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' I "HERE is a freshness, an origi 



nal unconventionality about 

 Mrs. Harris's novels which simply 

 can't be given in description. And 

 it is this amazing, realness (which 

 you don't realize until you break 

 the spell by putting down the 

 book!) and irrepressible humor 

 which have placed her at one 



bound among the small band of modern novelists whose work 



literary people take seriously — and the public delightedly. 



And what utterly fascinating company it is the reader plunges 



into in this Georgia tale! Jim Bone, vitalizing his sleepy native 



town from his Western experience; and fair-haired Sylvia of the 



mysterious eyes and mouth — whose complex nature so stirred 



the prodigal and unrepentant Jim. What more delicious morsel 



than the description of the company of near-authoresses 



assembled in Mrs. Fanning-Rucker's parlor. A figure not to be 



forgotten, too, is pathetic, weak, old Elbert White with his one 



redeeming quality of adoring his blind saint of a wife, who all innocently becomes the " Recording 



Angel " of the community. It's like having some shrewd laughter-loving friend tell all her 



cherished best stories of the quaint people she's lived among for years. 



Illustrated in colors. 



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3 By the Author of " The Circuit Rider's Wife 



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Pleasures 



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Palaces 



C Being a Tale of 

 the Home-Mak- 

 ing Adventures of 

 Marie Rose 



By Juliet Wilbor 

 Tompkins 



Fourteen 



Illustrations 



By 



Howard 



Chandler 



Christy 



A/TARIE ROSE had never seen the inside of a kitchen: meals came, in her experience, when you 

 }■*■*■ pressed a button or commanded a waiter. So when she was beguiled by Cousin SaraDugmore 

 into trying home-life in an apartment, with the invaluable Miss Salter as housekeeper; and when this 

 perfidious lady failed to arrive as promised the first evening — why Marie Rose found herself staring 

 starvation in the eye though surrounded by bountiful supplies and a city of shops. If you wish to be 

 really diverted, come and behold this dangerously attractive young person making a first acquaint- 

 ance with the unyielding nature of a can of soup when she has never had to distinguished between a 

 can-opener and an ice-pick. Her temporary neighbor, Galen Ward, engineer, miner and camper, was 

 hugely excited when he first came to the rescue. And that was the beginning of the story — which is as 

 bright and amusing and as full of real humor as any you'll run across in a long course of contempor- 



Border Decorations on each page. Fixed price, £1.20 (postage 12c.) 



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