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A THOROUGHBRED GIRL
ZELDA DAMERON
By MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Author of The Main Chance
Zelda Dameron is in all ways a splendid and successful story. There is about it a sweetness, a wholesomeness and a sturdiness that will commend it to earnest, kindly and wholesome people.
Boston Transcript
The whole story is thoroughly American. It is lively and breezy throughout a graphic description of a phase of life in the Middle West.
Toledo Blade
A lore itory of a peculiarly sweet and attractive sort, the interpretation of a girl's life, the revelation of a human heart.
New Orleans Picayune
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A STORY OF TODAY
The MAIN CHANCE
By MEREDITH NICHOLSON
The Main Chance is a straightforward, honest picture of the life of today in a wide-awake western city. It leaves with the reader a pleasant impression of a type of people and a phase of life well worth a closer acquaintance.
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Mr. Nicholson's work is marked by wholesome humor, convincing realism, admirable diction, bright sayings, a good sense of proportion and artistic finish.
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The Main Chance is a romance of youth, of love and of success honestly won. It is a vigorous, buoyant, cheering story, full of crisp humor, forceful charm and hard common sense. It is American to the very core.
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We recommend it for its workmanship, for its smoothness and its sensible and pleasant fancies, and for its general charm.
The New York Sun.
With six illustrations by Harrison Fisher
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"FULL OF ZEST"
HEARTS AND MASKS
BY HAROLD MAC GRATH
Mr. Mac Grath was in his gayest mood when he wrote this most exhilarating story, full of the zest of life. At every page the adventure turns an unexpected corner. The elements are fascinating: a hunt-club masquerade, three mysterious dominoes, each holding as a card of invitation the ten of hearts; a romantic episode in a wine cellar; the theft of a gorgeous necklace; a love affair begun and consummated within eight hours under extraordinary conditions. Mr. Fisher's pretty girls and manly men make a fitting accompaniment to the merry tale of carnival entanglement.
12 Pictures in Color by Harrison Fisher
Decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour
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GRACE AND PASSION AND SATIRE
THE SOCIAL SECRETARY
The New Love Story
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
An absorbing novel of Washington society, telling how a clever girl "made" the social success of the new senator's wife.
There is a tempestuous love story, and character work of great and delightful excellence.
Mrs. Burke wins affection and provides amusement by her naive speeches, shrewd sense, downright sincerity and unvarnished comments on Washington society.
Grace and passion and satire flow from the facile pen of Mr. Phillips.
A very beautiful book, with eleven full-page illus-
trations in Photogravure by Clarence
F. Underwood.
Decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour
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REMARKABLE FOR ITS INTENSE HUMANITY
THE MAN OF THE HOUR
BY OCTAVE THANET
"Not only distinctly an American novel, but decidedly the American novel of the year."
Boston Herald
"Remarkable for its intense humanity."
Pittsburg Times
"The largeness of the matters involved and the reality of the life pictured give it a valid claim to be called one of the great American novels."
Cincinnati Enquirer
"Should stand as the book of the year."
Washington Star
"The most talked about and the most thought about novel of the year."
San Francisco Bulletin
Seven pictures by L. W. Hitchcock
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THE SWIFT AND INTENSE LIFE OF TO-DAY
THE DELUGE
By DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
A cross-section out of the very heart of our life to-day, with its big and bold energies and passions, the swiftest and intensest life ever lived by the human race.
Enormous interests are at stake in the plot. Millions are involved. The onslaught of the great Blacklock upon the kings of commerce leads to "Wild Week" on Wall Street, one of the most thrilling incidents in modern romance. The story takes on a gigantic, a monumental interest and impressiveness. But in the clash of the great business conflict, the love element is not for a moment forgotten. It is the refreshing and glorifying touch in a novel of magnificent proportions and persistent absorption.
Gibbs' Pictures in Color
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LIFE INSURANCE STORIES
THE BEST
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Twelve Stories, dealing with Dramatic Incidents in the Life Insurance Profession
By ELLIOTT FLOWER
The comedies, the tragedies, the speculations, the favors, the failures, the schemes, the grievances that lie in the agent's pathway are presented with vigor and originality.
The plea for life insurance in its various aspects has never been presented with such subtle force.
There could not possibly be a better handbook for the agent.
Illustrations by George Brehm
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WHO SHAKES THE PLUM TREE?
THE PLUM TREE
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
"A morel, peculiar, and entertaining book."
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"Plot, action, vitality, color, make 'The Plum Tree' thrilling."
Senator Beveridge of Indiana
"Well written and dramatic, as might be expected from the pen of Phillips."
Senator Depew of New York
"'The Plum Tree' impressed me as containing a valuable political lesson."
Former President Cleveland
'"The Plum Tree' must awaken wide interest and produce great good."
Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin
"'The Plum Tree' is fine."
Paul Morton, President of the Equitable
Illustrated by E. M. Ashe
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A TALE OF THE RAPPITES
HEARTS'
HAVEN
By KATHARINE EVANS BLAKE
The love of a man for a maid and the love of a parent for a child are the dominant motives of Hearts' Haven. These two loves survive the mutations of years. They are stronger than heredity, stronger than loyalty to a religious leader. They are never obliterated, even by fanaticism. And at last they triumph over every obstacle.
