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Page 406 - Roberts. Illustrated by E. McConnell. Being the story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the villagers of Grand Pre.
Page 411 - This is a book full of delight. An additional charm lies in Mr. Bull's faithful and graphic illustrations, which in fashion all their own tell the story of the wild life, illuminating and supplementing...
Page 411 - FINAL TRIUMPH OVER THE ENEMIES OF His KIND. With fifty illustrations, including frontispiece in color and cover design by Charles Livingston Bull. Square quarto, cloth decorative $2.00 " True in substance but fascinating as fiction. It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not.
Page 411 - The volume is in many -ways the most brilliant collection of Animal Stories that has appeared. It reaches a high order of literary merit.
Page 414 - ... a breathless dash and go about the telling which makes one quite forget about the improbabilities of the story; and it all ends in the oldfashioned healthy American way. Shirley is a sweet, courageous heroine whose shining eyes lure from page to page. ROSALIND AT REDGATE. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. The author of "The House of a Thousand Candles...
Page 411 - Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories that has appeared; well named and well done." — John Burroughs. THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILS A companion volume to
Page 411 - Wilds, and His Triumphs over the Enemies of His Kind. Wth 50 illustrations, including frontispiece in color and cover design by Charles Livingston Bull. A brilliant chapter in natural history. Infinitely more wholesome reading than the average tale of sport, since it gives a glimpse of the hunt from the point of view of the hunted. " True in substance but fascinating as fiction. It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not."— Chicago Record-Herald.
Page 409 - With illustrations. Mr. Phillips has chosen the inside workings of the great insurance companies as his field of battle; the salons of the great Fifth Avenue mansions as the antechambers of his field of intrigue ; and the two things which every natural, big man desires, love and success, as the goal of his leading character. The book is full of practical philosophy, which makes it worth careful reading. THE SECOND GENERATION, By David Graham Phillips With illustrations by Fletcher C.
Page 414 - at once startling^ and attractively true. * * * The heroine is a strange, sweet mixture of pride, wilfulness and lovable courage. The characters are superbly drawn ; the atmosphere is convincing. There is about it a sweetness, a wholesomeness and a sturdiness that commends it to earnest, kindly and wholesome people."— Boston Transcript.