Chapter L: C. Page and Company’s Announcement List of New Fiction

Carolina Lee

By LILIAN BELL, author of “Hope Loring,” “Abroad with the Jimmies,”
etc.

With a frontispiece in colour from an oil painting by Dora Wheeler
Keith

$1.50

A typical “Lilian Bell” book, bright, breezy, amusing, philosophic, full of fun and bits of quotable humour.

Carolina is a fascinating American girl, born and educated in Paris, and at the beginning of the story riding on the top wave of success in New York society. A financial catastrophe leaves her stranded without money, and her only material asset an old, run-down plantation in South Carolina. In the face of strong opposition she goes South to restore the old homestead and rebuild her fortunes. Complications speedily follow, but, with indomitable faith and courage, Carolina perseveres until her efforts are rewarded by success and happiness.

The Cruise of the Conqueror

BEING THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE MOTOR PIRATE. By G. SIDNEY
PATERNOSTER, author of “The Motor Pirate,” etc.

With a frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill $1.50

One of the most fascinating games to childhood is the old-fashioned “hide-and-seek,” with its scurrying for covert, its breathless suspense to both hider and seeker, and its wild dash for goal when the seeker is successful. Readers of “The Motor Pirate” will remember the exciting game played by the motor pirate and his pursuers, and will be glad to have the sport taken up again in the new volume.

In “The Cruise of the Conqueror,” a motor-boat enables the motor pirate to pursue his victims in even a bolder and more startling way, such, for example, as the hold-up of an ocean steamer and the seizure for ransom of the Prince of Monte Carlo.

The Passenger from Calais

A DETECTIVE STORY. By ARTHUR GRIFFITHS.

Cover design by Eleanor Hobson $1.25

A bright, quickly moving detective story telling of the adventures which befell a mysterious lady flying from Calais through France into Italy, closely pursued by detectives. Her own quick wits, aided by those of a gallant fellow passenger, give the two officers an unlooked-for and exciting “run for their money.” One hardly realizes till now the dramatic possibilities of a railway train, and what an opportunity for excitement may be afforded by a joint railway station for two or more roads.

It is a well-planned, logical detective story of the better sort, free from cheap sensationalism and improbability, developing surely and steadily by means of exciting situations to an unforeseen and satisfactory ending.

The Golden Arrow

By T. JENKINS HAINS, author of “The Black Barque,” “The
Windjammers,” etc.

With six illustrations by H. C. Edwards $1.50

Another of Captain Hains’s inimitable sea stories, in which piracy, storm, and shipwreck are cleverly intermingled with love and romance, and vivid and picturesque descriptions of life at sea. Mr. Hains’s new story describes the capture on the high seas of an American vessel by a gang of convicts, who have seized and burned the English ship on which they were being transported, and their final recapture by a British man-of-war.

The Treasure Trail

By FRANK L. POLLOCK.

Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.25

This is a splendid story of adventure, full of good incidents that are exceptionally exciting. The story deals with the search for gold bullion, originally stolen from the Boer government in Pretoria, and stored in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique Channel. Two different search parties are endeavouring to secure the treasure, and the story deals with their adventures and its final recovery by one party only a few hours before the arrival of the second.

The book reads like an extract from life, and the whole story is vivid and realistic with descriptions of the life of a party of gentlemen adventurers who are willing to run great odds for great gains.

There is also “a woman in the case,” Margaret Laurie, who proves a delightful, reliant, and audacious heroine.

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

By REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN, author of “Jarvis of Harvard,” etc.

Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.25

A double robbery and a murder have given Mr. Kauffman the material for his clever detective story. Miss Baird tells how she finally solved the mystery, and how she outwitted the other detective at work on the case, by her woman’s intuition and sympathy, when her reputation for keenness and efficiency was hanging in the balance.

The Idlers

By MORLEY ROBERTS, author of “Rachel Marr,” “Lady Penelope,” etc.

With frontispiece in colour by John C. Frohn $1.50

The _London Literary World_ says: “In ‘The Idlers’ Mr. Morley Roberts does for the smart set of London what Mrs. Wharton has done in ‘The House of Mirth’ for the American social class of the same name. His primary object seems to be realism, the portrayal of life as it is without exaggeration, and we were impressed by the reserve displayed by the novelist. It is a powerful novel, a merciless dissection of modern society similar to that which a skilful surgeon would make of a pathological case.”

The _New York Sun_ says: “_It is as absorbing as the devil._ Mr. Roberts gives us the antithesis of ‘Rachel Marr’ in an equally masterful and convincing work.”

_Professor Charles G. D. Roberts_ says: “It is a work of great ethical force.”

Stand Pat

OR, POKER STORIES FROM BROWNSVILLE. By DAVID A. CURTIS, author of
“Queer Luck,” etc.

With six drawings by Henry Roth $1.50

Mr. Curtis is the poker expert of the _New York Sun_, and many of the stories in “Stand Pat” originally appeared in the _Sun_. Although in a sense short stories, they have a thread of continuity, in that the principal characters appear throughout. Every poker player will enjoy Mr. Curtis’s clever recital of the strange luck to which Dame Fortune sometimes treats her devotees in the uncertain game of draw poker, and will appreciate the startling coups by which she is occasionally outwitted.

The Count at Harvard

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FASHION
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. By RUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND.

With a characteristic cover design $1.50

With the possible exception of Mr. Flandrau’s work, the “Count at Harvard” is the most natural and the most truthful exposition of average student life yet written, and is thoroughly instinct with the real college atmosphere. “The Count” is not a foreigner, but is the nickname of one of the principal characters in the book.

