Dec. cloth, 12mo, $1.35
The joyousness of life lived in an imaginative world is Mr. Blackwood’s theme, a theme not unlike Maeterlinck’s The Bluebird. His new story is fine in literary quality and in imaginative conception.
A group of delightful children learn to gain for themselves an “extra day” which, as a matter of time, does not count, and this day is filled with wonderful adventures. As in some of his other writings Mr. Blackwood plays about the idea that little children are so close to the line that divides the mysteries of the spiritual world from the actualities that in fancy they pass back and forth across this line.
“A very charming flight of exquisite fancy, fascinating to grownups who have the slightest spark of youth still flickering within them,” is the Duluth Herald’s comment on The Extra Day. “It fixes more firmly than ever the title that has been so well bestowed upon Algernon Blackwood—‘artistic realist of the unseen world.’”
—Duluth Herald.
Heart’s Kindred
By ZONA GALE
Author of “Christmas,” “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.35
There is much of timely significance in Miss Gale’s new book. For example, one of the most interesting and powerful of its scenes takes place at a meeting of the Women’s Peace Congress and in the course of the action there are introduced bits of the actual speeches delivered at the most recent session of this congress. But Heart’s Kindred is not merely a plea for peace; it is rather the story of the making of a man—and of the rounding out of a woman’s character, too. In the rough, unpolished, but thoroughly sincere Westerner and the attractive young woman who brings out the good in the man’s nature, Miss Gale has two as absorbing people as she has ever created. In Heart’s Kindred is reflected that humanness and breadth of vision which was first found in Friendship Village and The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre and made Miss Gale loved far and wide.