Barbara Ladd

  GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK

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  A FEW OF

  GROSSET & DUNLAP'S

  Great Books at Little Prices

  HAPPY HAWKINS. By Robert Alexander Wason. Illustrated by Howard Giles.

  A ranch and cowboy novel. Happy Hawkins tells his own story with sucha fine capacity for knowing how to do it and with so much humor thatthe reader's interest is held in surprise, then admiration and at lastin positive affection.

  COMRADES. By Thomas Dixon, Jr. Illustrated by C. D. Williams.

  The locale of this story is in California, where a few socialistsestablish a little community.

  The author leads the little band along the path of disillusionment, andgives some brilliant flashes of light on one side of an importantquestion.

  TONO-BUNGAY. By Herbert George Wells.

  The hero of this novel is a young man who, through hard work, earns ascholarship and goes to London.

  Written with a frankness verging on Rousseau's, Mr. Wells still usesrare discrimination and the border line of propriety is never crossed.An entertaining book with both a story and a moral, and without a dullpage--Mr. Wells's most notable achievement.

  A HUSBAND BY PROXY. By Jack Steele.

  A young criminologist, but recently arrived in New York city, is drawninto a mystery, partly through financial need and partly through hisinterest in a beautiful woman, who seems at times the simplest childand again a perfect mistress of intrigue. A baffling detective story.

  LIKE ANOTHER HELEN. By George Horton. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.

  Mr. Horton's powerful romance stands in a new field and brings analmost unknown world in reality before the reader--the world ofconflict between Greek and Turk on the Island of Crete. The "Helen" ofthe story is a Greek, beautiful, desolate, defiant--pure as snow.

  There is a certain new force about the story, a kind ofmaster-craftsmanship and mental dominance that holds the reader.

  THE MASTER OF APPLEBY. By Francis Lynde. Illustrated by T. deThulstrup.

  A novel tale concerning itself in part with the great struggle in thetwo Carolinas, but chiefly with the adventures therein of two gentlemenwho loved one and the same lady.

  A strong, masculine and persuasive story.

  A MODERN MADONNA. By Caroline Abbot Stanley.

  A story of American life, founded on facts as they existed some yearsago in the District of Columbia. The theme is the maternal love andsplendid courage of a woman.