THE NEEDLE'S EYE
By Florence Morse Kingsley
Author of "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura," "Titus," "Prisoners of the Sea," "Stephen," etc.
"The Needle's Eye" is a remarkable story of modern American life,—not of one phase, but of many phases, widely different and in startling contrast. The scenes alternate between country and city. The pure, free air of the hills, and the foul, stifling atmosphere of the slums; the sweet breath of the clover fields, and the stench of crowded tenements are equally familiar to the hero in this novel. The other characters are found in vine-covered cottages, in humble farmhouses, in city palaces, and in the poorest tenements of the slums. Immanuel, the hero, begins life as a foundling, and the chapters telling of his unhappy infancy and happy boyhood are written with a tenderness, a pathos, and an intimacy of knowledge and description that touch the deepest sympathies of the reader. Later, Immanuel finds himself the heir of a vast fortune. His struggle to use the wealth in relieving the miseries of the slums demonstrates the truth of the declaration of Jesus: "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Many of the situations in the novel are exceedingly dramatic. Others sparkle with genuine humor. This is a story to make people laugh, and cry, and think.
Illustrations by F. E. Mears. 12mo, Cloth. $1.50
FUNK A WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
NEW YORK & LONDON
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "It is a simple, gentle, quietly-humorous narrative, with several love affairs in it."