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An historical romance of the sixteenth century, describing the
adventures of a young French nobleman at the Court of Henry III., and on
the field with Henry of Navarre.
"A stirring tale."—_Detroit Free Press_.
"A royally strong piece of fiction."—_Boston Ideas_.
"Interesting from the first to the last page."—_Brooklyn Eagle_.
"Brilliant as a play; it is equally brilliant as a romantic
novel."—_Philadelphia Press_.
*The Continental Dragoon:* A ROMANCE OF PHILIPSE MANOR HOUSE IN 1778.
(43d thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
Library 12mo, cloth . . . $1.50
A stirring romance of the Revolution, the scene being laid in and around
the old Philipse Manor House, near Yonkers, which at the time of the
story was the central point of the so-called "neutral territory" between
the two armies.
*The Road to Paris:* A STORY OF ADVENTURE. (25th thousand.) Illustrated
by H. C. Edwards.
Library 12mo, cloth . . . $1.50
An historical romance of the 18th century, being an account of the life
of an American gentleman adventurer of Jacobite ancestry, whose family
early settled in the colony of Pennsylvania.
*A Gentleman Player:* HIS ADVENTURES ON A SECRET MISSION FOR QUEEN
ELIZABETH. (38th thousand.) Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
Library 12mo, cloth . . . $1.50
"A Gentleman Player" is a romance of the Elizabethan period. It relates
the story of a young gentleman who, in the reign of Elizabeth, falls so
low in his fortune that he joins Shakespeare’s company of players, and
becomes a friend and protégé of the great poet.
*WORKS OF
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS*
*Barbara Ladd.* With four illustrations by Frank Verbeck.
Library 12mo, gilt top . . . $1.50
"From the opening chapter to the final page Mr. Roberts lures us on by
his rapt devotion to the changing aspects of Nature and by his keen and
sympathetic analysis of human character."—_Boston Transcript_.
*The Kindred of the Wild.* A BOOK OF ANIMAL LIFE. With fifty-one
full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles
Livingston Bull.
Small quarto, decorative cover . . . $2.00
"Professor Roberts has caught wonderfully the elusive individualities of
which he writes. His animal stories are marvels of sympathetic science
and literary exactness. Bound with the superb illustrations by Charles
Livingston Bull, they make a volume which charms, entertains, and
informs."—New York World.
"... Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories
that has appeared ... well named and well done."—_John Burroughs_.
*The Forge in the Forest.* Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger,
Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart, and how he crossed the Black Abbé, and
of his Adventures in a Strange Fellowship. Illustrated by Henry
Sandham, R.C.A.
Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top . . . $1.50
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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