The inimitable sketches of Tony Sarg, distributed throughout, lend a clever, human atmosphere to the text.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
A Certain Rich Man
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
Author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50
The absorbing story of the career of a remarkable money-maker and his associates. A powerful book full of United States life and colour, taking front rank among the best modern novels.
“It pulsates with humour, interest, passionate love, adventure, pathos–every page is woven with threads of human nature, life as we know it, as it is, and above it all a spirit of righteousness, true piety, and heroic patriotism. These inspire the author’s genius and fine literary quality, thrilling the reader with tenderest emotion, and holding to the end his unflagging and absorbing interest.”–G. W. O. in Philadelphia Public Ledger.
“This novel has a message for to-day, and for its brilliant character drawing, and that gossipy desultory style of writing that stamps Mr. White’s literary work, will earn a high place in fiction. It is good and clean and provides a vacation from the cares of the hour. It resembles a Chinese play, because it begins with the hero’s boyhood, describes his long, busy life, and ends with his death. Its tone is often religious, never flippant, and one of its best assets is its glowing descriptions of the calm, serene beauties of nature. Its moral is that a magnate never did any real good with money.”–Oregonian, Portland, Oregon.