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By Stewart Edward White
THE BLAZED TRAIL
Mr. White has intermingled the romance of the forests with the romance of a man's heart, making a story that is big and elemental, while not lacking in sweetness and tenderness. It is an epic of the life of the lumbermen in the great forests of the Northwest, permeated in every line by out-of-door freshness and the glory of the labor of the struggle with nature. It will appeal to everyone who cares for trees, the forests or the open air.
"Mr. White has the power to make you feel the woods as the masters of salt-water fiction make you feel the sea."—The Boston Herald.
"Of the majesty of the falling forests the book is eloquent, and its place in the history of our literature is secure."—The Chicago Nevis.
"He has realized to the full the titanic character of the struggle between man and nature in the forest, and has reproduced it in his pages with an enthusiasm and strength of insight worthy of his theme."—The St. James Gazette.
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By George Douglas
THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS
A story remarkable for its power, remarkable for its originality, and remarkable for its success. The unique masterpiece of an unfortunate young author, who died without knowing the unstinted praise his work was to receive. The book portrays with striking realism a phase of Scottish life and character new to most novel-readers. John Gourlay, the chief personage in the drama, inhabitant of the "House With the Green Shutters" and master of the village destinies, looms up as the personification of the brute force that dominates. He stands apart from all characters in fiction. In the broad treatment and the relentless sweep of its tragedy, the book suggests the work of Dumas.
"If a more powerful story than this has been written in recent years we have not seen it. It must take first honors among the novels of the day."—Philadelphia Item.
"One of the most powerful books we have seen for a long time, and it marks the advent of a valuable writer."—New York Press.
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By Seumas McManus
Author of "Through the Turf Smoke"
"A LAD OF THE O'FRIEL'S"
This is a story of Donegal ways and customs; full of the spirit of Irish life. The main character is a dreaming and poetic boy who takes joy in all the stories and superstitions of his people, and his experience and life are thus made to reflect all the essential qualities of the life of his country. Many characters in the book will make warm places for themselves in the heart of the reader.
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By Shan F. Bullock
Author of "The Barrys," "Irish Pastorals"
THE SQUIREEN
Mr. Bullock takes us into the North of Ireland among North-of-Ireland people. His story is dominated by one remarkable character, whose progress towards the subjugation of his own temperament we cannot help but watch with interest. He is swept from one thing to another, first by his dare-devil, roistering spirit, then by his mood of deep repentance, through love and marriage, through quarrels and separation from his wife, to a reconciliation at the point of death, to a return to health, and through the domination of the devil in him, finally to death. It is a strong, convincing novel suggesting, somewhat, "The House with the Green Shutters." What that book did for the Scotland of Ian Maclaren and Barrie, "The Squireen" will do for Ireland.
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By Arthur Morrison
THE HOLE IN THE WALL
No one knows the lower side of London life so well as Arthur Morrison, and this novel is his most masterly presentation of the underworld with which he is so familiar. He has knit mean characters, mean passions, mean stage setting into a powerful drama of life that thrills as much because of the realism with which it is drawn as because of the exciting scenes that come treading helter-skelter upon each others heels. The rough sailors, the thugs and criminals that frequent the "Hole in the Wall" Inn lose none of their picturesqueness, nor any of their sordidness either, from Mr. Morrison's treatment of them. He handles his material in a way that suggests strongly the work of Dickens. As an intimate picture of the lowest life in London, the novel is without an equal.
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By Arnold Bennett
Author of "The Great Babylon Hotel"
ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS
Probably no story of the year is so simply and yet so artistically told as this one. It portrays the development of a sweet and natural girl's character, amid a community of strict Wesleyan Methodists in a Staffordshire town. How her upright nature progresses with constant rebellions against the hypocrisy and cant of the religionists, by whom she is surrounded, is brought out by the author faithfully and with great delicacy of insight. Many will love Anna, and not a few will find something in her to suggest "Tess of the Durbervilles." The plot is extremely simple, but the reader will find a surprise in the last chapters.
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