ByGeorge Gibbs, author of “Tony’s Wife,” etc. Illustrated by the author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net.
ByGeorge Gibbs, author of “Tony’s Wife,” etc. Illustrated by the author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net.
The story of an ambitious young inventor and a young society girl, who are forced into marriage by the will of an eccentric millionaire uncle.
“Fresh, strong, and irresistibly interesting.”—New York World.“One of the most attractive novels which has appeared for a long time. Holds the interest breathless all the time and ends with a most satisfactory rush of happiness.”—Boston Globe.“A clever, fascinating love story.”—Detroit News.“Bright, exciting, and decidedly up-to-date. The characters are sharply drawn and well contrasted, and the background of social opulence well colored. It is decidedly worth reading. Sure to be a best seller.”—Springfield Republican.“A rattling good story. Wholesome, sweet-spirited, well planned, absorbing.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“Admirably constructed. Interesting episodes succeed each other and the frothy and clever dialogue of the fashionable butterflies of the New York smart set is wittily flippant and amusing. It is a capital novel. The real depths of human feeling are treated with fine emotional power.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.“The most distinguished society novel for a long time and one of the most dramatic.”—Hartford Courant.“As up-to-date as the steam yacht. More than ordinarily pleasing.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
“Fresh, strong, and irresistibly interesting.”—New York World.
“One of the most attractive novels which has appeared for a long time. Holds the interest breathless all the time and ends with a most satisfactory rush of happiness.”—Boston Globe.
“A clever, fascinating love story.”—Detroit News.
“Bright, exciting, and decidedly up-to-date. The characters are sharply drawn and well contrasted, and the background of social opulence well colored. It is decidedly worth reading. Sure to be a best seller.”—Springfield Republican.
“A rattling good story. Wholesome, sweet-spirited, well planned, absorbing.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“Admirably constructed. Interesting episodes succeed each other and the frothy and clever dialogue of the fashionable butterflies of the New York smart set is wittily flippant and amusing. It is a capital novel. The real depths of human feeling are treated with fine emotional power.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
“The most distinguished society novel for a long time and one of the most dramatic.”—Hartford Courant.
“As up-to-date as the steam yacht. More than ordinarily pleasing.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
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ANOTHER CHAMBERS SUCCESS
The Common Law
ByRobert W. Chambers, author of “The Danger Mark,” “The Fighting Chance,” etc. Illustrated with over 50 Drawings by America’s foremost illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Cloth, $1.40 net.
ByRobert W. Chambers, author of “The Danger Mark,” “The Fighting Chance,” etc. Illustrated with over 50 Drawings by America’s foremost illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Cloth, $1.40 net.
In this new novel the author treats his readers to a splendid story of society and studio life in New York city. It is a novel that holds attention from the first, having all the interest and fascination of a Chambers society story, with the added charm of the gay artists’ life in a great city with its frank camaraderie, witty small talk and undisguised disregard of convention.
It is a great love story, concerning itself with Valerie West, a gently bred girl, who from a cloistered life with an invalid mother comes to the studio of Louis Neville, an artist of aristocratic and snobbish ancestry. She seeks employment as a model, and her beauty readily wins an audience, while her physical perfections suit the work that Neville has in hand, so that she is eagerly engaged.
The story follows this association through a rapid progress from intellectual companionship, pure friendship and then fervid love. Love triumphant over tradition is the concluding note of the story.
“Mr. Chambers has written charmingly as usual. He has a most fascinating manner of putting abstractions and theorizings into seemingly pulsating actuality, and his delineation of human emotions is so boldly and palpably real he is able to illustrate it with the most fantastic and wonderful circumstances.”—Des Moines Register-Leader.“Mr. Chambers has achieved a virtually flawless novel.”—Hartford Courant.
“Mr. Chambers has written charmingly as usual. He has a most fascinating manner of putting abstractions and theorizings into seemingly pulsating actuality, and his delineation of human emotions is so boldly and palpably real he is able to illustrate it with the most fantastic and wonderful circumstances.”—Des Moines Register-Leader.
“Mr. Chambers has achieved a virtually flawless novel.”—Hartford Courant.
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BOOKS BY W. B. MAXWELL
Mrs. Thompson
The story deals with a woman who had won for herself an enviable position in the business world, when she is persuaded to marry one of her employees, who turns out to be an adventurer. Her disappointment strengthens her already wonderfully strong character, and the outcome of the story is as amazing as it is unusual.
12mo. Cloth, $1.30 net.
The Rest Cure
The story of a husband who is absolutely wrapped up in his business, devotes all his days and nights to it, allows his wife to do as she likes. She looks about for other companionship; suddenly they both wake up to the situation that the husband is ruining his life by his work and that the wife is ruining herself through lack of companionship with her husband.
“The book grips like a steel trap, and only the stupid could read it unmoved.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
12mo, Cloth, $1.50 net.
Seymour Charlton
The story of the love and marriage of a young English earl and the daughter of a shopkeeper. She does not at first succeed in her new position. Later, however, she becomes a great lady in every sense of the word, only to discover that her husband has become entangled with a woman of a fast life. Charlton’s tardy recognition of his wife’s worth meets no response from her. But having finally broken with the other woman, he starts in all over again to win his wife’s love.
Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The Guarded Flame
“In quite a different field, in a vastly different atmosphere, the author has come near to the master genius of Thomas Hardy. ‘The Guarded Flame’ is a work of wonderful power, but above all a work of truth. No novel has been written since the beginning of Hardy’s literary activity that has more clearly approached his marvelous subtlety in the depiction of human nature.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Vivien
This story gives the detailed experiences of a girl who has to fight single-handed against the greatest dangers to which a woman can be exposed and to see sides of life of which her more fortunate sisters are kept in ignorance. It is fascinatingly written and with a clear understanding of human nature.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANYNEW YORK LONDON
By ELINOR GLYN
His Hour
The story of the loves of a Russian Prince and a beautiful Englishwoman by the author of “Three Weeks.” With frontispiece. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The story of the loves of a Russian Prince and a beautiful Englishwoman by the author of “Three Weeks.” With frontispiece. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
A young English widow of wealth and position traveling in Egypt meets a Russian prince of great personal charm and high rank, whose masterful attentions at once pique the lady’s warm interest. They are companions on her return voyage to England, during which her emotions are further stirred by the varied characteristics of the young prince, and almost immediately she leaves for St. Petersburg to visit her godmother, a woman of rank and fashion, whom she had hitherto never met. In St. Petersburg she again meets the young prince, who is a great favorite. Love between them develops, but the man’s assurance and frank expectations render the lady haughty and reserved. There are occasions, however, when she yields to his ardor in so far as to show that she loves him. From this point the author then spins a vivid and exotic love story, and one that will appeal to all classes of fiction readers.
“A tale that many will read with bated breath.”—New York Herald.“The wild nature of the Russian prince, as well as the charmingly free and easy society of St. Petersburg, are admirably drawn.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
“A tale that many will read with bated breath.”—New York Herald.
“The wild nature of the Russian prince, as well as the charmingly free and easy society of St. Petersburg, are admirably drawn.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK
Transcriber’s Notes:Added Table of Contents for enhanced navigation.Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.The author’s long dash style has been preserved.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Added Table of Contents for enhanced navigation.
Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
The author’s long dash style has been preserved.