Author of The 13th District and Her Infinite Variety
Mr. Whitlock has done more than simply repeat his earlier success. He has achieved a new one. In The Happy Average he has voiced a deep-seated human sympathy for the unheroic.
Life
A most delightful romance that is as fresh as the flowers of May.
Pittsburg Leader
As an example of a good, healthy, entertaining and human story, The Happy Average must be given a place in the front rank.
Nashville American
Not only the best book that has come from Mr. Whitlock's pen, but a really noteworthy achievement in fiction.
Chicago Tribune
12mo, cloth, price, $1.50
"Three great men ruined in one year—a king, a cad and a castaway."—Byron.
Author of Hearts Courageous
Lord Byron's personal beauty, his brilliancy, his genius, his possession of a title, his love affairs, his death in a noble cause, all make him the most magnetic figure in English literature. In Miss Rives's novel the incidents of his career stand out in absorbing power and enthralling force.
The most profoundly sympathetic, vivid and true portrait of Byron ever drawn.
Calvin Dill Wilson, author ofByron—Man and Poet
Dramatic scenes, thrilling incidents, strenuous events follow one another; pathos, revenge and passion; a strong love; and through all these, under all these, is the poet, the man, George Gordon.
Grand Rapids Herald
With eight illustrations in color by
Howard Chandler Christy
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From the moment when, in another girl's chinchilla coat, Nance Olden jumps into the unknown carriage, and, snuggling up to the solemn owner, calls him "Daddy," till she makes her final bow, a happy wife and a triumphant actress, she holds your fancy captive and your heart in thrall.
If jaded novel readers want a new sensation, they will get it here.
Chicago Tribune
For genuine, unaffected enjoyment, read the adventures of this dashing desperado in petticoats.
Philadelphia Item
It is beguiling, bewitching, bristling with originality; light enough for the laziest invalid to rest his brain over, profound enough to serve as a sermon to the humanitarian.
San Francisco Bulletin
Illustrated by Harrison Fisher
12mo, cloth, price, $1.50
Author of Golden Fleece
A masterly novel, interesting to the point of fascination, analytic to the point of keenness, thoroughly well written with complete understanding, and entirely committed to advocacy of the best things in life.
Wallace Rice inChicago Examiner
Rapid and vivid, sure and keen, light and graceful.
New York Times
It is a story full of virile impulse. It treats of men of hardy endeavor, battling for leadership in the world of commerce and politics. If you want a novel that is intensely modern and intensely full of speed and spirit, you have it in The Cost.
Bailey Millard inSan Francisco Examiner
With sixteen illustrations by Harrison Fisher
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Author of The Master of Appleby
One of the best examples of a new and distinctly American class of fiction—the kind which finds romance and even sensational excitement in business, politics, finance and law.
The Outlook
Its sweeping sentences fire the blood like new wine.
Boston Post
Telephone, telegraph, locomotive, skirl, click, thunder through the pages in a way unprecedented in fiction. It is an amazingly modern book.
New York Times
Virile, with the rugged strength of the West, The Grafters is like the current of a deep river, vigorous and forceful.
Louisville Courier-Journal
Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
12mo, cloth, price, $1.50
Author of "The Leavenworth Case"
This is something more than a mere detective story; it is a thrilling romance—a romance of mystery and crime where a shrewd detective helps to solve the mystery. The plot is a novel and intricate one, carefully worked out. There are constant accessions to the main mystery, so that the reader can not possibly imagine the conclusion. The story is clean-cut and wholesome, with a quality that might be called manly. The characters are depicted so as to make a living impression. Cora Tuttle is a fine creation, and the flash of love which she gives the hero is wonderfully well done. Unlike many mystery stories The Filigree Ball is not disappointing at the end. The characters most liked but longest suspected are proved not only guiltless, but above suspicion. It is a story to be read with a rush and at a sitting, for no one can put it down until the mystery is solved.
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea
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Proprietor of the Wagon-Tire House and Genial
Philosopher of the Cattle Country
A book that will brighten your hope, broaden your charity, and keep you mellow with its humor.
Minneapolis Journal
It is cram full of human nature. There is nobody like Aunt Huldah in any other book, and it is a good thing that she got into this one.
Washington Times
The book with its western breezes, homely philosophy, queer characters and big hearts, is almost as exhilarating as the heroine must have been herself.
Baltimore Herald
Aunt Huldah is the kind of a woman loved by the whole world, and the novel is the most attractive since the days of David Harum.
Indianapolis Star
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For the man who can rejoice at a book that is not trivial;For the man who feels the power of Egypt's marvelous past;For the man who is stirred at heart by the great scenes of the Bible;For the man who likes a story and knows when it is good.
A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed
the Children of Israel from the
Bondage of Egypt
A theme that captures the imagination: Israel's deliverance from Egypt.
Characters famous for all time: Moses, the Pharaoh, Prince Rameses.
Scenes of natural and supernatural power; the finding of the signet, the turning of the Nile into blood, the passage of the Red Sea.
A background of brilliant color: the rich and varied life of Thebes and Memphis.
A plot of intricate interest: a love story of enduring beauty. Such is "The Yoke."
Ornamental cloth binding. 626 pages
Price $1.50
Author of Edges
The author has a strange power of looking into the workings of her own mind and heart, and of setting down what she finds there with freedom, humor and justice. The result is "something new under the sun"—a book with the tang of originality. Nothing could be more refreshing than this story of a girl who turned a cad into a man and a man into a hero.
Bizarre, fantastic, intensely individual, bright and interesting, with characters that have a trick of saying and doing unexpected things.
Washington Times
A remarkable book, sustained in power and interest, strong in its characterization and picturesque in its treatment of life. It is human, palpitating with reality, tensely alive.
Harper's Weekly
Frontispiece by the author
12mo, cloth, price, $1.50
Not a little of the attractiveness of Her Infinite Variety by Brand Whitlock lies in its markedly handsome appearance. Howard Chandler Christy's illustrations are among the best he has drawn, and are, happily, quite numerous.—Philadelphia Record.
Her Infinite Variety represents Mr. Brand Whitlock, the author, in holiday mood. It is from first to last a clever little comedy, full of delicious and unexpected satire, the whole thing handled with a blythe spirit of irony.—New York Globe.
The qualities which make up a good story are mingled in the most alluring proportions in Her Infinite Variety, by Brand Whitlock. Its humor is keen, sparkling and spontaneous.—Boston Transcript.
Her Infinite Variety, by Brand Whitlock, is a delight to the eye, a well-spring of mental recreation.—Philadelphia North American.
With 12 full-page illustrations
in photogravure by
Howard Chandler Christy
12mo. Price $1.50