The Story of a Fight for a Throne
D'ARTAGNAN, THE KING MAKER
By ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
Written originally by Dumas as a play, and now for the
first time novelized and translated into English.
The Philadelphia Enquirer says:
"A pretty love story in which the debonair
cavalier falls victim to Cupid's wiles is one
of the interesting threads running through
the book."
The Chicago Record-Herald says:
"It is singular that this bit of romance
has been suffered to remain hidden away
for so long a time. D'Artagnan's manner
of winning the hermit kingdom contains
enough thrills to repay a careful reading.
The story oozes adventure at every chapter."
The Brooklyn Eagle says:
"It is a strong tale brimful of incident
from the moment when Cardinal Richelieu
dispatches the redoubtable D'Artagnan on
his king-making mission to Portugal."
12mo., Illustrated. Price, $1.00.
A Hero of the Sword.
THE KING'S GALLANT
By ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
"The King's Gallant" is deserving of
recognition, in that it is not only a
novelization of the earliest of Dumas' plays,
but it marks a distinct triumph in his career.
If this production is full of the rushing
vigor of youth, it is because its celebrated
author was but a youth when he penned it,
yet it was the stepping stone which led to
that upward flight wherein he was speedily
hailed as the "Wizard of Fiction."
It is a volume full of action with a strong
plot and a truly masterful deliniation of
character.
12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
The Story of a Hopeless Love.
TONS OF TREASURE
By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP.
Author of "Detmold."
When two women love one man there is
usually trouble brewing. Nor is the story
which Mr. Bishop has to tell an exception.
His hero is a manly New Yorker, who is
fired with a zeal to "make good" a defalcation
accredited to his dead father.
In quest of gold he visits Mexico and
there meets a dreamy-eyed maid who
straightway gives him first place in her
heart. But an American girl has already
won his love. It is a pathetic situation and
if one true woman's heart breaks before the
man's mission is ended who is to blame?
There are many touching incidents in the
book, but none more full of pathos than
when the woman who loves bares her soul
to the woman who is loved.
12mo., Cloth. Price, $1.00.
A Book Full of "Human" Interest.
QUEER PEOPLE
By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP.
Author of "Detmold."
Not one story, but a number of charming
storyettes, terse, snappy and absorbingly
interesting.
There is a delightful pen sketch of a
woman of small means who aspires to a
connection with the smart set. Her attempts
to disguise the true state of affairs from
her out-of-town friends are laughable; but
the fun becomes tinged with pathos when she
borrows a furnished mansion for an evening,
and a rich relative, invited to dine with
her, uncloaks the pitiable fraud.
The promising boy and the fond patroness
are the chief characters in another brilliant
character study in "Queer People."
12mo., Cloth. Price, $1.00.
A Peep Behind the Scenes.
AMONG THE FREAKS
By W.L. ALDEN.
Here is a volume of unique interest,
dealing as it does with the fortunes and
misfortunes of the various "freaks" to be
found in a Dime Museum. It relates the
woes of the original Wild Man of Borneo,
tells how the Fat Woman tried to elope, of
the marvelous mechanical tail the dwarf
invented, of how the Mermaid boiled her
tail, and of a thrilling plot hatched out by
the Giant and others. Full of telling
illustrations. Easily one of the best works
this gifted writer has ever produced.
18mo., Cloth. Price, 75 cents.