How a well-poised young woman just about to sail for her fourteenth summer in Europe was hurried from the steamer by a strange young man, how she went with him to the mountains of Pennsylvania, and, chaperoned by her competent French maid, camped out in the woods for three idyllic weeks, saved a diverting little boy from designing persons, and entered upon a happy love affair, is told in this unique and charming story. The book has that happy mingling of humor and romance, unusual incident and engaging characters that have made such stories as "Our Lady of the Beeches" and "Pines of Lory" linger in the memory of their readers as the most enjoyable of tales.
The author, Mrs. Mason, will be remembered as joint author of "The Car and the Lady," one of the most successful automobile romances ever written. (Ready in April)
COUNTRY NEIGHBORS
By Alice Brown
Author of "The Story of Thyrza," "Rose MacLeod," "The County Road," etc. 12mo, $1.20 net. Postage extra.
Among the short-story writers of the day, Miss Alice Brown stands unapproached for the ability and power of her tales of New England life. The present collection, which contains the best of her stories written since her earlier successes, is of notable interest. Lovers of her short stories will find it the equal of any of her earlier collections. The following are a few of the sixteen titles: The Play House, Saturday Night, The Auction, A Grief Deferred, Partners, The Challenge, Gardener Jim, The Masquerade.
THE ROYAL AMERICANS
By Mary Hallock Foote
Author of "The Desert and the Sown," "Cœur d'Alene," "The Led-Horse Claim," etc. 12mo, $1.25 net. Postage extra.
This new novel from the brilliant pen of Mrs. Foote is in a new vein for her, but in one that will win many readers. It is an ample, leisurely, delightful historical romance of the days of the Colonial Wars and the American Revolution, and gets its title from a famous Colonial regiment which readers of "The Last of the Mohicans" will remember. The story begins with the birth of the heroine the night of the fall of Fort Ontario in 1756, and runs to and through the Revolution. The principal characters are this girl, her widowed father, an officer in the Royal Americans, his ward, a wild girl of white parentage whom he rescues from a long captivity among the Indians, a number of fine young men, and numerous subsidiary characters, real and fictitious, including fine delineations of Ethan Allen and the famous Schuyler family. The plot involves woodland adventures and satisfactory love affairs with a final happy outcome. The book is an admirable historic picture of the time, but it is distinguished from most historical novels by Mrs. Foote's remarkable gift for portraying the relations between people, which gives to it all a human reality seldom found in books of this type.
THE PROFESSIONAL AUNT
By Mary C. E. Wemyss
16mo, $1.00 net. Postage extra.