May, 1916 
1 
Quality in your reading matter is more important than in almost anything else 
you buy. For many years discriminating readers have found “The Century Co., 
Publishers, ** when printed on a book, an unusually safe guide in purchasing. 
Children 
out of the 
By 
STEPHEN 
WHITMAN 
Author of 
“The Woman from 
Yonder,” etc. 
AVING touched nearly all the sciences, arts, and plain busi- 
_ ness, Aurelius Goodchild was always interesting but never 
prosperous—until an event extraordinary came to pass. Then, 
being also prosperous, he and his three lovely and artistically 
ambitious daughters translated themselves from Zenasville, Ohio, 
to some of the gracious old places in Europe. 
What happened to them there, what became of the love-stories 
and artistic ambitions of the several Misses Goodchild, what they 
all saw, the people they met—of such is the material from which Mr. 
Whitman has woven a novel of unusual richness, humor, and charm. 
Those who remember the author’s previous books, notably “Pre¬ 
destined” and “The Woman from Yonder,” will not need to be told 
that “Children of Hope” has, in addition to its moving story and 
its accurate and entertaining setting, an ease and distinction of 
style which add substantially to the joy of the book. 
Eight full-page illustrations by F. R. Gruger 
Price $1-40 net 
Kitchen! 
By 
ALICE DUER 
MILLER 
Author of 
“The Blue Arch,” 
etc. 
URTON CRANE, who was young and rich and handsome, and 
a good sport (in the best sense of the word), found a little 
town below the Mason and Dixon line that he liked; so he asked 
a local real estate agent to get him a house there. The agent later 
on announced that he could offer one for temporary rental,—pro¬ 
vided the new tenant employed the servants already in the house. 
And such servants! The little cook, for instance, was undecided 
whether she was Jane, Ellen, or Jane-Ellen; she could cook like a 
goddess (if goddesses wanted to cook), and she looked like one— 
“a pocket Venus” she was called by a suspicious prospective 
mother-in-law of young Crane’s. 
What happened in the old Southern mansion, and during the 
hunts and drives in the country around, the author has made into a 
delightful, swiftly moving story, enlivened with brilliant sidelights 
of humorous and satirical dialogue. 
Twelve full-page illustrations by Paul Meylan 
Price $1.25 net 
GOLDEN LADS 
By ARTHUR GLEASON and HELEN HAYES GLEASON 
A CATHEDRAL SINGER 
By JAMES LANE ALLEN 
HE thrilling experiences of two Red Cross workers serving 
_ on the front line with the Belgian army, sketches of the Bel¬ 
gian and French soldiers in action, and eye-witness accounts of 
atrocities. It is all fact—but not cold fact; the authors, having felt 
things as well as seen them, could not help writing of them with 
the fire of emotion, and it is safe to say that no piece of fiction this 
year will more certainly touch the finest depths of the reader’s 
heart than this true story of the “Golden Lads.” 
Sixteen full-page illustrations 
Price $1.30 net 
0 TENDER and exquisite story of a mother’s love, by one of the 
_ four or five internationally recognized masters of American 
fiction. The first story to be written around the great Cathedral of 
St. John the Divine in New York City. “Mr. Allen has done,” says 
The Philadelphia Telegraph, “what genius always does—taken the 
common environment of every day and lifted it up into that light 
where its true romantic beauty and immortal purpose are revealed. 
... A poem in beautiful prose, a little etching vividly done.” 
Frontispiece in color by Ivanowski 
Price $1. 00 net 
WHERE THE PATH BREAKS 
By “CAPTAIN CHARLES DE CRESPIGNY” 
0 TENSE, swiftly moving love-story that opens on a battle-field 
_ in France and ends in peace and happiness in America’s Far 
West. “The author,” says The New York Sun, “makes his readers 
feel the greatness and sincerity of both the man’s and the woman’s 
love as few have in late years, and his venture on the border line 
between life and death and his reflections on the war are striking 
and thoughtful. It is a story that will delight all who have any 
poetry left in them.” 
Frontispiece in color by Relyea 
Price $ 1.30 net 
JOHN BOGARDUS 
By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN 
Author of “Through Stained Glass,” etc. 
!' j"fl|HE story of a young man who, robbed of his youth by an 
mi over-ambitious father, breaks away from conventional society, 
takes to the road, and in Europe, Africa, and his own country 
meets with adventure, and finds in the end both love and wisdom. 
Another brilliant, fascinating, out-of-the-ordinary Chamberlain 
novel. “The author is afraid neither of life nor its less obvious 
emotions,” says The Chicago Herald. “ His book positively blushes, 
it is so generously alive.” 
Four illustrations by W. T. Benda 
Price $1.35 net 
At all bookstores. Published by 
THE CENTURY CO. 
THE CENTURION, a monthly magazine containing extracts and illustrations from The Century Co.'s books and magazines, news notes 
about writers and their work, and pictures of authors, will be sent regularly and without charge to any one who asks for it. Address 
The Century Co., 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City 
