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BY ZONA GALE Friendship Village Cloth, izmo, $f.fO " As charming as an April day, all showers and sunshine, and some- times both together, so that the delighted reader hardly knows whether laughter or tears are fittest for his emotions. . . . This book especially makes for higher thinking and better living and emphasizes the existence of these virtues in lowly places as well as high." New York Times. " The characters are like an orchestra, each instrument holding a part of its own, all interwoven to a harmonious whole ; an orchestra of strings, be it added, for even the Proudfits' motor fails to introduce a note of brass. . . . With the wholesome pungency of humor that pervades it all, the book cannot fail to find a welcome." New York Post. " There is not a trace of sarcasm or even grotesqueness ; her villagers are not caricatures ; they are efficient, useful men and women whose individualities have been crystallized into distinct outlines by their limited environments and intimate relations. The book is happily optimistic, presenting, indeed, the commonplaces of narrow lives but breathing also the underlying spirit of poetry and romance." Balti- more Sun. The Loves of Pel leas and Etarre Cloth, i2mo, $i.JO "To all who know the hidden sources of human joy and have neither grown old in cynicism nor gray in utilitarianism, Miss Gale's charm- ing love stories, full of fresh feeling and grace of style, will be a draught from the fountain of youth." Outlook. "The achievement is unusual for delicacy, subtlety, and the . . . felicitous tenderness which brood over the book like a golden autumnal haze which dims the outlines of common things and beautifies them. . . . The story is indeed unique in this, that it is an idyl for the aged a romance of seventy." Chicago Tribune. " It is an ideal book for husband and wife to read aloud together. ... Its picture of steadfast love in old age is the best kind of idealism." Chicago Record Herald. PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 Fifth Avenue, New Tork