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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
By CHARLES MAJOR
Author of "When Knighthood was in Flower," etc., with eight full-page illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy
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The plot is centered round Haddon Hall, famous in history as one of the places which sheltered Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity. The story itself is of the romantic attachment and elopement of Dorothy Vernon and young John Manners, in spite of the opposition of parents and guardians. The time is around 1560. The story of the hero and heroine has long filled a romantic place in the more personal annals of Elizabethan history. Both Elizabeth and Mary Stuart come into the story, which is set in perhaps the most beautiful of English scenery—the hill country of Derbyshire, in the neighborhood of Chatsworth, beautiful hills through which flow the Wye and the Derwent. This neighborhood is one of the most interesting in England. Not far from it is Chatsworth, where Walter Scott was often seen, and where Byron met fair Mary Chaworth, the heiress of Annesley. Not far to the south of it is Leehurst, where Florence Nightingale used to live, while to the north of it is the grave of Little John, famous in the Robin Hood legend. Some of the rooms in Haddon Hall stand exactly as Dorothy herself saw them three hundred years ago. In the state chamber still stands the canopied bed of green velvet and white satin, in which tradition says Queen Elizabeth slept when she visited Haddon to open the first ball in the new ball-room of that day.
THE CONQUEROR
Being the true and romantic story of Alexander Hamilton
By GERTRUDE ATHERTON
Author of "Senator North," "The Californians," etc., etc.
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"'The Conqueror' is well worth reading. In fact, if once it is started, it will not be put down until we have rioted with the author to the last page. It is a book that is certain to create and hold interest and to stir up much comment. It is at once daring and unconventional, and it flings tradition to the winds."—Denver Republican.
"Realizing that Mrs. Atherton has sown political dragon's teeth, certain to bring forth clashing opinions, we can only appreciate the fascination and vigor of her work. Upon the whole, it is incomparably more illuminating than any mass of non-vitalized facts collected by the plodding historian."—New York Times' Saturday Review.
"Among the notable productions of the year must be reckoned Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's brilliant character novel. In intellectual grasp, virility, and compelling interest this fearless author takes front rank."—Providence Telegram.
"Till now there has arisen neither man nor woman to do what has been done in this exciting narrative of an exciting life . . . permeated with the passionate brain vitality of a woman who can write as well as think."—Standard Union, Brooklyn.
"It may start a revolution in the methods of our historical novelists. It is a composite yet a splendid picture."—New York Herald.
NEW FICTION
The Benefactress
By the Author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden," "The Solitary Summer," etc.
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A new novel by this charming writer, who so cleverly kept the secret of her personality, is sure to be widely enjoyed by those who read the entertaining chronicles already issued of her garden by the Baltic, of the three quaint April, May, and June Babies, of the Man of Wrath, and of Elizabeth's own original ideas.
"The Benefactress" is a young English woman who has a fortune left her by a German relative. She takes up her property in Germany and lives there. The story of her life in the German village is told with unfailing humor, as might have been expected of the woman who found such a fund of delicious entertainment in what would have been to most an exile of the extremest dulness.
The Real World
By ROBERT HERRICK
Author of "The Gospel of Freedom," "The Web of Life," etc.
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The chief woman in this new novel by Mr. Herrick is the daughter of an Ohio manufacturer, and the plot is developed through the story of a young man's life. The underlying idea is eternally old: that the world does not exist until created afresh for each person. The way the hero makes his own world forms the pith of the story, the scene of which moves back and forth between the East and the West.
NEW CANTERBURY TALES
By MAURICE HEWLETT
Author of "Richard Yea-and-Nay," "The Forest Lovers," "Little Novels of Italy," etc.
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"Each strikes a different note, but each is faithful to the taste of his time, which means a stout belief in the Saints, and perhaps as genuine a fear of 'Old Legion,' a delight in chivalrous deeds, in mundane pomp and might. And behind them is the author's genius for the creation of character and drama, so that these Old World fancies, full of the glamour of ancient legend, in some cases all compact of a curious, mediaeval quaintness, seem somehow extraordinarily human and true."—New York Tribune.
