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of greatness in the book which I shall never forget."

President M. W. Stryker, Hamilton College, says:

"It is a victory in writing for one whose head seems at last to have
matched his big human heart. There is ten times as much of reality in it
as there is in 'David Harum,' which does not value lightly that admirable
charcoal sketch."

Price, $1.50

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"THE MERRIEST NOVEL OF MANY, MANY MOONS."

MY LADY PEGGY GOES TO TOWN

By FRANCES AYMAR MATHEWS

The Daintiest and Most Delightful Book of the Season.

A heroine almost too charming to be true is Peggy, and it were a churlish
reader who is not, at the end of the first chapter, prostrate before her
red slippers.--Washington Post.

To make a comparison would be to rank "My Lady Peggy" with "Monsieur
Beaucaire" in points of attraction, and to applaud as heartily as that
delicate romance, this picture of the days "When patches nestled o'er
sweet lips at chocolate times."--N. Y. Mail and Express.

12 mo. Beautifully illustrated and bound.

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THE PUPPET CROWN

BY HAROLD MacGRATH

A princess rarely beautiful; a duchess magnificent and heartless; a
villain revengeful and courageous; a hero youthful, humorous, fearless and
truly American;--such are the principal characters of this delightful
story.--Syracuse Post-Standard.

Harold MacGrath has attained the highest point achievable in recent
fiction. We have the climax of romance and adventure in "The Puppet
Crown."--The Philadelphia North American.

Superior to most of the great successes.--St. Paul Pioneer Press.

"The Puppet Crown" is a profusion of cleverness.--Baltimore American.

Challenges comparison with authors whose names have
become immortal--Chicago American.

Latest entry in the list of winners.--Cleveland World.

With illustrations by R. Martine Reay

12mo. Price, $1.50.

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THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN

By HAROLD BEGBIE

The purpose of this brilliant story of modern English life is to show that
a human being, well brought-up, carefully trained in the outward
observances of religion, with a keen intellectual perception of the
difference between right and wrong, may still not have goodness, and that
ambition may easily become the domi