The Upas Tree

A Christmas Story for All the Year

With Frontispiece in Color. $1.00 net. By mail, $1.10

A story of rare charm, powerful in conception, compelling in narrative, and wholesome in effect.

New York G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS London


Myrtle Reed's New Book

The White Shield

By the Author of "Lavender and Old Lace," "The Master's Violin," etc.

These fascinating bits of fiction reflect the characteristics of the writer: the same vivid imagination, the quick transition from pathos to humor, the facility of utterance, the wholesome sentiment, the purity of thought, the delicacy of touch, the spontaneous wit which has endeared Myrtle Reed to thousands of readers.

Frontispiece in color and 4 other illustrations by Dalton Stevens beautifully printed and bound.

Cloth, $1.50 net. By mail, $1.65

Uniform with "A Weaver of Dreams"

G.P. Putnam's Sons New York
New York London


"A born teller of stories. She certainly has the right stuff in her."—London Standard.