Boston Transcript: “Straightforward and swiftly the story moves from its happy beginning to its happy ending.... The heroine, that delightful ‘Betty-Bide-at-Home’ ... that delicious femininity that makes her to appealing ... a charming romance.... Through the story of his redemption shines the glory of youth, its courage, its high optimism, its unconquerable faith in itself ... fine as is the novel technically, it is even finer in its silent insistence upon an ideal of love and of marriage.”
THE FIGHTING BLADE. A Romance
The hero, a quiet, boyish German soldier serving Cromwell, loves a little tomboy Royalist heiress. 3rd printing. ($1.30 net.)
New York Tribune: “Lovers of this kind of fiction will find here all they can desire, and it is all of excellent quality.”
New York Times: “The freshness of youth and of life and of the joy of living.”
Chicago Inter-Ocean: “The best historical romance the man who writes these lines has read in half a dozen years.”
ALLISON’S LAD, and Other Martial Interludes
Including “The Hundredth Trick,” “The Weakest Link,” “The Snare and the Fowler,” “The Captain of the Gate,” “The Dark of the Dawn.” One-act war plays; all the characters are men, and amateurs have acted them successfully.
Boston Transcript: “Her technical mastery is great, but her spiritual mastery is greater. For this book lives in memory.... Noble passion holding the balance between life and death is the motif sharply outlined and vigorously portrayed. In each interlude the author has seized upon a vital situation and has massed all her forces.”
FOR YOUNG FOLKS