net
Upon the appearance of Mr. Colcord’s “The Drifting Diamond,” critics throughout the country had a great deal to say on the pictures of the sea which it contained. Mr. Colcord was compared to Conrad, to Stevenson, and to others who have written of the sea with much success. It is gratifying, therefore, that in this book the briny deep furnishes the background—in some instances the plot itself—for each one of its eleven tales. Coupled with his own intimate knowledge and appreciation of the oceans and the life that is lived on them—a knowledge and appreciation born in him through a long line of seafaring ancestry and fostered by his own love for the sea—he has a powerful style of writing. Vividness is perhaps its distinguishing characteristic, though fluency and a peculiar feeling for words also mark it.
The Three Sisters
By MAY SINCLAIR, Author of “The Divine Fire,” “The Return of the Prodigal,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
Every reader ofThe Divine Fire, in fact every reader of any of Miss Sinclair’s books, will at once accord her unlimited praise for her character work.The Three Sistersreveals her at her best. It is a story of temperament, made evident not through tiresome analyses but by means of a series of dramatic incidents. The sisters of the title represent three distinct types of womankind. In their reaction under certain conditions Miss Sinclair is not only telling a story of tremendous interest but she is really showing a cross section of life.
The Rise of Jennie Cushing
By MARY S. WATTS, Author of “Nathan Burke,” “Van Cleve,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
InNathan BurkeMrs. Watts told with great power the story of a man. In this, her new book, she does much the same thing for a woman. Jennie Cushing is an exceedingly interesting character, perhaps the most interesting of any that Mrs. Watts has yet given us. The novel is her life and little else, but that is a life filled with a variety of experiences and touching closely many different strata of humankind. Throughout it all, from the days when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif, Jennie is sent to a reformatory, to the days when her beauty is the inspiration of a successful painter, there is in the narrative an appeal to the emotions, to the sympathy, to the affections, that cannot be gainsaid.
PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
Footnote:[1]Her claim has since been settled for $1000.