Part 18
*The Black Barque*
By T. JENKINS HAINS, author of "The Wind Jammers," "The Strife of the Sea," etc. With five illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton.
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According to a high naval authority who has seen the advance sheets, this is one of the best sea stories ever offered to the public. "The Black Barque" is a story of slavery and piracy upon the high seas about 1815, and is written with a thorough knowledge of deep-water sailing. This, Captain Hains's first long sea story, realistically pictures a series of stirring scenes at the period of the destruction of the exciting but nefarious traffic in slaves, in the form of a narrative by a young American lieutenant, who, by force of circumstances, finds himself the gunner of "The Black Barque."
*Cameron of Lochiel*
Translated from the French of PHILIPPE AUBERT DE GASPE by PROF. CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS.
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The publishers are gratified to announce a new edition of a book by this famous author, who may be called the Walter Scott of Canada. This interesting and valuable romance is fortunate in having for its translator Professor Roberts, who has caught perfectly the spirit of the original. The French edition first appeared under the title of "Les Anciens Canadiens" in 1862, and was later translated and appeared in an American edition now out of print.
Patriotism, devotion to the French-Canadian nationality, a just pride of race, and a loving memory for his people's romantic and heroic past, are the dominant chords struck by the author throughout the story.
*Castel del Monte*
By NATHAN GALLIZIER. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
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A powerful romance of the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy, and the overthrow of Manfred by Charles of Anjou, the champion of Pope Clement IV. The Middle Ages are noted for the weird mysticism and the deep fatalism characteristic of a people believing in signs and portents and the firm hand of fate. Mr. Gallizier has brought out these characteristics in a marked degree.
*Slaves of Success*
By ELLIOTT FLOWER, author of "The Spoilsmen," etc. With twenty illustrations by different artists.
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Another striking book by Mr. Flower, whose work is already so well known, both through his long stories and his contributions to _Collier's_, the _Saturday Evening Post_, etc. Like his first success, "The Spoilsmen," it deals with politics, but in the broader field of state and national instead of municipal. The book has recently appeared in condensed form as a serial in _Collier's Magazine_, where it attracted wide-spread attention, and the announcement of its appearance in book form will be welcomed by Mr. Flower's rapidly increasing audience. The successful delineation of characters like John Wade, Ben Carroll, Azro Craig, and Allen Sidway throws new strong lights on the inside workings of American business and political "graft."
*Silver Bells*
By COL. ANDREW C. P. HAGGARD, author of "Hannibal's Daughter," "Louis XIV. in Court and Camp," etc. With cover design and frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull.
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Under the thin veneer of conventionality and custom lurks in many hearts the primeval instinct to throw civilization to the winds and hark back to the ways of the savages in the wilderness, and it often requires but a mental crisis or an emotional upheaval to break through the coating. Geoffrey Digby was such an one, who left home and kindred to seek happiness among the Indians of Canada, in the vast woods which always hold an undefinable mystery and fascination. He gained renown as a mighty hunter, and the tale of his life there, and the romance which awaited him, will be heartily enjoyed by all who like a good love-story with plenty of action not of the "stock" order. "Silver Bells," the Indian girl, is a perfect "child of nature."
*Selections from L. C. Page and Company's List of Fiction*
*WORKS OF ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS*
*Captain Ravenshaw;* OR, THE MAID OF CHEAPSIDE. (40th thousand.) A romance of Elizabethan London. Illustrations by Howard Pyle and other artists.
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Not since the absorbing adventures of D'Artagnan have we had anything so good in the blended vein of romance and comedy. The beggar student, the rich goldsmith, the roisterer and the rake, the fop and the maid, are all here: foremost among them Captain Ravenshaw himself, soldier of fortune and adventurer, who, after escapades of binding interest, finally wins a way to fame and to matrimony.
*Philip Winwood.* (70th thousand) A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence, embracing events that occurred between and during the years 1763 and 1785 in New York and London. Written by his Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. Presented anew by ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS. Illustrated by E. W. D. Hamilton.
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"One of the most stirring and remarkable romances that have been published in a long while, and its episodes, incidents, and actions are as interesting and agreeable as they are vivid and dramatic."--_Boston Times_.
*The Mystery of Murray Davenport.* (30th thousand.) By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of "An Enemy to the King," "Philip Winwood," etc.
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"This is easily the best thing that Mr. Stephens has yet done. Those familiar with his other novels can best judge the measure of this praise, which is generous."--_Buffalo News_.
"Mr. Stephens won a host of friends through his earlier volumes, but we think he will do still better work in his new field if the present volume is a criterion."--_N. Y. Com. Advertiser_.
*An Enemy to the King.* (60th thousand.) From the "Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire." Illustrated by H. De M. Young.
