From
L. C. Page & Company’s
Announcement List
of New Fiction
DAVID BRAN
- By Morley Roberts, author of “Rachel Marr,” “The Idlers,” etc.
- Cloth decorative, with frontispiece in color by Frank T. Merrill . . . . . $1.50
In “David Bran” Mr, Roberts presents in a new light the old story of a man and two women. Characterized as this book is by the skilful achievement which distinguished “Rachel Marr,” its interest is strengthened by a remarkable defence of heterodox doctrines and the surprising and courageous conclusion to which the author draws his novel.
“Among living novelists Morley Roberts holds a high place; but ‘David Bran’ will enormously strengthen his reputation.”—Rochester Post-Express.
“Few writers of the day so thoroughly comprehend the educational and fictional value of suffering, and few books present so fine a problem. It is, in fact, so fine that any statement of it sounds crude, almost coarse, and the book must be read to be comprehended,”—Chicago Daily News.
“As to the hearts of men and of some women, he is cynical. But he draws capital pictures of the gossiping old men of Trescas—and when he is sounding for us the deeps in the natures of Lou Trevarris, Kate Poldrew and even David Bran, the name of his writer’s gift is Wonderful.”—N. Y. World.
THE QUEST FOR THE ROSE OF SHARON
- By Burton E. Stevenson, author of “The Marathon Mystery,” “The Holladay Case,” etc.
- Illustrated, cloth decorative . . . . . $1.25
This tale of mystery and its solution contains all the elements which go to make a fascinating story, in which one’s sympathies are awakened over the impending misfortunes of the little heroine and her family, and one’s curiosity is excited to the utmost by the methods employed to bring to a successful termination a quest which is not accomplished until the very last chapter is reached.
The author’s style is quaint and charming and the characters all flesh and blood.
- By L. M. Montgomery, author of “Anne of Green Gables.”
- Illustrated, cloth decorative $1.50
Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) is beyond question the most popular girl heroine in recent fiction, and the reading public will be glad to hear more of her. In the present volume Anne is as fascinating as ever, and the author has introduced several new characters, including the highly imaginative and charming little boy, Paul Irving, whose quaint sayings will recall to the reader the delightful Anne on her first appearance at Green Gables.
Some opinions regarding Anne of Green Gables:
“In ‘Anne of Green Gables’ you will find the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice.”—Mark Twain in a letter to Francis Wilson.
“I see that she has become one of the popular young ladies of the season, but I can assure you that if she had no one else to love her, I should still be her most devoted admirer. . . . And I take it as a great test of the worth of the book that while the young people are rummaging all over the house looking for Anne, the head of the family has carried her off to read on his way to town.”—Bliss Carman.
An English opinion:
“At long intervals there is sent across the Atlantic a book which lives in the public memory for years. Such were ‘Helen’s Babies’ and ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy,’ and ‘Anne of Green Gables’ deserves to make an equal sensation.”—The Nottingham {England) Guardian.
A GENTLEMAN OF QUALITY
- By Frederic van Rensselaer Dey, author of “The Magic Story.”
- With frontispiece in color by Frank P. Fairbanks. Cloth decorative . . . . . . . . . . $1.50
A thrilling tale of mistaken identity, the scene of which is laid for the most part in England of the present day. It is a graphic story of human, forceful life; of despair crowding a man even while a woman’s love seeks to surround him; of trickery and guilelessness; of vengeance robbed; of the unwilling masquerader who unknowingly follows the lead of justice away from the bitter of crime and the sweet of love, on to a new shore and through the mazes of English aristocratic life, till he rests at last where no man can foresee who has not been with Love a Pioneer.
THE MYSTERY OF MISS MOTTE
- By Caroline Atwater Mason, author of “The Binding of the Strong,” “A Lily of France,” etc.
- With frontispiece in color by Albert R. Thayer.
