Chapter 9

THE END*      *      *      *      *      *      *      *CHARMING BOOKS FOR GIRLSMay be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's listWHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE, By Jean Webster.Illustrated by C. D. Williams.One of the best stories of life in a girl's college that has ever been written. It is bright, whimsical and entertaining, lifelike, laughable and thoroughly human.JUST PATTY, By Jean Webster.Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.Patty is full of the joy of living, fun-loving, given to ingenious mischief for its own sake, with a disregard for pretty convention which is an unfailing source of joy to her fellows.THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL, By Eleanor Gates.With four full page illustrations.This story relates the experience of one of those unfortunate children whose early days are passed in the companionship of a governess, seldom seeing either parent, and famishing for natural love and tenderness. A charming play as dramatized by the author.REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, By Kate Douglas Wiggin.One of the most beautiful studies of childhood--Rebecca's artistic, unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand out midst a circle of austere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenal dramatic record.NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA, By Kate Douglas Wiggin.Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.Additional episodes in the girlhood of this delightful heroine that carry Rebecca through various stages to her eighteenth birthday.REBECCA MARY, By Annie Hamilton Donnell.Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green.This author possesses the rare gift of portraying all the grotesque little joys and sorrows and scruples of this very small girl with a pathos that is peculiarly genuine and appealing.EMMY LOU: Her Book and Heart, By George Madden Martin.Illustrated by Charles Louis Hinton.Emmy Lou is irresistibly lovable, because she is so absolutely real. She is just a bewitchingly innocent, hugable little maid. The book is wonderfully human.*      *      *      *      *KATHLEEN NORRIS' STORIESMay be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.MOTHER. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.This book has a fairy-story touch, counterbalanced by the sturdy reality of struggle, sacrifice, and resulting peace and power of a mother's experiences.SATURDAY'S CHILD.Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes.Out on the Pacific coast a normal girl, obscure and lovely, makes a quest for happiness. She passes through three stages--poverty, wealth and service--and works out a creditable salvation.THE RICH MRS. BURGOYNE.Illustrated by Lucius H. Hitchcock.The story of a sensible woman who keeps within her means, refuses to be swamped by social engagements, lives a normal human life of varied interests, and has her own romance.THE STORY OF JULIA PAGE.Frontispiece by Allan Gilbert.How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, lifted herself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life.THE HEART OF RACHAEL.Frontispiece by Charles E. Chambers.Rachael is called upon to solve many problems, and in working out these, there is shown the beauty and strength of soul of one of fiction's most appealing characters.*      *      *      *      *BOOTH TARKINGTON'S NOVELSMay be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's listSEVENTEEN.Illustrated by Arthur William Brown.No one but the creator of Penrod could have portrayed the immortal young people of this story. Its humor is irresistible and reminiscent of the time when the reader was Seventeen.PENROD.Illustrated by Gordon Grant.This is a picture of a boy's heart, full of the lovable, humorous, tragic things which are locked secrets to most older folks. It is a finished, exquisite work.PENROD AND SAM.Illustrated by Worth Brehm.Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.THE TURMOIL.Illustrated by C. E. Chambers.Bibbs Sheridan is a dreamy, imaginative youth, who revolts against his father's plans for him to be a servitor of big business. The love of a fine girl turns Bibb's life from failure to success.THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA.Frontispiece.A story of love and politics,--more especially a picture of a country editor's life in Indiana, but the charm of the book lies in the love interest.THE FLIRT.Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood.The "Flirt," the younger of two sisters, breaks one girl's engagement, drives one man to suicide, causes the murder of another, leads another to lose his fortune, and in the end marries a stupid and unpromising suitor, leaving the really worthy one to marry her sister.*      *      *      *      *THE NOVELS OFMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTMay be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.K.IllustratedK. LeMoyne, famous surgeon, drops out of the world that has known him, and goes to live in a little town where beautiful Sidney Page lives. She is in training to become a nurse. The joys and troubles of their young love are told with that keen and sympathetic appreciation which has made the author famous.THE MAN IN LOWER TEN.Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy.An absorbing detective story woven around the mysterious death of the "Man in Lower Ten." The strongest elements of Mrs. Rinehart's success are found in this book.WHEN A MAN MARRIES.Illustrated by Harrison Fisher and Mayo Bunker.A young artist, whose wife had recently divorced him, finds that his aunt is soon to visit him. The aunt, who contributes to the family income and who has never seen the wife, knows nothing of the domestic upheaval. How the young man met the situation is humorously and most entertainingly told.THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE.Illus. by Lester Ralph.The summer occupants of "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong, the son of the owner, on the circular stair-case. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing interest.THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS.Illustrated (Photo Play Edition.)Harmony Wells, studying in Vienna to be a great violinist, suddenly realizes that her money is almost gone. She meets a young ambitious doctor who offers her chivalry and sympathy, and together with world-worn Dr. Anna and Jimmie, the waif, they share their love and slender means.*      *      *      *      *STORIES OF RARE CHARM BYGENE STRATTON-PORTERMay be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.MICHAEL O'HALLORAN.Illustrated by Frances Rogers.Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in Northern Indiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also assumes the responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward and onward.LADDIE.Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. The story is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.THE HARVESTER.Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs."The Harvester," is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable. But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," there begins a romance of the rarest idyllic quality.FRECKLES.Illustrated.Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in which he takes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the great Limberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succumbs to the charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with "The Angel" are full of real sentiment.A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST.Illustrated.The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, loveable type of the self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindness towards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beauty of her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren and unpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW.Illustrations in colors.The scene of this charming love story is laid in Central Indiana, The story is one of devoted friendship, and tender self-sacrificing love. The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature, and its pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL.Profusely illustrated.A love ideal of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with delicacy and humor.*      *      *      *      *THE NOVELS OFCLARA LOUISE BURNHAMJEWEL: A Chapter in Her Life.Illustrated by Maude and Genevieve Cowles.A story breathing the doctrine of love and patience as exemplified in the life of a child. Jewel will never grow old because of the immortality of her love.JEWEL'S STORY BOOK.Illustrated by Albert Schmitt.A sequel to "Jewel," in which the same characteristics of love and cheerfulness touch and uplift the reader.THE INNER FLAME.Frontispiece in color.A young mining engineer, whose chief ambition is to become an artist, but who has no friends with whom to realize his hopes, has a way opened to him to try his powers, and, of course, he is successful.THE RIGHT PRINCESSAt a fashionable Long Island resort, a stately English woman employs a forcible New England housekeeper to serve in her interesting home. Many humorous situations result. A delightful love affair runs through it all.THE OPENED SHUTTERS.Illustrated with Scenes from the Photo Play.A beautiful woman, at discord with life, is brought to realize, by her new friends, that she may open the shutters of her soul to the blessed sunlight of joy by casting aside self love.THE RIGHT TRACK.Frontispiece in color by Greene Blumenschien.A story of a young girl who marries for money so that she can enjoy things intellectual. Neglect of her husband and of her two step-children makes an unhappy home till a friend brings a new philosophy of happiness into the household.CLEVER BETSY. Illustrated by Rose O'Neill.The "Clever Betsy" was a boat--named for the unyielding spinster whom the captain hoped to marry. Through the two Betsy's a delightful group of people are introduced.Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted FictionGROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK*      *      *      *      *THE SYLVIA ARDEN BOOKSBy MARGARET R. PIPEREach one volume, cloth decorative,Illustrated. $1.50Sylvia's Experiment: The Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)Sylvia of the Hill Top: The Second Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)Sylvia Arden Decides: The Third Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)OTHER STORIESBy MARGARET R. PIPERThe Princess and the Clan, $1.50The House on the Hill, $1.50THE PAGE COMPANY53 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKSYLVIA ARDEN DECIDES***