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An historical romance of the sixteenth century, describing the adventures of a young French nobleman at the Court of Henry III., and on the field with Henry of Navarre.
"A stirring tale."--_Detroit Free Press_.
"A royally strong piece of fiction."--_Boston Ideas_.
"Interesting from the first to the last page."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
"Brilliant as a play; it is equally brilliant as a romantic novel."--_Philadelphia Press_.
*The Continental Dragoon:* A ROMANCE OF PHILIPSE MANOR HOUSE IN 1778. (43d thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
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A stirring romance of the Revolution, the scene being laid in and around the old Philipse Manor House, near Yonkers, which at the time of the story was the central point of the so-called "neutral territory" between the two armies.
*The Road to Paris:* A STORY OF ADVENTURE. (25th thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
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An historical romance of the 18th century, being an account of the life of an American gentleman adventurer of Jacobite ancestry, whose family early settled in the colony of Pennsylvania.
*A Gentleman Player:* HIS ADVENTURES ON A SECRET MISSION FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH. (38th thousand.) Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
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"A Gentleman Player" is a romance of the Elizabethan period. It relates the story of a young gentleman who, in the reign of Elizabeth, falls so low in his fortune that he joins Shakespeare's company of players, and becomes a friend and protege of the great poet.
*WORKS OF CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS*
*Barbara Ladd.* With four illustrations by Frank Verbeck.
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"From the opening chapter to the final page Mr. Roberts lures us on by his rapt devotion to the changing aspects of Nature and by his keen and sympathetic analysis of human character."--_Boston Transcript_.
*The Kindred of the Wild.* A BOOK OF ANIMAL LIFE. With fifty-one full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.
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"Professor Roberts has caught wonderfully the elusive individualities of which he writes. His animal stories are marvels of sympathetic science and literary exactness. Bound with the superb illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, they make a volume which charms, entertains, and informs."--New York World.
"... Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories that has appeared ... well named and well done."--_John Burroughs_.
*The Forge in the Forest.* Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart, and how he crossed the Black Abbe, and of his Adventures in a Strange Fellowship. Illustrated by Henry Sandham, R.C.A.
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A romance of the convulsive period of the struggle between the French and English for the possession of North America. The story is one of pure love and heroic adventure, and deals with that fiery fringe of conflict that waved between Nova Scotia and New England. The Expulsion of the Acadians is foreshadowed in these brilliant pages, and the part of the "Black Abbe's" intrigues in precipitating that catastrophe is shown.
*The Heart of the Ancient Wood.* With six illustrations by James L. Weston.
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"One of the most fascinating novels of recent days."--_Boston Journal_.
"A classic twentieth-century romance."--_New York Commercial Advertiser_.
*A Sister to Evangeline.* Being the story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into Exile with the Villagers of Grand Pre.
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This is a romance of the great expulsion of the Acadians, which Longfellow first immortalized in "Evangeline." Swift action, fresh atmosphere, wholesome purity, deep passion, searching analysis, characterize this strong novel.
*By the Marshes of Minas.*
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This is a volume of romance, of love and adventure in that picturesque period when Nova Scotia was passing from the French to the English regime. Each tale is independent of the others, but the scenes are similar, and in several of them the evil "Black Abbe"," well known from the author's previous novels, again appears with his savages at his heels--but to be thwarted always by woman's wit or soldier's courage.
*Earth's Enigmas.* A new edition, with the addition of three new stories, and ten illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.
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"Throughout the volume runs that subtle questioning of the cruel, predatory side of nature which suggests the general title of the book. In certain cases it is the picture of savage nature ravening for food--for death to preserve life; in others it is the secret symbolism of woods and waters prophesying of evils and misadventures to come. All this does not mean, however, that Mr. Roberts is either pessimistic or morbid--it is nature in his books after all, wholesome in her cruel moods as in her tender."--_The New York Independent_.
*WORKS OF LILIAN BELL*
*Hope Loring.* Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
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"Lilian Bell's new novel, 'Hope Loring,' does for the American girl in fiction what Gibson has done for her in art.
"Tall, slender, and athletic, fragile-looking, yet with nerves and sinews of steel under the velvet flesh, frank as a boy and tender and beautiful as a woman, free and independent, yet not bold--such is 'Hope Loring,' by long odds the subtlest study that has yet been made of the American girl."--_Dorothy Dix, in the New York American_.
*Abroad with the Jimmies.* With a portrait, in duogravure, of the author.
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"A deliciously fresh, graphic book. The writer is so original and unspoiled that her point of view has value."--_Mary Hartwell Catherwood_.
"Full of ozone, of snap, of ginger, of swing and momentum."--_Chicago Evening Post_.
"... Is one of her best and cleverest novels ... filled to the brim with amusing incidents and experiences. This vivacious narrative needs no commendation to the readers of Miss Bell's well-known earlier books."--_N. Y. Press_.
