Under the Witches' Moon: A Romantic Tale of Mediaeval Rome
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NOVELS BY MRS. HENRY BACKUS
THE CAREER OF DOCTOR WEAVER
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"High craftsmanship is the leading characteristic of this novel, which,like all good novels, is a love story abounding in real palpitant humaninterest. The most startling feature of the story is the way its authorhas torn aside the curtain and revealed certain phases of the relationbetween the medical profession and society."--_Dr. Charles Reed in theLancet Clinic._
THE ROSE OF ROSES
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The author has achieved a thing unusual in developing a love storywhich adheres to conventions under unconventional circumstances.
"Mrs. Backus' novel is distinguished in the first place for itsworkmanship."--_Buffalo Evening News._
NOVELS BY MARGARET R. PIPER
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"An atmosphere of good spirits pervades the book; the humor thatnow and then flashes across the page is entirely natural, and thecharacters are well individualized."--_Boston Post._
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"There is a world of human nature and neighborhood contentmentand quaint quiet humor in Margaret R. Piper's second book of goodcheer."--_Philadelphia North American._
MISS MADELYN MACK, DETECTIVE By HUGH C. WEIR.
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"Clever in plot and effective in style, the author has seized on someof the most sensational features of modern life, and the result isa detective novel that gets away from the beaten track of mysterystories."--_New York Sun._
WORKS OF CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
HAUNTERS OF THE SILENCES
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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 within books, whose lives are spent "In the Silences," where they are thesupreme rulers.
"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._
RED FOX
THE STORY OF HIS ADVENTUROUS CAREER IN THE RINGWAAK WILDS, AND OF HIS FINAL TRIUMPH OVER THE ENEMIES OF HIS KIND. With fifty illustrations, including frontispiece in color and cover design by Charles Livingston Bull.
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"True in substance but fascinating as fiction. It will interest old andyoung, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those whodo not."--_Chicago Record Herald._
THE KINDRED OF THE WILD
A BOOK OF ANIMAL LIFE. With fifty-one full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.
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"Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories thathas appeared; well named and well done."--_John Burroughs._
THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILS
A companion volume to "The Kindred of the Wild." With forty-eight full-page plates and many decorations from drawings by Charles Livingston Bull.
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"These stories are exquisite in their refinement, and yet robust intheir appreciation of some of the rougher phases of woodcraft. Amongthe many writers about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviableplace."--_The Outlook._
WORKS OF GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
Signor d'Annunzio is known throughout the world as a poet and adramatist, but above all as a novelist, for it is in his novels that heis at his best. In poetic thought and graceful expression he has fewequals among the writers of the day.
He is engaged on a most ambitious work--nothing less than the writingof nine novels which cover the whole field of human sentiment. Thiswork he has divided into three trilogies, and five of the nine bookshave been published. It is to be regretted that other labors haveinterrupted the completion of the series.
"This book is realistic. Some say that it is brutally so. But therealism is that of Flaubert, and not of Zola. There is no plainspeaking for the sake of plain speaking. Every detail is justifiedin the fact that it illuminates either the motives or the actions ofthe man and woman who here stand revealed. It is deadly true. Theauthor holds the mirror up to nature, and the reader, as he sees hisown experiences duplicated in passage after passage, has something ofthe same sensation as all of us know on the first reading of GeorgeMeredith's 'Egoist.' Reading these pages is like being out in thecountry on a dark night in a storm. Suddenly a flash of lightning comesand every detail of your surroundings is revealed."--_Review of "TheTriumph of Death" in the New York Evening Sun._
The volumes published are as follows. Each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth. . . . . . . . $1.50
_THE ROMANCES OF THE ROSE_
=THE CHILD OF PLEASURE= (IL PIACERE). =THE INTRUDER= (L'INNOCENTE). =THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH= (IL TRIONFO DELLA MORTE).
_THE ROMANCES OF THE LILY_
=THE MAIDENS OF THE ROCKS= (LE VERGINI DELLE ROCCE).
_THE ROMANCES OF THE POMEGRANATE_
=THE FLAME OF LIFE= (IL FUOCO).
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Transcriber's Note:
Some words appear in both hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms inthe original; these variations have been edited for the sake ofconsistency.
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected.