ADVENTURE-HEROISM-LOVE
A Story of the French Revolution
By MARY OPENSHAW
Author of "The Cross of Honour"
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In this, her second novel to be given to American readers, the author of "The Cross of Honour" tells a fine, brave story that will still further enhance the reputation won by her previous book. "The Loser Pays" is the story of the devotion to love and duty of no less a personage than Rouget de Lisle, the author of the "Marseillaise." Many other writers have already taken the French Revolution as their theme but Miss Openshaw is one of the few who have made it vivid and human. In fact, it is not too much to say that no one else, since Felix Gras wrote "The Reds of the Midi," has given us a story of the French Revolution of so fine a quality.
"A stirring tale, capitally recounted."—London Times.
"The possibilities of the Revolution in France as a subject of fiction are almost infinite, but they have seldom been used with so keen a dramatic perception and at the same time so just a regard for the main outlines of history as in Miss Openshaw's book."—Glasgow Herald.
"The story is so fascinating that the reader closes the book only when he has reached the last page. 'The Loser Pays' will be successful because the author has a good story to tell. It may be recommended to all who like a dashing, romantic story full of incident."—Glasgow Citizen.
"There is really fine description of the September massacres. The story deserves more than a transient place among recent fiction of the Great Revolution."—The Outlook (London).
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
Publishers, Boston
