A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its untangling is deftly accomplished.
Stein, Evaleen. [Gabriel and the hour book.] $1. Page.
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“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
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| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w. |
Steiner, Bernard Christian. Maryland during the English civil wars. pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
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pt. 2. Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of 1649.
Steiner, Edward A. [On the trail of the immigrant.] **$1.50. Revell.