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*      *      *      *      *      *      *      *

CHARMING BOOKS FOR GIRLS

May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list

WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE, By Jean Webster.

Illustrated by C. D. Williams.

One of the best stories of life in a girl's college that has ever been written. It is bright, whimsical and entertaining, lifelike, laughable and thoroughly human.

JUST PATTY, By Jean Webster.

Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.

Patty is full of the joy of living, fun-loving, given to ingenious mischief for its own sake, with a disregard for pretty convention which is an unfailing source of joy to her fellows.

THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL, By Eleanor Gates.

With four full page illustrations.

This story relates the experience of one of those unfortunate children whose early days are passed in the companionship of a governess, seldom seeing either parent, and famishing for natural love and tenderness. A charming play as dramatized by the author.

REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, By Kate Douglas Wiggin.

One of the most beautiful studies of childhood--Rebecca's artistic, unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand out midst a circle of austere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenal dramatic record.

NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA, By Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

Additional episodes in the girlhood of this delightful heroine that carry Rebecca through various stages to her eighteenth birthday.

REBECCA MARY, By Annie Hamilton Donnell.

Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green.

This author possesses the rare gift of portraying all the grotesque little joys and sorrows and scruples of this very small girl with a pathos that is peculiarly genuine and appealing.

EMMY LOU: Her Book and Heart, By George Madden Martin.

Illustrated by Charles Louis Hinton.

Emmy Lou is irresistibly lovable, because she is so absolutely real. She is just a bewitchingly innocent, hugable little maid. The book is wonderfully human.

*      *      *      *      *

KATHLEEN NORRIS' STORIES

May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.

MOTHER. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

This book has a fairy-story touch, counterbalanced by the sturdy reality of struggle, sacrifice, and resulting peace and power of a mother's experiences.

SATURDAY'S CHILD.

Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes.

Out on the Pacific coast a normal girl, obscure and lovely, makes a quest for happiness. She passes through three stages--poverty, wealth and service--and works out a creditable salvation.

THE RICH MRS. BURGOYNE.

Illustrated by Lucius H. Hitchcock.

The story of a sensible woman who keeps within her means, refuses to be swamped by social engagements, lives a normal human life of varied interests, and has her own romance.

THE STORY OF JULIA PAGE.

Frontispiece by Allan Gilbert.

How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, lifted herself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life.

THE HEART OF RACHAEL.

Frontispiece by Charles E. Chambers.

Rachael is called upon to solve many problems, and in working out these, there is shown the beauty and strength of soul of one of fiction's most appealing characters.

*      *      *      *      *

BOOTH TARKINGTON'S NOVELS

May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list

SEVENTEEN.

Illustrated by Arthur William Brown.

No one but the creator of Penrod could have portrayed the immortal young people of this story. Its humor is irresistible and reminiscent of the time when the reader was Seventeen.

PENROD.

Illustrated by Gordon Grant.

This is a picture of a boy's heart, full of the lovable, humorous, tragic things which are locked secrets to most older folks. It is a finished, exquisite work.

PENROD AND SAM.

Illustrated by Worth Brehm.

Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.

THE TURMOIL.

Illustrated by C. E. Chambers.

Bibbs Sheridan is a dreamy, imaginative youth, who revolts against his father's plans for him to be a servitor of big business. The love of a fine girl turns Bibb's life from failure to success.

THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA.

Frontispiece.

A story of love and politics,--more especially a picture of a country editor's life in Indiana, but the charm of the book lies in the love interest.

THE FLIRT.

Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood.

The "Flirt," the younger of two sisters, breaks one girl's engagement, drives one man to suicide, causes the murder of another, leads another to lose his fortune, and in the end marries a stupid and unpromising suitor, leaving the really worthy one to marry her sister.

*      *      *      *      *

THE NOVELS OFMARY ROBERTS RINEHART

May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.

K.

Illustrated

K. LeMoyne, famous surgeon, drops out of the world that has known him, and goes to live in a little town where beautiful Sidney Page lives. She is in training to become a nurse. The joys and troubles of their young love are told with that keen and sympathetic appreciation which has made the author famous.

