"In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is a pastoral, an idyl--the story of love and courtship and marriage of a fine young man and a lovely girl--no more. But it is told in so thoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate fancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be desired."--_Boston Traveller._
GILBERT PARKER"S BEST BOOKS.
_THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY._ Being the Memoirs of Captain ROBERT MORAY, sometime an Officer in the Virginia Regiment, and afterward of Amherst"s Regiment. 12mo. Cloth, ill.u.s.trated, $1.50.
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock"s defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe"s victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance.
The ill.u.s.trations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero"s imprisonment in Quebec.
_THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD._ A Novel. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"Mr. Parker here adds to a reputation already wide, and anew demonstrates his power of pictorial portrayal and of strong dramatic situation and climax."--_Philadelphia Bulletin._
"The tale holds the reader"s interest from first to last, for it is full of fire and spirit, abounding in incident, and marked by good character drawing."--_Pittsburg Times._
_THE TRESPa.s.sER._ 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"Interest, pith, force and charm--Mr. Parker"s new story possesses all these qualities.... Almost bare of synthetical decoration, his paragraphs are stirring because they are real. We read at times--as we have read the great masters of romance--breathlessly."--_The Critic._
"Gilbert Parker writes a strong novel, but thus far this is his masterpiece.... It is one of the great novels of the year."--_Boston Advertiser._
_THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE._ 16mo. Flexible cloth, 75 cents.
"A book which no one will be satisfied to put down until the end has been matter of certainty and a.s.surance."--_The Nation._
"A story of remarkable interest, originality, and ingenuity of construction."--_Boston Home Journal._
"The perusal of this romance will repay those who care for new and original types of character, and who are susceptible to the fascination of a fresh and vigorous style."--_London Daily News._
"=A better book than "The Prisoner of Zenda."="--_London Queen._
_THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO._ By ANTHONY HOPE, author of "The G.o.d in the Car," "The Prisoner of Zenda," etc. With photogravure Frontispiece by S. W. Van Schaick. Third edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"No adventures were ever better worth recounting than are those of Antonio of Monte Velluto, a very Bayard among outlaws.... To all those whose pulses still stir at the recital of deeds of high courage, we may recommend this book.... The chronicle conveys the emotion of heroic adventure, and is picturesquely written."--_London Daily News._
"It has literary merits all its own, of a deliberate and rather deep order.... In point of execution "The Chronicles of Count Antonio" is the best work that Mr. Hope has yet done. The design is clearer, the workmanship more elaborate, the style more colored.... The incidents are most ingenious, they are told quietly, but with great cunning, and the Quixotic sentiment which pervades it all is exceedingly pleasant."--_Westminster Gazette._
"A romance worthy of all the expectations raised by the brilliancy of his former books, and likely to be read with a keen enjoyment and a healthy exaltation of the spirits by every one who takes it up."--_The Scotsman._
"A gallant tale, written with unfailing freshness and spirit."--_London Daily Telegraph._
"One of the most fascinating romances written in English within many days. The quaint simplicity of its style is delightful, and the adventures recorded in these "Chronicles of Count Antonio" are as stirring and ingenious as any conceived even by Weyman at his best."--_New York World._
"Romance of the real flavor, wholly and entirely romance, and narrated in true romantic style. The characters, drawn with such masterly handling, are not merely pictures and portraits, but statues that are alive and step boldly forward from the canvas."--_Boston Courier._
"Told in a wonderfully simple and direct style, and with the magic touch of a man who has the genius of narrative, making the varied incidents flow naturally and rapidly in a stream of sparkling discourse."--_Detroit Tribune._
"Easily ranks with, if not above, "A Prisoner of Zenda." ... Wonderfully strong, graphic, and compels the interest of the most _blase_ novel reader."--_Boston Advertiser._
"No adventures were ever better worth telling than those of Count Antonio.... The author knows full well how to make every pulse thrill, and how to hold his readers under the spell of his magic."--_Boston Herald._
"A book to make women weep proud tears, and the blood of men to tingle with knightly fervor.... In "Count Antonio" we think Mr. Hope surpa.s.ses himself, as he has already surpa.s.sed all the other story-tellers of the period."--_New York Spirit of the Times._
_THE ONE WHO LOOKED ON._ By F. F. MONTReSOR, author of "Into the Highways and Hedges." 16mo. Cloth, special binding, $1.25.
"The story runs on as smoothly as a brook through lowlands; it excites your interest at the beginning and keeps it to the end."--_New York Herald._
"An exquisite story.... No person sensitive to the influence of what makes for the true, the lovely, and the strong in human friendship and the real in life"s work can read this book without being benefited by it."--_Buffalo Commercial._
"The book has universal interest and very unusual merit.... Aside from its subtle poetic charm, the book is a n.o.ble example of the power of keen observation."--_Boston Herald._
_CORRUPTION._ By PERCY WHITE, author of "Mr. Bailey-Martin," etc. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.25.
"There is intrigue enough in it for those who love a story of the ordinary kind, and the political part is perhaps more attractive in its sparkle and variety of incident than the real thing itself."--_London Daily News._
"A drama of biting intensity, a tragedy of inflexible purpose and relentless result."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
_A HARD WOMAN._ A Story in Scenes. By VIOLET HUNT. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"An extremely clever work. Miss Hunt probably writes dialogue better than any of our young novelists.... Not only are her conversations wonderfully vivacious and sustained, but she contrives to a.s.sign to each of her characters a distinct mode of speech, so that the reader easily identifies them, and can follow the conversations without the slightest difficulty."--_London Athenaeum._
"One of the best writers of dialogue of our immediate day. The conversations in this book will enhance her already secure reputation."--_London Daily Chronicle._
"A creation that does Miss Hunt infinite credit, and places her in the front rank of the younger novelists.... Brilliantly drawn, quivering with life, adroit, quiet-witted, unfalteringly insolent, and withal strangely magnetic."--_London Standard._
_AN IMAGINATIVE MAN._ By ROBERT S. HICHENS, author of "The Green Carnation." 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"One of the brightest books of the year."--_Boston Budget._
"Altogether delightful, fascinating, unusual."--_Cleveland Amus.e.m.e.nt Gazette._
"A study in character.... Just as entertaining as though it were the conventional story of love and marriage. The clever hand of the author of "The Green Carnation" is easily detected in the caustic wit and pointed epigram."--_Jeannette L. Gilder, in the New York World._
_A STREET IN SUBURBIA._ By EDWIN PUGH. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"Simplicity of style, strength, and delicacy of character study will mark this book as one of the most significant of the year."--_New York Press._