*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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*WITHIN THE LAW.*
By Bayard Veiller & Marvin Dana. Illustrated by Wm. Charles Cooke.
This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran fortwo years in New York and Chicago.
The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directedagainst her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison for threeyears on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.
*WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY.*
By Robert Carlton Brown. Illustrated with scenes from the play.
This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girt who is suddenlythrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of her dreams," whereshe is exposed to all sorts of temptations and dangers.
The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played intheatres all over the world.
*THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM.*
By David Belasco. Illustrated by John Rae.
This is a novelization of the popular play in which David Warfield, asOld Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.
The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal, powerful,both as a book and as a play.
*THE GARDEN OF ALLAH.*
By Robert Hichens.
This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlit,barbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.
It is a book of rapturous beauty, vivid in word painting. The play hasbeen staged with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.
*BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ.*
By General Lew Wallace.
The whole world has placed this famous Religious-Historical Romance on aheight of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has reached.The clashing of rivalry and the deepest human passions, the perfectreproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce atmosphereof the arena have kept their deep fascination. A tremendous dramaticsuccess.