'I didn't blame you. You couldn't risk being with me.'
'You agreed that, for both our sakes——'
'Yes, you had to be very circumspect. You were so well known. Your autocratic father, your brilliant political future——'
'Be fair. Our future—as I saw it then.'
'Yes, everything hung on concealment. It must have looked quite simple to you. You didn't know the ghost of a child that had never seen the light, the frail thing you meant to sweep aside and forget'—she was on her feet—'haveswept aside and forgotten!—you didn't know it was strong enough to push you out of my life.' With an added intensity, 'It can do more!' she said. She leaned over his bowed figure and whispered, 'It can push that girl out!' As again she stood erect, half to herself she added, 'It can do more still.'
'Are you threatening me?' he said dully.
'No, I am preparing you.'
'For what?'
'For the work that must be done. Either with your help or that girl's.'
The man's eyes lifted a moment.
'One of two things,' she said—'either her life, and all she has, given to this new Service; or a ransom if I give her up to you.'
'I see. A price. Well——?'
She looked searchingly at him for an instant, and then slowly shook her head.
'Even if I could trust you to pay the price,' she said, 'I'm not sure but what a young and ardent soul as faithful and as pure as hers—I'm not sure but I should make a poor bargain for my sex to give that up for anything you could do.'
He found his feet like a man roused out of an evil dream to some reality darker than the dream. 'In spite of your assumption, she may not be your tool,' he said.
'You are horribly afraid she is! But you are wrong. She's an instrument in stronger hands than mine. Soon my little personal influence over her will be merged in something infinitely greater. Oh, don't think it's merely I that have got hold of Jean Dunbarton.'
'Who else?'
'The New Spirit that's abroad.'
With an exclamation he turned away. And though his look branded the idea for a wild absurdity, sentinel-like he began to pace up and down a few yards from Jean's door.
'How else,' said the woman, 'should that inexperienced girl have felt the new loyalty and responded as she did?'
'"New," indeed!' he said under his breath, 'however little "loyal."'
'Loyal, above all. But no newer than electricity was when it first lit up the world. It had been there since the world began—waiting to do away with the dark.So has the thing you're fighting.'
'The thing I'm fighting'—and the violence with which he spoke was only in his face and air; he held his voice down to its lowest register—'the thing I'm fighting is nothing more than one person's hold upon a highly sensitive imagination. I consented to this interview with the hope'—he made a gesture of impotence.
'It only remains for me to show her that your true motive is revenge.'
'Once say that to her, and you are lost.'
He stole an uneasy look at the woman out of a face that had grown haggard.
'If you were fighting for that girl only against me, you'd win,' she said. 'It isn't so—and you will fail. The influence that has hold of her is in the very air. No soul knows where it comes from, except that it comes from the higher sources of civilization.'
'I see the origin of it before my eyes!'
'As little as you see the beginnings of life. This is like the other mysterious forces of Mother Earth. No warning given—no sign. A night wind passes over the brown land, and in the morning the fields are green.'
His look was the look of one who sees happiness slipping away. 'Or it passes over gardens like a frost,' he said, 'and the flowers die.'
'I know that is what men fear. It even seems as if it must be through fear that your enlightenment will come. The strangest things make you men afraid! That's why I see a value in Jean Dunbarton far beyond her fortune.'
He looked at her dully.
'More than any other girl I know—if I keep her from you, that gentle, inflexible creature could rouse in men the old half-superstitious fear——'
'Fear! Are you mad?'
'Mad!' she echoed. 'Unsexed'—those are the words to-day. In the Middle Ages men cried out 'Witch!' and burnt her—the woman who served no man's bed or board.
'You want to make the poor child believe——'
'She sees for herself we've come to a place where we find there's a value in women apart from the value men see in them. You teach us not to look to you for some of the things we need most. If women must be freed by women, we have need of such as——' Her eyes went to the door that Stonor still had an air of guarding. 'Who knows—she may be the new Joan of Arc.'
He paused, and for that moment heseemedas bankrupt in denunciation as he was in hope. This personal application of thenew heresy found him merely aghast, with no words but 'Thatsheshould be the sacrifice!'
'You have taught us to look very calmly on the sacrifice of women,' was the ruthless answer. 'Men tell us in every tongue, it's "a necessary evil."'
He stood still a moment, staring at the ground.
'One girl's happiness—against a thing nobler than happiness for thousands—who can hesitate?Not Jean.'
