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The romance of a young girl who breaks away from her humdrum environment to find adventure and happiness at the end of the road.

[Sidenote: _Romance_
_Love_
_Adventure_
_Mystery_
_Intrigue_]

_Ethel M. Dell_

_Her Full Length Novels_

[Sidenote: _Ethel Dell is universally recognized as one of the leading
novelists of the day._]

[Sidenote: _Though each new book meets with a wider popularity than the
last, the older books are in increasingly popular demand
also._]

The Top of the World
The Lamp in the Desert
Greatheart
The Hundredth Chance
The Keeper of the Door
The Rocks of Valpré
The Knave of Diamonds
The Way of an Eagle

_Her Shorter Stories_

[Sidenote: _Ethel Dell writes fiction the whole world reads, and almost
all of her “long short” stories have been filmed._]

The Swindler
The Safety Curtain
The Tidal Wave

_A List of Good Fiction_

The Cruise of the Scandal By Victor Bridges

Amusing and colorful stories of action, and fantastic adventures, by the clever author of _The Lady from Long Acre_, _A Rogue by Compulsion_, etc.

The Treasure of the Isle of Mist By W. W. Tarn

An exquisite fantasy contrived with delicious humor, with a lovable heroine who has a “warm heart and a largish size in shoes.”

The Substance of a Dream By F. W. Bain

A gorgeously exotic story from the Hindu, in which a marvelously beautiful Queen amuses herself with many lovers until she meets one who “loves with hatred instead of love.”

Trailin’ By Max Brand

Heywood Broun of the _New York Tribune_ declares this one of the best Western stories he ever read.

The Gold Girl By James B. Hendryx

A man’s size novel of the West in which a lost mine, a mysterious jug, and a distinctly original type of hero play important parts.

A Critic in Pall Mall By Oscar Wilde

Essays and criticisms collected from the _Pall Mall Gazette_ and other sources. Never before published in book form. This volume completes our 15–volume set of the works of Oscar Wilde. Semi-flexible cloth or flexible leather.

The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician By Edwin Lester Arnold

An Arabian Nights entertainment equal in its field to anything this writer’s distinguished father, author of _The Light of Asia_, ever conceived. The fantastic chronicle of a character who existed in many eras.

Sheepskins and Grey Russet

By

E. Temple Thurston

Author of “The City of Beautiful Nonsense,” “The World of Wonderful
Reality,” “David and Jonathan,” etc.

_8º. Illustrated throughout by Émile Verpilleux_

“Our clothing is good sheepskins
Grey russet for our wives.”

_Corridon’s song from the “Complete Angler.”_

A whimsical, wholly delightful adventurous assay at country life. This volume carries on in a delectable fashion all that exquisiteness in writing that characterized an earlier book, _The Open Window_. The story progresses from the buying of the old farm through all the humorous entangling mysteries that enhearten and confound the amateur householder.

The Treasure of the Isle of Mist

A Tale of the Isle of Skye

By

W. W. Tarn

_8º_

An exquisite fantasy contrived with delicious humor with a lovable small heroine who has “a warm heart and a largish size in shoes”—a tale of utmost charm and much of the lore of the East and West that has filled the story-books of the world. Here is a magic which calls to young and old alike. You will love Fiona and her father the Student and undoubtedly you will be well disposed toward the Urchin—but whether you will care for Jeconiah—well you must decide that for yourself.

David and Jonathan

By

E. Temple Thurston

Author of “The City of Beautiful Nonsense”

The two friends, so different in temperament and physique, but one in understanding—last to leave the burning ship, are finally thrown half dead on scorching African sands.

Six days later a ship’s boat plunges through the breakers containing six bodies, apparently dead from hunger and thirst—but one breathes, a woman. Face to face with the eternal impulses of life, these three souls, completely isolated from the civilized world, work out their destiny through the instincts and impulses of primitive man. A fantastic tale, yet real and plausible, thrilling in parts, and as whimsical as _The City of Beautiful Nonsense_.

The Beloved Sinner

By

Rachel Swete Macnamara

Author of the “Fringe of the Desert,” “The Torch of Life,” and “Drifting
Waters”

One of the very prettiest of springtime romances—a tale of exuberant young spirits intoxicated with the springtime of living, of love gone adventuring on the rough road—a story, humorous with the gay impudences of a young Eve who is half-afraid and altogether delighted with her fairy-prince.

G. P. Putnam’s Sons

New York

London

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Moved the list of the author’s books from the beginning to between p. 247 and the first advertising page. 2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.