Part 25

Irish Mist and Sunshine

A BOOK OF BALLADS BY REV. JAMES B. DOLLARD

(Sliav-na-mon)

With an introduction by William O'Brien, M. P.

Small quarto. $1.50

This is a book of ringing Irish ballads that will stir the heart of every lover of true poetry. "Here and there a verse may be as frankly unadorned as the peasant cabins themselves in their homely cloaks of thatch, but every line rings true to life and home and with the tone, as heartmoving as the Angelus which holds Millet's peasants in its spell," from Mr. O'Brien's introduction.

"Father Dollard's ballads have all the fire and dash of Kipling's, with a firmer poetic grasp," says Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole.

Four Days of God

BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

With about 90 illustrations. Bound in white and gold and purple

Small 4 to $1.00

It is quite impossible to describe adequately the surpassing charm of this book. We can say simply that it will appeal to every lover of nature who sees in her manifold beauties the living glories of the work of God.

No one can write more beautiful or sparkling prose than Mrs. Spofford and never has she been so absolutely charming as in Four Days of God.

The book has about 90 illustrations by Miss A. C. Tomlinson which catch the spirit of the text to perfection and with the harmonious print and paper and binding make the book a little gem.

When Half-Gods Go

A NOVEL BY JULIA MAGRUDER

Frontispiece in photogravure. 12mo. 330 pp. $1.50

A new novel by Miss Magruder is always sure of its welcome and When Half-Gods Go will find for her even a wider audience than she has hitherto enjoyed. It is a fascinating story of social and musical life in New York, full of human interest and those happy touches Miss Magruder can do so well. The title is from Emerson's lines "When half-gods go the gods arrive." In addition to its charm as a story the publishers think this book will be presented in the handsomest dress ever bestowed upon a novel. The fascinating frontispiece is reproduced in photogravure, the book is printed throughout in two colors, the text being enclosed in remarkably well done decorations, and the cover design, in colors, is at once delicate and effective.

THE ANVIL

A NOVEL BY R. V. RISLEY

12 mo. Cloth. About 300 pp. $1.50

In The Anvil Mr. Risley has produced a novel which for conception, dramatic power, and sheer strength of characterization will stand head and shoulders above the ordinarily well done novel of the day. In it for the first time Mr. Risley "finds himself" and strikes the strong, clear note he will sound, with ever increasing strength, in the literature that lives. It is a novel that will make people think.

The Wings of the Morning

KENTUCKY STORIES BY ELEANOR TALBOT KINKEAD

12 mo. About 300 pp. $1.50.

This volume by a writer who has already achieved considerable distinction as a delineator of Kentucky life contains ten stories all of which are notable for their originality of conception and delicacy of treatment.

The stories are: The Wings of the Morning, The Sifting of John Witherspoon, The Piggins, Penelope's Suitors, My Young Miss, A Pseudo Madonna, A Point of Honor, Mrs. Vail, The Pine Tree and the Palm, A Glooming Peace.

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