A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romance
finds a modern parallel. One of the prettiest, sweetest, and quaintest
of old-fashioned love stories * * * A rare book, exquisite in spirit
and conception, full of delicate fancy, of tenderness, of delightful
humor and spontaneity. A dainty volume, especially suitable for a gift.
DOCTOR LUKE OF THE LABRADOR. By Norman Duncan. With a frontispiece
and inlay cover.
How the doctor came to the bleak Labrador coast and there in saving
life made expiation. In dignity, simplicity, humor, in sympathetic
etching of a sturdy fisher people, and above all in the echoes of
the sea, _Doctor Luke_ is worthy of great praise. Character, humor,
poignant pathos, and the sad grotesque conjunctions of old and new
civilizations are expressed through the medium of a style that has
distinction and strikes a note of rare personality.
THE DAY’S WORK. By Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated.
The _London Morning Post_ says: “It would be hard to find better
reading * * * the book is so varied, so full of color and life from end
to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it
down till they have read the last--and the last is a veritable gem * * *
contains some of the best of his highly vivid work * * * Kipling is a
born story-teller and a man of humor into the bargain.”
ELEANOR LEE. By Margaret E. Sangster. With a frontispiece.
A story of married life, and attractive picture of wedded bliss * * *
an entertaining story or a man’s redemption through a woman’s love
* * * no one who knows anything of marriage or parenthood can read this
story with eyes that are always dry * * * goes straight to the heart of
everyone who knows the meaning of “love” and “home.”
THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS. By John Reed Scott. Illustrated by
Clarence F. Underwood.
“Full of absorbing charm, sustained interest and a wealth of thrilling
and romantic situations. So naively fresh in its handling, so plausible
through its naturalness, that it comes like a mountain breeze across
the far-spreading desert of similar romances.”--_Gazette-Times,
Pittsburg._ “A slap-dashing day romance.”--_New York Sun._
DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES. By Irving Bacheller. With illustrations
by Arthur Keller.
“Darrel, the clock tinker, is a wit, philosopher, and man of mystery.
Learned, strong, kindly, dignified, he towers like a giant above the
people among whom he lives. It is another tale of the North Country,
full of the odor of wood and field. Wit, humor, pathos and high
thinking are in this book.”--_Boston Transcript._
D’RI AND I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the
British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U. S. A. By Irving
Bacheller. With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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