12mo, 320 Pages. Bound in Extra Cloth, $1.50.
Seven Full-page Illustrations by the Author.
This book is not a religious novel of the style and quality usually offered to the public. It is rather a prose poem, in which the splendid decadence of an ancient idolatry is pictured with rare felicity by a new writer of brilliant promise.
The book will be read with deep interest, because there is a certain power in its pages that will impress and fascinate the mind. It contains enough of plot, mystery, adventure, and the like, to hold the attention, while the underlying thought of dissatisfaction with the heathen gods, and expectation of something better, lifts it far above the level of mere sensational fiction. Moreover, its locale is new. The usual background of stories of the times antecedent, or subsequent, to the birth of Christ, is either Rome, or Jerusalem; but the scene of this charming romance is in that far removed region of the Orient known to the ancients as Magog and Shem, and to modern geographers as Beloochistan.
The prologue to the story is a masterpiece of poetic imagery; the story itself is an idyl of surpassing beauty.
We anticipate a very large sale for this work among all denominations of religious people.
It is handsomely bound in the highest style of the bookmaker’s art, and is illustrated by seven full-page unique illustrations from original designs by the Author who is not only an able author, but also an artist of unequalled ability.
The book is for sale by all bookdealers everywhere, or it will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, $1.50.