NEW FICTION
By MERWIN-WEBSTER
Authors of "The Short Line War," "The Banker and the Bear," etc.
Illustrated. Cloth. 12mo. $1.50
Calumet "K" is a two-million-bushel grain elevator, and this story tells how Charlie Bannon built it "against time." The elevator must be done by December 31. There are persons that are interested in delaying the work, and it is these, as well as the "walking delegates," that Bannon has to fight. The story of how they tried to "tie up" the lumber, two hundred miles away, and of how he outwitted them and "just carried it off," shows the kinds of thing that Bannon can do best. In spite of his temptation to brag he was for two years a "chief wrecker" on the Grand Trunk, and has many stories to tell Bannon is one of the men without whom American commerce could not get on. The heroine of this story is Bannon's typewriter.
Mr. Henry Kitchell Webster and Mr. Samuel Merwin have discovered in the exciting movements of trade and finance a field of fiction hitherto overlooked by American writers, but containing a great wealth of romance.
A Tale of the First Crusade
By WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
Author of "A Friend of Caesar"
Cloth. 12mo. $1.50
The story revolves around the adventures of Richard Longsword, a redoubtable young Norman cavalier, settled in Sicily; how he won the hand of the Byzantine Princess, Mary Kurkuas; how in expiation of a crime committed under extreme provocation, he took the vows of the Crusader; how in Syria his rival in love, the Egyptian Emir, Iftikhar-Eddauleh stole from him his bride; and how he regained her under romantic circumstances at the storming of Jerusalem by the French.
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