FICTION
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THE ROMANCE OF PISCATOR
A tale of how the trout and landlocked salmon temporarily lost their magic for Piscator before the mightier spells cast by the Peri; how he was greatly tempted by circumstance, and offended; how complications ensued when he followed the Peri and her "anglemaniac" father; and of wanderings, adventures, more fishing frequent fishing and an embarrassing climax.
THE MICMAC
Though in this tale four "humans" are duly human, and excite our sympathy and interest, the great Micmac swamp in Nova Scotia dominates the action. Perhaps the most striking "human" is the fascinating and unscrupulous Mrs. Marescaux, who comes to the hero in his camp in the deep woods. Through her mach-nations he and the heroine have to face many grim adventures and death is often imminent. How it comes, or if it comes, we will not tell. Indian and half- breed themes add picturesqueness.
UNCLE MAC'S NEBRASKY
William R. Lighten has scarcely a superior for grasp on the masculine traits of the earlier West. In this book he gives bits of conversational autobiography from the mixed career of "Uncle Mac," a genuine Westerner, who went from Indiana in '55 when strenuousness was more a reality than a fad. "Uncle Mac" is a real live man, full of shrewd humor. His yarns are quite as strange as any truth. Of course there are several lively frontier episodes.
A NIGHT WITH ALESSANDRO
The action of this stirring tale occupies but a single night, from dark to dawn. The scene and period are among the most picturesque in history, Florence in the twilight of the Medicis. According to the principles laid down by that great historical story-teller, Von Riehl, the principal characters a French gentleman, sent by Charles V. to report on the sentiment of the Florentines, his body servant, and the heroine are all fictitious. But there are telling sketches of the actual interesting people they fall in with, including the treacherous banker, Strozzi (in whose prison-like palace much of the action passes), the dissolute Duke Alessandro, his despicable kinsman "Lorenzaccio," Cardinal Ippolito, and others. Effective coloured sketches of the Strozzi palace at night, Florence at dusk, and Fiesole at dawn, embellish the book.
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