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BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace.
This famous Religious-Historical Romance with its mighty story,brilliant pageantry, thrilling action and deep religious reverence,hardly requires an outline. The whole world has placed "Ben-Hur" 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.
THE PRINCE OF INDIA. By General Lew Wallace.
A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, showing, with vividimagination, the possible forces behind the internal decay of theEmpire that hastened the fall of Constantinople.
The foreground figure is the person known to all as the Wandering Jew,at this time appearing as the Prince of India, with vast stores ofwealth, and is supposed to have instigated many wars and fomented theCrusades.
Mohammed's love for the Princess Irene is beautifully wrought into thestory, and the book as a whole is a marvelous work both historicallyand romantically.
THE FAIR GOD. By General Lew Wallace. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico.With Eight Illustrations by Eric Pape.
All the annals of conquest have nothing more brilliantly daring anddramatic than the drama played in Mexico by Cortes. As a dazzlingpicture of Mexico and the Montezumas it leaves nothing to be desired.
The artist has caught with rare enthusiasm the spirit of the Spanishconquerors of Mexico, its beauty and glory and romance.
TARRY THOU TILL I COME or, Salathiel, the Wandering Jew. By GeorgeCroly. With twenty illustrations by T. de Thulstrup.
A historical novel, dealing with the momentous events that occurred,chiefly in Palestine, from the time of the Crucifixion to thedestruction of Jerusalem.
The book, as a story, is replete with Oriental charm and richness, andthe character drawing is marvelous. No other novel ever written hasportrayed with such vividness the events that convulsed Rome anddestroyed Jerusalem in the early days of Christianity.
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NOVELS OF SOUTHERN LIFE
By THOMAS DIXON, JR.
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THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS: A Story of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900. Withillustrations by C. D. Williams.
A tale of the South about the dramatic events of Destruction,Reconstruction and Upbuilding. The work is able and eloquent and theverifiable events of history are followed closely in the development ofa story full of struggle.
THE CLANSMAN. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller.
While not connected with it in any way, this is a companion volume tothe author's "epoch-making" story _The Leopard's Spots_. It is a novelwith a great deal to it, and which very properly is going to interestmany thousands of readers. * * * It is, first of all, a forceful,dramatic, absorbing love story, with a sequence of events so surprisingthat one is prepared for the fact that much of it is founded on actualhappenings; but Mr. Dixon has, as before, a deeper purpose--he hasaimed to show that the original formers of the Ku Klux Klan were modernknights errant taking the only means at hand to right intolerablewrongs.
THE TRAITOR. A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire. Illustrationsby C. D. Williams.
The third and last book in this remarkable trilogy of novels relatingto Southern Reconstruction. It is a thrilling story of love, adventure,treason, and the United States Secret Service dealing with the declineand fall of the Ku Klux Klan.
COMRADES. Illustrations by C. D. Williams.
A novel dealing with the establishment of a Socialistic Colony upon adeserted island off the coast of California. The way of disillusionmentis the course over which Mr. Dixon conducts the reader.
THE ONE WOMAN. A Story of Modern Utopia.
A love story and character study of three strong men and twofascinating women. In swift, unified, and dramatic action, we seeSocialism a deadly force, in the hour of the eclipse of Faith,destroying the home life and weakening the fiber of Anglo Saxonmanhood.
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