The Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
England -- Fiction; Upper class -- Fiction; Women's rights -- Fiction
A great many people already know Mr. Hagedorn through his verse. _Faces
in the Dawn_ will, however, be their introduction to him as a novelist.
The same qualities that have served to raise his poetry above the
common level help to distinguish this story of a German village. The
theme of the book is the transformation that was wrought in the lives
of an irritable, domineering German pastor and his wife through the
influence of a young German girl and her American lover. Sentiment,
humor and a human feeling, all present in just the right measure, warm
the heart and contribute to the enjoyment which the reader derives in
following the experiences of the well drawn characters.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue
New York
NEW MACMILLAN FICTION
Metzel Changes His Mind
By RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER, Author of “The Goodly Fellowship.”
_With frontispiece. Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net._
The many readers who enjoyed _The Goodly Fellowship_ have been eagerly
awaiting something more from the pen of the same author. This is at
last announced. In _Metzel Changes His Mind_, Miss Schauffler
strengthens the impression made by her first book that she is a writer
of marked originality. Here again she has provided an unusual setting
for her tale. The scene is largely laid in a pathological laboratory,
surely a new background for a romance. It is a background, moreover,
which is used most effectively by Miss Schauffler in the furtherance of
her plot. Her characters, too, are as interesting as their
surroundings—a woman doctor, attractive as well as sensible, a gruff
old German doctor, suspicious of womankind, and a young American.
Around these the action centers, though half a dozen others, vividly
sketched, have a hand in the proceedings. Of course _Metzel Changes His
Mind_ is a love story, but not of the ordinary type.
Landmarks
By E.V. LUCAS, Author of “Over Bemerton’s,” “London Lavender,” etc.
_Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net._
Mr. Lucas’s new story combines a number of the most significant
episodes in the life of the central figure; in other words, those
events of his career from early childhood to the close of the book
which have been most instrumental in building up his character and
experience. The episodes are of every kind, serious, humorous, tender,
awakening, disillusioning, and they are narrated without any padding
whatever, each one beginning as abruptly as in life; although in none
of his previous work has the author been so minute in his social
observation and narration. A descriptive title precedes each episode,
as in the moving-picture; and it was in fact while watching a
moving-picture that Mr. Lucas had the idea of adapting its swift
selective methods to fiction.
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 Fifth Avenue
New York
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