This new book is one that must appeal very strongly to those who enjoy the novel of keen social analysis. Its pictures of English and continental society are as graphic, just, and authoritative as any that have appeared in fiction. One of the main characters is a young German whose rank at once excludes him from the privileges of commonplace home life and gives him the unconscious assumption of the overfêted man who has missed the tonic of hard work. Another is the young specialist in “nerves,” accurate to the verge of brutality, driven to misogyny by the trivial aggravations of encountering most often the vague indecisions he hated most. And between them stands Katharine Dereham, a character of strong, unforgettable appeal to the woman who looks on modern social life with open eyes.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen
By ROBERT HERRICK
Author of “The Common Lot,” “The Real World,” etc., etc.
With 45 Illustrations by F. B. Masters
Cloth 12mo $1.50
In his grasp on the popular interest Mr. Herrick’s mastery grows with every new book he writes. Just because they are human, alive, and above all sincere, they hold one as no tales of silks and swords in an imaginary land could possibly do. The “American” of his new story walks into the Chicago markets from Indiana, to all appearances a tramp—in reality a country boy who has quarrelled with his home surroundings and flung himself into the city to fight for a future. The novel opens in time and scenes of Chicago in 1877. It includes among other incidents a glimpse of the strained days of the Haymarket riot and the trial that followed. It is a novel with more than a passing appeal to ones sympathies, and taken as a whole seems certain to be at once the most popular and the best thing that Mr. Herrick has written.
THE SECRET WOMAN
By EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Author of “The American Prisoner,” “My Devon Year,” etc.