Part 7
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The Ashes of a God
"Mr. Bain's stories are full of wistfulness and beauty. There is a tenderness, a richness of color, a warmth of passion, and an elemental understanding of men and women.... They seem to me to place Mr. Bain on an eminence isolated and unique.... No words that I can write can fittingly express the fascination of these books."--Mr. E. V. Lucas in the _London Bookman_.
"Charming love stories that will be absolutely novel to most readers. They are delicate, vivid, and told in beautiful English. They show Hindu life and thought in the true light, a thing worth doing in view of the mushy mysticisms and theosophical gibbering that have obscured it in this country."--_N. Y. Sun_.
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_A Fascinating Romance_
GREAT POSSESSIONS
By MRS. WILFRID WARD
Mrs. Ward's latest book is the romance of a mysterious bequest. Sir David Bright, a distinguished soldier and prominent figure in London society, has died leaving the bulk of his immense fortune not to his wife, but to an unknown woman living in Florence. Starting with this somewhat melodramatic situation, the author has told a fascinating story of London life marked by pictures of the great world, a presentation at court, and all the lesser observances of fashionable society, with moving and sympathetic character studies, and throughout a strong and striking plot. _The Great Possessions_ might be called the English _House of Mirth_.
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"_A Remarkable Book_"
SAN CELESTINO
BY JOHN AYSCOUGH
Author of "MAROTZ," "DROMINA," etc.
In form, it is almost exactly like a novel with frequent conversations, and going, in minor matters at least, far beyond the record of history. The narrative opens with Petruccio as a child in the home of his parents, who belong to the minor nobility of the Abruzzi. It follows his career at Salerno, where he attended the University as a lonely figure making few friends. Afterwards he became a hermit and the story tells how disciples gathered round him, beginning with two worldly young men who had known him at Salerno. The Order of the Celestines thus founded grew in numbers and importance through fifty quiet years, when the call to the Papacy came. From this point, Mr. Ayscough's chronicle moves swiftly and dramatically--the poor simple old man dragged weeping from his hermit's cave and borne to the triumph from which he shrank in horror,--the miserable weeks in Rome, touching examples of his simplicity and guilelessness. Then the peace which came with the renunciation, and his last days passed quite happily as a captive in a prison cell.
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"_Bound to be one of the most popular novels of the year_"
THE WIVING OF LANCE CLEAVERAGE
BY ALICE MACGOWAN
Author of "JUDITH OF THE CUMBERLANDS," "RETURN," "LAST WORD," ETC.
By its stirring dramatic appeal, its varied interest, its skilful artistry, Miss MacGowan's new Tennessee mountain story marks a long step in advance of her earlier novels. It is an interesting company that is brought together in this book--notably the proud high-spirited mountain beauty who is the heroine, and the bold and fiery young hero, who will surely stand high in the good graces of readers of the tale--and a company of distinct types drawn with a graphic and spirited hand, a company moved by strong passions--love, and hate too, green jealousy and black revenge.
With Illustrations in Color by ROBERT EDWARDS
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G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON
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By F. W. BAIN
_Translated from the Original Manuscripts_
A Digit of the Moon And Other Love Stories from the Hindu
A Draught of the Blue together with An Essence of the Dusk
An Incarnation of the Snow A Mine of Faults The Ashes of a God