'Good God! can't you see that this crazed campaign you'd start her on—even if it's successful, it can only be so through the help of men? What excuse shall you make your own soul for not going straight to the goal?'
'You think we wouldn't be glad,' she said, 'to go straight to the goal?'
'I do. I see you'd much rather punish me and see her revel in a morbid self-sacrifice.'
'You say I want to punish you only because, like other men, you won't take the trouble to understand what we do want—or how determined we are to have it. You can't kill this New Spirit among women.' She went nearer. 'And you couldn't make a greater mistake than to think it finds a home only in the exceptional or the unhappy. It is so strange to see a man like you as much deluded as the Hyde Park loafers, who say to Ernestine Blunt, "Who's hurtyourfeelings?" Why not realize'—she came still closer, if she had put out her hand she would have touched him—'this is a thing that goes deeper than personal experience? And yet,' she said in a voice so hushed that it was full of a sense of the girl on the other side of the door, 'if you take only the narrowest personal view, a good deal depends on what you and I agree upon in the next five minutes.'
'You recommend my realizing the larger issues. But in your ambition to attach that poor girl to the chariot-wheels of Progress'—his voice put the drag of ironic pomposity upon the phrase—'you quite ignore the fact that people fitter for such work, the men you look to enlist in the end, are ready waiting'—he pulled himself up in time for an anti-climax—'to give the thing a chance.'
'Men are ready! What men?'
His eyes evaded hers. He picked his words. 'Women have themselves to blame that the question has grown so delicate thatresponsible people shrink for the moment from being implicated in it.'
'We have seen the shrinking.'
'Without quoting any one else, I might point out that the New Antagonism seems to have blinded you to the small fact that I for one am not an opponent.'
'The phrase has a familiar ring. We have heard it four hundred and twenty times.'
His eyes were shining with anger. 'I spoke, if I may say so, of some one who would count. Some one who can carry his party along with him—or risk a seat in the cabinet over the issue.'
'Did you mean you are "ready" to do that?' she exclaimed.
'An hour ago I was.'
'Ah! an hour ago!'
'Exactly! You don't understand men. They can be led; they can't be driven. Ten minutes before you came into the room I was ready to say I would throw in my political lot with this Reform.'
'And now?'
'Now you block my way by an attempt at coercion. By forcing my hand you give my adherence an air of bargain-driving for a personal end. Exactly the mistake of the ignorant agitators in Trafalgar Square. You have a great deal to learn. This movement will go forward, not because of the agitation outside, but in spite of it. There are men in Parliament who would have been actively serving the Reform to-day—as actively as so vast a constitutional change——'
She smiled faintly. 'And they haven't done it because——'
'Because it would have put a premium on breaches of decent behaviour and defiance of the law!'
She looked at him with an attempt to appear to accept this version. What did it matter what reasons were given for past failure, if only the future might be assured? He had taken a piece of crumpled paper from his pocket and smoothed it out.
'Look here!' He held the telegram before her.
She flushed with excitement as she read. 'This is very good. I see only one objection.'
'Objection!'
'You haven't sent it.'
'That is your fault.' And he looked as if he thought he spoke the truth.
'When did you write this?'
'Just before you came in—when she began to talk about——'
'Ah, Jean!' Vida gave him back the paper. 'That must have pleased Jean.'
It was a master stroke, the casual giving back, and the invocation of a pleasure that had been strangled at the birth along with something greater. Did he see before him again the girl's tear-filled, hopeless eyes, that had not so much as read the wonderful message, too intent upon the death-warrant of their common happiness? He threw himself heavily into a chair, staring at the closed door. Behind it, in a prison of which this woman held the key, Jean waited for her life sentence. Stonor's look, his attitude, seemed to say that he too only waited now to hear it. He dropped his head in his hand.
When Vida spoke, it was without raising her eyes from the ground.
'I could drive a hard-and-fast bargain with you; but I think I won't. If love and ambition both urge you on, perhaps——' She looked up a little defiantly, seeming to expect to meet triumph in his face. Instead, her eye took in the profound hopelessness of the bent head, the slackness of the big frame, that so suddenly had assumed a look of age. She went over to him silently, and stood by his side. 'After all,' she said, 'life hasn't been quite fair to you.' At the new thing in her voice he raised his heavy eyes. 'You fall out of one ardent woman's dreams into another's,' she said.
