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.cuorv Rides the Range" "A story Of


Golden Girl in the Golden West.) Bv
Ethel and james Dorrance With
froptiepieee New York City. Tho
Nscaulav Co. 15-f7 West THIRTY
eighth street Price. sl75. net
Tho scenes and incidents Of this stirring
romance are located on and IN the vicinity
of a horse ranch IN Arizona. Giorisna
Frazer lives on this ranch with her father,
her mother ~ the time supposed ~ -
dead, victim of the horrid desert on which
she had bcen lost while returning honl~
from a visit. A lure adopted for tho pur-
pose bv acheming villain with whom
Glorisna was about 20 fall IN love, took
her father away on journey into Mexico.
where he was assured be would find bis
wife still living. and Gloriana was left
alone on the ranch She wss expected -
seIl the ranch and horses ~ a trader in tho
nearby town. but shs stopped proceedings
for what she deemed good and sufficient
reasons, and the baked trader becefba
added IN her enemies.
But Glory was full of life and spirit
On her splendid horse she rode the range
and kept things going She had some
good friends, especially one IN Seth Cil=on.
A government surveyor NJ the desert
lands and no became her protector.
Together. after the most thrilling ad-
ventures and dangers, they defeated the
Vaccinations ~ Gloriana's enemies and
also recovered her los. mother beside
exposing the villainv of her original ssItor
and sending him and his father 70 jail %
await punishment for their crimes AZ
20 Seth ellison and Glorians--weil, the
aSt,ite reader viii have no difficulty IN
guessing the end before reading
The story is full Of life and action, never
dull for an instant and there ~ some
thing doing on every page.
Received Of the publishers
The Doctor Of Piniico." By William To-.
Queux With frontispece. New York
City: The Macsulay Co, i5-l7 West
Thirty-eighth street. Price. sl.75, net.
Scotland Yard, the famous headquar-
ters of the London Detective Bureau
has for many years been an element ~
interest in romances dealing with mys-
terious crime. In The Doctor OF Pirnlco
IL is gwen a rather unique position, and
| plays a part widely different from the
1 regulation inclusion.
Mr. IeOueux has gwen 10 lovers OF the
/ stirring and mysterious IN fiction q story
| that viii please them 70 the limit Dr
/ PImlico is q Dracticlng surgeon but man
/ of dual character. He has clients anong
| families OF distinction, and exercises large
| influence over his patients. HIS actions
| excite suspicion, but Il - difficult TO at
| tach any wrong-dolng 20 him. Yet at
] the same time he Is &C the head Of an IN
/ ternational band of outlaws
! The mystery Is unravelled by Mr.
4 Maltwood OF Scotland Yard" himself %
] mystery and dual character, az IN private
4 life he Il Walter FeatherssOne, who tin,ls
1 congenial and profitable occupation iu
/ writing mystery stories. Therefore. ~
is able 20 make practical some Of the
theories he o0nceives and weaves INTO hs
literary productions.
Here we have the clements Of a highly
interesting story. and such this one ~
All readers will be thoroughly satisho,.
when they read The Doctor Of PImlicu
from beginning 70 end-and that r.
what they will surely do. once they start.
Received q the publishers.
The Secret Of Sarek. By Maurice le
Blaze. Translated BY Alexander Teixcri3
de Mattos Illustrated New York Ctr
The Macaulay Co. f5-I7 West Thirty
eighth street. Price, sl.75. net.
Thrills, thrills, more thrills, are tho
order of results IN the reading of The
Mystery of Sarek, one OF the most n' '-
sorbing roinances OF desperate crime aIni
mysterious legend that has been written
ceptions. It's in'rigues, its desperate deeds
and also IN It's satisfying ending and ration
al explanation Of what appeared 10 be-
the work Of spirits of ages ago.
Most remarkable s the story OF the
persecution Of NeroniQie Hergemont
| Alexis Norski, Pole by birth. but ~
natural inclination a Hun Of the mo,t
brutal type. Her husband he was for 4
while, but she was freed from him by what
seemed 10 be his death. He had not died
however; he escaped his threatened dooru
and lived. Lived 20 investigate the my.-
terious secrets Of the Island OF Sarek. ~
become obsessed by the great wealth and
power that were promised HIM b.
mastery OF these secrets, and 20 commit
horrible crimes IN pursuance OF his or
session, including the brutal murder Of the
innocent inhabitants Of the island. And 20
inveigle his wife 20 thus terrible island
prison and 10 almost accomplish her
death by 6endish torture IN frnitless efforts
10 bend her 10 his viii, 20 compel her 70
return TO him as ms hfe-psrtner and -
come his sbiect slave; and also, 20 destNy
her loved son.
But this beastly Hun fend, Just whea
he seemed at the point OF complete sue
cess, was combatted and circumvented BY
the great Arsene Lupin How the wouderfI NJ
detective did this work of humanity and
Justice, quickly and completely, forms
a thrilling and absorbing recital. lt ;
really wonderful conception. And o
all ends 50 naturally, so revealingly and
so happily.
4 peco;x-.l ,f the ,,t,hltsh.y.