A thrilling story that carries the reader from the closing incidents of the French Revolution, through various campaigns of the Napoleonic wars, to the final scene on a family estate in Germany. The action of the plot is well sustained, and the style might be described as vivid, while the old battle between love and honor is fought out with such freshness of treatment as to seem new.
DWELLERS IN THE HILLS
By Melville D. Post.
Mr. Post is to be congratulated upon having found a new field for fiction. The scene of his latest story is laid amidst the hills of West Virginia. Many of the exciting incidents are based upon actual experience on the cattle ranges of the South. The story is original, full of action, and strong, with a local color almost entirely new to the reading public.
DUPES
By Ethel Watts Mumford.
A novel more thoroughly original than "Dupes," both in character and in plot, has not appeared for some time. The "dupes" are society people, who, like the Athenians, "spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Apart from its charm as a love story, the book makes some clever hits at certain "new things." While this is Mrs. Mumford"s first book, she is well known as a writer of short stories.
Love Letters of a Musician
By Myrtle Reed.
"Miss Reed"s book is an exquisite prose poem--words strung on thought-threads of gold--in which a musician tells his love for one whom he has found to be his ideal. The idea is not new, but the opinion is ventured that nowhere has it been one-half so well carried out as in the "Love Letters of a Musician." The ecstacy of hope, the apathy of despair, alternate in these enchanting letters, without one line of cynicism to mar the beauty of their effect."--_Rochester Herald._
Later Love Letters of a Musician
By Myrtle Reed.
"It was with considerable hesitation that Myrtle Reed"s second volume of a musician"s love letters was taken up, a natural inference being that Miss Reed could scarcely hope to repeat her first success. Yet that she has equalled, if not surpa.s.sed, the interest of her earlier letters is soon apparent. Here will be found the same delicate fancy, the same beautiful imagery, and the same musical phrases from well-known composers, introducing the several chapters, and giving the key to their various moods. Miss Reed has accomplished her purpose successfully in both series of the letters."--_N. Y. Times Sat.u.r.day Review._
The Diary of a Dreamer
By Alice Dew-Smith, author of "Soul Shapes," "A White Umbrella"
"A book to be read as a sedative by the busy and overworked. The scene is laid in England, and is bathed in a peculiarly English atmosphere of peace and leisure. Contains much domestic philosophy of a pleasing if not very original sort, and, incidentally, no little good-natured social satire."--_N. Y. Evening Post._
"This is a book of the meditative order. The writer expresses her thoughts in a manner that is a delightful reminder of "Reveries of a Bachelor" of Ike Marvel.... In parts it is amusing, in the manner of Mark Twain"s "Sketches." The combination of humor and sensible reflection results to the reader"s delight."--_Albany Times Union._
""The Diary of a Dreamer" is a charming treatment of the every-day topics of life. As in "Reveries of a Bachelor" and "Elizabeth and her German Garden," we find an engaging presentation, from the feminine point of view, of the scenes and events that make up the daily living.
The "Diary" is one of those revelations of thought and feeling that fit so well into the reader"s individual experience."--_Detroit Free Press._
By Melville D. Post
THE STRANGE SCHEMES OF RANDOLPH MASON
"This book is very entertaining and original ... ingeniously constructed ... well worth reading."--_New York Herald._
"One of the best three volumes of stories produced within a year, as will be recalled by those who are attentive to such matters, is "The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason." They are stories of adventure in the every-day field of judicial procedure. The talent required to make adventures of this order interesting is a rare one, how rare may be inferred from the fact that almost the only famous example of the kind in English letters is the trial in that obsolete novel, "Ten Thousand a Year.""--_New York Sun._
THE MAN OF LAST RESORT
"The author makes a strong plea for moral responsibility in his work, and his vivid style and undeniable earnestness must carry great weight with all thinking readers. It is a notable book."--_Boston Times._
"Mr. Post has created for himself a new field in literature, just as Conan Doyle by his Sherlock Holmes created for himself a new field. He shows in this book that he is not only a lawyer but a story writer of the very highest skill and literary style. The stories are most thrilling and hold one"s interest to the end."--_Law Students" Journal._
DWELLERS IN THE HILLS
Mr. Post is to be congratulated upon having found a new field for fiction. The scene of his latest story is laid amidst the hills of West Virginia. Many of the exciting incidents are based upon actual experience on the cattle ranges of the south. The story is original, full of action, and strong with a local color almost entirely new to the reading public.
PUBLISHED BY G. P. PUTNAM"S SONS
SONS OF THE MORNING
By Eden Phillpotts, author of "Children of the Mist," etc.
"Here we have not only literature, but we have character drawing, humor, and descriptive powers that Blackmore only equalled once, and that was in "Lorna Doone."... He knows the heart as well as the trees; he knows men and women as well as he knows nature, and he holds them both in the hollow of his hand."--_Chicago Tribune._
CHILDREN OF THE MIST
By Eden Phillpotts.
R. D. Blackmore, the author of "Lorna Doone," said of this: "Knowing nothing of the writer or of his works, I was simply astonished at the beauty and power of this novel. But true as it is to life and place, full of deep interest and rare humor and vivid descriptions, there seemed to be risk of its pa.s.sing unheeded in the crowd, and rush, and ruck of fiction.... Literature has been enriched with a wholesome, genial, and n.o.ble tale, the reading of which is a pleasure in store for many."
HILDA WADE
A Woman with Tenacity of Purpose. By Grant Allen, author of "Miss Cayley"s Adventures," etc.
"Mr. Allen"s text, as in all his writings, is singularly picturesque and captivating. There are no commonplaces, and, although the outcome is perfectly evident early in the story, the reader will find his attention chained.... It is one of the best of the summer books, and as an artistic bit of light reading ranks high. It is a pity that such a vivid imagination and high-bred style of discourse are no longer in the land of the living to entertain us with further stories of adventure."--_Boston Times._
THE SECRET OF THE CRATER
(A Mountain Moloch.) By Duffield Osborne, author of "The Spell of Ashtaroth," etc.
"The author is a novelist with a genuine gift for narrative. He knows how to tell a story, and he is capable of conceiving a plot as wild as was ever imagined by Jules Verne or Rider Haggard.... The reader will find himself amused and interested from the first page to the last."--_N. Y. Herald._