Chapter 10

“This is the best book I have ever illustrated for any publisher. I have tried to make the pictures all that you hoped for them.”–H. Weston Taylor.

E. J. Anderson, former managing Editor of the BostonAdvertiserandRecord, is enthusiastic over the story and says:

“I have read ‘Smiles’ in one reading. After starting it I could not put it down. Never in my life have I read a book like this that thrilled me half as much, and never have I seen a more masterful piece of writing.”

THE MAID OF MIRABELLE: A Romance of Lorraine

Illustrated with reproductions of sketches made by the author, and with a portrait of “The Maid of Mirabelle,” from a painting by Neale Ordayne, on the cover.

Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90

A story of human and heart interest. The “Maid,” Joan, is a personality just as real and lovable as was Smiles.

“The spirit of all the book is the bubbling, the irrepressibly indomitable, cheerful faith of the people, at their very best, against the grave Quakerism from the United States standing out grimly but faithfully. The tale is simply, but strongly told.”–Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star.

MAN PROPOSES; Or, The Romance of John Alden Shaw

Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90

“This is first of all a charming romance, distinguished by a fine sentiment of loyalty to an ideal, by physical courage, indomitable resolution to carry to success an altruistic undertaking, a splendid woman’s devotion, and by a vein of spontaneous, sparkling humor that offsets its more serious phases.”–Springfield Republican.

THE ROMANCES OFL. M. MONTGOMERY

Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (355th thousand)

Illustrated by M. A. and W. A. J. Claus.

“In ‘Anne of Green Gables’ you will find the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice.”–Mark Twain in a letter to Francis Wilson.

“I take it as a great test of the worth of the book that while the young people are rummaging all over the house looking for Anne, the head of the family has carried her off to read on his way to town.”–Bliss Carman.

ANNE OF AVONLEA (255th thousand)

Illustrated by George Gibbs.

“Here we have a book as human as ‘David Harum,’ a heroine who outcharms a dozen princesses of fiction, and reminds you of some sweet girl you know, or knew back in the days when the world was young.”–San Francisco Bulletin.

CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA (43d thousand)

Illustrated by George Gibbs.

“The author shows a wonderful knowledge of humanity, great insight and warmheartedness in the manner in which some of the scenes are treated, and the sympathetic way the gentle peculiarities of the characters are brought out.”–Baltimore Sun.

ANNE OF THE ISLAND (65th thousand)

Illustrated by H. Weston Taylor.

“It has been well worth while to watch the growing up of Anne, and the privilege of being on intimate terms with her throughout the process has been properly valued. The once little girl of Green Gables should have a permanent fictional place of high yet tender esteem.”–New York Herald.

FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA (20th thousand).

Illustrated by John Goss.

Nathan Haskell Dole compares Avonlea to Longfellow’s Grand Pre–and says, “There is something in these continued chronicles of Avonlea like the delicate art which has made Cranford a classic.”

“The reader has dipped into but one or two stories when he realizes that the author is the most natural story teller of the day.”–Salt Lake City Citizen.

WORKS OF L. M. MONTGOMERY (Continued)

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: The Mary Miles Minter Edition

Illustrated with twenty-four half-tone reproductions of scenes from the motion picture production, and a jacket in colors with Miss Minter’s portrait.

Cloth decorative, 12mo, $2.25

“You pass from tears to laughter as the story unfolds, and there is never a moment’s hesitation in admitting that Anne has completely won your heart.”–Joe Mitchell Chapple, Editor, The National Magazine.

“Mary Miles Minter’s ‘Anne’ on the screen is worthy of Mark Twain’s definition of her as the ‘dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal “Alice.”’”–Cambridge Tribune.

KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD (52d thousand)

Illustrated by George Gibbs. Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90

“A purely idyllic love story full of tender sentiment, redolent with the perfume of rose leaves and breathing of apple blossoms and the sweet clover of twilight meadow-lands.”–San Francisco Bulletin.

