ey ride for hours in silence, so
great is their happiness, so perfect their understanding, so deep their
confidence in the stars.

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Books by MEREDITH NICHOLSON

Lady Larkspur

"This is pure comedy carried on in high spirits and mingled with the
charm of romance."--_Outlook_.

"There is a gracefulness to the dialogue and an artistic balance in the
characterization that keep one reminded that this is an author who is
also an artist down to the last word."--_Philadelphia Press_.

"Mr. Nicholson keeps us entertained and uncertain to the end."--_Boston
Herald_.

The Madness of May

Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele

"May to Mr. Nicholson is neither a person nor a month. It is a state of
mind and an intoxication of spirit. The little tale is a gay and joyous
fantasy that plays with the imagination like the wind through new-leafed
trees."--_New York Sun_.

"No one who wishes to be charmed out of himself or herself for an hour
or so should neglect to read the story."--_Philadelphia Ledger_.

"Meredith Nicholson has written nothing more charmingly fanciful or more
filled with the spirit of the springtime than 'The Madness of May.'"
--_St. Louis Republic_.

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By MEREDITH NICHOLSON

The Valley of Democracy

Illustrated by Walter Tittle

"It is a book which could have been written only by a Westerner; and it
is a book for every American, Westerner and Easterner, Northerner and
Southerner, to read, mark, ponder, and inwardly digest."--_New York
Times_.

"The book radiates the spirit that makes the West
fascinating."--_Outlook_.

"His chapters are set forth with that same easy facility in letters
which has marked his works in fiction."--_New York World_.

"A notably serious and thoughtful study of the American mind, character,
and tendencies in the Middle West.... It is a book of fascinating
interest and of the greatest possible civic and patriotic value."--_New
York Tribune_.

"Meredith Nicholson has done a great work in this masterly study of the
Middle West. It is a national, nay, more, an international service which
is performed in these illuminating pages, for in interpreting America to
Americans the author is also interpreting America, or a very
considerable section of it, to the world at large."--_San Francisco
Chronicle_.

"It is a study of the M