Throckmorton: A Novel

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  Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size.Printed on excellent paper--most of them with illustrations of markedbeauty--and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume,postpaid.

  THE FAIR GOD; OR, THE LAST OF THE TZINS. By Lew Wallace. With illustrations by Eric Pape.

  "The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and itis worked out with all of Wallace's skill *** it gives a fine picture ofthe heroism of the Spanish conquerors and of the culture and nobility ofthe Aztecs."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._

  "_Ben Hur_ sold enormously, but _The Fair God_ was the best of theGeneral's stories--a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat ofMontezuma by Cortes."--_Athenaeum._

  THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy.

  A story of love and the salt sea--of a helpless ship whirled into thehands of cannibal Fuegians--of desperate fighting and tender romance,enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who describes with hiswonted felicity and power of holding the reader's attention *** filledwith the swing of adventure.

  A MIDNIGHT GUEST. A Detective Story. By Fred M. White. With a frontispiece.

  The scene of the story centers in London and Italy. The book isskilfully written and makes one of the most baffling, mystifying,exciting detective stories ever written--cleverly keeping the suspenseand mystery intact until the surprising discoveries which precede theend.

  THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI. A Romance. By S. Levett Yeats. With cover and wrapper in four colors.

  Those who enjoyed Stanley Weyman's _A Gentleman of France_ will beengrossed and captivated by this delightful romance of Italian history.It is replete with exciting episodes, hair-breath escapes, magnificentsword-play, and deals with the agitating times in Italian history whenAlexander II was Pope and the famous and infamous Borgias were totteringto their fall.

  SISTER CARRIE. By Theodore Drieser. With a frontispiece, and wrapper in color.

  In all fiction there is probably no more graphic and poignant study ofthe way in which man loses his grip on life, lets his pride, hiscourage, his self-respect slip from him, and, finally, even ceases tostruggle in the mire that has engulfed him. *** There is more tonicvalue in _Sister Carrie_ than in a whole shelfful of sermons.

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