By Eva Emery Dye. A Tale of Two Shores. Illustrations by Walter J. Enright. 12mo, $1.50.
The chance casting away of a party of Japanese on the Oregon coast many years ago inspired McDonald, a fully historical personage, to enact a similar drama in his own proper self with the characters and continents reversed. Landing on the shores of Japan he was passed from governor to governor until he reached the capital. There he was permitted to establish a school, and it was actually his pupils who acted as interpreters during the negotiations with Commodore Perry, generally supposed to be the first of Americans to enter Japan. Mrs. Dye has long been aware of the facts in McDonald's unusual career, having obtained them largely from his own lips; but she deferred publication until his papers finally reposed in her hands. It will be remembered that the hero of this new book entered largely into her story of "McLoughlin and Old Oregon," to which this later volume is in a sense a sequel.
THE CONQUEST
By Eva Emery Dye. Being the True Story of Lewis and Clark. Third Edition, with frontispiece in full color by Charlotte Weber. 12mo, $1.50.
No book published in recent years has more of tremendous import between its covers, and certainly no recent novel has in it more of the elements of a permanent success. A historical romance which tells with accuracy and inspiring style of the bravery of the pioneers in winning the western continent should have a lasting place in the esteem of every American.
"No one who wishes to know the true story of the conquest of the greater part of this great nation can afford to pass by this book."—Cleveland Leader.
"A vivid picture of the Indian wars preceding the Louisiana purchase, of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and of events following the occupation of Oregon."—The Congregationalist.
"It may not be the great American novel we have been waiting for so long, but it certainly looks as though it would be very near it."—Rochester Times.
"The characters that are assembled in 'The Conquest' belong to the history of the United States; their story is a national epic."—Detroit Free Press.
McLOUGHLIN AND OLD OREGON