Here are vivid pages from the everyday lives of fascinating women before and behind the foot-lights. The yarns are dainty, sometimes humorously pathetic, sometimes uproariously funny, but always delightful. "One begins the book with a smile, and puts it away with a number one size laugh, and a feeling that it has been worth while to cultivate the acquaintance of Billy Burgundy's slang of the Rialto."
Works by Henry Harland
Mrs. Peixada. 12mo, 317 pages. Cloth binding. 75c.
The hero, a young lawyer whose first case is the tracking of Mrs. Peixada, a charming woman of about twenty-three summers, accused of shooting her husband. The plot is as peculiar as that of "As It Was Written." The denouement is a thorough surprise.
Mademoiselle Miss, and other stories. 12mo, 192 pages. Cloth binding. 75c.
The title-story of the present volume, as well as those which follow it, shows the same clear insight into character, the same strength and delicacy of description, and the same faculty of individualizing the personages of the narrative, as are manifest in Mr. Harland's previous work.
Mea Culpa—A Woman's Last Word. 12mo, 347 pages. Cloth binding. 75c.
To save her father, a woman marries a European prince. It is a loveless marriage and the life is a bitter one. A former lover appears; there is a duel; the prince dies. Then, instead of marriage bells, there is the sadness of farewell. The lover feels himself a murderer and takes his own life in an agony of despair.
The Yoke of the Thorah. 12mo, 320 pages. Cloth binding. 75c.