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“Mrs. Ward has done much excellent work in the past, but she has done nothing to come within measurable distance of this remarkably fine book—a book quite off the ordinary lines, interesting from the first page to the last, founded upon a psychological study of exceptionable power. It is a very common thing in fiction to find ourselves presented to a ‘great character,’ but as a rule we are obliged to accept the creator’s word for his greatness. Mrs. Ward has contrived to make Horace Blake really and indeed great—great in intellect, great in evil, and great, finally, in good. He holds the reader captive just as he is described as holding his world captive.”
The World, London.
By the Author of
“Aunt Olive in Bohemia,”
“The Notch in the Stick,” etc.
The Peacock Feather
By
Leslie Moore
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In a moment of reminiscent detachment the wearer of the Peacock feather describes himself as “one whom Fate in one of her freakish moods had wedded to the roads, the highways and hedges, the fields and woods. Once Cupid had touched him with his wing—the merest flick of a feather. The man—poor fool!—fancied himself wounded. Later when he looked for the scar, he found there was none.” And so he wandered.
Here is a rare love story, that breathes of the open spaces and is filled with the lure of the road.
By the Author of “The Way of an Eagle,”
“The Knave of Diamonds,” etc.