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Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper—most of them with illustrations of marked beauty—and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid.
THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE, By Mary Roberts Reinhart With illustrations by Lester Ralph.
In an extended notice the New York Sun says: “To readers who care for a really good detective story ‘The Circular Staircase’ can be recommended without reservation.” The Philadelphia Record declares that “The Circular Staircase” deserves the laurels for thrills, for weirdness and things unexplained and inexplicable.
THE RED YEAR, By Louis Tracy
“Mr. Tracy gives by far the most realistic and impressive pictures of the horrors and heroisms of the Indian Mutiny that has been available in any book of the kind *** There has not been in modern times in the history of any land scenes so fearful, so picturesque, so dramatic, and Mr. Tracy draws them as with the pencil of a Verestschagin or the pen of a Sienkiewics.”
ARMS AND THE WOMAN, By Harold MacGrath With inlay cover in colors by Harrison Fisher.
The story is a blending of the romance and adventure of the middle ages with nineteenth century men and women; and they are creations of flesh and blood, and not mere pictures of past centuries. The story is about Jack Winthrop, a newspaper man. Mr. MacGrath’s finest bit of character drawing is seen in Hillars, the broken down newspaper man, and Jack’s chum.
LOVE IS THE SUM OF IT ALL, By Geo. Cary Eggleston With illustrations by Hermann Heyer.
In this “plantation romance” Mr. Eggleston has resumed the manner and method that made his “Dorothy South” one of the most famous books of its time.
There are three tender love stories embodied in it, and two unusually interesting heroines, utterly unlike each other, but each possessed of a peculiar fascination which wins and holds the reader’s sympathy. A pleasing vein of gentle humor runs through the work, but the “sum of it all” is an intensely sympathetic love story.
HEARTS AND THE CROSS, By Harold Morton Cramer With illustrations by Harold Matthews Brett.
The hero is an unconventional preacher who follows the line of the Man of Galilee, associating with the lowly, and working for them in the ways that may best serve them. He is not recognized at his real value except by the one woman who saw clearly. Their love story is one of the refreshing things in recent fiction.