The story is clean, bright, clever, and intensely amusing. Typical Harvard institutions, such as the Hasty Pudding Club, _The Crimson_, the Crew, etc., are painted with deft touches, which will fill the soul of every graduate with joy, and be equally as fascinating to all college students.

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Selections from L. C. Page and Company’s List of Fiction

WORKS OF

ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

_Each one vol., library 12mo, cloth decorative_ _$1.50_

The Flight of Georgiana

A ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OF THE YOUNG PRETENDER. Illustrated by H. C.
Edwards.

“A love-story in the highest degree, a dashing story, and a remarkably well finished piece of work.”--_Chicago Record-Herald._

The Bright Face of Danger

Being an account of some adventures of Henri de Launay, son of the
Sieur de la Tournoire. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.

“Mr. Stephens has fairly outdone himself. We thank him heartily. The story is nothing if not spirited and entertaining, rational and convincing.”--_Boston Transcript._

The Mystery of Murray Davenport

(40th thousand.)

“This is easily the best thing that Mr. Stephens has yet done. Those familiar with his other novels can best judge the measure of this praise, which is generous.”--_Buffalo News._

Captain Ravenshaw

OR, THE MAID OF CHEAPSIDE. (52d thousand.) A romance of Elizabethan
London. Illustrations by Howard Pyle and other artists.

Not since the absorbing adventures of D’Artagnan have we had anything so good in the blended vein of romance and comedy.

The Continental Dragoon

A ROMANCE OF PHILIPSE MANOR HOUSE IN 1778. (53d thousand.)
Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.

A stirring romance of the Revolution, with its scene laid on neutral territory.

Philip Winwood

(70th thousand.) A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American
Captain in the War of Independence, embracing events that occurred
between and during the years 1763 and 1785 in New York and London.
Illustrated by E. W. D. Hamilton.

An Enemy to the King

(70th thousand.) From the “Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur
de la Tournoire.” Illustrated by H. De M. Young.

An historical romance of the sixteenth century, describing the adventures of a young French nobleman at the court of Henry III., and on the field with Henry IV.

The Road to Paris

A STORY OF ADVENTURE. (35th thousand.) Illustrated by H. C.
Edwards.

An historical romance of the eighteenth century, being an account of the life of an American gentleman adventurer of Jacobite ancestry.

A Gentleman Player

HIS ADVENTURES ON A SECRET MISSION FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH. (48th
thousand.) Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.

The story of a young gentleman who joins Shakespeare’s company of players, and becomes a friend and protégé of the great poet.

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WORKS OF

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

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.

Square quarto, cloth decorative $2.00

“Infinitely more wholesome reading than the average tale of sport, since it gives a glimpse of the hunt from the point of view of the hunted.”--_Boston Transcript._

“True in substance but fascinating as fiction. It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not.”--_Chicago Record-Herald._

“A brilliant chapter in natural history.”--_Philadelphia North American._

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.

Square quarto, decorative cover $2.00

“Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories that has 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.

Square quarto, decorative cover $2.00

“Mr. Roberts has written a most interesting series of tales free from the vices of the stories regarding animals of many other writers, accurate in their facts and admirably and dramatically told.”--_Chicago News._

“These stories are exquisite in their refinement, and yet robust in their appreciation of some of the rougher phases of woodcraft. Among the many writers about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place.”--_The Outlook._

“This is a book full of delight. An additional charm lies in Mr. Bull’s faithful and graphic illustrations, which in fashion all their own tell the story of the wild life, illuminating and supplementing the pen pictures of the author.”--_Literary Digest._

Earth’s Enigmas

A new edition of Mr. Roberts’s first volume of fiction, published
in 1892, and out of print for several years, with the addition of
three new stories, and ten illustrations by Charles Livingston
Bull.

Library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover $1.50

“It will rank high among collections of short stories. In ‘Earth’s Enigmas’ is a wider range of subject than in the ‘Kindred of the Wild.’”--_Review from advance sheets of the illustrated edition by Tiffany Blake in the Chicago Evening Post._

Barbara Ladd

With four illustrations by Frank Verbeck.

Library 12mo, gilt top $1.50

“From the opening chapter to the final page Mr. Roberts lures us on by his rapt devotion to the changing aspects of Nature and by his keen and sympathetic analysis of human character.”--_Boston Transcript._

Cameron of Lochiel

Translated from the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, with
frontispiece in color by H. C. Edwards.

Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.50

“Professor Roberts deserves the thanks of his reader for giving a wider audience an opportunity to enjoy this striking bit of French Canadian literature.”--_Brooklyn Eagle._

“It is not often in these days of sensational and philosophical novels that one picks up a book that so touches the heart.”--_Boston Transcript._

The Prisoner of Mademoiselle

With frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill.

Library 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top $1.50

A tale of Acadia,--a land which is the author’s heart’s delight,--of a valiant young lieutenant and a winsome maiden, who first captures and then captivates.

“This is the kind of a story that makes one grow younger, more innocent, more light-hearted. Its literary quality is impeccable. It is not every day that such a heroine blossoms into even temporary existence, and the very name of the story bears a breath of charm.”--_Chicago Record-Herald._

The Heart of the Ancient Wood

With six illustrations by James L. Weston.

Library 12mo, decorative cover $1.50

“One of the most fascinating novels of recent days.”--_Boston Journal._

“A classic twentieth-century romance.”--_New York Commercial Advertiser._

The Forge in the Forest

Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de
Briart, and how he crossed the Black Abbé, and of his adventures in
a strange fellowship. Illustrated by Henry Sandham, R. C. A.

Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top $1.50

A story of pure love and heroic adventure.

By the Marshes of Minas

Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, illustrated $1.50

Most of these romances are in the author’s lighter and more playful vein; each is a unit of absorbing interest and exquisite workmanship.