A New Romance of Old QuebecINTREATY WITH HONORByMARY CATHERINE CROWLEYAuthor of “A Daughter of New France,” “The Heroine of theStrait,” etc.Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land. 12mo. Decorated Cloth.$1.50.This romance of old Quebec is full of human interest. Its events have to do with a stirring and intensely dramatic episode never before touched upon by any novelist, the Patriot War, or Struggle of French Canada for Independence in 1837-38.The story tells with dash andvervethe fortunes and loves of an ardent young volunteer, born under the British flag, but educated in Paris, and by adoption a citizen of the United States, and of his comrade, a European aristocrat who had also joined the French Canadians. Two of the best characters in the book are a noble English officer and his sweetheart who rivals the heroine in the affections of the reader.The novel deals with mirth, adventure, and tragedy, holding one’s interest by the author’s power of graphic description. The pathos is lightened by humor, and the love scenes are as charming as those of “A Daughter of New France,” the first book which gave Miss Crowley a high place among American novelists.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston
A New Romance of Old QuebecINTREATY WITH HONORByMARY CATHERINE CROWLEYAuthor of “A Daughter of New France,” “The Heroine of theStrait,” etc.Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land. 12mo. Decorated Cloth.$1.50.This romance of old Quebec is full of human interest. Its events have to do with a stirring and intensely dramatic episode never before touched upon by any novelist, the Patriot War, or Struggle of French Canada for Independence in 1837-38.The story tells with dash andvervethe fortunes and loves of an ardent young volunteer, born under the British flag, but educated in Paris, and by adoption a citizen of the United States, and of his comrade, a European aristocrat who had also joined the French Canadians. Two of the best characters in the book are a noble English officer and his sweetheart who rivals the heroine in the affections of the reader.The novel deals with mirth, adventure, and tragedy, holding one’s interest by the author’s power of graphic description. The pathos is lightened by humor, and the love scenes are as charming as those of “A Daughter of New France,” the first book which gave Miss Crowley a high place among American novelists.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston
A New Romance of Old Quebec
INTREATY WITH HONOR
INTREATY WITH HONOR
INTREATY WITH HONOR
INTREATY WITH HONOR
ByMARY CATHERINE CROWLEYAuthor of “A Daughter of New France,” “The Heroine of theStrait,” etc.
Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land. 12mo. Decorated Cloth.$1.50.
This romance of old Quebec is full of human interest. Its events have to do with a stirring and intensely dramatic episode never before touched upon by any novelist, the Patriot War, or Struggle of French Canada for Independence in 1837-38.
The story tells with dash andvervethe fortunes and loves of an ardent young volunteer, born under the British flag, but educated in Paris, and by adoption a citizen of the United States, and of his comrade, a European aristocrat who had also joined the French Canadians. Two of the best characters in the book are a noble English officer and his sweetheart who rivals the heroine in the affections of the reader.
The novel deals with mirth, adventure, and tragedy, holding one’s interest by the author’s power of graphic description. The pathos is lightened by humor, and the love scenes are as charming as those of “A Daughter of New France,” the first book which gave Miss Crowley a high place among American novelists.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers254 Washington Street, Boston