“A story born in the heart of Arcadia and brimful of the sweet and simple life of the primitive environment.”–Boston Herald.

THE STORY GIRL (46th thousand)

Illustrated by George Gibbs. Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90

“It will be read and, we venture to predict, reread many times, for there is a freshness and sweetness about it which will help to lift the load of care, to cheer the weary and to make brighter still the life of the carefree and the happy.”–Toronto, Can., Globe.

“‘The Story Girl’ is of decidedly unusual conception and interest, and will rival the author’s earlier books in popularity.”–Chicago Western Trade Journal.

THE GOLDEN ROAD (28th thousand)

Illustrated by George Gibbs. Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90

In which it is proven that “Life was a rose-lipped comrade with purple flowers dripping from her fingers.”

“It is a simple, tender tale, touched to higher notes, now and then, by delicate hints of romance, tragedy and pathos. Any true-hearted human being might read this book with enjoyment, no matter what his or her age, social status, or economic place.”–Chicago Record-Herald.

NOVELS BYISLA MAY MULLINS

Each, one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75

THE BLOSSOM SHOP: A Story of the South

“Frankly and wholly romance is this book, and lovable–as is a fairy tale properly told.”–Chicago Inter-Ocean.

ANNE OF THE BLOSSOM SHOP: Or, the Growing Up of Anne Carter

“A charming portrayal of the attractive life of the South, refreshing as a breeze that blows through a pine forest.”–Albany Times-Union.

ANNE’S WEDDING

“Presents a picture of home life that is most appealing in love and affection.”–Every Evening, Wilmington, Del.

THE MT. BLOSSOM GIRLS

“In the writing of the book the author is at her best as a story teller. It is a fitting climax to the series.”–Reader.

TWEEDIE: The Story of a True Heart

“The story itself is full of charm and one enters right into the very life of Tweedie and feels as if he had indeed been lifted into an atmosphere of unselfishness, enthusiasm and buoyant optimism.”–Boston Ideas.

NOVELS BYDAISY RHODES CAMPBELL

THE FIDDLING GIRL

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.65

“A thoroughly enjoyable tale, written in a delightful vein of sympathetic comprehension.”–Boston Herald.

THE PROVING OF VIRGINIA

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.65

“A book which contributes so much of freshness, enthusiasm, and healthy life to offset the usual offerings of modern fiction, deserves all the praise which can be showered upon it.”–Kindergarten Review.

THE VIOLIN LADY

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.65

“The author’s style remains simple and direct, as in her preceding books.”–Boston Transcript.

DETECTIVE STORIES BYGEORGE BARTON

Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75

THE PEMBROKE MASON AFFAIR

“Not until the end will the reader ever surmise how Mason was murdered. An absorbing and thrilling story.”–Cleveland Topics.

THE MYSTERY OF THE RED FLAME

“An admirable story–an engaging story of love, mystery and adventure.”–The Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF BROMLEY BARNES

“It would be difficult to find a collection of more interesting tales of mystery so well told. The author is crisp, incisive and inspiring. The book is the best of its kind in recent years and adds to the author’s already high reputation.”–New York Tribune.

THE AMBASSADOR’S TRUNK

“Mr. Barton is in the front rank of the writers of mystery stories, and this is one of his best.”–Pittsburgh Chronicle.

“The book is of the good red-blood type, with few dull lines and stirring action and episodes in almost every page.”–Montreal Herald.

BUSINESS NOVELS BYHAROLD WHITEHEAD

Professor of Sales Relations, The College of BusinessAdministration, Boston University

Each one volume, cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75

DAWSON BLACK, RETAIL MERCHANT

“Contains much that it would profit a young merchant to know and its fictional interest makes a strong appeal.”–New York Tribune.

THE BUSINESS CAREER OF PETER FLINT

“Peter Flint is certainly a marvel.... His career reveals a most remarkable metamorphosis from incapacity, stubbornness, and what seemed a chronic inclination to fall down on every job which he undertook, to an amazing exposition of business capacity and skill.”–Boston Transcript.

