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by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer


  GROSSET & DUNLAP'S

  DRAMATIZED NOVELS

  THE KIND THAT ARE MAKING THEATRICAL HISTORY

  May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list.

  WITHIN THE LAW. By Bayard Veiller & Marvin Dana. Illustrated by Wm.Charles Cooke.

  This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran fortwo years in New York and Chicago.

  The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directedagainst her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison for threeyears on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.

  WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY. By Robert Carlton Brown. Illustrated withscenes from the play.

  This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girl who issuddenly thrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of herdreams," where she is exposed to all sorts of temptations and dangers.

  The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played intheatres all over the world.

  THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM. By David Belasco. Illustrated by John Rae.

  This is a novelization of the popular play in which David Warfield, asOld Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.

  The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal, powerful,both as a book and as a play.

  THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.

  This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlitbarbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.

  It is a book of rapturous beauty, vivid in word painting. The play hasbeen staged with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.

  BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ By General Lew Wallace.

  The whole world has placed this famous Religious-Historical Romance ona height of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has reached.The clashing of rivalry and the deepest human passions, the perfectreproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce atmosphereof the arena have kept their deep fascination. A tremendous dramaticsuccess.

  BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. By George Broadhurst and Arthur Hornblow.Illustrated with scenes from the play.

  A stupendous arraignment of modern marriage which has created aninterest on the stage that is almost unparalleled. The scenes are laidin New York, and deal with conditions among both the rich and poor.

  The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments whichshow the young wife the price she has paid.

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  STORIES OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS

  May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset and Dunlap's list.

  THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.

  Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

  The "lonesome pine" from which the story takes its name was a tall treethat stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of thepine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, andwhen he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine butthe _foot-prints of a girl_. And the girl proved to be lovely,piquant, and the trail of these girlish foot-prints led the youngengineer a madder chase than "the trail of the lonesome pine."

  THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME

  Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

  This is a story of Kentucky, in a settlement known as "Kingdom Come."It is a life rude, semi-barbarous; but natural and honest, from whichoften springs the flower of civilization.

  "Chad." the "little shepherd" did not know who he was nor whence hecame--he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood,seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered andmothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery--a charmingwaif, by the way, who could play the banjo better that anyone else inthe mountains.

  A KNIGHT OF THE CUMBERLAND.

  Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

  The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair ofmoonshiner and feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner's son, and theheroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Twoimpetuous young Southerners fall under the spell of "The Blight's"charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have inthe love making of the mountaineers.

  Included in this volume is "Hell fer-Sartain" and other stories, someof Mr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives.

  _Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction_

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

 


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