A humorous love story of a beautiful American and a gallant Englishman
who stoops to conquer. Two almost human automobiles play prominent
parts. There are picturesque scenes in Provence, Spain and Italy.
“Altogether the best automobile story of which we have knowledge, and
might serve almost as a guide-book for highway travel from Paris to
Sicily.”--_Atlantic Monthly._
C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON’S THE PRINCESS PASSES
Illustrated by Edward Penfield. Eighth printing. $1.50.
“The authors have duplicated their success with ‘The Lightning
Conductor.’ ... Unusually absorbing.”--_Boston Transcript._
D. D. WELLS’ HER LADYSHIP’S ELEPHANT
This humorous Anglo-American tale made an instantaneous hit. Eighteenth
printing. $1.25.
“He is probably funny because he cannot help it.... Must consent to be
regarded as a benefactor of his kind without responsibility.”--_The
Nation._
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FIVE DELIGHTFUL ANTHOLOGIES
POEMS FOR TRAVELERS
Compiled by MARY R. J. DUBOIS. 16mo. Cloth, $1.50; leather, $2.50.
Covers France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece in some
three hundred poems (nearly one-third of them by Americans) from about
one hundred and thirty poets. All but some forty of these poems were
originally written in English.
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The three following books are uniform, with full gilt flexible covers
and pictured cover linings. 16mo. Each, cloth, $1.50; leather, $2.50.
THE POETIC OLD WORLD
Compiled by MISS L. H. HUMPHREY.
Covers Europe, including Spain, Belgium and the British Isles, in some
two hundred poems from about ninety poets. Some thirty, not originally
written in English, are given in both the original and the best
available translation.
THE OPEN ROAD
A little book for wayfarers. Compiled by E. V. LUCAS.
Some 125 poems from over 60 authors, including Fitzgerald, Shelley,
Shakespeare, Kenneth Grahame, Stevenson, Whitman, Browning, Keats,
Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, William Morris, Maurice Hewlett,
Isaak Walton, William Barnes, Herrick, Dobson, Lamb, Milton, Whittier,
etc., etc.
“A very charming book from cover to cover.”--_Dial._
THE FRIENDLY TOWN
A little book for the urbane, compiled by E. V. LUCAS.
Over 200 selections in verse and prose from 100 authors, including:
James R. Lowell, Burroughs, Herrick, Thackeray, Scott, Vaughn, Milton,
Cowley, Browning, Stevenson, Henley, Longfellow, Keats, Swift,
Meredith, Lamb, Lang, Dobson, Fitzgerald, Pepys, Addison, Kemble,
Boswell, Holmes, Walpole, and Lovelace.
“Would have delighted Charles Lamb.”--_The Nation._
A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN