HERBERT S. STONE & Co., CHICAGO & NEW YORK.
By JULIA MAGRUDER
A REALIZED IDEAL
Miss Julia Magruder has by this time firmly established her reputation as one of the most popular of our younger writers. Many readers had their introduction to her when "The Princess Sonia" began in the pages of The Century Magazine, and all agreed that the most charming love-story they had read for years came from this almost unknown Southern girl.
Since then "The Violet" and a volume of short stories, entitled, "Miss Ayr of Virginia," have appeared. In the title of this latest volume, Miss Magruder, in a way, makes the confession that she is an old fashioned writer. At least she is not modern in some of the unpleasant meanings of the word. In her book, "ideals" are sometimes to be "realized," and the whole story is an unobtrusive protest in favor of sweetness and of sentiment in fiction.
The volume is bound in an exceedingly good design by Frank Hazenplug, in three colors.
16mo. Cloth. $1.25.
MISS AYR OF VIRGINIA AND OTHER STORIES
By means of original incident and keen portraiture, "Miss Ayr of Virginia, and Other Stories," is made a decidedly readable collection. In the initial tale the character of the young Southern girl is especially well drawn; Miss Magruder's most artistic work, however, is found at the end of the volume, under the title "Once More."—The Outlook.