"With each successive volume there is added proof, if such proof were needed, that for real fineness of touch and true artistic instinct Mr. Hewlett stands quite by himself in his country and generation."—The Commercial Advertiser, New York.
THE NEW AMERICANS
By ALFRED HODDER
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It has been said in derogation of the realism of Balzac that all his dramatis personae are people of genius, are at least far above the average in energy and intelligence. The same criticism may be brought against the dramatis personae of this novel. The justification lies in the fact that the book deals with the new generation in the new America; with their energy, their confidence, their audacity, their gayety and intelligence, their sheer determination "to have their fling," their sense that they are the children of a nation rising in power. The plot turns on the conflict between the purposes and ideals of the old generation and of the new, on the conflict between the purposes and ideals of the women of the new generation and of the men, on the hard unsentimentality which for the present distinguishes both the men and women of the new. The hero and the heroine are a Benedick and a Beatrice, in that they both "made light of love"; a Benedick and Beatrice who have made light of it too long and have been taken in its snare too late for the course of true love to run smooth.
Marietta
A Maid of Venice
By F. MARION CRAWFORD
Author of "In the Palace of the King," "Via Crucis," "Saracinesca," etc.
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The story deals with a romantic episode that is historically true, being taken from one of the old Venetian chronicles of the latter part of the fifteenth century, during the development of the greatest splendor of the Queen of the Adriatic.
The action and interest centre in the household of a master glass-blower, a member of one of the most powerful Venetian trade corporations which had many rights and curious privileges, and are picturesquely brought out.
But aside from its power as a story and its vivid picture of domestic life in the Middle Ages, the book shares the peculiar charm of "Marzio's Crucifix," "A Roman Singer," and other of Mr. Crawford's descriptions of artists and their surroundings, which have always been singularly fortunate, possibly because of special sympathies dating from his boyhood in Rome, where his father was the well-known sculptor, Thomas Crawford.
A Friend with the Countersign
By B. K. BENSON
Author of "Who Goes There?" etc.
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Those who have read "the best spy story of the Civil War"—described by the Boston Herald as: "Quite the most extraordinary and remarkable of recent stories of personal adventure in warfare . . . a story of such vividness and power that once you have gotten immersed in it, you want to shut out the rest of the world completely until you have finished it," will not be surprised to find in the new novel a story of desperate personal adventure, political plot and counterplot, villany, and of a devoted woman's love, all interwoven with the Virginia Campaigns of Grant and Lee, and detailed with rare historical accuracy.
NEW FICTION
Calumet "K"
By MERWIN-WEBSTER
Authors of "The Short Line War," "The Banker and the Bear," etc.
Illustrated. Cloth. 12mo. $1.50
Calumet "K" is a two-million-bushel grain elevator, and this story tells how Charlie Bannon built it "against time." The elevator must be done by December 31. There are persons that are interested in delaying the work, and it is these, as well as the "walking delegates," that Bannon has to fight. The story of how they tried to "tie up" the lumber, two hundred miles away, and of how he outwitted them and "just carried it off," shows the kinds of thing that Bannon can do best. In spite of his temptation to brag he was for two years a "chief wrecker" on the Grand Trunk, and has many stories to tell Bannon is one of the men without whom American commerce could not get on. The heroine of this story is Bannon's typewriter.
Mr. Henry Kitchell Webster and Mr. Samuel Merwin have discovered in the exciting movements of trade and finance a field of fiction hitherto overlooked by American writers, but containing a great wealth of romance.
God Wills It
A Tale of the First Crusade
By WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
Author of "A Friend of Caesar"
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The story revolves around the adventures of Richard Longsword, a redoubtable young Norman cavalier, settled in Sicily; how he won the hand of the Byzantine Princess, Mary Kurkuas; how in expiation of a crime committed under extreme provocation, he took the vows of the Crusader; how in Syria his rival in love, the Egyptian Emir, Iftikhar-Eddauleh stole from him his bride; and how he regained her under romantic circumstances at the storming of Jerusalem by the French.
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