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maiden, beyond dreams beautiful--both known as the Silver Butterfly.
Well named is _The Silver Butterfly_! There could not be a better symbol
of the darting swiftness, the eager love plot, the elusive mystery and
the flashing wit.
BEATRIX OF CLARE, By John Reed Scott
With illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.
A spirited and irresistibly attractive historical romance of the
fifteenth century, boldly conceived and skilfully carried out. In the
hero and heroine Mr. Scott has created a pair whose mingled emotions and
alternating hopes and fears will find a welcome in many lovers of the
present hour. Beatrix is a fascinating daughter of Eve.
A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH, By Joseph Medill Patterson
Frontispiece by Hazel Martyn Trudeau, and illustrations by Walter Dean
Goldbeck.
Tells the story of the idle rich, and is a vivid and truthful picture of
society and stage life written by one who is himself a conspicuous
member of the Western millionaire class. Full of grim satire, caustic
wit and flashing epigrams. "Is sensational to a degree in its theme,
daring in its treatment, lashing society as it was never scourged
before."--_New York Sun_.
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THE FAIR GOD; OR, THE LAST OF THE TZINS.
By Lew Wallace. With illustrations by Eric Pape.
"The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and it
is worked out with all of Wallace's skill * * * it gives a fine picture
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General's stories--a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat of
Montezuma by Cortes."--_Athenaeum_.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy.
A story of love and the salt sea--of a helpless ship whirled into the
hands of cannibal Fuegians--of desperate fighting and tender romance,
enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who describes with his
wonted felicity and power of holding the reader's attention * * * filled
with the swing of adventure.
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