In Preparation
ROCKHAVEN
The Story of a Scheme
By CHARLES CLARK MUNN, Author of "Pocket Island" and "Uncle Terry."
Mr. Munn's next book will be out in the spring of 1902, and cannot fail to take immediate rank among the leading works of fiction. Successful as Mr. Munn has been, his next work promises a combined strength and sweetness that will place his name far higher. "Rockhaven" has the crisp, salty vigor of the sea, the quaint expressions and sound philosophy of shrewd country people, the restless drive of city life, with the mad whirl of a modern financial crisis, all forming a most strong and effective setting for a sweet and wholesome love story, and one sure to please the many thousands who have already read Mr. Munn's writings with keen interest.
The development of the financial "scheme" which forms the basis of the story, and its stupendous success and corresponding crash, are handled with intense dramatic force, and many salient points of modern life are forcefully but sensibly discussed. The stress of the "street," the poetic restfulness of the sea and shore, the charm of the country, and the saving grace of true love, all these in the hand of a master form a book to be eagerly awaited.
To be ready in the spring of 1902. Price, $1.50
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS
BOSTON
Betty Seldon, Patriot
A Revolutionary Tale for Girls
By ADELE E. THOMPSON, Author of "Beck's Fortune."
Illustrated by Lilian Crawford True.
12mo. Cloth. 300 pages. $1.25
It is a great deal to say of a book that it is at the same time fascinating and noble. This is what "Betty Seldon, Patriot" is, and in fact no one of the many who read and admired "Beck's Fortune" would expect a book by Miss Thompson to be otherwise. Betty is a bright Connecticut girl, happily as industrious and filial as she is attractive. Her devotion to her father, a captain in the Continental army, and her experience with a Tory uncle, who appears upon the supposed death of her father and takes her to his home in Pennsylvania, pretending to be her guardian, form the basis of the book. Historical events are accurately traced leading up to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, with reunion and happiness for all who deserve it. Betty is worth a thousand of the fickle coquette heroines of some latter-day popular novels, and the historical setting of the story is strong and effective.
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS
BOSTON