A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern WestGarland, Hamlin
General
A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West
Garland, Hamlin
Farmers -- Fiction
"A series of vivid pictures of a strange people.... The people and
their social life the author depicts with marvelous success."--_Boston
Transcript._
"The reader will become deeply interested in Mr. Cahan's graphic
presentation of ghetto life in New York."--_Minneapolis Journal._
"A strong, quaint story."--_Detroit Tribune._
"Every feature of the book bears the stamp of truth.... Undoubtedly
'Yekl' has never been excelled as a picture of the distinctive life of
the New York ghetto."--_Boston Herald._
_THE SENTIMENTAL SEX._ By GERTRUDE WARDEN. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"The cleverest book by a woman that has been published for months....
Such books as 'The Sentimental Sex' are exemplars of a modern cult that
will not be ignored."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
"There is a well-wrought mystery in the story and some surprises that
preserve the reader's interest, and render it, when all is said, a
story of considerable charm."--_Boston Courier._
"An uncommonly knowing little book, which keeps a good grip on the
reader up to the last page.... The author's method of handling the plot
is adroit and original."--_Rochester Herald._
"Miss Warden has worked out her contrasts very strikingly, and tells
her story in a cleverly flippant way, which keeps the reader on the qui
vive for the cynical but bright sayings she has interspersed."--_Detroit
Free Press._
"The story forms an admirable study. The style is graphic, the plot
original and cleverly wrought out."--_Philadelphia Evening Bulletin._
* * * * *
New York: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES.
Edited by Ripley Hitchcock.
"There is a vast extent of territory lying between the Missouri River
and the Pacific coast which has barely been skimmed over so far. That
the conditions of life therein are undergoing changes little short of
marvelous will be understood when one recalls the fact that the first
white male child born in Kansas is still living there; and Kansas is by
no means one of the newer States. Revolutionary indeed has been the
upturning of the old condition of affairs, and little remains thereof,
and less will remain as each year goes by, until presently there will
be only tradition of the Sioux and Comanches, the cowboy life, the wild
horse, and the antelope. Histories, many of them, have been written
about the Western country alluded to, but most if not practically all
by outsiders who knew not personally that life of kaleidoscopic
allurement. But ere it shall have vanished forever we are likely to
have truthful, complete, and charming portrayals of it produced by men
who actually knew the life and have the power to describe it."--_Henry
Edward Rood, in the Mail and Express._
_NOW READY._
_THE STORY OF THE INDIAN._ By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, author of "Pawnee
Hero Stories," "Black-foot Lodge Tales," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account