GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK
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GROSSET & DUNLAP'S
DRAMATIZED NOVELS
A Few that are Making Theatrical History
MARY JANE'S PA, By Norman Way Illustrated with scenes from the play.
Delightful, irresponsible "Mary Jane's Pa" awakes one morning to findhimself famous, and, genius being ill adapted to domestic joys, hewanders from home to work out his own unique destiny. One of the mostnumerous bits of recent fiction.
CHERUB DEVINE. By Sewell Ford.
"Cherub," a good hearted but not over refined young man is brought intouch with the aristocracy. Of sprightly wit, he is sometimes amerciless analyst, but he proves in the end that manhood counts formore than and? cut lineage by winning the love of the fairest girl inthe flock.
A WOMAN'S WAY. By Charles Somerville. Illustrated with scenes fromthe play.
A story in which a woman's wit and self-sacrificing love save herhusband from the toils of an adventuress, and change an apparentlytragic situation into one of delicious comedy.
THE CLIMAX. By George C. Jenks.
With ambition luring her on, a young choir soprano leaves the littlevillage where she was born and the limited audience of St. Jude's totrain for the opera in New York. She leaves love behind her and meetslove more ardent but not more sincere in her new environment. How sheworks, how she studies, how she suffers, are vividly portrayed.
A FOOL THERE WAS. By Porter Emerson Browne, Illustrated by EdmundMagrath and W. W. Fawcett.
A relentless portrayal of the career of a man who comes under theinfluence of a beautiful but evil woman; how she lures him on and on,how he struggles, falls and rises, only to fall again into her net,make a story of unflinching realism.
THE SQUAW MAN. By Julie Opp Faversham and Edwin Milton Royle.Illustrated with scenes from the play.
A glowing story, rapid in action, bright in dialogue with a finecourageous hero and a Beautiful English heroine.
THE GIRL IN WAITING. By Archibald Eyre. Illustrated with scenes fromthe play.
A droll little comedy of misunderstandings, told with a light touch, aventuresome spirit and an eye for human oddities.
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. By Baroness Orczy. Illustrated with scenesfrom the play.
A realistic story of the days of the French Revolution, abounding indramatic incident, with a young English soldier of fortune, daring,mysterious as the hero.
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