The setting for the development of the beautiful theme is the Rappite community of celibates at New Harmony.
Seldom, indeed, have the conquering impulses of young love and the overriding instincts of parenthood been expressed with such searching tenderness and such intimate reality.
Six pictures in color by E. M. Ashe
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THE SMARTEST NOVEL OF THE SEASON
THE MAN ON THE BOX
By HAROLD MAC GRATH
"'The Man on the Box' is the smartest novel of the season." St. Paul Dispatch
"'The Man on the Box' is vastly exciting and, what is more, it turns out to the greatest satisfaction of all." New York Times
"'The Man on the Box' will hold any audience breathless." Atlanta Constitution
"The idea is novel, the situation ingenious, and the humor bubbling." San Francisco Call
The pictures by Harrison Fisher
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BY THE MARCH KING
PIPETOWN SANDY
By JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
"Sure to be read with genuine pleasure by all." New York Globe
"Mr. Sousa's literary quality is fairly comparable with his musical gifts, which have won him many admirers and a unique position in the broad field of American entertainment. 'Pipetown Sandy,' his new novel, is a rattling story."
Philadelphia North American
"The master of music is also the master of romance."
Minneapolis Times
"The reader rejoices in the swiftness and vigor of the narrative." Philadelphia Record
"Pipetown Sandy is a boy to win friends by the hundreds." Washington Star
Pictures by C. L. Hinton
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"AN ADMIRABLE TALE."
THE MILLIONAIRE BABY
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Author of "The Filigree Ball"
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"'Certain to keep you up to the wee sma' hours.'" Chicago Journal
"Handled with consummate dexterity, adroitness and fertility of invention." Brooklyn Times
"A detective story that is a detective story." Judge
"One reads from page to page with breathless interest." New York Times
The reader is kept in a state of tiptoe expectation from chapter to chapter." Boston Herald
"Anna Katharine Green shows, in 'The Millionaire Baby, 'a fertility of brain simply marvelous." Philadelphia Item
Beautifully Illustrated by A. I. Keller
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It is fresh and spontaneous, having nothing of
that wooden quality which is becoming
associated with the term
"historical novel"
HEARTS COURAGEOUS
By HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES
"Hearts Courageous" is made of new material, a picturesque yet delicate style, good plot and very dramatic situations. The best in the book are the defence of George Washington by the Marquis; the duel between the English officer and the Marquis; and Patrick Henry flinging the brand of war into the assembly of the burgesses of Virginia
Williamsburg. Virginia, the country 'round about, and the lite led In that locality just before the Revolution, form an attractive setting for the action of the story.
With six illustrations by A. B. Wenzell
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THE LIFE AND LOVES OF LORD BYRON
THE CASTAWAY
"Three great men ruined in one year a king, a cad and a castaway."—Byron.
BY HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES
Author of Hearts Courageous
Lord Byron's personal beauty, his brilliancy, his genius, bis possession of a title, his love affairs, his death in a noble cause, all make him the most magnetic figure in English literature. In Miss Rives' s novel the incidents of his career stand out in absorbing power and enthralling force.
The most profoundly sympathetic, vivid and true portrait of Byron ever drawn.
Calvin Dill Wilson, author of Byron Man and Poet
Dramatic scenes, thrilling incidents, strenuous events follow one another; pathos, revenge and passion; a strong love; and through all these, under all these, is the poet, the man, George Gordon.
Grand Rapids Herald
With eight illustrations in color by
Howard Chandler Christy
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For the man who can rejoice at a book that is not trivial.
For the man who feels the power of Egypt's marvelous past;
For the man who is stirred at heart by the great scenes of the Bible;
For the man who likes a story and knows when it is good.}}
THE YOKE
BY ELIZABETH MILLER
A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed
the Children of Israel from the
Bondage of Egypt.
A theme that captures the imagination: Israel's deliverance from Egypt.
Characters famous for all time: Moses, the Pharaoh, Prince Rameses.
Scenes of natural and supernatural power; the finding ot the signet, the turning of the Nile Into blood, the passage of the Red Sea.
A background of brilliant color: the rich and varied life of Thebes and Memphis.
A plot of intricate interest: a love story of enduring beauty. Such is "The Yoke."
Ornamental cloth binding. 626 pages
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LOVE, POLITICS AND PELF
THE GRAFTERS
By FRANCIS LYNDE
Author of The Master of Appleby
One of the best examples of a new and distinctly American class of fiction the kind which finds romance and even sensational excitement in business, politics, finance and law. The Outlook
Its sweeping sentences fire the blood like new wine.
Boston Post
Telephone, telegraph, locomotive, skirl, click, thunder through the pages in a way unprecedented in fiction. It is an amazingly modern book.
New York Times
Virile, with the rugged strength of the West, The Grafters is like the current of a deep river, vigorous and forceful. Louisville Courier-Journal
Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
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