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A FEW OF
GROSSET & DUNLAP'S
Great Books at Little Prices
THE MUSIC MASTER. By Charles Klein. Illustrated by John Rae.
This marvelously vivid narrative turns upon the search of a Germanmusician in New York for his little daughter. Mr. Klein has wellportrayed his pathetic struggle with poverty, his varied experiences inendeavoring to meet the demands of a public not trained to anappreciation of the classic, and his final great hour when, in therapidly shifting events of a big city, his little daughter, now abeautiful young woman, is brought to his very door. A superb bit offiction, palpitating with the life or the great metropolis. The playin which David Warfield scored his highest success.
DR. LAVENDAR'S PEOPLE. By Margaret Deland. Illustrated by LuciusHitchcock.
Mrs. Deland won so many friends through Old Chester Tales that thisvolume needs no introduction beyond its title. The lovable doctor ismore ripened in this later book, and the simple comedies and tragediesof the old village are told with dramatic charm.
OLD CHESTER TALES. By Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Stories portraying with delightful humor and pathos a quaint people ina sleepy old town. Dr. Lavendar, a very human and lovable "preacher,"is the connecting link between these dramatic stories from life.
HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE. By E. P. Roe. With frontispiece.
The hero is a farmer--a man with honest, sincere views of life. Bereftof his wife, his home is cared for by a succession of domestics ofvarying degrees of inefficiency until, from a most unpromising source,comes a young woman who not only becomes his wife but commands hisrespect and eventually wins his love. A bright and delicate romance,revealing on both sides a love that surmounts all difficulties andsurvives the censure of friends as well as the bitterness of enemies.
THE YOKE. By Elizabeth Miller.
Against the historical background of the days when the children ofIsrael were delivered from the bondage of Egypt, the author hassketched a romance of compelling charm. A biblical novel as great asany since "Ben Hur."
SAUL OF TARSUS. By Elizabeth Miller. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne.
The scenes of this story are laid in Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome andDamascus. The Apostle Paul, the Martyr Stephen, Herod Agrippa and theEmperors Tiberius and Caligula are among the mighty figures that movethrough the pages. Wonderful descriptions, and a love story of thepurest and noblest type mark this most remarkable religious romance.