MYRTLE REED'S NOVELS
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_LAVENDER AND OLD LACE._
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romancefinds a modern parallel. The story centers round the coming of love tothe young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it is one of theprettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old fashioned love stories, * * * arare book, exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy,of tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaniety.
_A SPINNER IN THE SUN._
Miss Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in whichpoetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever andentertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displaysa quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give atouch of active realism to all her writings. In "A Spinner in the Sun"she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives insolitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is amystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour ofromance.
_THE MASTER'S VIOLIN,_
A love story in a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old German virtuosois the reverent possessor of a genuine "Cremona." He consents to takefor his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an aptitude fortechnique, but not the soul of an artist. The youth, has led the happy,careless life of a modern, well-to-do young American and he cannot, withhis meagre past, express the love, the passion and the tragedies of lifeand all its happy phases as can the master who has lived life in all itsfulness. But a girl comes into his life--a beautiful bit of humandriftwood that his aunt had taken into her heart and home, and throughhis passionate love for her, he learns the lessons that life has togive--and his soul awakes.
Founded on a fact that all artists realize.
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