Mr. Oppenheim’s Latest NovelTHE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCEByE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMIllustrated by Will Foster. Cloth. $1.50Mr. Oppenheim’s new story is a narrative of mystery and international intrigue that carries the reader breathless from page to page. It is the tale of the secret and world-startling methods employed by the Emperor of Japan through Prince Maiyo, his close kinsman, to ascertain the real reasons for the around-the-world cruise of the American fleet. The American Ambassador in London and the Duke of Denvenham, an influential Englishman, work hand in hand to circumvent the Oriental plot, which proceeds mysteriously to the last page. From the time when Mr. Hamilton Fynes steps from theLusitaniainto a special tug, in his mad rush towards London, to the very end, the reader is carried from deep mystery to tense situations, until finally the explanation is reached in a most unexpected and unusual climax.No man of this generation has so much facility of expression, so many technical resources, or so fine a power of narration as Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim.—Philadelphia Inquirer.Mr. Oppenheim is a past master of the art of constructing ingenious plots and weaving them around attractive characters.—London Morning Post.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
Mr. Oppenheim’s Latest Novel
THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE
THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE
ByE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
Illustrated by Will Foster. Cloth. $1.50
Mr. Oppenheim’s new story is a narrative of mystery and international intrigue that carries the reader breathless from page to page. It is the tale of the secret and world-startling methods employed by the Emperor of Japan through Prince Maiyo, his close kinsman, to ascertain the real reasons for the around-the-world cruise of the American fleet. The American Ambassador in London and the Duke of Denvenham, an influential Englishman, work hand in hand to circumvent the Oriental plot, which proceeds mysteriously to the last page. From the time when Mr. Hamilton Fynes steps from theLusitaniainto a special tug, in his mad rush towards London, to the very end, the reader is carried from deep mystery to tense situations, until finally the explanation is reached in a most unexpected and unusual climax.
No man of this generation has so much facility of expression, so many technical resources, or so fine a power of narration as Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mr. Oppenheim is a past master of the art of constructing ingenious plots and weaving them around attractive characters.—London Morning Post.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
By the Author of “The Kingdom of Earth”PASSERS-BYByANTHONY PARTRIDGEWith illustrations by Will Foster. Cloth. $1.50This new novel by Anthony Partridge, whose absorbing romance, “The Kingdom of Earth,” met with instant favor, has London for its scene. But when you have read it you will admit that real London, as well as imaginary Bergeland, is a source of fascinating romance.The heroine of “Passers-By” is a street singer, Christine, who comes to London accompanied by Ambrose Drake, a hunchback, with a piano and a monkey. The fortunes of these two are strangely linked with those of an English statesman, the Marquis of Ellingham, who in his youth has led a wild and criminal career in Paris as the leader of a band of thieves and gamblers, the Black Foxes. Here is the material for a thrilling tale in which mystery breeds adventure and culminates in love.The first chapter plunges the reader into an interest-compelling maze of events, and the attention is held to the end by a series of dramatic situations and surprises.Mr. Partridge is now reckoned among the favorite novelists of the day. His first book was “The Distributors,” the story of a great London mystery. Then came “The Kingdom of Earth,” one of the popular novels of 1909. “Passers-By” is his third book.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
By the Author of “The Kingdom of Earth”
PASSERS-BY
PASSERS-BY
ByANTHONY PARTRIDGE
With illustrations by Will Foster. Cloth. $1.50
This new novel by Anthony Partridge, whose absorbing romance, “The Kingdom of Earth,” met with instant favor, has London for its scene. But when you have read it you will admit that real London, as well as imaginary Bergeland, is a source of fascinating romance.
The heroine of “Passers-By” is a street singer, Christine, who comes to London accompanied by Ambrose Drake, a hunchback, with a piano and a monkey. The fortunes of these two are strangely linked with those of an English statesman, the Marquis of Ellingham, who in his youth has led a wild and criminal career in Paris as the leader of a band of thieves and gamblers, the Black Foxes. Here is the material for a thrilling tale in which mystery breeds adventure and culminates in love.
The first chapter plunges the reader into an interest-compelling maze of events, and the attention is held to the end by a series of dramatic situations and surprises.
