A FINE STORY OF THE COWBOY AT HIS BEST

WITH HOOPS of STEEL

By FLORENCE FINCH KELLY

"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy
soul with hoops of steel"

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

"Western men and women will read it because it paints faithfully the life
which they know so well, and because it gives us three big, manly fellows,
fine types of the cowboy at his best. Eastern readers will be attracted by
its splendid realism."

From Julian Hawthorne:

"For my own part, I finished it all in one day, and dreamt it over again
that night. And I am an old hand, heaven knows."

From the Denver Times:

"Mrs. Kelly's characters stand out from the background of the New Mexican
plains, desert and mountain with all the distinctness of a Remington
sketch."

With six illustrations, in color, by Dan Smith

Price, $1.50

The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis

"DIFFICULT TO FORGET"

A FEARSOME RIDDLE

By MAX EHRMAN

This mystery story, based on the theory of the arithmetical rhythm of
time, contains much of the same fascination that attaches to the tales of
Poe. Simply told, yet dramatic and powerful in its unique conception, it
has a convincing ring that is most impressive. The reader can not evade a
haunting conviction that this wonderful experiment must in reality have
taken place. Delightful to read, difficult to forget, the book must evoke
a wide discussion.

With Pictures by Virginia Keep

12 mo. Cloth, $1.00

The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis

A NOVEL OF EARLY NEW YORK

PATROON VAN VOLKENBERG

By HENRY THEW STEPHENSON

From the New York Press:

"Many will compare 'Patroon Van Volkenberg,' with its dash, style and
virility, with 'Richard Carvel,' and in that respect they will be right,
as one would compare the strong, sturdy and spreading elm with a slender
sapling."

The action of this stirring story begins when New York was a little city
of less than 5,000 inhabitants.

The Governor has forbidden the port to the free traders or pirate ships,
which sailed boldly under their own flag; while the Patroon and his
merchant colleagues not only traded openly with the buccaneers, but owned
and managed such illicit craft. The story of the clash of these
conflicting interests and the resulting exciting happenings is absorbing.

The atmosphere of the tale is fresh in fiction, the plot is stirring and
well knit, and the author is possessed of the ab