BOOKS THAT CHEER
By CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS
Uniform 12mo. Each, $1.25.
A HOLIDAY TOUCH; and Other Tales of Undaunted Americans.
Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty, F. R. Gruger, Peter Newell, Charles B. Loomis, "Hy." Mayer, H. G. Williamson, and John Wolcott Adams.
Perhaps Mr. Loomis's greatest charm is his old combination of American buoyancy with an unobtrusive pathos. The "hard-up" one who does not whine or ask for help, but smiles and wins out, dominates these pages, which fairly sparkle with Yankee ingenuity and pluck. There are also some delightful burlesques.
"Mr. Loomis at his clever best. He succeeds in embodying the shrewdness and ingenuity of our national spirit in terms of great human kindliness—a combination of keen insight and deep sympathy which always makes for the best kind of humor."—Chicago Evening Post.
POE'S RAVEN IN AN ELEVATOR
Being a later edition of "Moore Cheerful Americans." Illustrated by Mrs. Shinn and others.
Eighteen humorous tales in the vein of the author's popular "Cheerful Americans." To these is appended a delightfully satirical paper on "How to Write a Novel for the Masses."