A NOTABLE BIOGRAPHYRECOLLECTIONSPERSONAL AND LITERARYBYRICHARD HENRY STODDARD(EDITED BY RIPLEY HITCHCOCK)With a preface byEDMUND CLARENCE STEDMANIllustrated. 12mo., cloth, Price, $1.50 net.Large Paper Edition, limited to 200 copies, extra illustrated. Printed on Japan paper, uncut, price $7 50 net.MR. STODDARD was the last survivor of the time which has been called the Golden Age of American Letters. His meetings with Edgar Allan Poe, and their curious ending, his visits to Hawthorne, and Hawthorne’s kindly counsel, his talks with Thackeray, his literary discussions before Lowell’s study fire, Boker’s frank comments upon the contemporary theatre, his golden nights with Bayard Taylor are among the pictures which are presented in these personal and fascinating RECOLLECTIONS. The writer’s dry humor and quaint originality of expression impart an added charm to the most notable literary autobiography of recent years.
A NOTABLE BIOGRAPHY
RECOLLECTIONS
PERSONAL AND LITERARY
BY
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
(EDITED BY RIPLEY HITCHCOCK)
With a preface by
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
Illustrated. 12mo., cloth, Price, $1.50 net.
Large Paper Edition, limited to 200 copies, extra illustrated. Printed on Japan paper, uncut, price $7 50 net.
Large Paper Edition, limited to 200 copies, extra illustrated. Printed on Japan paper, uncut, price $7 50 net.
MR. STODDARD was the last survivor of the time which has been called the Golden Age of American Letters. His meetings with Edgar Allan Poe, and their curious ending, his visits to Hawthorne, and Hawthorne’s kindly counsel, his talks with Thackeray, his literary discussions before Lowell’s study fire, Boker’s frank comments upon the contemporary theatre, his golden nights with Bayard Taylor are among the pictures which are presented in these personal and fascinating RECOLLECTIONS. The writer’s dry humor and quaint originality of expression impart an added charm to the most notable literary autobiography of recent years.
A REMARKABLE NOVELTENNESSEE TODDA Dramatic Story of Steamboat Life on the MississippiBYG. W. OGDEN12mo. with frontispiece, cloth, Price, $1.50NOT since the time when Mark Twain immortalized the Mississippi in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, has anyone come forward to tempt comparison with those inimitable portraits. But at last, a man who knows the life of the river and who has caught the spirit of it, has revived the old steamboat days during the years when the first railroad between St. Louis and New Orleans was wresting supremacy from the river.Tennessee Toddis the story of that fight between the steamboat and the railroad, between the old order and the new, between the men who had carried on warfare with the treacherous stream until they had become its controllers, and the new men which the inevitable advance of commerce brought with capital and brains to usurp the power and break the pride of the men of the Mississippi.
A REMARKABLE NOVEL
TENNESSEE TODD
A Dramatic Story of Steamboat Life on the Mississippi
BY
G. W. OGDEN
12mo. with frontispiece, cloth, Price, $1.50
NOT since the time when Mark Twain immortalized the Mississippi in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, has anyone come forward to tempt comparison with those inimitable portraits. But at last, a man who knows the life of the river and who has caught the spirit of it, has revived the old steamboat days during the years when the first railroad between St. Louis and New Orleans was wresting supremacy from the river.
Tennessee Toddis the story of that fight between the steamboat and the railroad, between the old order and the new, between the men who had carried on warfare with the treacherous stream until they had become its controllers, and the new men which the inevitable advance of commerce brought with capital and brains to usurp the power and break the pride of the men of the Mississippi.
A GREAT FIRST NOVELThe Circle in the SquareThe Story of a New Battle on Old FieldsBYBALDWIN SEARS12mo. cloth, Price $1.50ANOVEL of extraordinary power, dealing with the absorbing social and political questions of the South which confront America to-day no less than they confronted the government before and immediately after the Civil War, in a different, though equally threatening, form.With sympathy, humor and strength, the life and problems of to-day in one section of the South—which may be taken as representative of many communities all over the South—is presented in a broader way than has been done in any American novel. As the work of an entirely new author, it will attract immediate attention for its remarkable literary quality and its comprehensive grasp of a broad social and political motive.