'Then you don't—after all, you don't mean to——'
'To keep you and her apart? No.'
For the first time tears came into his eyes.
After a little silence he held out his hand. 'What can I do for you?'
She seemed not to see the hand he offered. Or did she only see that it was empty? She was looking at the other. Mere instinct made him close his left hand more firmly on the message.
It was as if something finer than her slim fingers, the woman's invisible antennæ, felt the force that would need be overcome if trial of strength should be precipitated then. Upon his 'What can I do?' she shook her head.
'For the real you,' he said. 'Not the Reformer, or the would-be politician—for the woman I so unwillingly hurt.' As she only turned away, he stood up, detaining her with a hold upon her arm. 'You may not believe it, but now that I understand, there is almost nothing I wouldn't do to right that old wrong.'
'There's nothing to be done,' she said; and then, shrinking under that look of almost cheerful benevolence, 'You can never give me back my child.'
More than at the words, at the anguish in her face, his own had changed.
'Will that ghost give you no rest?' he said.
'Yes, oh, yes.' She was calm again. 'I see life is nobler than I knew. There is work to do.'
On her way to the great folding doors, once again he stopped her.
'Why should you think that it's only you these ten years have taught something to? Why not give even a man credit for a willingness to learn something of life, and for being sorry—profoundly sorry—for the pain his instruction has cost others? You seem to think I've taken it all quite lightly. That's not fair. All my life, ever since you disappeared, the thought of you has hurt. I would give anything I possess to know you—were happy again.'
'Oh, happiness!'
'Why shouldn't you find it still?'
He said it with a significance that made her stare, and then?—
'I see! she couldn't help telling you about Allen Trent—Lady John couldn't!'
He ignored the interpretation.
'You're one of the people the years have not taken from, but given more to. You are more than ever——You haven't lost your beauty.'
'The gods saw it was so little effectual, it wasn't worth taking away.'
She stood staring out into the void. 'One woman's mishap—what is that? A thing as trivial to the great world as it's sordid in most eyes. But the time has come when a woman may look about her and say, What general significance has my secret pain? Does it "join on" to anything? And I find itdoes. I'm no longersimply a woman who has stumbled on the way.' With difficulty she controlled the shake in her voice. 'I'm one who has got up bruised and bleeding, wiped the dust from her hands and the tears from her face—and said to herself not merely: Here's one luckless woman! but—here is a stone of stumbling to many. Let's see if it can't be moved out of other women's way. And she calls people to come and help. No mortal man, let alone a woman,by herself, can move that rock of offence. But,' she ended with a sudden sombre flare of enthusiasm, 'ifmanyhelp, Geoffrey, the thing can be done.'
He looked down on her from his height with a wondering pity.
'Lord! how you care!' he said, while the mist deepened before his eyes.
'Don't be so sad,' she said—not seeming to see his sadness was not for himself. It was as if she could not turn her back on him this last time without leaving him comforted. 'Shall I tell you a secret? Jean's ardent dreams needn't frighten you, if she has a child.That—from the beginning it was not the strong arm—it was the weakest, the little, little arms that subdued the fiercest of us.'
He held out a shaking hand, so uncertain, that it might have been begging pity, or it might have been bestowing it. Even then she did not take it, but a great gentleness was in her face as she said—
'You will have other children, Geoffrey; for me there was to be only one. Well, well,' she brushed the tears away, 'since men have tried, and failed to make a decent world for the little children to live in, it's as well some of us are childless. Yes,' she said quietly, taking up the hat and cloak, 'weare the ones who have no excuse for standing aloof from the fight!'
Her hand was on the door.
'Vida!'
'What?'
'You forgot something.'
She looked back.
He was signing the message. 'This,' he said.
She went out with the paper in her hand.
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Sidgwick—Home Life in Germany
By A. Sidgwick
"A vivid picture of social life and customs in Germany to-day."
Smith—The Spirit of American Government
By J. Allen Smith
"Not since Bryce's 'American Commonwealth' has a book been produced which deals so searchingly with American political institutions and their history."—New York Evening Telegram.
Spargo—Socialism
By John Spargo
"One of the ablest expositions of Socialism that has ever been written."—New York Evening Call.
Tarbell—History of Greek Art
By T. B. Tarbell
"A sympathetic and understanding conception of the golden age of art."
