JOHN FOX, JR'S. STORIES OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS
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THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
The "lonesome pine" from which the story takes its name was a tall treethat stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of the pinelured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when hefinally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the_foot-prints of a girl_. And the girl proved to be lovely, piquant, andthe trail of these girlish foot-prints led the young engineer a madderchase than "the trail of the lonesome pine."
THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COMEIllustrated by F. C. Yohn.
This is a story of Kentucky, in a settlement known as "Kingdom Come." Itis a life rude, semi-barbarous; but natural and honest, from which oftensprings the flower of civilization.
"Chad," the "little shepherd," did not know who he was nor whence hecame--he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood,seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered andmothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery--a charming waif,by the way, who could play the banjo better that anyone else in themountains.
A KNIGHT OF THE CUMBERLAND.Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair ofmoonshiner and feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner's son, and theheroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Twoimpetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of "The Blight's"charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in thelove making of the mountaineers.
Included in this volume is "Hell fer-Sartain" and other stories, some ofMr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives.
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STORIES OF RARE CHARM BYGENE STRATTON-PORTER
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LADDIE. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.
This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. The storyis told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but itis concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairsof older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie, theolder brother whom Little Sister adores, and the Princess, an Englishgirl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose familythere hangs a mystery. There is a wedding midway in the book and adouble wedding at the close.
THE HARVESTER. Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.
"The Harvester," David Langston, is a man of the woods and fields, whodraws his living from the prodigal hand of Mother Nature herself. If thebook had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would benotable. But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," and theHarvester's whole being realizes that this is the highest point of lifewhich has come to him--there begins a romance of the rarest idyllicquality.
FRECKLES. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford.
Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in which hetakes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the greatLimberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succumbs tothe charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with "TheAngel" are full of real sentiment.
A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST. Illustrated by Wladyslaw T. Brenda.
The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, lovable type ofthe self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindnesstowards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beauty ofher 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 by Oliver Kemp.
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, andits pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.
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MYRTLE REED'S NOVELSMay be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.
LAVENDER AND OLD LACE.
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romancefinds a modern parallel. The story centers round the coming of love tothe young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it is one of theprettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old fashioned love stories, * * * arare book, exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy,of tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaneity.
A SPINNER IN THE SUN.
Miss Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in whichpoetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever andentertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displaysa quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give atouch of active realism to all her writings. In "A Spinner in the Sun"she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives in"solitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is amystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour ofromance."
THE MASTER'S VIOLIN.
A love story in a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old German virtuosois the reverent possessor of a genuine "Cremona." He consents to takefor his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an aptitude fortechnique, but not the soul of an artist. The youth has led the happy,careless life of a modern, well-to-do young American and he cannot, withhis meagre past, express the love, the passion and the tragedies of lifeand all its happy phases as can the master who has lived life in all itsfulness. But a girl comes into his life--a beautiful bit of humandriftwood that his aunt had taken into her heart and home, and throughhis passionate love for her, he learns the lessons that life has togive--and his soul awakes.
Founded on a fact that all artists realize.
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GROSSET & DUNLAP'S DRAMATIZED NOVELSTHE KIND THAT ARE MAKING THEATRICAL HISTORY
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WITHIN THE LAW. By Bayard Veiller & Marvin Dana.Illustrated by Wm. Charles Cooke.
This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran fortwo years in New York and Chicago.
The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directedagainst her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison for threeyears on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY. By Robert Carlton Brown.Illustrated with scenes from the play.
This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girl who is suddenlythrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of her dreams," whereshe is exposed to all sorts of temptations and dangers.
The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played intheatres all over the world.
THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM. By David Belasco.Illustrated by John Rae.
This is a novelization of the popular play in which David Warfield, asOld Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.
The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal, powerful,both as a book and as a play.
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.
This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlitbarbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.
It is a book of rapturous beauty, vivid in word painting. The play hasbeen staged with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.
BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace.
The whole world has placed this famous Religious-Historical Romance on aheight of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has reached. Theclashing o
f rivalry and the deepest human passions, the perfectreproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce atmosphereof the arena have kept their deep fascination. A tremendous dramaticsuccess.
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. By George Broadhurst and Arthur Hornblow.Illustrated with scenes from the play.
A stupendous arraignment of modern marriage which has created aninterest on the stage that is almost unparalleled. The scenes are laidin New York, and deal with conditions among both the rich and poor.
The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments whichshow the young wife the price she has paid.
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GROSSET & DUNLAP'S DRAMATIZED NOVELS
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MADAME X. By Alexandre Bisson and J. W. McConaughy. Illustrated withscenes from the play.
A beautiful Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would notforgive an error of her youth. Her love for her son is the great finalinfluence in her career. A tremendous dramatic success.
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.
An unconventional English woman and an inscrutable stranger meet andlove in an oasis of the Sahara. Staged this season with magnificent castand gorgeous properties.
THE PRINCE OF INDIA. By Lew. Wallace.
A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinarypower the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with thewarm underglow of an Oriental romance. As a play it is a great dramaticspectacle.
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY. By Grace Miller White.Illust. by Howard Chandler Christy.
A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell Universitystudent, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives ofthose about her. The dramatic version is one of the sensations of theseason.
YOUNG WALLINGFORD. By George Randolph Chester.Illust. by F. R. Gruger and Henry Raleigh.
A series of clever swindles conducted by a cheerful young man, each ofwhich is just on the safe side of a State's prison offence. As"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," it is probably the most amusing expose ofmoney manipulation ever seen on the stage.
THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY. By P. G. Wodehouse.Illustrations by Will Grefe.
Social and club life in London and New York, an amateur burglaryadventure and a love story. Dramatized under the title of "A Gentlemanof Leisure," it furnishes hours of laughter to the play-goers.
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B. M. BOWER'S NOVELS
Thrilling Western Romances
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CHIP, OF THE FLYING U
A breezy wholesome tale, wherein the love affairs of Chip and DellaWhitman are charmingly and humorously told. Chip's jealousy of Dr. CecilGrantham, who turns out to be a big, blue eyed young woman is veryamusing. A clever, realistic story of the American Cow-puncher.
THE HAPPY FAMILY
A lively and amusing story, dealing with the adventures of eighteenjovial, big hearted Montana cowboys. Foremost amongst them, we findAnanias Green, known as Andy, whose imaginative powers cause many livelyand exciting adventures.
HER PRAIRIE KNIGHT
A realistic story of the plains, describing a gay party of Easternerswho exchange a cottage at Newport for the rough homeliness of a Montanaranch-house. The merry-hearted cowboys, the fascinating Beatrice, andthe effusive Sir Redmond, become living, breathing personalities.
THE RANGE DWELLERS
Here are everyday, genuine cowboys, just as they really exist. Spiritedaction, a range feud between two families, and a Romeo and Julietcourtship make this a bright, jolly, entertaining story, without a dullpage.
THE LURE OF DIM TRAILS
A vivid portrayal of the experience of an Eastern author, among thecowboys of the West, in search of "local color" for a new novel. "Bud"Thurston learns many a lesson while following "the lure of the dimtrails" but the hardest, and probably the most welcome, is that of love.
THE LONESOME TRAIL
"Weary" Davidson leaves the ranch for Portland, where conventional citylife palls on him. A little branch of sage brush, pungent with theatmosphere of the prairie, and the recollection of a pair of large browneyes soon compel his return. A wholesome love story.
THE LONG SHADOW
A vigorous Western story, sparkling with the free, outdoor, life of amountain ranch. Its scenes shift rapidly and its actors play the game oflife fearlessly and like men. It is a fine love story from start tofinish.
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