A GREAT FIRST NOVEL
The Circle in the Square
The Story of a New Battle on Old Fields
BY
BALDWIN SEARS
12mo. cloth, Price $1.50
ANOVEL of extraordinary power, dealing with the absorbing social and political questions of the South which confront America to-day no less than they confronted the government before and immediately after the Civil War, in a different, though equally threatening, form.
With sympathy, humor and strength, the life and problems of to-day in one section of the South—which may be taken as representative of many communities all over the South—is presented in a broader way than has been done in any American novel. As the work of an entirely new author, it will attract immediate attention for its remarkable literary quality and its comprehensive grasp of a broad social and political motive.
A STORY OF THE LAKESHIS LITTLE WORLDTHE STORY OF HUNCH BADEAUBYSAMUEL MERWINAuthor of “The Road to Frontenac,” joint-author of “Calumet K” etc.12 mo. cloth. Illustrated. $1.25THIS is the story of a man. Whether driving his schooner through a lake storm, or quelling a lumber-yard mutiny, or sacrificing his love for the sake of a friend, Hunch Badeau is every inch a man.He doesn’t preach, but unconsciously, and prompted simply by the bigness of his heart, he exemplifies a nobility which does the reader good. Many things happen in this story. Readers will like and they will remember Hunch Badeau.
A STORY OF THE LAKES
HIS LITTLE WORLD
THE STORY OF HUNCH BADEAU
BY
SAMUEL MERWIN
Author of “The Road to Frontenac,” joint-author of “Calumet K” etc.
12 mo. cloth. Illustrated. $1.25
THIS is the story of a man. Whether driving his schooner through a lake storm, or quelling a lumber-yard mutiny, or sacrificing his love for the sake of a friend, Hunch Badeau is every inch a man.
He doesn’t preach, but unconsciously, and prompted simply by the bigness of his heart, he exemplifies a nobility which does the reader good. Many things happen in this story. Readers will like and they will remember Hunch Badeau.
FOOTNOTES:[1]Observation No. 6418, “Code of Laws,” Vol. VIII.[2]SeeAppendix[3]These letters are republished by the willing permission of Mr. W. R. Hearst, for whose papers they were written from Kishineff and elsewhere. They have, of course, undergone a necessary revision.It is believed that by including these letters as they were originally written, with only such changes as were necessary to a permanent form, a more vivid realisation of the scenes of the tragedy has been afforded than would have been possible if their facts alone had been incorporated with the body of the narrative.[4]SeeAppendix.[5]See M. de Plehve’s version.[6]The London Times, June 26, 1903.[7]SeeLetter IV.[8]SeeLetter IV.[9]“Government officials” here would stand for telegraph messengers, or employés of other departments.—M. D.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]Observation No. 6418, “Code of Laws,” Vol. VIII.
[1]Observation No. 6418, “Code of Laws,” Vol. VIII.
[2]SeeAppendix
[2]SeeAppendix
[3]These letters are republished by the willing permission of Mr. W. R. Hearst, for whose papers they were written from Kishineff and elsewhere. They have, of course, undergone a necessary revision.It is believed that by including these letters as they were originally written, with only such changes as were necessary to a permanent form, a more vivid realisation of the scenes of the tragedy has been afforded than would have been possible if their facts alone had been incorporated with the body of the narrative.
[3]These letters are republished by the willing permission of Mr. W. R. Hearst, for whose papers they were written from Kishineff and elsewhere. They have, of course, undergone a necessary revision.
It is believed that by including these letters as they were originally written, with only such changes as were necessary to a permanent form, a more vivid realisation of the scenes of the tragedy has been afforded than would have been possible if their facts alone had been incorporated with the body of the narrative.
[4]SeeAppendix.
[4]SeeAppendix.
[5]See M. de Plehve’s version.
[5]See M. de Plehve’s version.
[6]The London Times, June 26, 1903.
[6]The London Times, June 26, 1903.
[7]SeeLetter IV.
[7]SeeLetter IV.
[8]SeeLetter IV.
[8]SeeLetter IV.
[9]“Government officials” here would stand for telegraph messengers, or employés of other departments.—M. D.
[9]“Government officials” here would stand for telegraph messengers, or employés of other departments.—M. D.