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Crown 8vo. 6s.A SON OF THE PLAINSByARTHUR PATERSON
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A SON OF THE PLAINS
ByARTHUR PATERSON
TIMES—“As a book for a railway journey, or to pass a pleasant, indeed a thrilling, hour with, Mr. Arthur Paterson’sA Son of the Plainsmay be thoroughly recommended.”
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DAILY CHRONICLE—“If boys are what they were and what they ought to be, and parents and guardians know how to select books for presents at Christmas time, Mr. Paterson will receive a big cheque from his publishers; and most thoroughly will he have deserved it.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH—“A bright, exhilarating story of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth ’scapes in Western America.... As a sensational romance Mr. Paterson’s latest fiction may safely be pronounced ‘bad to beat.’”
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SCOTSMAN—“A better story of love and adventure, specially adventure, neither boy nor man has any need to desire.”
ADMIRALTY GAZETTE—“A graphic and extremely readable tale of western frontier life.”
WHITEHALL REVIEW—“The author has succeeded in producing a work that will rank among high-class fiction, and as a wholesome book for boys nothing will be more eagerly welcomed.”
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Crown 8vo. 6s.FOR PRINCE & PEOPLEA Tale of Old GenoaBYE.K. SANDERS
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A Tale of Old Genoa
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E.K. SANDERS
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN—“A spirited story of political strife in Genoa in the sixteenth century. The conclusion does not land us in fairyland, but if the sober colouring of a work-a-day world would be not an absolute bar to the enjoyment of youthful readers the book can be heartily recommended to them, both for its sustained interest and for the high tone pervading it.”
SCOTSMAN—“The plot is well conceived and well handled.”
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Crown 8vo. 6s.RED ROWANSBy Mrs. F.A. STEELAUTHOR OF “ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS”
Crown 8vo. 6s.RED ROWANSBy Mrs. F.A. STEELAUTHOR OF “ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS”
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RED ROWANS
By Mrs. F.A. STEEL
AUTHOR OF “ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS”
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PUBLISHERS’ CIRCULAR—“The story is thoroughly interesting throughout, being clever alike in its style, plot, and character drawing.”
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Crown 8vo. 6s.THE FALL OF A STARA NovelBYSIR WM. MAGNAY,Bart.
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THE FALL OF A STAR
A Novel
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SIR WM. MAGNAY,Bart.
DAILY CHRONICLE—“Its interest is breathless and cumulative from the first page to the last.”
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THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.SOLDIERS THREE.WEE WILLIE WINKIE.LIFE’S HANDICAP.MANY INVENTIONS.PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.SOLDIER TALES.THE FIRST JUNGLE BOOK.THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK.CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.SOLDIERS THREE.WEE WILLIE WINKIE.LIFE’S HANDICAP.MANY INVENTIONS.PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.SOLDIER TALES.THE FIRST JUNGLE BOOK.THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK.CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.SOLDIERS THREE.WEE WILLIE WINKIE.LIFE’S HANDICAP.MANY INVENTIONS.PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.SOLDIER TALES.THE FIRST JUNGLE BOOK.THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK.CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.
SOLDIERS THREE.
WEE WILLIE WINKIE.
LIFE’S HANDICAP.
MANY INVENTIONS.
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.
SOLDIER TALES.
THE FIRST JUNGLE BOOK.
THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.
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80,000 copies of this work have been sold.Fcap. 8vo. 6s.THE CHOIR INVISIBLEBYJAMES LANE ALLENAUTHOR OF “SUMMER IN ARCADY,” “A KENTUCKY CARDINAL,” ETC.
80,000 copies of this work have been sold.Fcap. 8vo. 6s.THE CHOIR INVISIBLEBYJAMES LANE ALLENAUTHOR OF “SUMMER IN ARCADY,” “A KENTUCKY CARDINAL,” ETC.
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THE CHOIR INVISIBLE
BY
JAMES LANE ALLEN
AUTHOR OF “SUMMER IN ARCADY,” “A KENTUCKY CARDINAL,” ETC.
ACADEMY—“A book to read, and a book to keep after reading. Mr. Allen’s gifts are many—a style pellucid and picturesque, a vivid and disciplined power of characterization, and an intimate knowledge of a striking epoch and an alluring country.... So magical is the wilderness environment, so fresh the characters, so buoyant the life they lead, so companionable, so well balanced, and so touched with humanity, the author’s personality, that I hereby send him greeting and thanks for a brave book....The Choir Invisibleis a fine achievement.”
PALL MALL GAZETTE—“Mr. Allen’s power of character drawing invests the old, old story with renewed and absorbing interest.... The fascination of the story lies in great part in Mr. Allen’s graceful and vivid style.“
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ATLANTIC MONTHLY—“We think he will be a novelist, perhaps even a great novelist—one of the few who hold large powers of divers sort in solution to be precipitated in some new unexpected form.”
GUARDIAN—“One of those rare books that will bear reading many times.”
DAILY NEWS—“Mr. J.L. Allen shows himself a delicate observer, and a fine literary artist inThe Choir Invisible.”
ST. JAMES’ GAZETTE—“A book that should be read by all those who ask for something beside sensationalism in their fiction.”
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DAILY CHRONICLE—“It is written with singular delicacy and has an old-world fragrance which seems to come from the classics we keep in lavender.... There are few who can approach his delicate execution in the painting of ideal tenderness and fleeting moods.”
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Transcriber’s NoteThe following issues should be noted. In general obvious errors were corrected and noted below. The use of the ‘ā’ in Windāhgal, a place name, is almost universal, and has been corrected where the printer occasionally neglected to employ it. Where the author’s intent is unclear, the text is retained.Errors of punctuation in the advertisement section at the end of the text were corrected, silently, in the interest of consistency.p. 9ReislingSic.p. 40[“]but Mrs. GrandisonRemoved.p. 107—he[—]added—Spurious dash removed.[‘]We colonistsAdded.p. 286[“]as the energetic proprietorsRemoved.p. 315so say all of us,[”] my dearRemoved.
Transcriber’s Note
Transcriber’s Note
Transcriber’s Note
The following issues should be noted. In general obvious errors were corrected and noted below. The use of the ‘ā’ in Windāhgal, a place name, is almost universal, and has been corrected where the printer occasionally neglected to employ it. Where the author’s intent is unclear, the text is retained.
Errors of punctuation in the advertisement section at the end of the text were corrected, silently, in the interest of consistency.