Stephana, the heroine of
"THE DUKE'S PRICE" by DEMETRA and KENNETH BROWN
From illustration in color by A. G. Learned
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Spring and Summer Publications
THE RIVERSIDE BULLETIN MARCH, 1910
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Fiction
THE DUKE'S PRICE
By Demetra and Kenneth Brown
With illustrations in color by A. G. Learned. 12mo, $1.20 net. Postage extra.
International marriage novels have been many of late, even as the number of American girls marrying abroad has increased, but this one is strikingly different from the type that has become almost hackneyed. The heroine, a beautiful girl, the daughter of a New York multi-millionaire, marries a French Duke, and goes to live with him in the ancestral château. So far, the situation is familiar. But this Duke is not the melodramatic villain too often seen. He is a gentleman and a good fellow, and in the misunderstandings that arise the reader's sympathy is evenly divided between the lonely wife and the proud and unhappy young Duke. The development of the story is of absorbing interest, leading to an exciting and thoroughly satisfactory climax. Not the least of the attractions of the story is that the authors know the world that they write about. Mrs. Kenneth Brown (Demetra Vaka) will be remembered as the author of "Haremlik," the brilliant study of the life of Turkish women which was one of the most notable and successful books of 1909. The collaboration of the Kenneth Browns is one of the most interesting literary partnerships in contemporary fiction. Kenneth Brown numbers among his books "Eastover Court House," "Sirocco," and other successful novels.