RECENTPUBLICATIONSofMcClure, Phillips& Co.New York1903
RECENTPUBLICATIONSofMcClure, Phillips& Co.
New York1903
By Henry Seton Merriman
Author of “The Sowers,” etc.
BARLASCH OF THE GUARD
THE story is set in those desperate days when the ebbing tide of Napoleon’s fortunes swept Europe with desolation. Barlasch—“Papa Barlasch of the Guard, Italy, Egypt, the Danube”—a veteran in the Little Corporal’s service—is the dominant figure of the story. Quartered on a distinguished family in the historic town of Dantzig, he gives his life to the romance of Desirée, the daughter of the family, and Louis d’Arragon, whose cousin she has married and parted with at the church door. Louis’s search with Barlasch for the missing Charles gives an unforgettable picture of the terrible retreat from Russia; and as a companion picture there is the heroic defence of Dantzig by Rapp and his little army of sick and starving. At the last Barlasch, learning of the death of Charles, plans and executes the escape of Desirée from the beleaguered town to join Louis.Illustrated by the Kinneys.$1.50
THE story is set in those desperate days when the ebbing tide of Napoleon’s fortunes swept Europe with desolation. Barlasch—“Papa Barlasch of the Guard, Italy, Egypt, the Danube”—a veteran in the Little Corporal’s service—is the dominant figure of the story. Quartered on a distinguished family in the historic town of Dantzig, he gives his life to the romance of Desirée, the daughter of the family, and Louis d’Arragon, whose cousin she has married and parted with at the church door. Louis’s search with Barlasch for the missing Charles gives an unforgettable picture of the terrible retreat from Russia; and as a companion picture there is the heroic defence of Dantzig by Rapp and his little army of sick and starving. At the last Barlasch, learning of the death of Charles, plans and executes the escape of Desirée from the beleaguered town to join Louis.
Illustrated by the Kinneys.
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By Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin
Authors of “The Picaroons”
THE REIGN OF QUEEN ISYL
IN “The Reign of Queen Isyl” the authors have hit upon a new scheme in fiction. The book is both a novel and a collection of short stories. The main story deals with a carnival of flowers in a California city. Just before the coronation the Queen of the Fiesta disappears, and her Maid of Honor is crowned in her stead—Queen Isyl. There are plots and counterplots—half-mockery, half-earnest—beneath which the reader is tantalized by glimpses of the genuine mystery surrounding the real queen’s disappearance.Thus far the story differs from other novels only in the quaintly romantic atmosphere of modern chivalry. Its distinctive feature lies in the fact that in every chapter one of the characters relates an anecdote. Each anecdote is a short story of the liveliest and most amusing kind—complete in itself—yet each bears a vital relation to the main romance and its characters. The short stories are as unusual and striking as the novel of which they form a part.
IN “The Reign of Queen Isyl” the authors have hit upon a new scheme in fiction. The book is both a novel and a collection of short stories. The main story deals with a carnival of flowers in a California city. Just before the coronation the Queen of the Fiesta disappears, and her Maid of Honor is crowned in her stead—Queen Isyl. There are plots and counterplots—half-mockery, half-earnest—beneath which the reader is tantalized by glimpses of the genuine mystery surrounding the real queen’s disappearance.
Thus far the story differs from other novels only in the quaintly romantic atmosphere of modern chivalry. Its distinctive feature lies in the fact that in every chapter one of the characters relates an anecdote. Each anecdote is a short story of the liveliest and most amusing kind—complete in itself—yet each bears a vital relation to the main romance and its characters. The short stories are as unusual and striking as the novel of which they form a part.
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By Stanley J. Weyman
Author of “A Gentleman of France”
THE LONG NIGHT
GENEVA in the early days of the 17th century; a ruffling young theologue new to the city; a beautiful and innocent girl, suspected of witchcraft; a crafty scholar and metaphysician seeking to give over the city into the hands of the Savoyards; a stern and powerful syndic whom the scholar beguiles to betray his office by promises of an elixir which shall save him from his fatal illness; a brutal soldier of fortune; these are the elements of which Weyman has composed the most brilliant and thrilling of his romances. Claude Mercier, the student, seeing the plot in which the girl he loves is involved, yet helpless to divulge it, finds at last his opportunity when the treacherous men of Savoy are admitted within Geneva’s walls, and in a night of whirlwind fighting saves the city by his courage and address. For fire and spirit there are few chapters in modern literature such as those which picture the splendid defence of Geneva, by the staid, churchly, heroic burghers, fighting in their own blood under the divided leadership of the fat Syndic, Baudichon, and the bandy-legged sailor, Jehan Brosse, winning the battle against the armed and armored forces of the invaders.
GENEVA in the early days of the 17th century; a ruffling young theologue new to the city; a beautiful and innocent girl, suspected of witchcraft; a crafty scholar and metaphysician seeking to give over the city into the hands of the Savoyards; a stern and powerful syndic whom the scholar beguiles to betray his office by promises of an elixir which shall save him from his fatal illness; a brutal soldier of fortune; these are the elements of which Weyman has composed the most brilliant and thrilling of his romances. Claude Mercier, the student, seeing the plot in which the girl he loves is involved, yet helpless to divulge it, finds at last his opportunity when the treacherous men of Savoy are admitted within Geneva’s walls, and in a night of whirlwind fighting saves the city by his courage and address. For fire and spirit there are few chapters in modern literature such as those which picture the splendid defence of Geneva, by the staid, churchly, heroic burghers, fighting in their own blood under the divided leadership of the fat Syndic, Baudichon, and the bandy-legged sailor, Jehan Brosse, winning the battle against the armed and armored forces of the invaders.
Illustrated by Solomon J. Solomon.
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By A. Conan Doyle
Author of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD
STORIES of the remarkable adventures of a Brigadier in Napoleon’s army. In Etienne Gerard, Conan Doyle has added to his already famous gallery of characters one worthy to stand beside the notable Sherlock Holmes. Many and thrilling are Gerard’s adventures, as related by himself, for he takes part in nearly every one of Napoleon’s campaigns. In Venice he has an interesting romantic escapade which causes him the loss of an ear. With the utmost bravery and cunning he captures the Spanish city of Saragossa; in Portugal he saves the army; in Russia he feeds the starving soldiers by supplies obtained at Minsk, after a wonderful ride. Everywhere else he is just as marvelous, and at Waterloo he is the center of the whole battle.For all his lumbering vanity he is a genial old soul and a remarkably vivid story-teller.
STORIES of the remarkable adventures of a Brigadier in Napoleon’s army. In Etienne Gerard, Conan Doyle has added to his already famous gallery of characters one worthy to stand beside the notable Sherlock Holmes. Many and thrilling are Gerard’s adventures, as related by himself, for he takes part in nearly every one of Napoleon’s campaigns. In Venice he has an interesting romantic escapade which causes him the loss of an ear. With the utmost bravery and cunning he captures the Spanish city of Saragossa; in Portugal he saves the army; in Russia he feeds the starving soldiers by supplies obtained at Minsk, after a wonderful ride. Everywhere else he is just as marvelous, and at Waterloo he is the center of the whole battle.
For all his lumbering vanity he is a genial old soul and a remarkably vivid story-teller.
Illustrated by W. B. Wollen.
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By Joseph Conrad
Author of “Lord Jim,” “Youth,” etc.
FALK
ALL that magic of word-painting which has made Conrad’s stories of the sea the wonder of the literary world is here turned to the showing forth of the hearts of men and women. “Falk,” the first story, is the romance of a port-tyrant in the far East, who, in his love for a young girl, confesses that he has once been driven to cannibalism. A more extraordinary study of human passions has never been put into print. “Amy Foster” tells of a strange and beautiful foreigner who, lost by shipwreck on an English countryside, marries a girl there; and of his tragic efforts to make himself a real member of the brutally clannish little community. “To-morrow” is the simple, pathetic, and touching story of an old man who waits for his runaway son to return to him, and is supported in his hopeless expectation by a brave and loving girl-neighbor.
ALL that magic of word-painting which has made Conrad’s stories of the sea the wonder of the literary world is here turned to the showing forth of the hearts of men and women. “Falk,” the first story, is the romance of a port-tyrant in the far East, who, in his love for a young girl, confesses that he has once been driven to cannibalism. A more extraordinary study of human passions has never been put into print. “Amy Foster” tells of a strange and beautiful foreigner who, lost by shipwreck on an English countryside, marries a girl there; and of his tragic efforts to make himself a real member of the brutally clannish little community. “To-morrow” is the simple, pathetic, and touching story of an old man who waits for his runaway son to return to him, and is supported in his hopeless expectation by a brave and loving girl-neighbor.
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By Henry Harland
Author of “The Cardinal’s Snuff Box”
MY FRIEND PROSPERO
ANOVEL which will fascinate by the grace and charm with which it is written, by the delightful characters that take part in it, and by the interest of the plot. The scene is laid in a magnificent Austrian castle in North Italy, and that serves as a background for the working out of a sparkling love-story between a heroine who is brilliant and beautiful and a hero who is quite her match in cleverness and wit. It is a book with all the daintiness and polish of Mr. Harland’s former novels, and other virtues all its own.
ANOVEL which will fascinate by the grace and charm with which it is written, by the delightful characters that take part in it, and by the interest of the plot. The scene is laid in a magnificent Austrian castle in North Italy, and that serves as a background for the working out of a sparkling love-story between a heroine who is brilliant and beautiful and a hero who is quite her match in cleverness and wit. It is a book with all the daintiness and polish of Mr. Harland’s former novels, and other virtues all its own.
Frontispiece in colors by Louis Loeb.