Valentine—How to Keep Hens for Profit
By C. S. Valentine
"Beginners and seasoned poultrymen will find in it much of value."—Chicago Tribune.
Van Dyke—The Gospel for a World of Sin
By Henry Van Dyke
"One of the basic books of true Christian thought of to-day and of all times."—Boston Courier.
Van Dyke—The Spirit of America
By Henry Van Dyke
"Undoubtedly the most notable interpretation in years of the real America. It compares favorably with Bryce's 'American Commonwealth.'"—Philadelphia Press.
Veblen—The Theory of the Leisure Class
By Thorstein B. Veblen
"The most valuable recent contribution to the elucidation of this subject."—London Times.
Wells—New Worlds for Old
By H. G. Wells
"As a presentation of Socialistic thought as it is working to-day, this is the most judicious and balanced discussion at the disposal of the general reader."—World To-day.
White—The Old Order Changeth
By William Allen White
"The present status of society in America. An excellent antidote to the pessimism of modern writers on our social system."—Baltimore Sun.
A new and important series of some of the best popular novels which have been published in recent years.
These successful books are now made available at a popular price in response to the insistent demand for cheaper editions.
Each volume, cloth, 12mo, 50 cents net; postage, 10 cents extra
Allen—A Kentucky CardinalBy James Lane Allen"A narrative, told with naïve simplicity, of how a man who was devoted to his fruits and flowers and birds came to fall in love with a fair neighbor."—New York Tribune.Allen—The Reign of LawA Tale of the Kentucky HempfieldsBy James Lane Allen"Mr. Allen has style as original and almost as perfectly finished as Hawthorne's.... And rich in the qualities that are lacking in so many novels of the period."—San Francisco Chronicle.Atherton—Patience SparhawkBy Gertrude Atherton"One of the most interesting works of the foremost American novelist."Child—Jim HandsBy Richard Washburn Child"A big, simple, leisurely moving chronicle of life. Commands the profoundest respect and admiration. Jim is a real man, sound and fine."—Daily News.Crawford—The Heart of RomeBy Marion Crawford"A story of underground mysterie."Crawford—Fair Margaret: A PortraitBy Marion Crawford"A story of modern life in Italy, visualizing the country and its people, and warm with the red blood of romance and melodrama."—Boston Transcript.Davis—A Friend of CæsarBy William Stearns Davis"There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant, that they fix themselves in the memory."—Nancy Huston BanksinThe Bookman.Drummond—The Justice of the KingBy Hamilton Drummond"Read the story for the sake of the living, breathing people, the adventures, but most for the sake of the boy who served love and the King."—Chicago Record-Herald.Elizabeth and Her German Garden"It is full of nature in many phases—of breeze and sunshine, of the glory of the land, and the sheer joy of living."—New York Times.Gale—Loves of Pelleas and EtarreBy Zona Gale"... full of fresh feeling and grace of style, a draught from the fountain of youth."—Outlook.Herrick—The Common LotBy Robert Herrick"A story of present-day life, intensely real in its picture of a young architect whose ideals in the beginning were, at their highest, æsthetic rather than spiritual. It is an unusual novel of great interest."London—AdventureBy Jack London"No reader of Jack London's stories need be told that this abounds with romantic and dramatic incident."—Los Angeles Tribune.London—Burning DaylightBy Jack London"Jack London has outdone himself in 'Burning Daylight.'"—The Springfield Union.Loti—DisenchantedBy Pierre Loti"It gives a more graphic picture of the life of the rich Turkish women of to-day than anything that has ever been written."—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.Lucas—Mr. InglesideBy E. V. Lucas"He displays himself as an intellectual and amusing observer of life's foibles with a hero characterized by inimitable kindness and humor."—The Independent.Mason—The Four FeathersBy A. E. W. Mason"'The Four Feathers' is a first-rate story, with more legitimate thrills than any novel we have read in a long time."—New York Press.Norris—MotherBy Kathleen Norris"Worth its weight in gold."—Catholic Columbian.Oxenham—The Long RoadBy John Oxenham"'The Long Road' is a tragic, heart-gripping story of Russian political and social conditions."—The Craftsman.Pryor—The Colonel's StoryBy Mrs. Roger A. Pryor"The story is one in which the spirit of the Old South figures largely; adventure and romance have their play and carry the plot to a satisfying end."Remington—Ermine of the YellowstoneBy John Remington"A very original and remarkable novel wonderful in its vigor and freshness."Roberts—Kings in ExileBy Charles G. D. Roberts"The author catches the spirit of forest and sea life, and the reader comes to have a personal love and knowledge of our animal friends."—Boston Globe.Robins—The ConvertBy Elizabeth Robins"'The Convert' devotes itself to the exploitation of the recent suffragist movement in England. It is a book not easily forgotten, by any thoughtful reader."—Chicago Evening Post.Robins—A Dark LanternBy Elizabeth RobinsA powerful and striking novel, English in scene, which takes an essentially modern view of society and of certain dramatic situations.Ward—David GrieveBy Mrs. Humphrey Ward"A perfect picture of life, remarkable for its humor and extraordinary success at character analysis."Wells—The Wheels of ChanceBy H. G. Wells"Mr. Wells is beyond question the most plausible romancer of the time."—The New York Tribune.