Mr. Partridge is now reckoned among the favorite novelists of the day. His first book was “The Distributors,” the story of a great London mystery. Then came “The Kingdom of Earth,” one of the popular novels of 1909. “Passers-By” is his third book.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
By the Author of “Aunt Jane of Kentucky”THE LAND OF LONG AGOByELIZA CALVERT HALLIllustrated by G. Patrick Nelson and Beulah Strong12mo. Cloth. $1.50The book is an inspiration.—Boston Globe.Without qualification one of the worthiest publications of the year.—Pittsburg Post.Aunt Jane has become a real personage in American literature.—Hartford Courant.A philosophy sweet and wholesome flows from the lips of “Aunt Jane.”—Chicago Evening Post.The sweetness and sincerity of Aunt Jane’s recollections have the same unfailing charm found in “Cranford.”—Philadelphia Press.To a greater degree than her previous work it touches the heart by its wholesome, quaint human appeal.—Boston Transcript.The stories are prose idyls; the illuminations of a lovely spirit shine upon them, and their literary quality is as rare as beautiful.—Baltimore Sun.Margaret E. Sangstersays: “It is not often that an author competes with herself, but Eliza Calvert Hall has done so successfully, for her second volume centred about Aunt Jane is more fascinating than her first.”LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
By the Author of “Aunt Jane of Kentucky”
THE LAND OF LONG AGO
THE LAND OF LONG AGO
ByELIZA CALVERT HALL
Illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson and Beulah Strong
12mo. Cloth. $1.50
The book is an inspiration.—Boston Globe.
Without qualification one of the worthiest publications of the year.—Pittsburg Post.
Aunt Jane has become a real personage in American literature.—Hartford Courant.
A philosophy sweet and wholesome flows from the lips of “Aunt Jane.”—Chicago Evening Post.
The sweetness and sincerity of Aunt Jane’s recollections have the same unfailing charm found in “Cranford.”—Philadelphia Press.
To a greater degree than her previous work it touches the heart by its wholesome, quaint human appeal.—Boston Transcript.
The stories are prose idyls; the illuminations of a lovely spirit shine upon them, and their literary quality is as rare as beautiful.—Baltimore Sun.
Margaret E. Sangstersays: “It is not often that an author competes with herself, but Eliza Calvert Hall has done so successfully, for her second volume centred about Aunt Jane is more fascinating than her first.”
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
Sidney McCall’s New American NovelRED HORSE HILLBySIDNEY McCALLAuthor of “Truth Dexter,” “The Breath of the Gods,” etc.12mo. Decorated Cloth. $1.50A dramatic story, big and splendid in theme, and handled in masterly style.—Albany Times-Union.Fresh, vigorous, wholesome, well written.... Holding the absorbed interest from first page to last.—Chicago Record Herald.The best work Mrs. Fenollosa has given us. It will be one of the best read and most talked about books of the year. It is intensely human.—Springfield Union.The reader must be dull, indeed, who is not stirred and thrilled by this book, even in the light of a human document.—Lilian Whiting in New Orleans Times-Democrat.A story of emotion, intensely dramatic, and told with the constructive skill and power of narrative which Sidney McCall has evidenced so effectively in her earlier novels.—Brooklyn Eagle.A story of the Southland which promises in a way to do as much for the white slave of to-day as did “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for the black man. Besides the problem of child labor in the mills there is a love story and romance that keeps the attention of the reader to the very end.—St. Louis Globe Democrat.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston
Sidney McCall’s New American Novel
RED HORSE HILL
RED HORSE HILL
BySIDNEY McCALL
Author of “Truth Dexter,” “The Breath of the Gods,” etc.
12mo. Decorated Cloth. $1.50
A dramatic story, big and splendid in theme, and handled in masterly style.—Albany Times-Union.
Fresh, vigorous, wholesome, well written.... Holding the absorbed interest from first page to last.—Chicago Record Herald.
The best work Mrs. Fenollosa has given us. It will be one of the best read and most talked about books of the year. It is intensely human.—Springfield Union.
The reader must be dull, indeed, who is not stirred and thrilled by this book, even in the light of a human document.—Lilian Whiting in New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A story of emotion, intensely dramatic, and told with the constructive skill and power of narrative which Sidney McCall has evidenced so effectively in her earlier novels.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A story of the Southland which promises in a way to do as much for the white slave of to-day as did “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for the black man. Besides the problem of child labor in the mills there is a love story and romance that keeps the attention of the reader to the very end.—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers34 Beacon Street, Boston