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By Edward W. Townsend
Author of “Chimmie Fadden,” “Days Like These,” etc.
LEES AND LEAVEN
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No novel of New York City has ever portrayed so faithfully or so vividly our new world Gotham—the seething, rushing New York of to-day, to which all the world looks with such curious interest. Mr. Townsend, gives us not a picture, but the bustling, nerve-racking pageant itself. The titan struggles in the world of finance, the huge hoaxes in sensational newspaperdom, the gay life of the theatre, opera, and restaurant, and then the calmer and comforting domestic scenes of wholesome living, pass, as actualities, before our very eyes. In this turbulent maelstrom of ambition, he finds room for love and romance also.
There is a bountiful array of characters, admirably drawn, and especially delightful are the two emotional and excitable lovers, young Bannister and Gertrude Carr. The book is unlike Mr. Townsend’s “Chimmie Fadden” in everything but its intimate knowledge of New York life.
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By A. Conan Doyle
Author of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD
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Stories of the remarkable adventures of a Brigadier in Napoleon’s army. In Etienne Gerard, Conan Doyle has added to his already famous gallery of characters one worthy to stand beside the notable Sherlock Holmes. Many and thrilling are Gerard’s adventures, as related by himself, for he takes part in nearly every one of Napoleon’s campaigns. In Venice he has an interesting romantic escapade which causes him the loss of an ear. With the utmost bravery and cunning he captures the Spanish city of Saragossa; in Portugal he saves the army; in Russia he feeds the starving soldiers by supplies obtained at Minsk, after a wonderful ride. Everywhere else he is just as marvelous, and at Waterloo he is the center of the whole battle.
For all his lumbering vanity he is a genial old soul and a remarkably vivid story-teller.
Illustrated by W. B. Wollen.
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By Stanley J. Weyman
Author of “A Gentleman of France”
THE LONG NIGHT
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Geneva in the early days of the 17th century; a ruffling young theologue new to the city; a beautiful and innocent girl, suspected of witchcraft; a crafty scholar and metaphysician seeking to give over the city into the hands of the Savoyards; a stern and powerful syndic whom the scholar beguiles to betray his office by promises of an elixir which shall save him from his fatal illness; a brutal soldier of fortune; these are the elements of which Weyman has composed the most brilliant and thrilling of his romances. Claude Mercier, the student, seeing the plot in which the girl he loves is involved, yet helpless to divulge it, finds at last his opportunity when the treacherous men of Savoy are admitted within Geneva’s walls, and in a night of whirlwind fighting saves the city by his courage and address. For fire and spirit there are few chapters in modern literature such as those which picture the splendid defence of Geneva, by the staid, churchly, heroic burghers, fighting in their own blood under the divided leadership of the fat Syndic, Baudichon, and the bandy-legged sailor, Jehan Brosse, winning the battle against the armed and armored forces of the invaders.
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By Henry Seton Merriman
Author of “The Sowers,” etc.
BARLASCH OF THE GUARD
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The story is set in those desperate days when the ebbing tide of Napoleon’s fortunes swept Europe with desolation. Barlasch—“Papa Barlasch of the Guard, Italy, Egypt, the Danube”—a veteran in the Little Corporal’s service—is the dominant figure of the story. Quartered on a distinguished family in the historic town of Dantzig, he gives his life to the romance of Desirée, the daughter of the family, and Louis d’ Arragon, whose cousin she has married and parted with at the church door. Louis’s search with Barlasch for the missing Charles gives an unforgettable picture of the terrible retreat from Russia; and as a companion picture there is the heroic defence of Dantzig by Rapp and his little army of sick and starving. At the last Barlasch, learning of the death of Charles, plans and executes the escape of Desirée from the beleaguered town to join Louis.
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By Henry Harland
Author of “The Cardinal’s Snuff Box.”
MY FRIEND PROSPERO
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Everything that has ever delighted you in Mr. Harland’s work is to be found at its best in _My Friend Prospero_. Mr. Harland introduces us again to the lovers’ Italy of blue skies and marvelous landscapes. The story takes place in a magnificent Austrian castle in northern Italy, and the hero, whose real name is John, is an Englishman—such a witty, charming Englishman as only Mr. Harland can create. The heroine is the beautiful Maria Dolores, an Austrian Princess, who is quite John’s match in joyous fancy and quaintness of wit. The dialogue is contagious in its dainty humor, and the book ripples with laughter from beginning to end.
Radiant in literary style.... The book must be read in order to appreciate the author’s delicacy in recording the prayer and wit of love in conversation.... In this novel we have the lovers’ Italy.—_New York Evening Post._
As continuously and unflaggingly witty as anything that has appeared in a long time.—_Philadelphia Record._
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By David Graham Phillips
Author of “Golden Fleece.”
THE MASTER ROGUE
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A study in the tyranny of wealth. James Galloway founds his fortune on a fraud. He ruins the man who has befriended him and steals away his business. Vast railroad operations next claim his attention. He becomes a bird of prey in the financial world. One by one he forsakes his principles; he becomes a hypocrite, posing, even to himself. With the degeneration of his moral character come domestic troubles. His wife grows to despise him. One of his sons becomes a spendthrift; the other a forger. His daughter, Helen, alone retains any affection for him. His attempts to force his family into the most exclusive circles subject him and them to mortifying rebuffs, for all his millions cannot overcome the ill-repute of his name. At last, with his hundred millions won, his house the finest in America, his name a name to conjure with in the financial world, he realizes that the goal he has reached was not worth the race. Still he clings to his old ways, and dies in a fit of anger, haggling over his daughter’s dowry.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Changed ‘idea if it’ to ‘idea of it’ on p. 125. 2. Changed ‘twenty policeman’ to ‘twenty policemen’ on p. 177. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors. 4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Shame of the Cities, by Lincoln Steffens