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NEW FALL FICTION, 1909
MY LADY OF THE SOUTH
A STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
By RANDALL PARRISH
SERGEANT ELBERT KING of Reynolds' Battery, being left for dead after the defeat at Minersville, recovers and hides in the outskirts of a Southern home. Here he first sees Jean Denslow and hears her passionate outpouring of aversion to her marriage, to be forced upon her that night, to a Southern officer. Here he also learns of a flank movement to be made by the victorious Southerners upon Rosecrans' entrenched and retreating troops. His effort to warn his army of its dangers throws him into a relation more intimate than cordial with this Lady of the South, and gains him a lieutenancy within the same twenty-four hours. The story of the feud in which the lady is involved, and of King's efforts to serve her and be loyal to his cause, is without doubt the best that Randall Parrish has written.
With four illustrations in full color by Alonzo
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DARLEY ROBERTS has learned the uses of power from the viewpoint of the under dog, and the symbol of the power he seeks and gains gives its title to "The Dominant Dollar." But the dollar is here the outward sign only, and the story is not the usual one of the self-made man but of the man who does the making. Roberts' room-mate is Steven Armstrong, professor in a small university aspiring author, and accepted lover of Elice Gleason. He lacks the contact with the harder realities of life which has moulded Roberts. The letter, too, falls in love with Elice, but does not wear his heart upon his sleeve. The scene of the story is a college town of the Middle West. Roberts' strength, Armstrong's weakness, and the sense of duty of Elice, make it a tale of unusual interest in which character dominates, but in which the plot takes an inevitably dramatic course.
With four illustrations in color by Lester
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AS Dorothy Day stood in the vestry in the moment before marching to the altar with a man whom she loved for himself and apart from his riches and social standing, a strange, rough clad man forced himself to her side and slipped into her hand a golden bracelet, whispered a half-dozen words into her ear, and disappeared followed into the darkness by the bride herself. From that time until the last chapter the bride is lost, and mysterious dangers haunt the footsteps of those who would trace her whereabouts. The story is altogether out of the run of the conventional detective tale, and its characters in live people and not merely thinking machines.
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WHEN Jack Carroll brought his sister out to the free-range cattle country and took up a homestead, their early return to the East was freely predicted by the hostile cattle-men whose interest they were thwarting. When Jack fell foul of Frank LaDue and his gang of cattle rustlers he found, however, one cattle-man on his side, and the aid of Tom Burlington and of the Indian girl who hated LaDue were little enough in the desperate fight that this brave found Easterner and his courageous sister made upon the would-be despoilers of their home. The story of this fight to a finish which Kate and Virgil D. Boyles tell in the "The Homesteaders" is in every respect a worthy successor to their former successful story, "Landford of the 3 Bars."
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THE true narrative of one Dr. John Robinson and of his love for the fair Señorita Valois. A tale of the days of Thomas Jefferson, wherein the brave Dr. John and his Spanish sweetheart are led through dramatic scenes of social gayety at the Capital, distress on the wild frontier, and final impressment aboard a man-of-war. the romantic personages of Aaron Burr and Zebulon Pike, the famous conspiracy of the former and the discovery of Pike's Peak by the latter, form a vital part of the plot.
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"IT is a cloth-bound book, printed in good type on light-weight pap«r, and is sold for 75 cents. The innovation seems to us the most sensible that could be made. 'The Woman and the Sword' was an admirable book with which to inaugurate the new policy, for it is neither commonplace in workmanship nor negligible in material. The story in laid in England and Germany during the religious wars of the latter country, when the oppressions of the Emperor Ferdinand were resisted by Calvinist and Lutheran."—New York Times
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A CASTLE OF DREAMS
By NETTA SYRETT
Author of "The Day's Journey," etc
A PRETTY Irish tale that praises the virtues of the sons and daughter of Erin, and touches their failings very gently. The heroine, Lady Bridget O'Shaughnessy—obliged from obeer neglect to run barefoot with peasant children—is educated by a refined, elderly gentleman, whose kindly influence! help her to fit herself for her proper social position. Like Peter Pan, the refuses to "grow up," and even after she attains womanhood still looks upon the quaint old Irish cattle and its surroundings which compose her world as Fairy Land.
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THE Master of Life was the god of the Iroquois Indians and dwelt beneath the waters of the St. Lawrence River. His inspiration led Hiawatha to found the famous League of the Five Nations. The Indians of the story are town builders, lovers of peace for the most part, imbued with a deep poetic strain, and worshippers of nature. The story is full of vigorous action and may be described as a romance of the Iroquois soul.
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