AS CRISP AND CLEAN CUT THE PUPPET CROWN BY HAROLD MACGRATH A princess rarely beautiful; a duchess magnificent and heartless; a villain revengeful and courageous; a hero youthful, humorous, fearless and truly American;-such are the principal characters of this delightful story.-Syracuse PostStandard. Harold MacGrath has attained the highest point achievable in recent fiction. We have the climax of romance and adventure in "The Puppet Crown." The Philadelphia North American. Superior to most of the great successes.-St. Paul Pioneer Press. "The Puppet Crown" is a profusion of cleverness.—Baltimore American. Challenges comparison with authors whose names have become immortal--Chicago American. Latest entry in the list of winners.-Cleveland World. With illustrations by R. Martine Reay 12mo. Price, $1.50. The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis FULL of INCIDENT, ACTION & COLOR LIKE ANOTHER HELEN By GEORGE HORTON Mr. Horton's powerful romance stands in a new field and brings an almost unknown world in reality before the reader the world of conflict between Greek and Turk. The island of Crete seems real and genuine after reading this book; not a mere spot on the map. The tragic and pathetic troubles of this people are told with sympathetic force. Mr. Horton employs a vivid style that keeps the interest alive and many passages are filled with delicate poetic feeling. Things happen and the story moves. The characters are well conceived and are human and convincing. Beyond question Mr. Horton's fine story is destined to take high rank among the books of the day. With illustrations by C. M. Relyea I 2m0, Cloth bound Price, $1.50 The Chicago Times-Herald says: "Here are chapters that are Stephen Crane plus sympathy; chapters of illuminated description fragrant with the atmosphere of art." The Bowen - Merrill Company, Indianapolis "A vigorous tale of France in the old and new world during the reign of Louis XIV." From the Philadelphia Press: "As delightfully seductive as certain mint-flavored beverages they make down South." From the Los Angeles Herald: "The sword-play is great, even finer than the pictures in 'To Have and To Hold.'" From the San Francisco Chronicle: "As fine a piece of sustained adventure as has appeared in recent fiction.” From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "There is action, vivid description and intensely dramatic situations." From the Indianapolis News: "So full of tender love-making, of gallant fighting, that one regrets it's no longer.' Illustrated by C. M. Relyea. Price $1.50 The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis 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 character stands 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 A NOVEL OF EARLY NEW YORK PATROON VAN 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 ability to write forceful, fragrant English. From the Brooklyn Standard-Union : "The tale is one of vibrant quality. It can not be read at a leisurely pace. It bears the reader through piratical seas and buccaneering adventures, through storm and stress of many sorts, but it lands him safely, and leads him to peace." I 2mo, Illustrated in color by C. M. Relyea Price, $1.50 The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis |