STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER
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LADDIE. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.
This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. Thestory is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family,but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the loveaffairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that ofLaddie, the older brother whom Little Sister adores, and the Princess,an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whosefamily there hangs a mystery. There is a wedding midway in the bookand a double wedding at the close.
THE HARVESTER. Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.
"The Harvester," David Langston, is a man of the woods and fields,who draws his living from the prodigal hand of Mother Nature herself.If the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man itwould be notable. But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," andthe Harvester's whole being realizes that this is the highest pointof life which has come to him--there begins a romance of the rarestidyllic quality.
FRECKLES. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford.
Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in whichhe takes 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 of theself-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindness towardsall things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beauty of hersoul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren and unpromisingsurroundings 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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