By Joel Chandler Harris
By Joel Chandler Harris
GABRIEL TOLLIVERTHIS is by far the most mature and important work that Mr. Harris has yet given us. LikeDavid Copperfield,Gabriel Tolliveris intensely personal, and is practically the story of Mr. Harris’ own boyhood experiences. In so far as its setting is concerned it is a novel of Reconstruction in the South. It is the most perfect picture in fiction of those disheartening days following the war, when the Southern States seemed likely to sink into anarchy through the corruption of the carpet-baggers. In the midst of such conditions, and the quaint, unprogressive life of the little Georgia community, Shady Dale, a beautiful study of boy and girl love is developed and carried to a happy conclusion after exciting adventures on the part of the hero, who is falsely accused of the murder of a Government agent engaged in inciting the negro population to violence against the whites.$1.50
GABRIEL TOLLIVER
THIS is by far the most mature and important work that Mr. Harris has yet given us. LikeDavid Copperfield,Gabriel Tolliveris intensely personal, and is practically the story of Mr. Harris’ own boyhood experiences. In so far as its setting is concerned it is a novel of Reconstruction in the South. It is the most perfect picture in fiction of those disheartening days following the war, when the Southern States seemed likely to sink into anarchy through the corruption of the carpet-baggers. In the midst of such conditions, and the quaint, unprogressive life of the little Georgia community, Shady Dale, a beautiful study of boy and girl love is developed and carried to a happy conclusion after exciting adventures on the part of the hero, who is falsely accused of the murder of a Government agent engaged in inciting the negro population to violence against the whites.
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By S. R. Crockett
Author of “The Stickit Minister,” “The Black Douglas,” “The Firebrand,” etc.
THE BANNER OF BLUEINThe Banner of BlueMr. Crockett offers a new version of that most wonderful of parables, the prodigal son. Against the sombre background of the Disruption Period in Scotland he draws with a master hand two brilliantly colored love-stories, the one intense to its tragic end, the other delightful in its quaint Scotch humor. The character-drawing possesses in particular the quality of nearness and reality, and he who reads must suffer with the proud Lord of Gower in the downfall of his idolized son, laugh with Veronica Cæsar in her philosophical bearing of domestic burdens and tyranny, and share with John Glendonwyn his love for the will-o’-the-wisp sweetheart, Faerlie Glendenning. That part of the story dealing with the separation of church and state calls forth not only the strongest but the most picturesque traits of the Scottish people.$1.50
THE BANNER OF BLUE
INThe Banner of BlueMr. Crockett offers a new version of that most wonderful of parables, the prodigal son. Against the sombre background of the Disruption Period in Scotland he draws with a master hand two brilliantly colored love-stories, the one intense to its tragic end, the other delightful in its quaint Scotch humor. The character-drawing possesses in particular the quality of nearness and reality, and he who reads must suffer with the proud Lord of Gower in the downfall of his idolized son, laugh with Veronica Cæsar in her philosophical bearing of domestic burdens and tyranny, and share with John Glendonwyn his love for the will-o’-the-wisp sweetheart, Faerlie Glendenning. That part of the story dealing with the separation of church and state calls forth not only the strongest but the most picturesque traits of the Scottish people.
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By Mary Stewart Cutting
LITTLE STORIES OF MARRIED LIFE
MRS. CUTTING begins where other storytellers leave off. Marriage is a very general experience, and the married in actual life seem as much alive as other people; but in literature they generally pass out of any existence worth the name when the ceremony is performed. In the very heart of domesticity Mrs. Cutting finds moving crises and climaxes, perils and triumphs. Why not? Domestic affairs make or break the daily existence of most of us. Her book has a peculiarly American quality, for the American home is its field; at the same time its pages are especially rich in those touches of nature, humorous or pathetic—often humorous and pathetic—that make the whole world kin.$1.25
MRS. CUTTING begins where other storytellers leave off. Marriage is a very general experience, and the married in actual life seem as much alive as other people; but in literature they generally pass out of any existence worth the name when the ceremony is performed. In the very heart of domesticity Mrs. Cutting finds moving crises and climaxes, perils and triumphs. Why not? Domestic affairs make or break the daily existence of most of us. Her book has a peculiarly American quality, for the American home is its field; at the same time its pages are especially rich in those touches of nature, humorous or pathetic—often humorous and pathetic—that make the whole world kin.
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GOLDEN NUMBERS
A Book of Verse for Youth
Edited byKATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITHwith anIntroduction and Little Letters on PoetrybyKATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
FOR the purpose of compiling this book Mrs. Riggs [Kate Douglas Wiggin] and her sister, Miss Smith, have explored practically the entire body of English poetry, and have spent two years in the work of selection and arrangement. The result, it is hardly necessary to say, in view of Mrs. Riggs’ well-known sympathy with the needs and interests of young life, is the greatest work ever planned to put the boys and girls of America and England in possession of the poetic heritage of their literature. The volume may well serve as a general anthology for all ages, so representative is it and so complete. And yet so skillfully has the work been done that nothing is introduced which might not serve immediately to win the attention of the young reader and to stimulate his curiosity to make independent discoveries in the broad fields that lie beyond the covers of his book. A second volume is in preparation. It will be entitledThe Posy Ring, and will aim to interest still younger readers than those to whichGolden Numberswill make an appeal.
