The Following of the Star: A RomanceBarclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
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The Following of the Star: A Romance
Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
Clergy -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Marriage -- Fiction; Missionaries -- Fiction
The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair of
moonshiner and feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner's son, and the
heroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Two
impetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of "The Blight's"
charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in the
love making of the mountaineers.
Included in this volume is "Hell fer-Sartain" and other stories, some of
Mr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives.
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GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK
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KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN'S 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 out 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.
Some more quaintly amusing chronicles that carry Rebecca through various
stages to her eighteenth birthday.
_ROSE O' THE RIVER._ With illustrations by George Wright.
The simple story of Rose, a country girl and Stephen a sturdy young
farmer. The girl's fancy for a city man interrupts their love and merges
the story into an emotional strain where the reader follows the events
with rapt attention.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK
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_WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE_, By Jean Webster.
Illustrated by C. D. Williams.
One of the best stories of life in a girl's college that has ever been
written. It is bright, whimsical and entertaining, lifelike, laughable
and thoroughly human.
_JUST PATTY_, By Jean Webster.
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.
Patty is full of the joy of living, fun-loving, given to ingenious
mischief for its own sake, with a disregard for pretty convention which
is an unfailing source of joy to her fellows.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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