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uation complicates the romance. THE GAMBLERS. By Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow, Illustrated by C.E. Chambers. A big, vital treatment of a present day situation wherein men play for big financial stakes and women flourish on the profits--or repudiate the methods. CHEERFUL AMERICANS. By Charles Battell Loomis. Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn and others. A good, wholesome, laughable presentation of some Americans at home and abroad, on their vacations, and during their hours of relaxation. THE WOMAN OF THE WORLD. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Clever, original presentations of present day social problems and the best solutions of them. A book every girl and woman should possess. THE LIGHT THAT LURES. By Percy Brebner. Illustrated. Handsomely colored wrapper. A young Southerner who loved Lafayette, goes to France to aid him during the days of terror, and is lured in a certain direction by the lovely eyes of a Frenchwoman. THE RAMRODDERS. By Holman Day. Frontispiece by Harold Matthews Brett. A clever, timely story that will make politicians think and will make women realize the part that politics play--even in their romances. * * * * * Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction Grosset & Dunlap, 526 West 26th St., New York * * * * * The Master's Violin By MYRTLE REED A Love Story with a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old German virtuoso is the reverent possessor of a genuine Cremona. He consents to take as his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an aptitude for technique, but not the soul of the artist. The youth has led the happy, careless life of a modern, well-to-do young American, and he cannot, with his meagre past, express the love, the longing, the passion and the tragedies of life and its happy phases as can the master who has lived life in all its fulness. But a girl comes into his existence, a beautiful bit of human driftwood that his aunt had taken into her heart and home; and through his passionate love for her, he learns the lessons that life has to give--and his soul awakens. Founded on a fact well known among artists, but not often recognized or discussed. If you have not read "LAVENDER AND OLD LACE" by the same author, you have a double pleasure in store--for these two books show Myrtle Reed in her most delightful, fascinating vein--indeed they may be considered as mast
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