With frontispiece in colors. Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
A great many people already know Mr. Hagedorn through his verse. Faces in the Dawn will, however, be their introduction to him as a novelist. The same qualities that have served to raise his poetry above the common level help to distinguish this story of a German village. The theme of the book is the transformation that was wrought in the lives of an irritable, domineering German pastor and his wife through the influence of a young German girl and her American lover. Sentiment, humor and a human feeling, all present in just the right measure, warm the heart and contribute to the enjoyment which the reader derives in following the experiences of the well drawn characters.
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Metzel Changes His Mind
By RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER, Author of “The Goodly Fellowship.”
With frontispiece. Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.
The many readers who enjoyed The Goodly Fellowship have been eagerly awaiting something more from the pen of the same author. This is at last announced. In Metzel Changes His Mind, Miss Schauffler strengthens the impression made by her first book that she is a writer of marked originality. Here again she has provided an unusual setting for her tale. The scene is largely laid in a pathological laboratory, surely a new background for a romance. It is a background, moreover, which is used most effectively by Miss Schauffler in the furtherance of her plot. Her characters, too, are as interesting as their surroundings—a woman doctor, attractive as well as sensible, a gruff old German doctor, suspicious of womankind, and a young American. Around these the action centers, though half a dozen others, vividly sketched, have a hand in the proceedings. Of course Metzel Changes His Mind is a love story, but not of the ordinary type.
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