"The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and
it is worked out with all of Wallace's skill * * * it gives a fine
picture of the heroism of the Spanish conquerors and of the culture
and nobility of the Aztecs."—New York Commercial Advertiser.
"Ben Hur sold enormously, but The Fair God was the best of the
General's stories—a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat
of Montezuma by Cortes."—Athenæum.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy.
A story of love and the salt sea—of a helpless ship whirled into
the hands of cannibal Fuegians—of desperate fighting and tender
romance, enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who
describes with his wonted felicity and power of holding the
reader's attention * * * filled with the swing of adventure.
A MIDNIGHT GUEST. A Detective Story. By Fred M. White. With a frontispiece.
The scene of the story centers in London and Italy. The book is
skilfully written and makes one of the most baffling, mystifying,
exciting detective stories ever written—cleverly keeping the
suspense and mystery intact until the surprising discoveries which
precede the end.
THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI. A Romance. By S. Levett Yeats. With cover and wrapper in four colors.
Those who enjoyed Stanley Weyman's A Gentleman of France will be
engrossed and captivated by this delightful romance of Italian
history. It is replete with exciting episodes, hair-breath escapes,
magnificent sword-play, and deals with the agitating times in
Italian history when Alexander II was Pope and the famous and
infamous Borgias were tottering to their fall.
SISTER CARRIE. By Theodore Drieser. With a frontispiece, and wrapper in color.
In all fiction there is probably no more graphic and poignant study
of the way in which man loses his grip on life, lets his pride, his
courage, his self-respect slip from him, and, finally, even ceases
to struggle in the mire that has engulfed him. * * * There is more
tonic value in Sister Carrie than in a whole shelfful of sermons.