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By Mary Findlater
THE ROSE OF JOY
THE story of a very charming girl who, in order to escape the rather dreary and sordid surroundings of her youth, marries a man who fascinates her by his difference from the people whom she already knows. He, however, is a shallow and selfish man, who has very little appreciation of his wife’s need for self-expression; it turns out that he is even worse than this, however, and that he has been married before to a woman considerably below him, who, when he had believed her dead, turns up and drives him from England. The heroine, then a wife, yet not a wife, turns to her art as a painter for that “Rose of Joy” which had been denied her as a child or as a married woman. Miss Findlater has many of the qualities of a Jane Austen, in that she can find matters of the deepest interest, and make them seem interesting, too, in all the affairs of a country neighborhood.
THE story of a very charming girl who, in order to escape the rather dreary and sordid surroundings of her youth, marries a man who fascinates her by his difference from the people whom she already knows. He, however, is a shallow and selfish man, who has very little appreciation of his wife’s need for self-expression; it turns out that he is even worse than this, however, and that he has been married before to a woman considerably below him, who, when he had believed her dead, turns up and drives him from England. The heroine, then a wife, yet not a wife, turns to her art as a painter for that “Rose of Joy” which had been denied her as a child or as a married woman. Miss Findlater has many of the qualities of a Jane Austen, in that she can find matters of the deepest interest, and make them seem interesting, too, in all the affairs of a country neighborhood.
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By Lloyd Osbourne
LOVE THE FIDDLER
LOVE fiddles both merrily and sadly in the stories that make up this book, but however he fiddles he makes the music for a sparkling, charmingly told love-episode. “All the world loves a lover,” and all the world has here choice from among a very wide and varied assortment of them—every one a human and real person—involved in an event which the author makes you feel is critically interesting.
LOVE fiddles both merrily and sadly in the stories that make up this book, but however he fiddles he makes the music for a sparkling, charmingly told love-episode. “All the world loves a lover,” and all the world has here choice from among a very wide and varied assortment of them—every one a human and real person—involved in an event which the author makes you feel is critically interesting.
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By Nina Rhoades
Author of “The Little Girl Next Door”
SILVER LININGS
THIS story of a blind girl has a wholesome charm like that of Miss Yonge’s works. The heroine is a little girl when we first meet her, but she is a young woman and has been through many varied experiences when we leave her at last in a happy home, and full of the joy of life. Blindness seems here to be a thing that is inconvenient and sometimes dangerous, and makes life exciting now and again, but its tragedy is so little emphasized that the reader’s sympathies are drawn out without ever any depression weighing upon him.
THIS story of a blind girl has a wholesome charm like that of Miss Yonge’s works. The heroine is a little girl when we first meet her, but she is a young woman and has been through many varied experiences when we leave her at last in a happy home, and full of the joy of life. Blindness seems here to be a thing that is inconvenient and sometimes dangerous, and makes life exciting now and again, but its tragedy is so little emphasized that the reader’s sympathies are drawn out without ever any depression weighing upon him.
Illustrations by Margaret Eckerson.
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By George Ade
Author of “Fables in Slang”
IN BABEL
THESE are short stories, brief little hammer-stroke stories, just long enough to hit the nail upon the head. Mr. Ade’s “Babel” is Chicago, and the scenes of the stories are laid in familiar and unfamiliar quarters of that rushing Western metropolis. It is a book about the real joys and sorrows of real people, written in pure English by the great master of American slang, whose quaint philosophy and humor have ranked him among America’s most characteristic writers.The stories deal with the upper, the middle, and the under classes, and show in both pathetic and humorous light the happenings in the fashionable circles upon the Lake front, as well as among the Irish and Italian emigrants in the squalid quarters of the city.
THESE are short stories, brief little hammer-stroke stories, just long enough to hit the nail upon the head. Mr. Ade’s “Babel” is Chicago, and the scenes of the stories are laid in familiar and unfamiliar quarters of that rushing Western metropolis. It is a book about the real joys and sorrows of real people, written in pure English by the great master of American slang, whose quaint philosophy and humor have ranked him among America’s most characteristic writers.
The stories deal with the upper, the middle, and the under classes, and show in both pathetic and humorous light the happenings in the fashionable circles upon the Lake front, as well as among the Irish and Italian emigrants in the squalid quarters of the city.
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By S. R. Crockett
Author of “The Banner of Blue,” “The Firebrand”
FLOWER O’ THE CORN
MR. CROCKETT has made an interesting novel of romance and intrigue. He has chosen a little town in the south of France, high up in the mountains, as the scene for his drama. The plot deals with a group of Calvinists who have been driven from Belgium into southern France, where they are besieged in their mountain fastness by the French troops. A number of historical characters figure in the book, among them Madame de Maintenon.“Flower o’ the Corn” is probably one of Mr. Crockett’s most delightful women characters. The book is notable for its fine descriptions.
MR. CROCKETT has made an interesting novel of romance and intrigue. He has chosen a little town in the south of France, high up in the mountains, as the scene for his drama. The plot deals with a group of Calvinists who have been driven from Belgium into southern France, where they are besieged in their mountain fastness by the French troops. A number of historical characters figure in the book, among them Madame de Maintenon.
“Flower o’ the Corn” is probably one of Mr. Crockett’s most delightful women characters. The book is notable for its fine descriptions.
Cloth, 12mo$1.50
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