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THE LONE STAR By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. 



A tale of love-making and adventure and a wonderful historic 

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ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND 



By "John Kendrick Bangs 



Author of " Coffee and Repartee " 



An irresistibly humorous fantasy on Municipal Ownership — as 

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IN HIGH PLACES By Dolores Bacon 



An exhilarating story of high life and low life in New York. By 

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THE OVERMAN By Upton Sinclair 



A unique fragment of literature — unlike anything else in our 

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THE TRAITOR By Thomas Dixon, Jr. 



Author of " The Clansman " and The Leopard's Spots" 



It is the picture of a gentle Southern woman turned into a fury by 

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THE GOOD COMRADE By Una L. Silberrad 



For keen humor, brilliant handling and absorbing story, "The 

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TO HIM THAT HATH 



By Leroy Scott 



An impressive tale of New York, its missions, its thieves, its star- 

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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF NILS 



By Selma Lagerlof 



Translated by Velma Swanston Howard. A delightful and most 

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MEMOIRS OF MADAME RISTORI 



Translated by G. Mantellini 



An intimate discussion of Legouve, Gautier, Dumas, Scribe and 

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FIJI AND ITS POSSIBILITIES 



By Beatrice Grimshaw 



A most interesting geographical document and revelation, setting 

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THE UPRISING OF THE MANY 



By Charles E. Russell 



One of the most valuable contributions to the constructive literature 

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MEMOIRS OF AN ARABIAN PRINCESS 



Translated by Lionel Strachey 



Size, 61-4 19; pages. 243; binding, cloth, decorated; illustrations, 32 

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A picture of the education and life of an Arabian woman of the 

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 Uniform with the above : MEMOIRS OF CHARMING WOMEN— 



Dixie After the War, By Myrta Lockett Avary. 



A Belle of the Fifties, By Mrs. Clay, of Alabama. 



Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling. 



Memoirs of Mme. Vigee Lebrun, Translated by Lionel Strachey. 



On Two Continents, By Marie Hansen Taylor {Mrs. Bayard Taylor) 



A Southern Girl in '61, By Mrs. T>. Giraud Wright. 



Memoirs Of a Contemporary, Translated and Edited by Lionel Strachey. 



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Memoirs of Madame Ristori, log. cit. 



THE TRACKS WE TREAD By G. B. Lancaster 



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Water Wonders Every Child Should Know 



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Birds Every Child Should Know 



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