Travelers Five Along Life's Highway: Jimmy, Gideon Wiggan, the Clown, Wexley Snathers, Bap. SloanJohnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
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Travelers Five Along Life's Highway: Jimmy, Gideon Wiggan, the Clown, Wexley Snathers, Bap. Sloan
Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
Short stories, American; West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Elizabeth Duwaney, the heroine, is beautiful and vivacious enough to
quite turn the heads of the several gallant gentlemen who struggle for
her hand, and to keep the reader guessing until the very last page as to
which suitor will find favor in her eyes. Unusual and unexpected
situations in the plot are handled skilfully and you close the book
agreeing with our editor that "Mr. Roberts has given us another capital
yarn!"
"Mr. Roberts has undoubted skill in portraying character and carrying
events along to a satisfactory conclusion."--_The Smart Set._
"One can always predict of a book by Mr. Roberts that it will be
interesting. One can go further and predict that the book will be
fascinating, exciting and thrilling."--_Boston Globe._
A SOLDIER OF VALLEY FORGE
By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of "An Enemy to the King," "Philip
Winwood," etc., and G. E. THEODORE ROBERTS, author of "Hemming, the
Adventurer," "Red Feathers," etc.
12mo, cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50
The many admirers of the brilliant historical romances of the late
Robert Neilson Stephens will be gratified at the announcement of a
posthumous work by that gifted writer. The rough draft of the story was
laid aside for other work, and later, without completing the novel, the
plot was utilized for a play. With the play completed Mr. Stephens again
turned his attention to the novel, but death prevented its completion.
Mr. Roberts has handled his difficult task of completing the work with
care and skill.
The story, like that of "The Continental Dragoon," takes as its theme an
incident in the Revolution, and, as in the earlier novel, the scene is
the "debatable ground" north of New York. In interest of plot and
originality of development it is as remarkable as the earlier work, but
it is more mature, more forceful, more _real_.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Repeated chapter titles were deleted to avoid redundancy for the reader.
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Varied hyphenation, as in
coffin-plates and coffin plates was retained.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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