NOVELS BYMARGARET R. PIPER

SYLVIA’S EXPERIMENT: The Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)

Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color $1.75

“An atmosphere of good spirits pervades the book; the humor that now and then flashes across the page is entirely natural.”–Boston Post.

SYLVIA OF THE HILL TOP: The Second Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)

Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color $1.75

“There is a world of human nature and neighborhood contentment and quaint quiet humor in Margaret R. Piper’s second book of good cheer.”–Philadelphia North American.

“Sylvia proves practically that she is a messenger of joy to humanity.”–The Post Express, Rochester, N. Y.

SYLVIA ARDEN DECIDES: The Third Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)

Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color $1.75

“Its ease of style, its rapidity, its interest from page to page, are admirable; and it shows that inimitable power–the storyteller’s gift of verisimilitude. Its sureness and clearness are excellent, and its portraiture clear and pleasing.”–The Reader.

FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS BYMARGARET R. PIPER

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

ByMargaret R. Piper.

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.75

“‘The House on the Hill’ presents higher ideals of service and life for boys and girls, and the charming characters worked their way out of problems which face all young people of buoyant spirits and ambition.”–Buffalo News.

“The story is a delightful one, with all kinds of interesting adventures and characters.”–Sunday Leader.

THE PRINCESS AND THE CLAN

ByMargaret R. Piper.

Cloth decorative, illustrated by John Goss $1.75

“This is a delightful story for young and old, wholesome and uplifting. The chief charm of the story lies in its simplicity,”–Philadelphia North American.

NOVELS BYMARY ELLEN CHASE

THE GIRL FROM THE BIG HORN COUNTRY

Cloth, 12mo, illustrated by E. Farrington Elwell, $1.75

“‘The Girl from the Big Horn Country’ tells how Virginia Hunter, a bright, breezy, frank-hearted ‘girl of the Golden West’ comes out of the Big Horn country of Wyoming to the old Bay State. Then things begin, when Virginia–who feels the joyous, exhilarating call of the Big Horn wilderness and the outdoor life–attempts to become acclimated and adopt good old New England ‘ways.’”–Critic.

VIRGINIA, OF ELK CREEK VALLEY

Cloth, 12mo, illustrated by E. Farrington Elwell, $1.75

“This story is fascinating, alive with constantly new and fresh interests and every reader will enjoy the novel for its freshness, its novelty and its inspiring glimpses of life with nature.”–The Editor.

NOVELS BY OTHER AUTHORS

THE GOLDEN DOG. A Romance of Quebec

ByWilliam Kirby. (45th thousand.)

Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by J. W. Kennedy, $1.90

“A powerful romance of love, intrigue and adventure in the times of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.”–Boston Herald.

SHE STANDS ALONE

Being the story of Pilate’s wife.

ByMark Ashton.

Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75

Few novels of the present day can stand comparison with this remarkable book, which must be ranked in modern literature dealing with the early Christian era as only second to “Ben Hur.”

THE ROAD TO LE RÊVE

ByBrewer Corcoran.

Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by H. Weston Taylor, $1.90

“A romance of vivid interest, a love story full of youth, the great outdoors and adventures that thrill. The dialogue is unusually clever, the characters delightfully real, the plot one that holds the reader’s interest to the end.”–New York Sun.

THE FAMOUS SEA STORIES OFHERMAN MELVILLE

MOBY DICK; Or, The White Whale

TYPEE. A Real Romance of the South Sea

OMOO. A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; a sequel to TYPEE

WHITE JACKET; Or, The World on a Man-of-War

Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated $1.90

The recent centenary of Herman Melville created renewed interest in his famous sea stories.

“Melville wove human element and natural setting into recitals which aroused the enthusiasm of critics and sent a thrill of delight through the reading public when first published, and which both for form and matter have ever since held rank as classics in the literature of travel.”–Boston Herald.