*The Interference of Patricia.* With a frontispiece from drawing by Frank T. Merrill.
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"There is life and action and brilliancy and dash and cleverness and a keen appreciation of business ways in this story."--_Grand Rapids Herald_.
"A story full of keen and flashing satire."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.
*A Book Of Girls.* With a frontispiece.
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"The stories are all eventful and have effective humor."--_New York Sun_.
"Lilian Bell surely understands girls, for she depicts all the variations of girl nature so charmingly."--_Chicago Journal_.
_The above two volumes boxed in special holiday dress, per set, $2.50_.
*The Red Triangle.* Being some further chronicles of Martin Hewitt, investigator. By ARTHUR MORRISON, author of "The Hole in the Wall," "Tales of Mean Streets," etc.
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This is a genuine, straightforward detective story of the kind that keeps the reader on the _qui vive_. Martin Hewitt, investigator, might well have studied his methods from Sherlock Holmes, so searching and successful are they.
"Better than Sherlock Holmes."--_New York Tribune_.
"The reader who has a grain of fancy or imagination may be defied to lay this book down, once he has begun it, until the last word has been reached."--_Philadelphia North American_.
"If you like a good detective story you will enjoy this."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
"We have found 'The Red Triangle' a book of absorbing interest."--_Rochester Herald_.
"Will be eagerly read by every one who likes a tale of mystery."--_The Scotsman, England_.
*Prince Hagen.* By UPTON SINCLAIR, author of "King Midas," etc.
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In this book Mr. Sinclair has written a satire of the first order--one worthy to be compared with Swift's biting tirades against the follies and abuses of mankind.
"A telling satire on politics and society in modern New York."--_Philadelphia Public Ledger_.
"The book has a living vitality and is a strong depiction of political New York."--_Bookseller, Newsdealer, and Stationer_.
*The Silent Maid.* By FREDERIC W. PANGBORN.
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A dainty and delicate legend of the brave days of old, of sprites and pixies, of trolls and gnomes, of ruthless barons and noble knights. "The Silent Maid" herself, with her strange bewitchment and wondrous song, is equalled only by Undine in charm and mystery.
"Seldom does one find a short tale so idyllic in tone and so fanciful in motive. The book shows great delicacy of imagination."--_The Criterion_.
*The Spoilsmen.* By ELLIOTT FLOWER, author of "Policeman Flynn," etc.
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"The best one may hear of 'The Spoilsmen' will be none too good. As a wide-awake, snappy, brilliant political story it has few equals, its title-page being stamped with that elusive mark, 'success.' One should not miss a word of a book like this at a time like this and in a world of politics like this."--_Boston Transcript_.
"Elliott Flower, whose 'Policeman Flynn' attested his acquaintance with certain characteristic aspects of the American city, has written a novel of municipal politics, which should interest many readers.... The characters are obviously suggested by certain actual figures in local politics, and while the conditions he depicts are general in large cities in the United States, they will be unusually familiar to local readers.... Ned Bell, the 'Old Man,' or political boss; Billy Ryan, his lieutenant; 'Rainbow John,' the alderman, are likely to be identified.... and other personages of the story are traceable to their prototypes."--_Chicago Evening Post_.
*Stephen Holton.* By CHARLES FELTON PIDGIN, author of "Quincy Adams Sawyer," "Blennerhassett," etc. The frontispiece is a portrait of the hero by Frank T. Merrill.
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"In the delineation of rural life, the author shows that intimate sympathy which distinguished his first success, 'Quincy Adams Sawyer.'"--_Boston Daily Advertiser_.
"'Stephen Holton' stands as his best achievement."--_Detroit Free Press_.
"New England's common life seems a favorite material for this sterling author, who in this particular instance mixes his colors with masterly skill."--_Boston Globe_.
*Asa Holmes;* OR, AT THE CROSS-ROADS. A Sketch of Country Life and Country Humor. By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON. With a frontispiece by Ernest Fosbery.
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"'Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads' is the most delightful, most sympathetic and wholesome book that has been published in a long while. The lovable, cheerful, touching incidents, the descriptions of persons and things are wonderfully true to nature."--_Boston Times_.
*A Daughter Of Thespis.* By JOHN D. BARRY, author of "The Intriguers," "Mademoiselle Blanche," etc.
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"I should say that 'A Daughter of Thespis' seemed so honest about actors and acting that it made you feel as if the stage had never been truly written about before."--_W. D. Howells, in Harper's Weekly_.
"This story of the experiences of Evelyn Johnson, actress, may be praised just because it is so true and so wholly free from melodrama and the claptrap which we have come to think inseparable from any narrative which has to do with theatrical experiences."--_Professor Harry Thurston Peck, of Columbia University_.
