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A LOST LEADER
A LOST LEADER
ByE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMAuthor of "The Malefactor," etc.Fully Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50———————
For his latest hero, Mr. Oppenheim has taken a modern leader who has elected to stand aloof from the conflict of the political world, but he has created a strong, distinct personality, and not merely exploited one already familiar. "A Lost Leader" is as fascinating a story of modern life as novelist has yet conceived, and one that arrests the mind by its fine strenuousness of purpose.
An admirably woven story. The reader will follow its every phase with absorbed interest.—London Morning Advertiser.
The characters are all capitally drawn, and the story is developed with all the skill and power of a born dramatist.—The Northern Whig.
Full of originality and interest from first to last.—London Daily Graphic.
A highly attractive story, with an ingenious plot and daringly up-to-date.—Newcastle Daily Chronicle.
His stories thrill with human interest.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
———————LITTLE, BROWN & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston
Refreshing in its originality.—Boston Journal
THECASTLE OF DOUBT
THECASTLE OF DOUBT
ByJOHN H. WHITSONAuthor of "The Rainbow Chasers," etc.With frontispiece in color by I. H. Caliga. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50———————
The fascinating story of a man who finds himself identified as the husband of a beautiful young woman whom he is sure he has never before seen.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
More ingenious than "The Masquerader." The denouement will surprise even a veteran novel reader.—San Francisco Chronicle.
Mr. Whitson has struck a new idea for a romance plot.—New York World.
A love story that is as novel as anything in print.—Lowell(Mass.)Courier.
The plot is quite the most skilfully wrought out of anything of its kind since Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."—Springfield(Mass.)Union.
The climax is one of the most unexpected things in modern fiction.—Philadelphia Item.
———————LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston
The Book President Roosevelt Recommends
AUNTJANE OF KENTUCKY
AUNTJANE OF KENTUCKY
ByELIZA CALVERT HALLIllustrated by Beulah Strong. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50———————
Aunt Jane is perfectly delightful.—The Outlook, New York.
A book that plays on the heart strings.—St. Louis Post-Despatch.
What Mrs. Gaskill did in "Cranford" this author does for Kentucky.—Syracuse Herald.
A prose idyl. Nothing more charming has appeared in recent fiction.—Margaret E. Sangster.
These pages have in them much of the stuff that makes genuine literature.—Louisville Courier Journal.
Where so many have made caricatures of old-time country folk, Eliza Calvert Hall has caught at once the real charm, the real spirit, the real people, and the real joy of living which was theirs.—New York Times.
Have you read that charming little book written by one of your clever Kentucky women—"Aunt Jane of Kentucky"—by Eliza Calvert Hall? It is very wholesome and attractive. Be sure that you read it.—President Theodore Roosevelt.
———————LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston
"The Typical American Novel"
BY RIGHT DIVINE
BY RIGHT DIVINE
ByWILLIAM SAGEAuthor of "The District Attorney," "Robert Tournay," etc.Frontispiece in color. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50———————
The plot is ingenious. . . . There are many strongly dramatic scenes.—Boston Transcript.
Like his previous offering, "The District Attorney," it rings true in its motif.—New York World.
Love and politics are nicely blended in this romance. . . . Mr. Sage has worked out the plot admirably and the story is one of great power.—Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Sage appears to have as accurate a knowledge of the female heart as of the twists and turns of machine politics.—New York Evening Sun.
Strong, vigorous story of the struggle for political supremacy in their State between United States Senator Fordyce and Governor Thayer. . . . The book is crisply written, full of dramatic incidents, and is most entertaining.—Boston Journal.
Especially good points in the story are the subordination of the love interest to the stronger motives by which the normal man is guided, and the vivid manner in which the author shows a good woman's inevitable misunderstanding, both of essential right and of policy in matters concerning those whom she loves.—New York Times.
———————LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston
Transcriber's Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired.Page 112, "herelf" changed to "herself" (not help herself)Page 157, "ocasion" changed to "occasion" (occasion I think)Page 198, "Meggson" changed to "Meggison" (Aubrey Meggison instructed)Page 246, "posible" changed to "possible" (possible, that he)Page 266, "though" changed to "thought" (I thought it might)Page 290, "addel" changed to "added" (he added, with a sigh)
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 112, "herelf" changed to "herself" (not help herself)
Page 157, "ocasion" changed to "occasion" (occasion I think)
Page 198, "Meggson" changed to "Meggison" (Aubrey Meggison instructed)
Page 246, "posible" changed to "possible" (possible, that he)
Page 266, "though" changed to "thought" (I thought it might)
Page 290, "addel" changed to "added" (he added, with a sigh)