FOR the purpose of compiling this book Mrs. Riggs [Kate Douglas Wiggin] and her sister, Miss Smith, have explored practically the entire body of English poetry, and have spent two years in the work of selection and arrangement. The result, it is hardly necessary to say, in view of Mrs. Riggs’ well-known sympathy with the needs and interests of young life, is the greatest work ever planned to put the boys and girls of America and England in possession of the poetic heritage of their literature. The volume may well serve as a general anthology for all ages, so representative is it and so complete. And yet so skillfully has the work been done that nothing is introduced which might not serve immediately to win the attention of the young reader and to stimulate his curiosity to make independent discoveries in the broad fields that lie beyond the covers of his book. A second volume is in preparation. It will be entitledThe Posy Ring, and will aim to interest still younger readers than those to whichGolden Numberswill make an appeal.
By A. Conan Doyle
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Illustrated by Sidney Paget
The London Chronicle, in a review headed
“THE ZENITH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES,”
says:“We should like to pay Dr. Doyle the highest compliment at our command. It is not simply that this book is superior in originality and construction to the earlier adventures of the great detective. Dr. Doyle has provided a criminal who, as Mr. Holmes admits, is indeed a foeman worthy of his steel.[A]Hitherto he has found it comparatively easy to unmask his antagonists. But in the present case he finds himself checkmated again and again. There is pitted against him a skill nearly equal to his own, and he wins the game almost by a hair.”
says:
“We should like to pay Dr. Doyle the highest compliment at our command. It is not simply that this book is superior in originality and construction to the earlier adventures of the great detective. Dr. Doyle has provided a criminal who, as Mr. Holmes admits, is indeed a foeman worthy of his steel.[A]Hitherto he has found it comparatively easy to unmask his antagonists. But in the present case he finds himself checkmated again and again. There is pitted against him a skill nearly equal to his own, and he wins the game almost by a hair.”
[A]“I tell you, Watson, this time we have a foeman who is worthy of our steel.”—Sherlock Holmes.
[A]“I tell you, Watson, this time we have a foeman who is worthy of our steel.”—Sherlock Holmes.
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By George Douglas
THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS
THE first novel of a new master. The work has gained wide-spread recognition on both sides of the water. Three of the most conservative and authoritative publications in England include it among the first twelve of the year. In this countryHarper’s Weeklygives it as one of the two most interesting novels of the year.The critics differ as to with what other master George Douglas should be compared:The London Timessays: “Worthy of the hand that drew ‘Weir of Hermiston,’” and that “Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would have written such a book.”The Spectator: “His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.”Vanity Fair: “It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an Æschylean tragedy.”Harper’s Weekly: “If Thomas Hardy had written of Scotland, instead of Wessex, it would have been something like ‘The House with the Green Shutters’.... If any man is his (Douglas’) master it is Thomas Hardy.”Hardy, Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, and Æschylus.
THE first novel of a new master. The work has gained wide-spread recognition on both sides of the water. Three of the most conservative and authoritative publications in England include it among the first twelve of the year. In this countryHarper’s Weeklygives it as one of the two most interesting novels of the year.
The critics differ as to with what other master George Douglas should be compared:
The London Timessays: “Worthy of the hand that drew ‘Weir of Hermiston,’” and that “Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would have written such a book.”
The Spectator: “His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.”
Vanity Fair: “It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an Æschylean tragedy.”
Harper’s Weekly: “If Thomas Hardy had written of Scotland, instead of Wessex, it would have been something like ‘The House with the Green Shutters’.... If any man is his (Douglas’) master it is Thomas Hardy.”
Hardy, Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, and Æschylus.
Eighth Edition.$1.50.
By Henry Wallace Phillips
RED SAUNDERS
His Adventures, West and East
THERE is plenty of dash and adventure in this book, told with a humor whose most delightful quality is its unstudied naturalness. The critics are all laughing, not at the book, but with it.“Chantay Seechee Red is the sort of cowpuncher it benefits one to meet even between the covers of a book.”—N. Y. Evening Post.“Mark Twain has written no more delicious stories.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.“A delightful study of life in the West.”—Newark Call.“The wind blows through it, and the meaning of it is health and joy.”—N. Y. Sun.“The creator of Red Saunders has an exuberant sense of humor.”—N. Y. Evening Telegram.Second Edition$1.25
THERE is plenty of dash and adventure in this book, told with a humor whose most delightful quality is its unstudied naturalness. The critics are all laughing, not at the book, but with it.
“Chantay Seechee Red is the sort of cowpuncher it benefits one to meet even between the covers of a book.”—N. Y. Evening Post.
“Mark Twain has written no more delicious stories.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
“A delightful study of life in the West.”—Newark Call.
“The wind blows through it, and the meaning of it is health and joy.”—N. Y. Sun.
“The creator of Red Saunders has an exuberant sense of humor.”—N. Y. Evening Telegram.
Second Edition$1.25
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