Allen—A Kentucky Cardinal
By James Lane Allen
"A narrative, told with naïve simplicity, of how a man who was devoted to his fruits and flowers and birds came to fall in love with a fair neighbor."—New York Tribune.
Allen—The Reign of LawA Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields
By James Lane Allen
"Mr. Allen has style as original and almost as perfectly finished as Hawthorne's.... And rich in the qualities that are lacking in so many novels of the period."—San Francisco Chronicle.
Atherton—Patience Sparhawk
By Gertrude Atherton
"One of the most interesting works of the foremost American novelist."
Child—Jim Hands
By Richard Washburn Child
"A big, simple, leisurely moving chronicle of life. Commands the profoundest respect and admiration. Jim is a real man, sound and fine."—Daily News.
Crawford—The Heart of Rome
By Marion Crawford
"A story of underground mysterie."
Crawford—Fair Margaret: A Portrait
By Marion Crawford
"A story of modern life in Italy, visualizing the country and its people, and warm with the red blood of romance and melodrama."—Boston Transcript.
Davis—A Friend of Cæsar
By William Stearns Davis
"There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant, that they fix themselves in the memory."—Nancy Huston BanksinThe Bookman.
Drummond—The Justice of the King
By Hamilton Drummond
"Read the story for the sake of the living, breathing people, the adventures, but most for the sake of the boy who served love and the King."—Chicago Record-Herald.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"It is full of nature in many phases—of breeze and sunshine, of the glory of the land, and the sheer joy of living."—New York Times.
Gale—Loves of Pelleas and Etarre
By Zona Gale
"... full of fresh feeling and grace of style, a draught from the fountain of youth."—Outlook.
Herrick—The Common Lot
By Robert Herrick
"A story of present-day life, intensely real in its picture of a young architect whose ideals in the beginning were, at their highest, æsthetic rather than spiritual. It is an unusual novel of great interest."
London—Adventure
By Jack London
"No reader of Jack London's stories need be told that this abounds with romantic and dramatic incident."—Los Angeles Tribune.
London—Burning Daylight
By Jack London
"Jack London has outdone himself in 'Burning Daylight.'"—The Springfield Union.
Loti—Disenchanted
By Pierre Loti
"It gives a more graphic picture of the life of the rich Turkish women of to-day than anything that has ever been written."—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Lucas—Mr. Ingleside
By E. V. Lucas
"He displays himself as an intellectual and amusing observer of life's foibles with a hero characterized by inimitable kindness and humor."—The Independent.
Mason—The Four Feathers
By A. E. W. Mason
"'The Four Feathers' is a first-rate story, with more legitimate thrills than any novel we have read in a long time."—New York Press.
Norris—Mother
By Kathleen Norris
"Worth its weight in gold."—Catholic Columbian.
Oxenham—The Long Road
By John Oxenham
"'The Long Road' is a tragic, heart-gripping story of Russian political and social conditions."—The Craftsman.
Pryor—The Colonel's Story
By Mrs. Roger A. Pryor
"The story is one in which the spirit of the Old South figures largely; adventure and romance have their play and carry the plot to a satisfying end."
Remington—Ermine of the Yellowstone
By John Remington
"A very original and remarkable novel wonderful in its vigor and freshness."
Roberts—Kings in Exile
By Charles G. D. Roberts
"The author catches the spirit of forest and sea life, and the reader comes to have a personal love and knowledge of our animal friends."—Boston Globe.
