NEW MACMILLAN FICTION
The Rise of Jennie Cushing
By MARY S. WATTS, Author of “Nathan Burke,” “Van Cleeve,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
In Nathan Burke Mrs. Watts told with great power the story of a man. In this, her new book, she does much the same thing for a woman. Jennie Cushing is an exceedingly interesting character, perhaps the most interesting of any that Mrs. Watts has yet given us. The novel is her life and little else, but it is a life filled with a variety of experiences and touching closely many different strata of humankind. Throughout it all, from the days when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif, Jennie is sent to a reformatory, to the days when her beauty is the inspiration of a successful painter, there is in the narrative an appeal to the emotions, to the sympathy, to the affections, that cannot be gainsaid.
Saturday’s Child
By KATHLEEN NORRIS, Author of “Mother,” “The Treasure,” etc.
With frontispiece in colors by F. Graham Cootes. Decorated cloth,
12mo. $1.35 net.
“Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child must work for her living.”
The title of Mrs. Norris’s new novel at once indicates its theme. It is the story of a girl who has her own way to make in the world. The various experiences through which she passes, the various viewpoints which she holds until she comes finally to realize that service for others is the only thing that counts, are told with that same intimate knowledge of character, that healthy optimism and the belief in the ultimate goodness of mankind that have distinguished all of this author’s writing. The book is intensely alive with human emotions. The reader is bound to sympathize with Mrs. Norris’s people because they seem like real people and because they are actuated by motives which one is able to understand. Saturday’s Child is Mrs. Norris’s longest work. Into it has gone the very best of her creative talent. It is a volume which the many admirers of Mother will gladly accept.
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