Railroads -- United States -- Design and construction -- Fiction; Western stories
Its very genuine people are sketched with a light touch, a
delicacy of expression, that make the book enjoyable reading.
Those who know the city well enough to recognize the unerring
accuracy of even its minor details will wonder over the skill
which has produced such real, interestingly varied types. It is
full of highly diverting humor without a trace of satirical
sting; on the contrary, its prevailing tone is refreshingly
wholesome.
A DARK LANTERN
_A STORY WITH A PROLOGUE_
By ELIZABETH ROBINS (C. E. RAIMOND)
Author of “The Magnetic North,” “Below the Salt,” etc.
Cloth 12mo $1.50
This new book is one that must appeal very strongly to those who
enjoy the novel of keen social analysis. Its pictures of English
and continental society are as graphic, just, and authoritative
as any that have appeared in fiction. One of the main characters
is a young German whose rank at once excludes him from the
privileges of commonplace home life and gives him the
unconscious assumption of the overfêted man who has missed the
tonic of hard work. Another is the young specialist in “nerves,”
accurate to the verge of brutality, driven to misogyny by the
trivial aggravations of encountering most often the vague
indecisions he hated most. And between them stands Katharine
Dereham, a character of strong, unforgettable appeal to the
woman who looks on modern social life with open eyes.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen
By ROBERT HERRICK
Author of “The Common Lot,” “The Real World,” etc., etc.
With 45 Illustrations by F. B. Masters
Cloth 12mo $1.50
In his grasp on the popular interest Mr. Herrick’s mastery grows
with every new book he writes. Just because they are human,
alive, and above all sincere, they hold one as no tales of silks
and swords in an imaginary land could possibly do. The
“American” of his new story walks into the Chicago markets from
Indiana, to all appearances a tramp--in reality a country boy
who has quarrelled with his home surroundings and flung himself
into the city to fight for a future. The novel opens in time and
scenes of Chicago in 1877. It includes among other incidents a
glimpse of the strained days of the Haymarket riot and the trial
that followed. It is a novel with more than a passing appeal to
ones sympathies, and taken as a whole seems certain to be at
once the most popular and the best thing that Mr. Herrick has
written.
THE SECRET WOMAN
By EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Author of “The American Prisoner,” “My Devon Year,” etc.
Cloth 12mo $1.50
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