"Certainly written from a close and shrewd observation of stage life."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.
*The Golden Dog:* A ROMANCE OF QUEBEC. By WILLIAM KIRBY. New authorized edition, printed from new plates. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy.
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"A powerful romance of love, intrigue, and adventure in the times of Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour, when the French colonies were making their great struggle to retain for an ungrateful court the fairest jewels in the colonial diadem of France. It is a most masterly picture of the cruelties and the jealousies of a maiden, Angelique des Melloises--fair as an angel and murderous as Medea. Mr. Kirby has shown how false prides and ambitions stalked abroad at this time, how they entered the heart of man to work his destruction, and particularly how they influenced a beautiful demon in female form to continued vengeances."--_Boston Herald_.
*The Last Word*. By ALICE MACGOWAN. Illustrated with seven portraits of the heroine.
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"When one receives full measure to overflowing of delight in a tender, charming, and wholly fascinating new piece of fiction, the enthusiasm is apt to come uppermost. Miss MacGowan has been known before, but her best gift has here declared itself."--_Louisville Post_.
"The story begins and ends in Western Texas. Between chapters, there is the ostensible autobiography of a girl who makes her way in New York journalism. Out of it all comes a book, vivid, bright, original--one of a kind and the kind most welcome to readers of the hitherto conventional."--_New York World_.
*The Captain's Wife.* By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor." With a frontispiece by C. H. Dunton.
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"Mr. Russell's descriptions of the sea are vivid and full of color, and he brings home to the reader the feeling that he is looking upon the real thing drawn by one who has seen the scenes and writes from knowledge."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
"Every page is readable and exciting."--_Baltimore Herald_.
"This story may be considered as one of the best of his excellent tales of the sea."--_Chicago Post_.
"There are suggestions of Marryat in it, and reminders of Charles Reade, but mostly it is Clark Russell, with his delightful descriptions and irresistible sea yarns."--_Phila. North American_.
*The Mate of the Good Ship York.* By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. With a frontispiece by C. H. Dunton.
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"One of the breeziest, most absorbing books that have come to our table is W. Clark Russell's 'The Mate of the Good Ship York.'"--_Buffalo Commercial_.
"For a rousing, absorbing, and, withal, a truthful tale of the sea, commend me to W. Clark Russell. His novel, 'The Mate of the Good Ship York,' is one of the best, and the love romance that runs through it will be appreciated by every one."--_Philadelphia North American_.
"Romantic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, and astounding achievements keep things spinning at a lively rate and hold the reader's attention throughout the breezy narrative."--_Toledo Blade_.
*The Golden Kingdom.* By ANDREW BALFOUR, author of "Vengeance Is Mine," "To Arms!" etc.
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This is a story of adventure on land and sea, beginning in England and ending in South Africa, in the last days of the seventeenth century. The scheme of the tale at once puts the reader in mind of Stevenson's "Treasure Island."
"Every one imbued with the spirit of adventure and with a broad imaginative faculty will want to read this tale."--_Boston Transcript_.
"'The Golden Kingdom' is the rarest adventure book of them all."--_N. Y. World_.
*The Schemers: A Tale of Modern Life.*
By EDWARD F. HARKINS, author of "Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books," etc. With a frontispiece by Ernest Fosbery.
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A story of a new and real phase of social life in Boston, skilfully and daringly handled. There is plenty of life and color abounding, and a diversity of characters--shop-girls, society belles, men about town, city politicians, and others. The various schemers and their schemes will be followed with interest, and there will be some discerning readers who may claim to recognize in certain points of the story certain happenings in the shopping and the society circles of the Hub.
"A faithful delineation of real shop-girl life."--_Milwaukee Sentinel_.
"This comes nearer to the actual life of a modern American city, with all its complexities, than any other work of American fiction. The book shows an unusual power of observation and a still more unusual power to concentrate and interpret what is observed."--_St. Louis Star_.
*The Promotion of The Admiral.* By MORLEY ROBERTS, author of "The Colossus," "The Fugitives," "Sons of Empire," etc.
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This volume contains half a dozen stories of sea life,--fresh, racy, and bracing,--all laid in America,--stories full of rollicking, jolly, sea-dog humor, tempered to the keen edge of wit.
"If any one writes better sea stories than Mr. Roberts, we don't know who it is; and if there is a better sea story of its kind than this it would be a joy to have the pleasure of reading it."--_New York Sun_.
"To read these stories is a tonic for the mind; the stories are gems, and for pith and vigor of description they are unequalled."--_New York Commercial Advertiser_.
"There is a hearty laugh in every one of these stories."--_The Reader_.
"Mr. Roberts treats the life of the sea in a way that is intensely real and intensely human."--_Milwaukee Sentinel_.
"The author knows his sea men from A to Z."--_Philadelphia North American_.