_Dial_: “A full-length study of the poetic temperament, framed in a
varied and curiously interesting environment, and drawn with a firmness
of hand that excites one’s admiration.... Moreover, a real distinction
of style, besides being of absorbing interest from cover to cover.”
_Catholic Mirror_: “One of the noblest, most inspiring and absorbing
books we have read in years.”
_Owen Seaman in Punch_ (London): “I find her book the most remarkable
that I have read for many years.”
The Diary of a Musician
Edited by DOLORES M. BACON
With decorations and illustrations by CHARLES EDWARD HOOPER and H.
LATIMER BROWN
$1.50
Authorities agree that no particular musical celebrity is described or
satirized; all review the book with enthusiasm, though some damn while
others praise.
_Times Review_: “Of extraordinary interest as a study from the inside
of the inwardness of a genius.”
_Bookman_: “Much of that exquisite egotism, the huge, artistic Me and
the tiny universe, that gluttony of the emotions, of the whole peculiar
compound of hysteria, inspiration, vanity, insight and fidgets, which
goes to make up that delightful but somewhat rickety thing which
we call the artistic temperament is reproduced.... The ‘Diary of a
Musician’ does what most actual diaries fail to do--writes down a man
in full.”
Henry Holt and Company
Publishers New York
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The House of the Black Ring
By FRED. LEWIS PATTEE. $1.50
A story oddly combining humor and horror. It tells of the squire, a
sort of feudal lord, his enemies, his fate and of his daughter and how
she would have her way in love. The weird influence of =The House of
the Black Ring= dominates the little “pocket” in the Seven Mountains of
Pennsylvania.
_The Washington Star_: “An unusual combination of the weird and the
humorous ... absorbing and often thrilling tale.... A forest fire ...
is a dramatic episode which does Mr. Pattee exceptional credit in the
restraint of his treatment and the effectiveness of his climaxes.”
_N. Y. Evening Sun_: “An interesting story ... piques the reader’s
curiosity and keeps him reading till the mystery is solved.”
Red-Headed Gill
By RYE OWEN. 4th printing. $1.50
Red-Headed Gill is a splendid young country gentlewoman of Cornwall.
Under a weird East Indian influence she is forced to live over again
part of the life of a beauty of the days of Queen Bess--the famous Gill
Red-Head.
_New York Sun_: “A charming girl whom the reader will watch with
interest to the end. The author manages to transport her back into the
life of her Tudor ancestress over and again naturally, and with great
effect.”
_New York Times Review_: “There is much originality in the plot. The
reader’s attention is at once enlisted, and is not allowed to flag.”
In the Dwellings of the Wilderness
By C. BRYSON TAYLOR. $1.25