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The slim Princess Kalora of Morovenia is the despair of her father and fat younger sister because there is a Turkish law which reads that the elder must marry first and there is a Turkish preference for fat wives. Kolora is not only slim but spirited and she merrily takes her destiny into her own hands and, assisted by a kindly Fate, succeeds in marrying a venturesome young Pittsburgh millionaire. The story is breezy, clever and full of cheerful irony.


“Is one of the brightest phantasies of the season.”

+Arena. 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 250w.

“Was in his best comic opera mood when he wrote ‘The slim princess.’”

+ −N. Y. Times. 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 220w.

“A highly amusing bit of grotesquery.”

+R. of Rs. 35: 768. Je. ’07. 80w.

Adventures of Uncle Sam’s sailors by R. E. Peary, A. V. Wadhams, Molly Elliot Seawell, Franklin Matthews, Kirk Munroe and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.