A PLACE IN THE SUN
_By Mrs. Henry Backus_
_Author of "The Career of Dr. Weaver," "The Rose of Roses," etc._
_12mo, cloth, illustrated by Wm. Van Dresser, net, $1.35; carriage paid, $1.50_
Gunda Karoli is a very much alive young person with a zest for life andlooking-forward philosophy which helps her through every trial. She issustained in her struggles against the disadvantage of her birth bya burning faith in the great American ideal--that here in the UnitedStates every one has a chance to win for himself a place in the sun.
Gunda takes for her gospel the Declaration of Independence, onlyto find that, although this democratic doctrine is embodied in theconstitution of the country, it does not manifest itself outwardly inits social life. Nevertheless, she succeeds in mounting step by stepin the social scale, from the time she first appears at Skyland on theKnobs as a near-governess, to her brief season in the metropolis as adanseuse.
How she wins the interest of Justin Arnold, the fastidious descendantof a fine old family, and brings into his self-centered existence a newlife and fresh charm, provides a double interest to the plot.