Cynthia's Chauffeur
The hero is a French Soldier of Fortune, and the princess, who
hesitates--but you must read the story to know how she that hesitates
may be lost and yet saved.
HAPPY HAWKINS. By Robert Alexander Wason. Illustrated by Howard Giles.
A ranch and cowboy novel. Happy Hawkins tells his own story with such
a fine capacity for knowing how to do it and with so much humor that
the reader's interest is held in surprise, then admiration and at last
in positive affection.
COMRADES. By Thomas Dixon, Jr. Illustrated by C. D. Williams.
The locale of this story is in California, where a few socialists
establish a little community.
The author leads the little band along the path of disillusionment,
and gives some brilliant flashes of light on one side of an important
question.
TONO-BUNGAY. By Herbert George Wells.
The hero of this novel is a young man who, through hard work, earns a
scholarship and goes to London.
Written with a frankness verging on Rousseau's, Mr. Wells still uses
rare discrimination and the border line of propriety is never crossed.
An entertaining book with both a story and a moral, and without a dull
page--Mr. Wells's most notable achievement.
A HUSBAND BY PROXY. By Jack Steele.
A young criminologist, but recently arrived in New York city, is drawn
into a mystery, partly through financial need and partly through his
interest in a beautiful woman, who seems at times the simplest child
and again a perfect mistress of intrigue. A baffling detective story.
LIKE ANOTHER HELEN. By George Horton. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.
Mr. Horton's powerful romance stands in a new field and brings an
almost unknown world in reality before the reader--the world of
conflict between Greek and Turk on the Island of Crete. The "Helen" of
the story is a Greek, beautiful, desolate, defiant--pure as snow.
There is a certain new force about the story, a kind of
master-craftsmanship and mental dominance that holds the reader.
THE MASTER OF APPLEBY. By Francis Lynde. Illustrated by T. de
Thulstrup.
A novel tale concerning itself in part with the great struggle in the
two Carolinas, but chiefly with the adventures therein of two
gentlemen who loved one and the same lady.
A strong, masculine and persuasive story.
A MODERN MADONNA. By Caroline Abbot Stanley.
A story of American life, founded on facts as they existed some years
ago in the District of Columbia. The theme is the maternal love and
splendid courage of a woman.
THE NOVELS OF GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
GRAUSTARK.
A story of love behind a throne, telling how a young American met a
lovely girl and followed her to a new and strange country. A
thrilling, dashing narrative.
BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK.
Beverly is a bewitching American girl who has gone to that stirring
little principality--Graustark--to visit her friend the princess, and
there has a romantic affair of her own.
BREWSTER'S MILLIONS.
A young man is required to spend _one_ million dollars in one year in
order to inherit _seven_. How he does it forms the basis of a lively
story.
CASTLE CRANEYCROW.
The story revolves round the abduction of a young American woman, her
imprisonment in an old castle and the adventures created through her
rescue.
COWARDICE COURT.
An amusing social feud in the Adirondacks in which an English girl is
tempted into being a traitor by a romantic young American, forms the
plot.
THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON CROW.
The story centers about the adopted daughter of the town marshal in a
western village. Her parentage is shrouded in mystery, and the story
concerns the secret that deviously works to the surface.
THE MAN FROM BRODNEY'S.
The hero meets a princess in a far-away island among fanatically
hostile Musselmen. Romantic love making amid amusing situations and
exciting adventures.
NEDRA.
A young couple elope from Chicago to go to London traveling as brother
and sister. They are shipwrecked and a strange mix-up occurs on
account of it.
THE SHERRODS.
The scene is the Middle West and centers around a man who leads a
double life. A most enthralling novel.
TRUXTON KING.
A handsome good natured young fellow ranges on the earth looking for
romantic adventures and is finally enmeshed in most complicated
intrigues in Graustark.
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN'S STORIES OF PURE DELIGHT
Full of originality and humor, kindliness and cheer
=THE OLD PEABODY PEW.= Large Octavo. Decorative text pages, printed in
two colors. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens.
One of the prettiest romances that has ever come from this author's
pen is made to bloom on Christmas Eve in the sweet freshness of an old
New England meeting house.
=PENELOPE'S PROGRESS.= Attractive cover design in colors.
Scotland is the background for the merry doings of three very clever
and original American girls. Their adventures in adjusting themselves
to the Scot and his land are full of humor.
=PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES.= Uniform in style with ="Penelope's
Progress"=.
The trio of clever girls who rambled over Scotland cross the border to
the Emerald Isle, and again they sharpen their wits against new
conditions, and revel in the land of laughter and wit.
=REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.=
One of the most beautiful studies of childhood--Rebecca's artistic,
unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand out midst a circle of
austere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenal
dramatic record.
=NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA.= With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.
Some more quaintly amusing chronicles that carry Rebecca through
various stages to her eighteenth birthday.
=ROSE O' THE RIVER.= With illustrations by George Wright.
The simple story of Rose, a country girl and Stephen a sturdy young
farmer. The girl's fancy for a city man interrupts their love and
merges the story into an emotional strain where the reader follows the
events with rapt attention.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK
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Transcriber's note:
1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors;
otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author's
words and intent.
2. In the advertising pages, book titles that were underlined have
been indicated by an equal sign (=) preceding and following the
underlined text.