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The Black Chanter

and Other Highland Tales

By NIMMO CHRISTIE

Cloth 12mo $1.50

This is a remarkable group of stories by a new writer. They are all
Scotch, and deal with Scotland at a remote period--about the twelfth
century. All the tales except one--"The Wise Woman," which is the best
of all--deal with fighting, and the pipers appear in almost all. They
are stories rather for men than for women, because they deal with a
rough time in a direct way; but they are so clever that women whom
virility attracts will like them. The striking originality of these
stories augurs well for the author's future. The tales consist largely
in legends, traditions, and dramatic incidents connected with the old
life of Scottish clans. Each tale has at the end an unexpected turn or
quick bit of action, and these endings are almost invariably tragic. The
style is well suited to the character of the stories, which are wild,
weird, and queer. They have a true imaginative vein.

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Blount of Breckenhow

By BEULAH MARIE DIX

Author of "The Making of Christopher Ferringham," "Soldier
Rigdale," and "Hugh Gwyeth"

Cloth 12mo $1.50

Its scene is laid in England in the years 1642-45. It is not a
historical novel, nor a romance, nor an adventure story; it is the story
of a brave man and a noble woman as set forth in the letters of a
prosperous family of Yorkshire gentry. James Blount, the hero, comes by
his father's side of a race of decayed northern gentry, and by his
mother's side from the yeomanry. Entering the King's army as a private
trooper, he wins a commission; but he never wins social recognition from
his brother officers, and he is left much alone. He meets Arundel Carewe
and loves her. The moment when he is about to tell his love he learns
that she is betrothed to his captain, and only friend, Bevill
Rowlestone. Blount keeps silent till near the end of the story.
Meanwhile Arundel is married to Bevill, who is a delightful
seventeenth-century lover, but not wholly satisfactory as a husband.

Arundel is in garrison with Bevill at a lonely village through the first
dreary winter of their married life. Bevill neglects what he has won,
but Blount in all honor is very tender and thoughtful of her. On the
night when Arundel's child is born, Bevill makes a gross error of
judgment and shifts a body of troops which exposes his whole position.
He entreats Blount, who is