A companion volume to “The Kindred of the Wild.” With forty-eight full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.Square quarto, decorative cover $2.00
A companion volume to “The Kindred of the Wild.” With forty-eight full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.
Square quarto, decorative cover $2.00
“Mr. Roberts has written a most interesting series of tales free from the vices of the stories regarding animals of many other writers, accurate in their facts and admirably and dramatically told.”—Chicago News.
“These stories are exquisite in their refinement, and yet robust in their appreciation of some of the rougher phases of woodcraft. Among the many writers about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place.”—The Outlook.
“This is a book full of delight. An additional charm lies in Mr. Bull’s faithful and graphic illustrations, which in fashion all their own tell the story of the wild life, illuminating and supplementing the pen pictures of the author.”—Literary Digest.
Earth’s Enigmas
A new edition of Mr. Roberts’s first volume of fiction, published in 1892, and out of print for several years, with the addition of three new stories, and ten illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.Library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover $1.50
A new edition of Mr. Roberts’s first volume of fiction, published in 1892, and out of print for several years, with the addition of three new stories, and ten illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.
Library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover $1.50
“It will rank high among collections of short stories. In ‘Earth’s Enigmas’ is a wider range of subject than in the ‘Kindred of the Wild.’ ”—Review from advance sheets of the illustrated edition by Tiffany Blake in the Chicago Evening Post.
Barbara Ladd
With four illustrations by Frank Verbeck.Library 12mo, gilt top $1.50
With four illustrations by Frank Verbeck.
Library 12mo, gilt top $1.50
“From the opening chapter to the final page Mr. Roberts lures us on by his rapt devotion to the changing aspects of Nature and by his keen and sympathetic analysis of human character.”—Boston Transcript.
Cameron of Lochiel
Translated from the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, with frontispiece in color by H. C. Edwards.Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.50
Translated from the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, with frontispiece in color by H. C. Edwards.
Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.50
“Professor Roberts deserves the thanks of his reader for giving a wider audience an opportunity to enjoy this striking bit of French Canadian literature.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
“It is not often in these days of sensational and philosophical novels that one picks up a book that so touches the heart.”—Boston Transcript.
The Prisoner of Mademoiselle
With frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill.Library 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top $1.50
With frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill.
Library 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top $1.50
A tale of Acadia,—a land which is the author’s heart’s delight,—of a valiant young lieutenant and a winsome maiden, who first captures and then captivates.
“This is the kind of a story that makes one grow younger, more innocent, more light-hearted. Its literary quality is impeccable. It is not every day that such a heroine blossoms into even temporary existence, and the very name of the story bears a breath of charm.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
The Heart of the Ancient Wood
With six illustrations by James L. Weston.Library 12mo, decorative cover $1.50
With six illustrations by James L. Weston.
Library 12mo, decorative cover $1.50
“One of the most fascinating novels of recent days.”—Boston Journal.
“A classic twentieth-century romance.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Forge in the Forest
Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart, and how he crossed the Black Abbé, and of his adventures in a strange fellowship. Illustrated by Henry Sandham, R. C. A.Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top $1.50
Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart, and how he crossed the Black Abbé, and of his adventures in a strange fellowship. Illustrated by Henry Sandham, R. C. A.
Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top $1.50
A story of pure love and heroic adventure.
By the Marshes of Minas
Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, illustrated $1.50
Most of these romances are in the author’s lighter and more playful vein; each is a unit of absorbing interest and exquisite workmanship.