Whispering Smith

  STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY

  GENE STRATTON-PORTER

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  MICHAEL O'HALLORAN, Illustrated by Frances Rogers.

  Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in NorthernIndiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also assumesthe responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward andonward.

  LADDIE. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.

  This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. Thestory is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family,but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the loveaffairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that ofLaddie and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in theneighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.

  THE HARVESTER. Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.

  "The Harvester," is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book hadnothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable.But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," there begins aromance of the rarest idyllic quality.

  FRECKLES. Illustrated.

  Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in whichhe takes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the greatLimberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succumbsto the charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with "TheAngel" are full of real sentiment.

  A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST. Illustrated.

  The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, loveable type ofthe self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindnesstowards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beautyof her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren andunpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.

  AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW. Illustrations in colors.

  The scene of this charming love story is laid in Central Indiana. Thestory is one of devoted friendship, and tender self-sacrificing love.The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature,and its pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.

  THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL. Profusely illustrated.

  A love ideal of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with delicacy andhumor.

  Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York