This book is for those who are weary of conventional romances and are searching for a story that does not give them the dusty and worn-out historic trappings with which they are over familiar. The story of Randalin, the beautiful Danish maiden who served King Canute disguised as a page, is spontaneous and unhackneyed, and has a mediæval atmosphere of the most inspiring kind. The reader forgets his practical twentieth-century point of view, and loses himself in the glamour of these brave old days of the Danish conquest. It is a romance of enthralling interest.... Written in plain, unadorned Anglo-Saxon, it is as pure and wholesome as the lovely maiden whose face smiles between the lines. It is one of the few novels that can be read a second time with increased enjoyment. Than this, what more can be said?—CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Readers of “The Thrall of Leif the Lucky” can understand without description the pleasure in store for them in Miss Liljencrantz’s latest tale. The volume is a remarkable example of bookmaking, the colored illustrations showing to what heights the art of book illustration may attain.—BOSTON TRANSCRIPT. A stalwart and beautiful tale—a fine, big thing, full of men’s strength and courage and a girl’s devotion, the atmosphere of great days and primitive human passions.—PHILADELPHIA LEDGER. [Illustration] THIRD EDITION WITH SIX FULL-PAGE PICTURES IN COLOR AND OTHER DECORATIONS BY THE KINNEYS. $1.50 A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS [Illustration] A BOOK OF GREAT BEAUTY _The Thrall of Leif the Lucky_ A STORY OF VIKING DAYS BY OTTILIE A. LILJENCRANTZ [Illustration] A remarkable book because it not only tells an unusual and fascinating story, with a novel and seldom used—and therefore interesting—historical background, but it was everywhere declared “the most beautiful book of fiction of 1902.” The striking appearance of the volume is due to the appropriate character of the type, initials, end-papers, etc., and to the wonderful pictures in color. It is the story of Alwin, the son of an English earl, and how he served the great Leif Ericsson on his famous voyage to the New World, and how he finally won his freedom and the beautiful Helga by his own high courage. Nearer to absolute novelty than any book published this spring.—NEW YORK WORLD. The most beautifully illustrated and artistically ornamented romance published this year.—NEW YORK JOURNAL. A tale which moves among stalwart men, and in the palaces of leaders.—NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS. One of the best constructed historical romances that has appeared in America in some years.—BROOKLYN EAGLE. The atmosphere of the old days of fighting and adventure glows in the book.—SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN. [Illustration]