Robins—The Convert
By Elizabeth Robins
"'The Convert' devotes itself to the exploitation of the recent suffragist movement in England. It is a book not easily forgotten, by any thoughtful reader."—Chicago Evening Post.
Robins—A Dark Lantern
By Elizabeth Robins
A powerful and striking novel, English in scene, which takes an essentially modern view of society and of certain dramatic situations.
Ward—David Grieve
By Mrs. Humphrey Ward
"A perfect picture of life, remarkable for its humor and extraordinary success at character analysis."
Wells—The Wheels of Chance
By H. G. Wells
"Mr. Wells is beyond question the most plausible romancer of the time."—The New York Tribune.
This collection of juvenile books contains works of standard quality, on a variety of subjects—history, biography, fiction, science, and poetry—carefully chosen to meet the needs and interests of both boys and girls.
Each volume, cloth, 12mo, 50 cents net; postage, 10 cents extra
Altsheler—The Horsemen of the PlainsBy Joseph A. Altsheler"A story of the West, of Indians, of scouts, trappers, fur traders, and, in short, of everything that is dear to the imagination of a healthy American boy."—New York Sun.Bacon—While Caroline Was GrowingBy Josephine Daskam Bacon"Only a genuine lover of children, and a keenly sympathetic observer of human nature, could have given us a book as this."—Boston Herald.Carroll—Alice's Adventures, and Through the Looking GlassBy Lewis Carroll"One of the immortal books for children."Dix—A Little Captive LadBy Marie Beulah Dix"The human interest is strong, and children are sure to like it."—Washington Times.Greene—Pickett's GapBy Homer Greene"The story presents a picture of truth and honor that cannot fail to have a vivid impression upon the reader."—Toledo Blade.Lucas—SlowcoachBy E. V. Lucas"The record of an English family's coaching tour in a great old-fashioned wagon. A charming narrative, as quaint and original as its name."—Booknews Monthly.Mabie—Book of ChristmasBy H. W. Mabie"A beautiful collection of Christmas verse and prose in which all the old favorites will be found in an artistic setting."—The St. Louis Mirror.Major—The Bears of Blue RiverBy Charles Major"An exciting story with all the thrills the title implies."Major—Uncle Tom Andy BillBy Charles Major"A stirring story full of bears, Indians, and hidden treasures."—Cleveland Leader.Nesbit—The Railway ChildrenBy E. Nesbit"A delightful story revealing the author's intimate knowledge of juvenile ways."—The Nation.Whyte—The Story Book GirlsBy Christina G. Whyte"A book that all girls will read with delight—a sweet, wholesome story of girl life."Wright—Dream Fox Story BookBy Mabel Osgood Wright"The whole book is delicious with its wise and kindly humor, its just perspective of the true value of things."Wright—Aunt Jimmy's WillBy Mabel Osgood Wright"Barbara has written no more delightful book than this."
Altsheler—The Horsemen of the Plains
By Joseph A. Altsheler
"A story of the West, of Indians, of scouts, trappers, fur traders, and, in short, of everything that is dear to the imagination of a healthy American boy."—New York Sun.
Bacon—While Caroline Was Growing
By Josephine Daskam Bacon
"Only a genuine lover of children, and a keenly sympathetic observer of human nature, could have given us a book as this."—Boston Herald.
Carroll—Alice's Adventures, and Through the Looking Glass
By Lewis Carroll
"One of the immortal books for children."
Dix—A Little Captive Lad
By Marie Beulah Dix
"The human interest is strong, and children are sure to like it."—Washington Times.
Greene—Pickett's Gap
By Homer Greene
"The story presents a picture of truth and honor that cannot fail to have a vivid impression upon the reader."—Toledo Blade.
Lucas—Slowcoach
By E. V. Lucas
"The record of an English family's coaching tour in a great old-fashioned wagon. A charming narrative, as quaint and original as its name."—Booknews Monthly.
Mabie—Book of Christmas
By H. W. Mabie
"A beautiful collection of Christmas verse and prose in which all the old favorites will be found in an artistic setting."—The St. Louis Mirror.
Major—The Bears of Blue River
By Charles Major
"An exciting story with all the thrills the title implies."
Major—Uncle Tom Andy Bill
By Charles Major
"A stirring story full of bears, Indians, and hidden treasures."—Cleveland Leader.
Nesbit—The Railway Children
By E. Nesbit
"A delightful story revealing the author's intimate knowledge of juvenile ways."—The Nation.
