L.C. Page & Company'sAnnouncement Listof New Fiction
Haunters of the Silences, BY CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS, authorof "Red Fox," "The Watchers of the Trails," etc.
Cloth, one volume, with many drawings by Charles Livingston Bull, fourof which are in full color $2.00
The stories in Mr. Roberts's new collection are the strongest and besthe has ever written.
He has largely taken for his subjects those animals rarely met with inbooks, whose lives are spent "In the Silences," where they are thesupreme rulers. Mr. Roberts has written of them sympathetically, asalways, but with fine regard for the scientific truth.
"As a writer about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place. Heis the most literary, as well as the most imaginative and vivid of allthe nature writers."--_Brooklyn Eagle._
"His animal stories are marvels of sympathetic science and literaryexactness."--_New York World._
The Lady of the Blue Motor. By G. SIDNEY PATERNOSTER,author of "The Cruise of the Motor-Boat Conqueror," "The MotorPirate," etc.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispieceby John C. Frohn $1.50
The Lady of the Blue Motor is an audacious heroine who drove hermysterious car at breakneck speed. Her plea for assistance in anadventure promising more than a spice of danger could not of course bedisregarded by any gallant fellow motorist. Mr. Paternoster's herorose promptly to the occasion. Across France they tore and across theEnglish Channel. There, the escapade past, he lost her.
Mr. Paternoster, however, is generous, and allows the reader to followtheir separate adventures until the Lady of the Blue Motor is foundagain and properly vindicated of all save womanly courage andaffection. A unique romance, one continuous exciting series ofadventure.
Clementina's Highwayman. ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, authorof "The Flight of Georgiana," "An Enemy to the King," etc.
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50
Mr. Stephens has put into his new book, "Clementina's Highwayman," thefinest 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 changeableas an April day, and a hero all ardor and daring.
The exquisite quality of Mr. Stephens's literary style clothes thestory in a rich but delicate word-fabric; and never before have hissetting and atmosphere been so perfect.
The Sorceress of Rome. By NATHAN GALLIZIER, author of"Castel del Monte," etc.
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50
The love-story of Otto III., the boy emperor, and Stephania, wife ofthe Senator Crescentius of Rome, has already been made the basis ofvarious German poems and plays.
Mr. Gallizier has used it for the main theme of "The Sorceress ofRome," the second book of his trilogy of romances on the mediaeval lifeof Italy. In detail and finish the book is a brilliant piece of work,describing clearly an exciting and strenuous period. It possesses thesame qualities as "Castel del Monte," of which the _Chicago RecordHerald_ said: "There is color, there is sumptuous word-painting inthese pages; the action is terrific at times; vividness and life arein every part; brilliant descriptions entertain the reader; mysticscenes and prophecies give a singular fascination to the tale, whichis strong and forceful in its portrayal."
Hester of the Hills. By GROVER CLAY.
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50
"Hester of the Hills" has a motif unusual in life, and new in fiction.Its hero, who has only acquired his own strength and resourcefulnessby a lifelong struggle against constitutional frailty, has come tomake the question of bodily soundness his dominant thought. Heresolves to ensure strong constitutions to his children by marrying aphysically perfect woman. After long search, he finds this ideal inHester, the daughter of a "cracker squatter," of the Ozark Mountainsof Missouri. But,--he forgot to take into consideration that veryvital emotion, love, which played havoc with his well-laid plans.
It is an ingenious combination of practical realism and imaginativefiction worked out to a thoroughly delightful and satisfying climax.
Prisoners of Fortune. A TALE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAYCOLONY. BY RUEL PERLEY SMITH, author of "The RivalCampers," etc.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispieceby Frank T. Merrill $1.50
The period of Mr. Smith's story is the beginning of the eighteenthcentury, when the shores of the American colonies were harassed andthe seas patrolled by pirates and buccaneers. These robbed andspoiled, and often seized and put to death, the sailors and fishersand other humbler folk, while their leaders claimed friendship alikewith Southern planters and New England merchants,--with whom it issaid they frequently divided their spoils.
The times were stern and the colonists were hardy, but they loved astruly and tenderly as in more peaceful days. Thus, while the hero'sadventures with pirates and his search for their hidden treasure is arecord of desperate encounters and daring deeds, his love-story andhis winning of sweet Mary Vane is in delightful contrast.
The Rome Express. BY MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS, author of "ThePassenger from Calais," etc.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispieceby A.O. Scott $1.25
A mysterious murder on a flying express train, a wily Italian, acharming woman caught in the meshes of circumstantial evidence, achivalrous Englishman, and a police force with a keen nose for thewrong clue, are the ingredients from which Major Griffiths hasconcocted a clever, up-to-date detective story. The book is bright andspirited, with rapid action, and consistent development which bringsthe story to a logical and dramatic ending.
The Morning Glory Club. BY GEORGE A. KYLE.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispieceby A.O. Scott $1.25
The doings of the Morning Glory Club will furnish genuine amusement tothe reader. Originally formed to "elevate" the village, it quicklydevelops into an exchange for town gossip. It has a saving grace,however, in the person of motherly Mrs. Stout, the uncultured butsweet-natured and pure-minded village philosopher, who pours the oilof her saneness and charity on the troubled waters of discussion andcondemnation.
It is a series of clear and interesting pictures of the humor ofvillage life.
The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Detective. NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION.BY ARTHUR MORRISON, author of "The Green Diamond," "The Red Triangle,"etc.
Cloth decorative, with six full-page drawingsby W. Kirkpatrick $1.50
The success of Mr. Morrison's recent books, "The Green Diamond" and"The Red Triangle," has led to an imperative demand for the reissue of"The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt," which has been out of print for anumber of years.
It will be remembered that Martin Hewitt is the detective in "The RedTriangle," of whom the _New York Tribune_ said: "Better than SherlockHolmes." His adventures in the London slums were of such a nature thatthe _Philadelphia North American_ said: "The reader who has a grain offancy or imagination may be defied to lay this book down once he hasbegun it until the last word is reached."
Mystery Island. By EDWARD H. HURST.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispiece $1.50
A hunting camp on a swampy island in the Florida Everglades furnishesthe background for this present-day tale.
By the murder of one of their number, the secret of egress from theisland is lost, and the campers find themselves marooned.
Cut off from civilization, conventional veneer soon wears away. Love,hate, and revenge spring up, and after the sterner passions have hadtheir sway the man and the woman are left alone to fulfil their owndestiny.
While there is much that is unusual in the plot and its development,Mr. Hurst has handled his subject with fine delicacy, and the tale oftheir love on the beautiful little island is told with deep sympathyand
feeling.
The Flying Cloud. By MORLEY ROBERTS, author of "ThePromotion of the Admiral," "Rachel Marr," "The Idlers," etc.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispiece $1.50
Mr. Roberts's new book is much more than a ripping good sea story suchas might be expected from the author of "The Promotion of theAdmiral." In "The Flying Cloud" the waters and the winds are godspersonified. Their every mood and phase are described in words oftelling force. There is no world but the waste of waters.
Mr. Roberts glories and exults in the mystery, the passion, thestrength of the elements, as did the Viking chroniclers of old. Heunderstands them and loves them and interprets them as no other writerhas heretofore done. The book is too big for conventional phrases. Itneeds Mr. Roberts's own richness of imagery and masterly expression todescribe adequately the word-pictures in this epic of wind and waves.