_By WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT_
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She Buildeth Her House
"The Strongest American Novel" _Chicago Journal._
Seldom has the author of a first great novel so brilliantly transcendedhis initial success. A man and a woman inspiringly fitted for each othersweep into the zone of mutual attraction at the opening of the story.Destiny demands that each overcomes certain formidable destructibleforces before either is tempered and refined for the glorious Union ofTwo to form One.
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Routledge Rides Alone
"A gripping story. The terrible intensity of the writer holds one chained to the book."--_Chicago Tribune._
Mr. Comfort has drawn upon two practically new story places in the worldof fiction to furnish the scenes for his narrative--India and Manchuriaat the time of the Russo-Japanese War. While the novel is distinguishedby its clear and vigorous war scenes, the fine and sweet romance of thelove of the hero, Routledge--a brave, strange, and talentedAmerican--for the "most beautiful woman in London" rivals these ininterest.
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PHRYNETTE
BYMARTHE TROLY-CURTIN
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Phrynette is seventeen, extremely clever and naive, and attractive inevery way. The death of her French father in Paris leaves her an orphan,and she goes to London to live with an aunt of Scotch descent. Herimpressions of the people, the happenings and the places she becomesfamiliar with, peculiarities of customs and every little thing ofinterest are all touched upon in a charming and original manner, whilein places there is irresistible humor. Throughout there is a good solidlove story, and the ending is all that is to be desired.
"A very charming novel."--_San Francisco Argonaut._
"Original, clever and extremely well-written."--_Pittsburg Dispatch._
"Refreshingly original and full of wholesome mirth. To say that the book is delightful reading is understating the fact."--_Philadelphia Public Ledger._
_A NOVEL OF THE REAL WEST_
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"ME--SMITH"
By CAROLINE LOCKHART
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Miss Lockhart is a true daughter of the West, her father being a largeranch-owner and she has had much experience in the saddle and among thepeople who figure in her novel. [pilcrow] "Smith" is one type of Western "BadMan," an unusually powerful and appealing character who grips and holdsthe reader through all his deeds, whether good or bad. [pilcrow] It is a storywith red blood in it. There is the cry of the coyote, the deadly thirstfor revenge as it exists in the wronged Indian toward the white man, thethrill of the gaming table, and the gentlenesss of pure, true love. Tothe very end the tense dramatism of the tale is maintained withoutrelaxation.
"Gripping, vigorous story."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
"This is a real novel, a big novel."--_Indianapolis News._
"Not since the publication of 'The Virginian' has so powerful a cowboy story been told."--_Philadelphia Public Ledger._
"A remarkable book in its strength of portrayal and its directness of development. It cannot be read without being remembered."--_The World To-Day._
_By CAROLYN WELLS_
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THE GOLD BAG
"The Gold Bag" is so unlike the usual products of Miss Wells' pen thatone wonders if she possesses a dual personality or is it merelyextraordinary versatility, for she can certainly write detective storiesjust as well as she can write nonsense verse. The story is told in thefirst person by a modest young sleuth who is sent to a suburban place toferret out the mystery which shrouds the murder of a prominent man.Circumstantial evidence in the shape of a gold mesh bag points to awoman as the criminal, and the only possible one is the dead man's niecewith whom the detective promptly falls in love, though she is alreadyengaged to her uncle's secretary, an alliance which the dead maninsisted must be discontinued, otherwise he would disinherit the girl.The story is well told and the interest is cleverly aroused andsustained.
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THE CLUE
This is a detective story, and no better or more absorbing one hasappeared in a long time. The book opens with the violent death of ayoung heiress--apparently a suicide. But a shrewd young physician waxessuspicious, and finally convinces the wooden-headed coroner that thegirl has been murdered. The finger of suspicion points at various peoplein turn, but each of them proves his innocence. Finally Fleming Stone,the detective who figured in a previous detective story by this author,is called in to match his wits against those of a particularly astutevillain. Needless to say that in the end right triumphs.
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