In the Morning Glow: Short StoriesGilson, Roy Rolfe
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In the Morning Glow: Short Stories
Gilson, Roy Rolfe
Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
The colorful romance of an American girl in Morocco, and of a beautiful
garden, whose beauty and traditions of strange subtle happenings were
closed to the world by a Sultan’s seal.
THE MAN HIGHER UP. By Henry Russell Miller. Full page vignette
illustrations by M. Leone Bracker.
The story of a tenement waif who rose by his own ingenuity to the office
of mayor of his native city. His experiences while "climbing," make a
most interesting example of the possibilities of human nature to rise
above circumstances.
THE KEY TO YESTERDAY. By Charles Neville Buck. Illustrated by R.
Schabelitz.
Robert Saxon, a prominent artist, has an accident, while in Paris, which
obliterates his memory, and the only clue he has to his former life is a
rusty key. What door in Paris will it unlock? He must know that before
he woos the girl he loves.
THE DANGER TRAIL. By James Oliver Curwood. Illustrated by Charles
Livingston Bull.
The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago
engineer, who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region, is
involved in mystery, and is led into ambush by a young woman.
THE GAY LORD WARING. By Houghton Townley. Illustrated by Will Grefe.
A story of the smart hunting set in England. A gay young lord wins in
love against his selfish and cowardly brother and apparently against
fate itself.
BY INHERITANCE. By Octave Thanet. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty.
Elaborate wrapper in colors.
A wealthy New England spinster with the most elaborate plans for the
education of the negro goes to visit her nephew in Arkansas, where she
learns the needs of the colored race first hand and begins to lose her
theories.
*KATE DOUGLAS WIGGINS
STORIES OF PURE DELIGHT*
Full of originality and humor, kindliness and cheer
THE OLD PEABODY PEW. Large Octavo. Decorative text pages, printed in
two colors. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens.
One of the prettiest romances that has ever come from this author’s pen
is made to bloom on Christmas Eve in the sweet freshness of an old New
England meeting house.
PENELOPE’S PROGRESS. Attractive cover design in colors.
Scotland is the background for the merry doings of three very clever and
original American girls. Their adventures in adjusting themselves to
the Scot and his land are full of humor.
PENELOPE’S IRISH EXPERIENCES. Uniform in style with "Penelope’s
Progress."
The trio of clever girls who rambled over Scotland cross the border to
the Emerald Isle, and again they sharpen their wits against new
conditions, and revel in the land of laughter and wit.
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.
One of the most beautiful studies of childhood—Rebecca’s artistic,
unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand cut midst a circle of
austere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenal
dramatic record.
NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA. With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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