Whyte—The Story Book Girls
By Christina G. Whyte
"A book that all girls will read with delight—a sweet, wholesome story of girl life."
Wright—Dream Fox Story Book
By Mabel Osgood Wright
"The whole book is delicious with its wise and kindly humor, its just perspective of the true value of things."
Wright—Aunt Jimmy's Will
By Mabel Osgood Wright
"Barbara has written no more delightful book than this."
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Addams—The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets.Bailey—The Country Life Movement in the United States.Bailey & Hunn—The Practical Garden Book.Campbell—The New Theology.Clark—The Care of a House.Conyngton—How to Help: A Manual of Practical Charity.Coolidge—The United States as a World Power.Croly—The Promise of American Life.Devine—Misery and Its Causes.Earle—Home Life in Colonial Days.Ely—Evolution of Industrial Society.Ely—Monopolies and Trusts.French—How to Grow Vegetables.Goodyear—Renaissance and Modern Art.Hapgood—Lincoln, Abraham, The Man of the People.Haultain—The Mystery of Golf.Hearn—Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation.Hillis—The Quest of Happiness.Hillquit—Socialism in Theory and Practice.Hodges—Everyman's Religion.Horne—David Livingstone.Hunter—Poverty.Hunter—Socialists at Work.Jefferson—The Building of the Church.King—The Ethics of Jesus.King—Rational Living.London—The War of the Classes.London—Revolution and Other Essays.Lyon—How to Keep Bees for Profit.McLennan—A Manual of Practical Farming.Mabie—William Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist, and Man.Mahaffy—Rambles and Studies in Greece.Mathews—The Church and the Changing Order.Mathews—The Gospel and the Modern Man.Patten—The Social Basis of Religion.Peabody—The Approach to the Social Question.Pierce—The Tariff and the Trusts.Rauschenbusch—Christianity and the Social Crisis.Riis—The Making of an American Citizen.Riis—Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen.Ryan—A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects.St. Maur—A Self-supporting Home.Sherman—What is Shakespeare?Sidgwick—Home Life in Germany.Smith—The Spirit of the American Government.Spargo—Socialism.Tarbell—History of Greek Art.Valentine—How to Keep Hens for Profit.Van Dyke—The Gospel for a World of Sin.Van Dyke—The Spirit of America.Veblen—The Theory of the Leisure Class.Wells—New Worlds for Old.White—The Old Order Changeth.
Addams—The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets.Bailey—The Country Life Movement in the United States.Bailey & Hunn—The Practical Garden Book.Campbell—The New Theology.Clark—The Care of a House.Conyngton—How to Help: A Manual of Practical Charity.Coolidge—The United States as a World Power.Croly—The Promise of American Life.Devine—Misery and Its Causes.Earle—Home Life in Colonial Days.Ely—Evolution of Industrial Society.Ely—Monopolies and Trusts.French—How to Grow Vegetables.Goodyear—Renaissance and Modern Art.Hapgood—Lincoln, Abraham, The Man of the People.Haultain—The Mystery of Golf.Hearn—Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation.Hillis—The Quest of Happiness.Hillquit—Socialism in Theory and Practice.Hodges—Everyman's Religion.Horne—David Livingstone.Hunter—Poverty.Hunter—Socialists at Work.Jefferson—The Building of the Church.King—The Ethics of Jesus.King—Rational Living.London—The War of the Classes.London—Revolution and Other Essays.Lyon—How to Keep Bees for Profit.McLennan—A Manual of Practical Farming.Mabie—William Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist, and Man.Mahaffy—Rambles and Studies in Greece.Mathews—The Church and the Changing Order.Mathews—The Gospel and the Modern Man.Patten—The Social Basis of Religion.Peabody—The Approach to the Social Question.Pierce—The Tariff and the Trusts.Rauschenbusch—Christianity and the Social Crisis.Riis—The Making of an American Citizen.Riis—Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen.Ryan—A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects.St. Maur—A Self-supporting Home.Sherman—What is Shakespeare?Sidgwick—Home Life in Germany.Smith—The Spirit of the American Government.Spargo—Socialism.Tarbell—History of Greek Art.Valentine—How to Keep Hens for Profit.Van Dyke—The Gospel for a World of Sin.Van Dyke—The Spirit of America.Veblen—The Theory of the Leisure Class.Wells—New Worlds for Old.White—The Old Order Changeth.