By George Scarborough. Founded upon his great play that aroused such wide-spread controversy, the book tells of a secret service officer's investigations into the White Slave traffic; of his discovery of the girl he loved in a disreputable employment agency and of her dramatic rescue. A true situation, depicted boldly and frankly but without pruriency. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated from scenes in the play. Net $1.25.
THE WASP
By Theodore Goodridge Roberts. A picturesque tale of an English pirate whose depredations on the high seas were so ferocious that he was called The Wasp because of the keenness of his sting. Glutted with looting, he enlists in the navy and gives up his life defending his country's flag. A love story with the winsome Kitty Trimmer for its heroine lends a fascinating charm to the narrative. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Net $1.25
THE PRICE
By George Broadhurst and Arthur Hornblow, authors of "Bought and Paid For." Founded upon the play, this is a powerful story of a woman's desperate struggle to save her reputation and her happiness. How she tries to sink the memory of a foolish entanglement with another woman's husband in her own marriage with the man she really loved and how she paid the subsequent bitter price of her folly forms a dramatic theme of deep human interest. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated with scenes from play. Net $1.25.
MATTHEW FERGUSON
By Margaret Blake, author of "The Greater Joy;" "The Voice of the Heart." How the hero, by virtue of a self-evolved, infallible system, speedily climbs to the top of his profession in New York; how he saves the woman he loves from a fate worse than death, and then, to save his honor, discards the system that made his success, forms a vividly realistic and powerful story. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Net $1.25.
Nine Splendid Novels by
WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE
THE PIRATE OF PANAMA