RECENT MACMILLAN NOVELS
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_Each, cloth, $1.50_
The Long Road
By JOHN OXENHAM
"... It is a thrilling and an absorbing story. Through all the tragedy oflife ... there is a rarely sweet accompaniment of tender tones, of loveand heroism and intermittent, never quite lost hope. It is a touching andbeautiful story."--_Buffalo Evening News._
Coniston
By WINSTON CHURCHILL
"Coniston has a lighter, gayer spirit, and a deeper, tenderer touch thanMr. Churchill has ever achieved before.... It is one of the finest andtruest transcripts of modern American life thus far achieved in ourfiction."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
Cloth, illustrated, $1.50
Lady Baltimore
By OWEN WISTER
"That the author of 'The Virginian' could deal deliciously with such arich field ... might be assumed. But with what charm and delicacy, finehumor and insight, the work has been done, only a direct acquaintance withthe finished volume can justly show. The Southerner will certainly findenchanting home touches in it, and every reader will feel the spell of thequiet old southern town and all the tender, dainty, and humorous southernlife and atmosphere that hang about it."--_St. Louis Globe Democrat._
Cloth, $1.50
The Garden, You and I
By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT
"Few books published in this country recently have been of a kind to makean author so proud. Hers are immensely fine and sweet."--_St. LouisDemocrat._
The new book by the author of "The Garden of a Commuter's Wife" and"People of the Whirlpool," is a story of new friends as charming in theirown way as "Barbara" herself. Their highly original vacation is describedfrom more than one point of view, each more deliciously funny than thenext.
Cloth, $1.50
A Lady of Rome
By F. MARION CRAWFORD
"His skill in making his portraits live before the reader's eyes isunsurpassed; and in the production of story-value and prolonged suspense,Mr. Crawford has no peer."--_Boston Herald._
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50
White Fang
By JACK LONDON
"Jack London is the apostle of strength and courage. In 'White Fang' hehas full play ... in his chosen field. He has done this work so well thathe makes the interest as intense as if he were telling the story of aman."--_Globe Democrat._
Illustrated in colors, cloth, $1.50
When Love Speaks
By WILL PAYNE
"One of the most interesting novels ever written on the conflict betweenlaw and honesty on one side and the alliance of low politics and highfinance on the other. Stirring love story woven in with the fight againstan unscrupulous whiskey trust. A fine, clean American story, of interestalike to men and women."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
$1.50
If Youth But Knew
By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE
"They should be the most delightful of comrades, for their writing is soapt, so responsive, so saturated with the promptings and the glamour ofspring. It is because 'If Youth But Knew' has all these adorable qualitiesthat it is so fascinating."--_Cleveland Leader._
Cloth, $1.50
Disenchanted
By PIERRE LOTI
"Our romantic son of Hercules wields in defence of Liberty a slender,aromatic sorcerer's wand. And his magic has lost nothing of its might. Wedare not begin quoting a book of which every page is a picture."--_TheLondon Times._
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50
The Sin of George Warrener
By Miss VAN VORST
"For acute comprehension of human nature both masculine and feminine, anda keen apprehension of a phase of our social conditions, the book is apiece of rare artistry."--_Phila. Evening Tel._
$1.50
Her Majesty's Rebels
By SIDNEY R. LYSAGHT
"A story of Irish people that is neither prejudiced nor patronizing.... Arare and charming novel ... racy and convincing."--_World._
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50
Listener's Lure
By E. V. LUCAS
"A Kensington Comedy" which proves that the delightful fellow-wanderer inHolland and in London has a keen sense of humor and a gift forsemi-satirical portrait sketching.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50
The Amulet
By CHARLES E. CRADDOCK
"... A little old-fashioned, perhaps, according to modern sensationalstandards, but written with force and feeling, full of local color andcharacter, wholesome and interesting from cover to cover, and so far asone can judge, a truthful picture of a most picturesque phase of pioneerhistory that has not been exploited to the point of tiresomeness."--_TheNew York Times._
Cloth, $1.50
The Romance of John Bainbridge
By HENRY GEORGE, Jr.
"Belongs to the large class of present-day novels in which a young man ofhigh ideals goes into politics in order to do battle with the dragons ofbribery and corruption. The particular demon in this case is a perpetualstreet railway franchise. The love story betrays the apprentice hand, butthe description of the fight in the aldermanic council is a capital pieceof work."--_The Congregationalist._
$1.50
The Way of the Gods
By JOHN LUTHER LONG
As the readers of "Madam Butterfly" know, there is no one, since the deathof Lafcadio Hearn, who can make Japanese life so charming as does Mr.Long. This story of the little samurai, hardly big enough to be a soldier,and of how the fair eta Hoshiko met his obligations for him, is very realand appealing.
Cloth, $1.50
The Vine of Sibmah
By Dr. ANDREW MACPHAIL
"The book is taut with action and breathless climaxes. Its principalcharacter, a soldier, has for his friend a most engaging pirate. Thiscombination alone makes interesting reading."--_Chicago Evening Post._
Cloth, $1.50