DETECTIVE STORIES BYARTHUR MORRISON

Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75

THE GREEN DIAMOND

“A clever, ingenious story, with just the right combination of detective skill and mystery and with a touch of Oriental mysticism.”–Kansas City Star.

THE RED TRIANGLE

“The reader who has a grain of imagination may be defied to lay this book down, once he has begun it, until the last word has been reached.”–Boston Journal.

“It is a splendid story of the kind that cannot fail to interest.”–Detroit Journal.

THE CHRONICLES OF MARTIN HEWITT

“The story is told in a forceful, straightforward style, which gives it impressive realism.”–Boston Herald.

“The story is well-written, unique, quite out of the usual order, and a vein of mystery running through it that is most captivating.”–Christian Intelligencer.

HISTORICAL ROMANCES OFNATHAN GALLIZIER

THE LEOPARD PRINCE

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00

“With a vividness that is electrifying and a mastery of emotion that thrills, Mr. Gallizier has written this story of Italy–a romance of Venice in the fourteenth century.”–The Lookout, Cincinnati, Ohio.

UNDER THE WITCHES’ MOON

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00

“A highly colored romance of mediaeval Italy with a most interesting background.”–New York World.

THE CRIMSON GONDOLA

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00

“Mr. Gallizier is unusually strong in the use of description, and conveys vividly the gorgeous decadence and luxury of the sybaritic city.”–Los Angeles Sunday Times.

THE HILL OF VENUS

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00

This is a vivid and powerful romance of the thirteenth century in the times of the great Ghibelline wars.

“It is vibrant with action and overflowing with human emotions throughout.”–Wilmington Every Evening.

THE COURT OF LUCIFER

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00

“The book is breathless reading, as much for the adventures, the pageants, the midnight excursions of the minor characters, as for the love story of the prince and Donna Lucrezia.”–Boston Transcript.

THE SORCERESS OF ROME

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00

“A splendid bit of old Roman mosaic, or a gorgeous piece of tapestry. Otto is a striking and pathetic figure. Description of the city, the gorgeous ceremonials of the court and the revels are a series of wonderful pictures.”–Cincinnati Enquirer.

CASTEL DEL MONTE

Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated, $2.00

“There is color; there is sumptuous word-painting in these pages; the action is terrific at times; vividness and life are in every part; and brilliant descriptions entertain the reader and give a singular fascination to the tale.”–Grand Rapids Herald.

WORKS OFGABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO

Signor d’Annunzio is known throughout the world as a poet and a dramatist, but above all as a novelist, for it is in his novels that he is at his best. In poetic thought and graceful expression he has few equals among the writers of the day.

He is engaged on a most ambitious work–nothing less than the writing of nine novels which cover the whole field of human sentiment. This work he has divided into three trilogies, and five of the nine books have been published. It is to be regretted that other labors have interrupted the completion of the series.

“This book is realistic. Some say that it is brutally so. But the realism is that of Flaubert, and not of Zola. There is no plain speaking for the sake of plain speaking. Every detail is justified in the fact that it illuminates either the motives or the actions of the man and woman who here stand revealed. It is deadly true. The author holds the mirror up to nature, and the reader, as he sees his own experiences duplicated in passage after passage, has something of the same sensation as all of us know on the first reading of George Meredith’s ‘Egoist.’ Reading these pages is like being out in the country on a dark night in a storm. Suddenly a flash of lightning comes and every detail of your surroundings is revealed.”–Review of “The Triumph of Death” in the New York Evening Sun.

The volumes published are as follows. Each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, $1.75

THE ROMANCES OF THE ROSE

THE CHILD OF PLEASURE (Il Piacere)THE INTRUDER (L’Innocente)THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH (Il Trionfo della Morte)

THE ROMANCES OF THE LILY

THE MAIDENS OF THE ROCKS (Le Vergini delle Rocce)

THE ROMANCES OF THE POMEGRANATE

THE FLAME OF LIFE (Il Fuoco)

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