rn, well-to-do young American, and he cannot, with his meagre past,
express the love, the longing, the passion and the tragedies of life and
its happy phases as can the master who has lived life in all its fulness.
But a girl comes into his existence, a beautiful bit of human driftwood
that his aunt had taken into her heart and home; and through his
passionate love for her, he learns the lessons that life has to give--and
his soul awakens.

Founded on a fact well known among artists, but not often recognized or
discussed.

If you have not read "LAVENDER AND OLD LACE" by the same author, you have
a double pleasure in store--for these two books show Myrtle Reed in her
most delightful, fascinating vein--indeed they may be considered as
masterpieces of compelling interest.

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This great novel--probably the most popular book in this country
to-day--is as human as a story from the pen of that great master of
"immortal laughter and immortal tears," Charles Dickens.

The Prodigal Judge is a shabby outcast, a tavern hanger-on, a genial
wayfarer who tarries longest where the inn is most hospitable, yet with
that suavity, that distinctive politeness and that saving grace of humor
peculiar to the American man. He has his own code of morals--very exalted
ones--but honors them in the breach rather than in the observance.

Clinging to the Judge closer than a brother, is Solomon Mahaffy--fallible
and failing like the rest of us, but with a sublime capacity for
friendship; and closer still, perhaps, clings little Hannibal, a boy about
whose parentage nothing is known until the end of the story. Hannibal is
charmed into tolerance of the Judge's picturesque vices, while Miss Betty,
lovely and capricious, is charmed into placing all her affairs, both
material and sentimental, in the hands of this delightful old vagabond.

The Judge will be a fixed star in the firmament of fictional characters as
surely as David Harum or Col. Sellers. He is a source of infinite delight,
while this story of Mr. Kester's is one of the finest examples of American
literary craftmanship.

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