There is no character in fiction more lovable and appealing than is Francezka. Miss Seawell has told a story of youth, splendor and tragedy with an art which links it with summer dreams, which drowns the somber in the picturesque, which makes pain and vice a stage wonder.
The book is marked by the same sparkle and cleverness of the author's earlier work, to which is added a dignity and force which makes it most noteworthy.
"Here is a novel that not only provides the reader with a succession of sprightly adventures, but furnishes a narrative brilliant, witty and clever. The period is the first half of that most fascinating, picturesque and epoch-making century, the eighteenth. Francezka is a winsome heroine. The story has light and shadow and high spirits, tempered with the gay, mocking, debonair philosophy of the time."—Brooklyn Times.
Charmingly illustrated by Harrison Fisher
Bound in green and white and gold
12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis
A BRILLIANT AND SERIOUS NOVEL
CHILDREN OF
DESTINY