☞ Petersons’ American Translations of Emile Zola’s works are for sale by all Booksellers and at all News Stands everywhere, or copies of any one book, or more of them, will be sent to any one, to any place, at once, post-paid, on remitting the price of the ones wanted in a letter to the Publishers.
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A BOOK TO DAZZLE, FASCINATE AND DELIGHT ALL READERS.
RONDAH
OR,
Thirty-three Years in a Star.
BY FLORENCE CARPENTER DIEUDONNÉ.
“Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” a peculiarly fascinating and absorbing novel by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, is written in the fruitful vein of fancy and mystery opened by H. Rider Haggard in “She” and “King Solomon’s Mines,” but in many points surpasses those weird and popular romances. It is exceedingly clever and brilliant. The plot is ingenuity itself, and the incidents are strange and inexplicable enough to satisfy the strongest craving for the marvellous. In fact, the entire book is but a progression from one marvel to another, each succeeding episode distancing its predecessors in the element of wonder until the climax is reached in the disclosure of the mysteries and dazzling magnificence of that truly astounding spot, the Sun Island. Gregg Dempster, a visionary hermit, has discovered a little star, an uncooled planet yet in process of formation, and a mysterious method of reaching it. His friend Regan gains possession of his secret and the hermit dies. Regan, Roy Lee, Isabella, Rondah and Father Renaudin, a venerable priest, are in Dempster’s hut during a storm while the hermit’s corpse is yet lying there. Regan watches for the critical moment. It comes. He puts Rondah out of doors and the four remaining personages are whirled away to the star, where they meet with numerous wonderful adventures and experiences. Rondah is subsequently conveyed to the star and participates in many intensely weird and dramatic scenes. To the supernatural phases of the novel the author has added mortal love, hate, jealousy and enthusiasm, employing them with rare art and effect. The star’s luxuriant summer with its wealth of vegetation and its icy winter of twenty years are graphically pictured. The natives are mostly bird people, winged and of vegetable growth, and over them Regan reigns as king. “Rondah” is crisply and vigorously written, and its special charm is the realistic way in which its wonders are depicted, an air of probability being maintained throughout all its marvellous incidents. That everybody will read and vastly relish it goes without saying.
One Volume, Duodecimo. Paper Cover. Price Fifty Cents.
☞ “Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” will be found for sale by all Booksellers and at all News Stands everywhere, or copies of it will be sent to any one, to any place, at once, post-paid, on remitting the price to the publishers,