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THE TWISTED FOOT
By HENRY MILNER RIDEOUT
"Henry Milner Rideout has written several good stories of Oriental
mystery, but none of them approach in excellence 'The Twisted
Foot.'"--_Cleveland Plain Dealer_.
"The story is fascinating and full of the witchery of the
East."--_Congregationalist_.
"Its persuasiveness of action, its alluring color and high heart
courage, make it one of the striking romances of the time."--_New York
American_.
"The whole story glows with the local life and color."--_New York
Times_.
With seven full-page illustrations by G. C. Widney.
12mo. $1.20 net. Postage 11 cents.
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THE PROFESSIONAL AUNT
By MARY C. E. WEMYSS
"One of the most delightful stories that has ever crossed the
water."--_Louisville Courier-Journal_.
"The legitimate successor of 'Helen's Babies.'"--_Clara Louise Burnham_.
"A classic in the literature of childhood."--_San Francisco Chronicle_.
"Mrs. Wemyss is a formidable rival to E. Nesbit, who hitherto has stood
practically alone as a charmingly humorous interpreter of child
life."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean_.
"A charming, witty, tender book."--_Kate Douglas Wiggin_.
"It is a sunny, warm-hearted humorous story, that leaves the reader
with a sense of time well spent in its perusal."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
16mo. $1.00 net. Postage 10 cents.
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FARMING IT
By HENRY A. SHUTE
"There is nothing funnier in Mark Twain."--_Grand Rapids Herald_.
"Every man and woman who lives, or ever has lived, in the country will
appreciate the situations described.... They are funny enough to
disturb the calm of the most serious countenance."--_Boston Globe_.
"Includes more fun than is concealed in all his other books taken
together."--_Living Age_.
"The book is extraordinarily frank ... spicy and
enlivening."--_Baltimore News_.
"A wholesome and invigorating sort of book.... A real story of real
life cheerfully narrated."--_New York Times_.
Fully illustrated by Reginald B. Birch
12mo. $1.20 net. Postage 12 cents
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OLD HARBOR
By WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS
"A charming picture of an old New England sea-port.... It is a book to
close reluctantly with the hope of soon opening another volume by the
same author."--_New York Times_.
"A tale to chuckle over.... It is not often that a reader has an
opportunity in the pages of a book to come in touch with such a group
of genial and lovable people."--_Minneapolis Journal_.
"A cheerful, amusing story of old-fashioned people.... The author is a
genuine humorist."--_Boston Transcript_.
"A story conceived in the same spirit as 'The Clammer,' filled with the
same philosophy, displaying the same keen insight."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
Square crown 8vo. $1.25 net. Postage 14 cents
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THE BREAKING IN OF A YACHTSMAN'S WIFE
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