"The fine ideal of womanhood in a person never once physically described will gratify the highest tone of the period, and is an ennobling conception."—Time and The Hour, Boston.
A Hypocritical Romance and Other Stories.
By Caroline Ticknor. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth $1.00
Miss Ticknor, well known as one of the most promising of the younger school of American writers, has never done better work than in the majority of these clever stories, written in a delightful comedy vein.
A Man-at-Arms.
A Romance of the days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Great Viper. By Clinton Scollard, author of "Skenandoa," etc. With six full-page illustrations and title-page by E. W. D. Hamilton.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge
paper $1.50
The scene of the story is laid in Italy, in the latter part of the fourteenth century. The hero, Luigi della Verria, unable to bear the restrictions of home or to reconcile himself to the profession of law, as desired by his father, leaves his family and, as the result of chance, becomes a man-at-arms in the service of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the cunning and unscrupulous Lord of Pavia, known as the Great Viper. Thenceforward the vicissitudes and adventures, both in love and war, of Della Verria, are told in a way to incite the interest to the highest point; and a strong picture is drawn of Italian life at this period, with its petty vendettas, family broils, and the unprincipled methods employed by the heads of noble families to gain their personal ends.
An individual value is added to the book by the illustrations and title-page, drawn by Mr. E. W. D. Hamilton.