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Barbara Ladd

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by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts


  GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK

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  A FEW OF

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  Great Books at Little Prices

  QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. A Picture of New England Home Life. Withillustrations by C. W. Reed, and Scenes Reproduced from the Play.

  One of the best New England stories ever written. It is full of homelyhuman interest * * * there is a wealth of New England villagecharacter, scenes and incidents * * * forcibly, vividly and truthfullydrawn. Few books have enjoyed a greater sale and popularity.Dramatized, it made the greatest rural play of recent times.

  THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. By Charles FeltonPidgin. Illustrated by Henry Roth.

  All who love honest sentiment, quaint and sunny humor, and homespunphilosophy will find these "Further Adventures" a book after their ownheart.

  HALF A CHANCE. By Frederic S. Isham. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.

  The thrill of excitement will keep the reader in a state of suspense,and he will become personally concerned from the start, as to thecentral character, a very real man who suffers, dares--and achieves!

  VIRGINIA OF THE AIR LANES. By Herbert Quick. Illustrated by WilliamR. Leigh.

  The author has seized the romantic moment for the airship novel, andcreated the pretty story of "a lover and his lass" contending with anelderly relative for the monopoly of the skies. An exciting tale ofadventure in midair.

  THE GAME AND THE CANDLE. By Eleanor M. Ingram. Illustrated by P. D.Johnson.

  The hero is a young American, who, to save his family from poverty,deliberately commits a felony. Then follow his capture andimprisonment, and his rescue by a Russian Grand Duke. A stirringstory, rich in sentiment.

 

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