London (England) -- Fiction; Satire; Suffragists -- Fiction
BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Author of “Brunel’s Tower,” etc.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.50_
Delabole is a Cornish slate mining town and the tale which Mr.
Phillpotts tells against it as a background, one in which a matter of
honor or conscience is the pivot, is dramatic in situation and doubly
interesting because of the moral problem which it presents. Mr.
Phillpotts’s artistry and keen perception of those motives which actuate
conduct have never been better exhibited.
“_Old Delabole_,” says Elia W. Peattie in the _Chicago Tribune_, “is
unusual. Its characters stand up boldly like monoliths against a gray
sky. The struggle of life and the philosophy of life, old age as well as
youth, dullness as well as quiet wisdom, play their part in the tale.”
The Extra Day
BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
_Dec. cloth, 12mo, $1.35_
The joyousness of life lived in an imaginative world is Mr. Blackwood’s
theme, a theme not unlike Maeterlinck’s _The Bluebird_. His new story is
fine in literary quality and in imaginative conception.
A group of delightful children learn to gain for themselves an “extra
day” which, as a matter of time, does not count, and this day is filled
with wonderful adventures. As in some of his other writings Mr.
Blackwood plays about the idea that little children are so close to the
line that divides the mysteries of the spiritual world from the
actualities that in fancy they pass back and forth across this line.
“A very charming flight of exquisite fancy, fascinating to grownups who
have the slightest spark of youth still flickering within them,” is the
_Duluth Herald’s_ comment on _The Extra Day_. “It fixes more firmly than
ever the title that has been so well bestowed upon Algernon
Blackwood—‘artistic realist of the unseen world.’”
—_Duluth Herald._
Heart’s Kindred
BY ZONA GALE
Author of “Christmas,” “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre,” etc.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.35_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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