Part 5
A new volume from the pen of Miss Holley, marked by such quaint thoughtfulness and timely reflection as ran through “Samantha.” All who read it will be bound to feel better, as indeed they should, for they will have done some hearty laughing, and have been ‘up against’ some bits of striking philosophy delivered with point, vigor, and chuckling humor. All Josiah Allen’s opinions are wittily, pithily expressed, causing the whole book to fairly bubble with homely, fun-provoking wisdom.
_J. J. BELL_
_Author of “Wee Macgreegor,” “Oh! Christina!” etc._
The Misadventures of Joseph
12mo, cloth, net $1.00.
A characteristic story in which the author displays unusual ability to portray with quiet, humorous touch, the idiosyncrasies of Scottish life and character. Through a series of highly diverting chapters a homely yet worthy house-painter extricates himself from many a seeming dilemma, by the exercise of a kindly charity and the best attributes of a man.
_THEODORA PECK_
_Author of “The Sword of Dundee”_
White Dawn
A Legend of Ticonderoga. Illustrated, net $1.25.
A real romance, redolent of love and war. The plot, for the most part, is laid in the beautiful Champlain valley, in the days when the British were storming Ticonderoga, and the armies of Wolfe and Montcalm striving for supremacy in the northern part of the continent. Miss Peck simply packs her book with action, and depicts scene after scene which literally resound with the din of battle and the clash of arms.
_S. R. CROCKETT_
_Author of “The Stickit Minister,” “The Raiders,” etc._
Silver Sand
A Romance of Old Galloway. Cloth, net $1.25.
“In this romance published only a few days after his death, we find Mr. Crockett in his familiar Wigtownshire, writing at his best, and giving us an even finer display of his powers than when he first captured his admirers. ‘Silver Sand’ is certainly one of the best things he ever did. Some of the characters here portrayed are among the best of his many creations, with an even added depth and tenderness.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._
_CAROLINE ABBOT STANLEY_
Dr. Llewellyn and His Friends
Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.
Mrs. Stanley’s new book is a human chronicle of absorbing interest. Humor and pathos of a rare order alternate in its pages, together with some astonishingly good delineation of negro life and character. The _Kansas City Star_ says: “If there is to be a Missouri school of literature to rival the famed Indiana institution, Mrs. Stanley has fairly earned the right to a charter membership.”
_GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL LUTZ_
The Man of the Desert
Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.
The author of “The Best Man,” “Marcia Schuyler,” etc., enjoys no mean reputation as a weaver of sweet, wholesome romances, a reputation which “The Man of the Desert” fully maintains. Her latest book tells the love-story of a daughter of luxury and a plain man facing his duty and doing his work on the home mission field of the West. Every reader of this charming story will be made to rejoice in the happy triumph over difficulties which gives to these young people the crowning joy of life, the union of kindred souls.
_THURLOW FRASER_
The Call of The East
A Romance of Far Formosa. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.
Here is a jewel in romance—set amid the blossom-laden islands of the Eastern seas. To its making go the record of one white man’s heroism and native worth, of another’s baseness and treachery; some thrilling incidents of the French invasion of Formosa; a satisfying picture of the great pioneer missionary Mackay, and a love-story as old as Eden, yet as fresh as the dews of the morning.
_CAROLINE ABBOT STANLEY_
_Author of “The Master of the Oaks”_
The Keeper of the Vineyard
A Tale of the Ozarks. Illustrated, $1.25 net.
“When the Revells publish a novel there can be no question as to its high moral tone. This is an unusual story, in which a young woman assumes the burden of the support of a family and succeeds in her purpose. The story takes us to the Ozarks and to the Vineyards, and charms us by the descriptions of life near the heart of nature.”—_Watchman Examiner._
_NORMAN HINSDALE PITMAN_
The Lady Elect
A Chinese Romance. Illustrated by Chinese artists. 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.
“A story that depicts, in all its fascination, the old China—Something of the knowledge of what may be lies at the heart of this Chinese romance—the story of a girl who rebelled against an ‘arranged’ marriage, and of the young man she loved. A romance with all the plot, situation and charm of a modern popular love-story makes the book irresistible.”—_Norma Bright Carson, Editor of Book News._
_RICHARD S. HOLMES_
Bradford Horton: Man
A novel. 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.
“This story is one of intense interest, combining sentiment, pathos, love, humor and high aims and purposes. It is not a sermon. It is just what it claims to be, “a novel.” But he who reads it will find in it an inspiration to higher living. It is fascinating in its presentation of its distinctly human characters.”—_Presbyterian of the South._
_MARIETTA HOLLEY_
(_Josiah Allen’s Wife_)
Samantha on the Woman Question
Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.00.
“This is the book we have been waiting for. What Samantha doesn’t know, isn’t worth knowing—will throw a little humor on the situation which is becoming too intense. We hope it may have a wide circulation in England, for Samantha who believes in suffrage, does not believe in dynamite, gunpowder and mobs.”—_Examiner._
_CHARLES H. LERRIGO_
Doc Williams
A Tale of the Middle West. Illustrated, net $1.25.
“The homely humor of the old doctor and his childlike faith in ‘the cure’ is so intensely human that he captures the sympathy of the layman at once—a sympathy that becomes the deepest sort of interest.”—_Topeka Capital._