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the children of the wild and their life is treated could only belong to one who is in love with the forest and open air. Based on fact. THE RIVERMAN. Illus. by N. C. Wyeth and C. Underwood. The story of a man's fight against a river and of a struggle between honesty and grit on the one side, and dishonesty and shrewdness on the other. THE SILENT PLACES. Illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin. The wonders of the northern forests, the heights of feminine devotion, and masculine power, the intelligence of the Caucasian and the instinct of the Indian, are all finely drawn in this story. THE WESTERNERS. A story of the Black Hills that is justly placed among the best American novels. It portrays the life of the new West as no other book has done in recent years. THE MYSTERY. In collaboration with Samuel Hopkins Adams With illustrations by Will Crawford. The disappearance of three successive crews from the stout ship "Laughing Lass" in mid-Pacific, is a mystery weird and inscrutable. In the solution, there is a story of the most exciting voyage that man ever undertook. GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK * * * * * * TITLES SELECTED FROM GROSSET & DUNLAP'S LIST RE-ISSUES OF THE GREAT LITERARY SUCCESSES OF THE TIME May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap's list. BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace. This famous Religious-Historical Romance with its mighty story, brilliant pageantry, thrilling action and deep religious reverence, hardly requires an outline. The whole world has placed "Ben-Hur" on a height of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has reached. The clashing of rivalry and the deepest human passions, the perfect reproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce atmosphere of the arena have kept their deep fascination. THE PRINCE OF INDIA. By General Lew Wallace. A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, showing, with vivid imagination, the possible forces behind the internal decay of the Empire that hastened the fall of Constantinople. The foreground figure is the person known to all as the Wandering Jew, at this time appearing as the Prince of India, with vast stores of wealth, and is supposed to have instigated many wars and fomented the Crusades. Mohammed's love for the Princess Irene is beautifully wrought into the story, and the book as a whole is a marvelous
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