tops of remote New England.
Hugh Armstrong, the hero, is one of the pronouncedly high
class character delineations of a quarter century.
THE REASON WHY. By Elinor Glyn.
A fine love story, the chief interest lies in the
personality of a beautiful girl whose uncle arranges a match
for her with a titled Englishman.
THE PLACE OF HONEYMOONS. By Harold MacGrath.
Courtlandt, the young American hero, is a typical MacGrath
creation. He is past thirty, without a wife, and so rich
that he cannot get rid of his money fast enough. No love
plot was ever more original.
AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY. By Eliza Calvert Hall.
This story is destined to make a strong appeal to every
human heart. Everyone is sure to love Aunt Jane and her
neighbors, her quilts and her flowers, her stories and her
quaint, tender philosophy.
THE POSTMASTER. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
"The Postmaster" has more pure fun in it than anything Mr.
Lincoln has written recently. The episode where the
Christian Science lady meets the nervous old gentleman in
the home of the spiritualist is uproarious.
TRUTH DEXTER. By Sidney McCall.
The novel bears the unmistakable imprint of genius.... Truth
Dexter, the heroine, is one of the most lovable women in
fiction--pure, worshipful, worthy and thoroughly
womanly--the woman who makes a heaven of earth.
THE BANDBOX. By Louis Joseph Vance.
"The Bandbox" is one of those delightful romances that you
read through to the end at a sitting, forgetful of time,
troubles, or tired feelings, and then breathe a sigh of
regret because there's no more.
JAPONETTE. By Robert W. Chambers.
A Chambers' novel is always one of the literary events of
the year, and nothing more fascinating than "Japonette" has
been penned by this most gifted writer.
THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN. By Dell H. Munger.
The author has gone below the surface, seized upon the
spirit of the pioneers, and dramatized into her story their
love for the region and their stubborn faith in what held
them there. It is a good, human, realistic story, full of
real people and thrilling with the real pulses of life.
MISS GIBBIE GAULT. By Kate Langley Bosher.
To read a book like this is like taking a sun-bath. No one
will finish the book without thanking the author for the
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