- Cloth decorative . . . . . . . $1.25
Mrs. Mason’s story is a delightful combination of mystery and romance. The heroine, a young woman of remarkable personality and charm, is persuaded, on account of disclosures made by her mother, into a promise never to marry, and hence holds herself aloof, which but adds zest to the pursuit of her several admirers. The unravelling of the truth concerning her birth, and its effect on the mother, solves the mystery to the reader and brings the romance to a happy termination in a dramatic climax. The other characters in the book, the worldly clergyman; his assistant, a young man of his ideals; the society woman of wealth and her invalid husband with scientific proclivities, as well as the morbid mother, are all splendidly drawn.
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER AND MASON CORNER FOLKS
- By Charles Felton Pidgin, author of “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” “Blennerhassett,” “Stephen Holton,” etc.
- With six full-page illustrations by Henry Roth.
- Cloth decorative . . . . . . . $1.50
Some eight years ago, “Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks” was published, being heralded, truthfully, as the work of an “unknown author.” The book met with instant recognition by the critics and public, and proved one of the “best sellers” in recent years. Hundreds of letters have come to the author from unknown correspondents all over the country asking if they are not going to hear more about “Quincy” and the other characters in the book. The present story has all the popular appeal of the earlier book and should repeat its success.
MASTERS OF CIRCUMSTANCE
- By Theodore Roberts, author of “Hemming, the Adventurer,” “Captain Love,” etc.
- Illustrated, cloth decorative . . . . . . . $1.50
The scene of Mr. Roberts’ new story is laid in early Colonial times in Virginia, although part of the action takes place upon the high seas. The story is easily the best that Mr. Roberts has yet done, and his descriptions of the ample hospitality of early days in Virginia, the chivalry of its men and the beauty of its women, have never been surpassed.
TAG: YOU’RE IT; OR THE CHIEN BOULE DOG
- By Valance J. Patriarche
- Illustrated. Cloth decorative . . . . . . . $1.00
An amusing story of a newly married couple, whose honeymoon is interrupted by the appearance of a lost child, and a dog, decidedly a dog. The young wife, whose kindly interest in the forlorn little fellow traveller, “Bateese” and his “Chien Boule Dog,” results in all sorts of complications, the young husband, and last, though not least, the boy, “Bateese,” who is sublimely unconscious of being the central figure in what proves almost a tragedy (at least from the point of view of a man cheated out of his honeymoon) are all drawn with a fine humor.
The story is an exquisite bit of humor which will be read again and again.
Selections from
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WORKS OF
ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS
Each one vol., library 12mo, cloth decorative . . $1.50
THE FLIGHT OF GEORGIANA
- A Romance of the Days of the Young Pretender. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
“A love-story in the highest degree, a dashing story, and a remarkably well finished piece of work.” — Chicago Record-Herald.
THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER
- Being an account of some adventures of Henri de Launay, son of the Sieur de la Tournoire. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
“Mr. Stephens has fairly outdone himself. We thank him heartily. The story is nothing if not spirited and entertaining, rational and convincing.”—Boston Transcript.
THE MYSTERY OF MURRAY DAVENPORT
- (40th thousand.)
“This is easily the best thing that Mr. Stephens has yet done. Those familiar with his other novels can best judge the measure of this praise, which is generous.”—Buffalo News.
CAPTAIN RAVENSHAW
- Or, The Maid of Cheapside. (52d thousand.) A romance of Elizabethan London. Illustrations by Howard Pyle and other artists.
Not since the absorbing adventures of D’Artagnan have we had anything so good in the blended vein of romance and comedy.
THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOON
- A Romance of Philipse Manor House in 1778. (53d thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
A stirring romance of the Revolution, with its scenes laid on neutral territory.
PHILIP WINWOOD
- (70th thousand.) A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence, embracing events that occurred between and during the years 1763 and 1785 in New York and London. Illustrated by E. W. D. Hamilton.
AN ENEMY TO THE KING
- (70th thousand.) From the “Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire.” Illustrated by H. De M. Young.
An historical romance of the sixteenth century, describing the adventures of a young French nobleman at the court of Henry III., and on the field with Henry IV.
THE ROAD TO PARIS
- A Story of Adventure. (35th thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards
An historical romance of the eighteenth century, being an account of the life of an American gentleman adventurer of Jacobite ancestry.
A GENTLEMAN PLAYER
- His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth. (48th thousand.) Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
The story of a young gentleman who joins Shakespeare’s company of players, and becomes a friend and protege of the great poet.
CLEMENTINA’S HIGHWAYMAN
- Cloth decorative, illustrated . . . . . $1.50
Mr. Stephens has put into his new book, “Clementina’s Highwayman,” the finest qualities of plot, construction, and literary finish.
The story is laid in the mid-Georgian period. It is a dashing, sparkling, vivacious comedy, with a heroine as lovely and changeable as an April day, and a hero all ardor and daring.
TALES FROM BOHEMIA
Illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith.
Cloth, decorative cover . . . . . $1.50
These bright and clever tales deal with people of the theatre and odd characters in other walks of life which fringe on Bohemia
WORKS OF
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
HAUNTERS OF THE SILENCES
- Cloth, one volume, with many drawings by Charles Livingston Bull, four of which are in full color . . . . . $2.00
The stories in Mr. Roberts’s new collection are the strongest and best he has ever written.
He has largely taken for his subjects those animals rarely met with in books, whose lives are spent “In the Silences,” where they are the supreme rulers. Mr. Roberts has written of them sympathetically, as always, but with fine regard for the scientific truth.
“As a writer about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place. He is the most literary, as well as the most imaginative and vivid of all the nature writers.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
RED FOX
- The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds, and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind. With fifty illustrations, including frontispiece in color and cover design by Charles Livingston Bull.
- Square quarto, cloth decorative . . . . . $2.00
“True in substance but fascinating as fiction. It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“A brilliant chapter in natural history.”—Philadelphia North American.
THE KINDRED OF THE WILD
- A Book of Animal Life. With fifty-one full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.
- Square quarto, decorative cover . . . . . $2.00
“Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories that has appeared; well named and well done.”—John Burroughs.
THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILS
- A companion volume to “The Kindred of the Wild.” With forty-eight full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.
- Square quarto, decorative cover . . . . . $2.00
“These stories are exquisite in their refinement, and yet robust in their appreciation of some of the rougher phases of woodcraft. Among the many writers about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place.”—The Outlook.
“This is a book full of delight. An additional charm lies in Mr. Bull’s faithful and graphic illustrations, which in fashion all their own tell the story of the wild life, illuminating and supplementing the pen pictures of the author.”—literary Digest.
THE HOUSE IN THE WATER
- With thirty full-page illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull and Frank Vining Smith. Cover design and decorations by Charles Livingston Bull.
- 12mo, cloth decorative . . . . . $1.50
“Every paragraph is a splendid picture, suggesting in a few words the appeal of the vast, illimitable wilderness.”—The Chicago Tribune.
THE HEART THAT KNOWS
- Library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover . . . . . $1.50
“A novel of singularly effective strength, luminous in literary color, rich in its passionate, yet tender drama.”—New York Globe.
EARTH’S ENIGMAS
- A new edition of Mr. Roberts’s first volume of fiction, published in 1892, and out of print for several years, with the addition of three new stories, and ten illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.
- Library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover . . . . . $1.50
“It will rank high among collections of short stories. In ‘Earth’s Enigmas’ is a wider range of subject than in the ‘Kindred of the Wild.’”—Review from advance sheets of the illustrated edition by Tiffany Blake in the Chicago Evening Post.
BARBARA LADD
- With four illustrations by Frank Verbeck.
- Library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover . . . . . $1.50
“From the opening chapter to the final page Mr. Roberts lures us on by his rapt devotion to the changing aspects of Nature and by his keen and sympathetic analysis of human character.”—Boston Transcript.