Air pilots -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
“Better save all that expense, sir,” he advised the major in his typical
droll manner of speech, “there’s goin’ to be a weddin’ around this base
soon and them kids will be needin’ dishes and things!”
The End
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More stories of the sort you like; more, probably, by the author of this
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There are books here you are sure to want—some, possibly, that you have
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It is a _selected_ list; every book in it has achieved a certain measure
of success.
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available, it represents in addition a generally accepted Standard of
Value. It will pay you to
_Look on the Other Side of the Wrapper_
In case the wrapper is lost write to the publishers for a complete
catalog.
PERCIVAL C. WREN’S NOVELS
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This brilliant chronicler of the French Foreign Legion is an Englishman
born in Devonshire and educated at Oxford. He is a veteran of three
armies, the crack British Cavalry Corps, the French Foreign Legion and
the Indian Army in East Africa.
BEAU GESTE
Mystery, courage, love, self sacrifice, adventure on the burning sands
of North Africa—in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion.
BEAU SABREUR
A sequel to Beau Geste in which the age old spell of the desert is the
background for a tale of mystery.
STEPSONS OF FRANCE
A book of short stories whose scenes are laid in the same fascinating
and desolate country as Beau Geste—Northern Africa—and whose characters
are fighters in the Legion.
WAGES OF VIRTUE
A modern Enoch Arden reappears and goes back to remain “dead” in the
Legion of the Condemned, but his story comes out at last.
FATHER GREGORY
Mystery and Father Gregory play a desperate game on a picturesque
background of Hindustan. Written with gusto by the author of “Beau
Geste.”
THE SNAKE AND THE SWORD
Another romance of the East by the author of the Foreign Legion stories.
The fascinating mystery of Kipling’s India is the background for a
strange love.
DRIFTWOOD SPARS
The soul of a man in whose soul the East and West has met—his father of
Pathan birth, his mother of Scotch. Laid in India, it is a romance of
mystery and tragedy.
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THE NOVELS OF SINCLAIR LEWIS
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Within the space of a few years Sinclair Lewis has become one of the
most Distinguished of American Novelists.
ELMER GANTRY
Elmer Gantry, hypocrite and voluptuary, is painted against a background
of church members and professing Christians scarcely less hypocritical
than he. In this book Sinclair Lewis adds a violent stroke to his
growing picture of materialistic America.
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