THE MAN IN LOWER TEN.

Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy.

An absorbing detective story woven around the mysterious death of the "Man in Lower Ten." The strongest elements of Mrs. Rinehart's success are found in this book.

WHEN A MAN MARRIES.

Illustrated by Harrison Fisher and Mayo Bunker.

A young artist, whose wife had recently divorced him, finds that his aunt is soon to visit him. The aunt, who contributes to the family income and who has never seen the wife, knows nothing of the domestic upheaval. How the young man met the situation is humorously and most entertainingly told.

THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE.

Illus. by Lester Ralph.

The summer occupants of "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong, the son of the owner, on the circular stair-case. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing interest.

THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS.

Illustrated (Photo Play Edition.)

Harmony Wells, studying in Vienna to be a great violinist, suddenly realizes that her money is almost gone. She meets a young ambitious doctor who offers her chivalry and sympathy, and together with world-worn Dr. Anna and Jimmie, the waif, they share their love and slender means.

*      *      *      *      *

STORIES OF RARE CHARM BYGENE STRATTON-PORTER

May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.

MICHAEL O'HALLORAN.

Illustrated by Frances Rogers.

Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in Northern Indiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also assumes the responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward and onward.

LADDIE.

Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.

This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. The story is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.

THE HARVESTER.

Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.

"The Harvester," is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable. But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," there begins a romance of the rarest idyllic quality.

FRECKLES.

Illustrated.

Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in which he takes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the great Limberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succumbs to the charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with "The Angel" are full of real sentiment.

A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST.

Illustrated.

The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, loveable type of the self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindness towards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beauty of her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren and unpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.

AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW.

Illustrations in colors.

The scene of this charming love story is laid in Central Indiana, The story is one of devoted friendship, and tender self-sacrificing love. The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature, and its pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.

THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL.

Profusely illustrated.

A love ideal of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with delicacy and humor.

*      *      *      *      *

THE NOVELS OFCLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

JEWEL: A Chapter in Her Life.

Illustrated by Maude and Genevieve Cowles.

A story breathing the doctrine of love and patience as exemplified in the life of a child. Jewel will never grow old because of the immortality of her love.

JEWEL'S STORY BOOK.

Illustrated by Albert Schmitt.

A sequel to "Jewel," in which the same characteristics of love and cheerfulness touch and uplift the reader.

THE INNER FLAME.

Frontispiece in color.

A young mining engineer, whose chief ambition is to become an artist, but who has no friends with whom to realize his hopes, has a way opened to him to try his powers, and, of course, he is successful.

THE RIGHT PRINCESS

At a fashionable Long Island resort, a stately English woman employs a forcible New England housekeeper to serve in her interesting home. Many humorous situations result. A delightful love affair runs through it all.

THE OPENED SHUTTERS.

Illustrated with Scenes from the Photo Play.

A beautiful woman, at discord with life, is brought to realize, by her new friends, that she may open the shutters of her soul to the blessed sunlight of joy by casting aside self love.

THE RIGHT TRACK.

Frontispiece in color by Greene Blumenschien.

A story of a young girl who marries for money so that she can enjoy things intellectual. Neglect of her husband and of her two step-children makes an unhappy home till a friend brings a new philosophy of happiness into the household.

CLEVER BETSY. Illustrated by Rose O'Neill.

The "Clever Betsy" was a boat--named for the unyielding spinster whom the captain hoped to marry. Through the two Betsy's a delightful group of people are introduced.

Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction

GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

*      *      *      *      *

THE SYLVIA ARDEN BOOKS

By MARGARET R. PIPER

Each one volume, cloth decorative,Illustrated. $1.50

Sylvia's Experiment: The Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)

Sylvia of the Hill Top: The Second Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)

Sylvia Arden Decides: The Third Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)

OTHER STORIES

By MARGARET R. PIPER

The Princess and the Clan, $1.50The House on the Hill, $1.50

THE PAGE COMPANY53 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKSYLVIA ARDEN DECIDES***


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