New Macmillan FictionMRS. WATTS’S NEW NOVELVan CleveByMARY S. WATTSAuthor of “Nathan Burke,” “The Legacy,” etc.Cloth, 12mo.Never has the author of “Nathan Burke” and “The Legacy” written more convincingly or appealingly than in this story of modern life. Those who have enjoyed the intense realism of Mrs. Watts’s earlier work, the settings of which have largely been of the past, will welcome this book of the present in which she demonstrates that her skill is no less in handling scenes and types of people with which we are familiar than in the so-called “historical” novel. “Van Cleve” is about a young man who, while still in his early twenties, is obliged to support a family of foolish, good-hearted, ill-balanced women, and one shiftless, pompous old man, his grandmother, aunt, cousin, and uncle. Van Cleve proves himself equal to the obligation—and equal, too, to many other severe tests that are put upon him by his friends. Besides him there is one character which it is doubtful whether the reader will ever forget—Bob. His life not only shapes Van Cleve’s to a large extent, but that of several other people, notably his sister, the girl whom Van Cleve loves in his patient way.
New Macmillan FictionMRS. WATTS’S NEW NOVELVan CleveByMARY S. WATTSAuthor of “Nathan Burke,” “The Legacy,” etc.Cloth, 12mo.Never has the author of “Nathan Burke” and “The Legacy” written more convincingly or appealingly than in this story of modern life. Those who have enjoyed the intense realism of Mrs. Watts’s earlier work, the settings of which have largely been of the past, will welcome this book of the present in which she demonstrates that her skill is no less in handling scenes and types of people with which we are familiar than in the so-called “historical” novel. “Van Cleve” is about a young man who, while still in his early twenties, is obliged to support a family of foolish, good-hearted, ill-balanced women, and one shiftless, pompous old man, his grandmother, aunt, cousin, and uncle. Van Cleve proves himself equal to the obligation—and equal, too, to many other severe tests that are put upon him by his friends. Besides him there is one character which it is doubtful whether the reader will ever forget—Bob. His life not only shapes Van Cleve’s to a large extent, but that of several other people, notably his sister, the girl whom Van Cleve loves in his patient way.
New Macmillan Fiction
MRS. WATTS’S NEW NOVEL
Van Cleve
ByMARY S. WATTS
Author of “Nathan Burke,” “The Legacy,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo.
Never has the author of “Nathan Burke” and “The Legacy” written more convincingly or appealingly than in this story of modern life. Those who have enjoyed the intense realism of Mrs. Watts’s earlier work, the settings of which have largely been of the past, will welcome this book of the present in which she demonstrates that her skill is no less in handling scenes and types of people with which we are familiar than in the so-called “historical” novel. “Van Cleve” is about a young man who, while still in his early twenties, is obliged to support a family of foolish, good-hearted, ill-balanced women, and one shiftless, pompous old man, his grandmother, aunt, cousin, and uncle. Van Cleve proves himself equal to the obligation—and equal, too, to many other severe tests that are put upon him by his friends. Besides him there is one character which it is doubtful whether the reader will ever forget—Bob. His life not only shapes Van Cleve’s to a large extent, but that of several other people, notably his sister, the girl whom Van Cleve loves in his patient way.