o bodies on it, and light the fire."
Basilio listened.
"Then, if nobody comes, you are to dig here; you will find a lot of
gold, and it will be all yours. Study!"
The voice of the unknown man sank lower and lower. Then he turned
his head toward the east, and said softly, as though praying:
"I die without seeing the light of dawn on my country. You who shall
see it and greet it, do not forget those who fell in the night!"
The Archbishop and the Lady
By Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
A story of modern society which only a writer of very wide and very
exceptional social experience could have written. It is cosmopolitan,
yet full of romance; modern, yet informed with a delicate old-world
charm. The characters are put before us with a consummate knowledge
of the world and a penetrating insight into human nature.
Cloth. 12mo; 5-1/8 x 7-3/4. About $1.50.
April's Sowing
By GERTRUDE HALL
Miss Gertrude Hall is known to the world as a poet and as a teller
of tales, but with her first novel she reveals new gifts, for it is
a modern story tuned to a note of light comedy that she has never
struck before. "April's Sowing" is that most widely appreciated thing
in letters, a young love story.
Illustrated by Orson Lowell. With decorative cover, frontispiece,
title page in color, and ornamental head and tail pieces. Cloth. 12mo;
5-1/8 x 7-3/4. $1.50.
The Darlingtons
By ELMORE ELLIOTT PEAKE
A novel of American life in the middle West which deals principally
with the fortunes of a family whose members are the social and
financial leaders of their section. The heroine is a girl whose
education is broad enough to enable her to assist her father in
managing a railroad. The hero is a Methodist minister of liberal
tendencies. The story is told with remarkable fidelity and unusual
dramatic interest.
Cloth. 12mo; 5-1/8 x 7-3/4. About $1.50.
Two Unknown Phases of Life Made Known in Fiction
The Powers That Prey
By Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton
The authors of the ten closely related stories which make up this
volume have spent most of their lives studying the sociological
problems of tramp and criminal life. Mr. Flynt writes: "So far as I
am concerned, the book is the result of ten years of wandering with
tramps and two years spent with various police organizations." The
stories are a decided contribution to sociology, and yet, viewed as
stories, they hav
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