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_Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ The stirring story of a man who rises by force of sheer ability and perseverance from the humblest beginning to a position of fame and influence. The elemental strength, the vigor and determination of Martin Eden, make him the most interesting character that Mr. London has ever created. The plan of the novel permits the author to cover a wide sweep of society, the contrasting types of his characters giving unfailing variety and interest to the story of Eden's love and fight. ZONA GALE'S Friendship Village _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ "As charming as an April day, all showers and sunshine, and sometimes both together, so that the delighted reader hardly knows whether laughter or tears are fittest for his emotion.... The book will stir the feelings deeply."--_New York Times_. To be followed by "Friendship Village Love Stories." CHARLES MAJOR'S A Gentle Knight of Old Brandenburg _Illustrated, cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ Mr. Major has selected a period to the romance of which other historical novelists have been singularly blind. The boyhood of Frederick the Great and the strange wooing of his charming sister Wilhelmina have afforded a theme, rich in its revelation of human nature and full of romantic situations. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT'S Poppea of the Post Office _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ "A rainbow romance, ... tender yet bracing, cheerily stimulating ... its genial entirety refreshes like a cooling shower."--_Chicago Record Herald._ "There cannot be too many of these books by 'Barbara.' Mrs. Wright knows good American stock through and through and presents it with effective simplicity."--_Boston Advertiser_. FRANK DANBY'S Sebastian _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ Whenever a father's ideals conflict with a mother's hopes for the son of their dreams, you meet the currents underlying the plot of "Sebastian." Its author's skill in making vividly real the types and conditions of London has never been shown to better advantage. EDEN PHILLPOTTS' The Three Brothers _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ "'The Three Brothers' seems to us the best yet of the long series of these remarkable Dartmo
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