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ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS
Captain Ravenshaw; Or, The Maid of Cheapside. (35th thousand.) A romance of Elizabethan London. Illustrations by Howard Pyle and other artists.
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Not since the absorbing adventures of D'Artagnan have we had anything so good in the blended vein of romance and comedy. The beggar student, the rich goldsmith, the roisterer and the rake, the fop and the maid, are all here: foremost among them. Captain Ravenshaw himself, soldier of fortune and adventurer, who, after escapades of binding interest, finally wins a way to fame and to matrimony. The rescue of a maid from the designs of an unscrupulous father and rakish lord forms the principal and underlying theme, around which incidents group themselves with sufficient rapidity to hold one's attention spellbound.
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. Written by his Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. Presented anew by Robert Neilson Stephens. Illustrated by E. W. D. Hamilton.
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"One of the most stirring and remarkable romances that have been published in a long while, and its episodes, incidents, and actions are as interesting and agreeable as they are vivid and dramatic."—Boston Times.
An Enemy to the King. (40th thousand.) From the "Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire." Illustrated by H. De M. Young.
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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 of Navarre.
"A stirring tale."—Detroit Free Press.
"A royally strong piece of fiction."—Boston Ideas.
"Interesting from the first to the last page."—Brooklyn Eagle.
"Brilliant as a play; it is equally brilliant as a romantic novel."—Philadelphia Press.
The Continental Dragoon: A Romance of Philipse Manor House in 1778. (42d thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
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A stirring romance of the Revolution, the scene being laid in and around the old Philipse Manor House, near Yonkers, which at the time of the story was the central point of the so-called "neutral territory" between the two armies.
The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure. (23d thousand.) Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
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An historical romance of the 18th century, being an account of the life of an American gentleman adventurer of Jacobite ancestry, whose family early settled in the colony of Pennsylvania.
A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth. (35th thousand.) Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
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"A Gentleman Player" is a romance of the Elizabethan period. It relates the story of a young gentleman who, in the reign of Elizabeth, falls so low in his fortune that he joins Shakespeare's company of players, and becomes a friend and protégé of the great poet.
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CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
The Heart of the Ancient Wood.
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This book strikes a new note in literature. It is a realistic romance of the folk of the forest,—a romance of the alliance of peace between a pioneer's daughter in the depths of the ancient wood and the wild beasts who felt her spell and became her friends. It is not fanciful, with talking beasts; nor is it merely an exquisite idyl of the beasts themselves. It is an actual romance in which the animal characters play their parts as naturally as do the human.
The Forge in the Forest. Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Siegneur de Briart, and how he crossed the Black Abbé, and of his Adventures in a Strange Fellowship. Illustrated by Henry Sandham, R. C. A.
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A romance of the convulsive period of the struggle between the French and English for the possession of North America. The story is one of pure love and heroic adventure, and deals with that fiery fringe of conflict that waved between Nova Scotia and New England.
A Sister to Evangeline. Being the story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into Exile with the Villagers of Grand Pré.
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This is a romance of the great expulsion of the Acadians which Longfellow first immortalized in "Evangeline." Swift action, fresh atmosphere, wholesome purity, deep passion, searching analysis, characterize this strong novel; and the tragic theme of the exile is relieved by the charm of the wilful demoiselle and the spirit of the courtly seigneur, who bring the manners of old France to the Acadian woods.
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This is the author's first volume of stories and the one which discovered him as a fiction writer of advanced rank. The tales deal chiefly with those elemental problems of the mysteries of life,—pain, the unknown, the strange kinship of man and beast in the struggle for existence,—the enigmas which occur chiefly to the primitive folk on the backwoods fringe of civilization, and they arrest attention for their sincerity, their freshness of first-hand knowledge, and their superior craft.
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This is a volume of romance of love and adventure in that picturesque period when Nova Scotia was passing from the French to the English regime, of which Professor Roberts is the acknowledged celebrant. Each tale is independent of the others, but the scenes are similar, and in several of them the evil "Black Abbé," well known from the author's previous novels, again appears with his savages at his heels—but to be thwarted always by woman's wit or soldier's courage.
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MAURUS JOKAI
Manasseh. Translated by P. F. Bicknell. With a portrait in photogravure of Dr. Jókai.
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An absorbing story of life among a happy and primitive people hidden away in far Transylvania, whose peaceful life is never disturbed except by the inroads of their turbulent neighbors. The opening scenes are laid in Rome; and the view of the corrupt, intriguing society there forms a picturesque contrast to the scenes of pastoral simplicity and savage border warfare that succeed.