That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson (book club suggestions TXT) 📕

logical technique of detective fiction."—Bookman.

N. Y. Sun: "Distinctly an interesting story—one of the sort that the reader will not lay down before he goes to bed."

N. Y. Post: "By comparison with the work of Anna Katharine Green ... it is exceptionally clever ... told interestingly and well."

N. Y. Tribune: "The Holladay Case was a capital story of crime and mystery. In the Marathon Mystery the author is in even firmer command of the trick. He is skillful in keeping his reader in suspense, and every element in it is cunningly adjusted to preserving the mystery inviolate until the end."

Boston Transcript: "The excellence of its style, Mr. Stevenson apparently knowing well the dramatic effect of fluency and brevity, and the rationality of avoiding false clues and attempts unduly to mystify his readers."

Boston Herald: "This is something more than an ordinary detective story. It thrills you and holds your attention to the end. But besides all this the characters are really well drawn and your interest in the plot is enhanced by interest in the people who play their parts therein."

Town and Country: "The mystery defies solution until the end. The final catastrophe is worked out in a highly dramatic manner."

The Holladay Case With Frontispiece by Eliot Keen.

A tale of a modern mystery of New York and Etretat that has been republished in England and Germany.

This is one of the new and artistic style of detective stories, somewhat in the vein of Conan Doyle. The tale begins with the finding of a New York banker stabbed to death in his office. Suspicion falls on his daughter. A kidnapping and pursuit over seas follow. The story contains a minimum of horror and a maximum of ingenuity.

"Almost instantly commands the reader's attention."—Critic.

N. Y. Tribune: "Professor Dicey recently said, 'If you like a detective story take care you read a good detective story.' This is a good detective story, and it is the better because the part of the hero is not filled by a member of the profession.... The reader will not want to put the book down until he has reached the last page. Most ingeniously constructed and well written into the bargain."

BOOKS BY MAY SINCLAIR THE HELPMATE A story of married life.

"An advance upon 'The Divine Fire.'"—London Times.

"The one novel on the divorce question."—Boston Transcript.

"A noteworthy book.... There are things said in these pages, and said very plainly, which need to be said, which are rarely enough said—almost never so well said. The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our literature."—New York Times Saturday Review.

"Masterly ... artistic to the core."—Boston Advertiser.

"No criticism of trifles can leave in doubt the great distinction of her craftsmanship. Very certainly she must have made her reputation by this book, if it had not been already won."—Punch (London).

THE DIVINE FIRE A story of a London poet.

"In all our new fiction I have found nothing worthy to compare with 'The Divine Fire.'"—Mary Moss in The Atlantic Monthly.

"A full-length study of the poetic temperament, framed in a varied and curiously interesting environment, and drawn with a firmness of hand that excites one's admiration.... Moreover, a real distinction of style, besides being of absorbing interest from cover to cover."—Dial.

"I find her book the most remarkable that I have read for many years."—Owen Seaman in Punch (London).

THE TYSONS

"Maintains a clinging grip upon the mind and senses, compelling one to acknowledge the author's genius."—Chicago Record-Herald.

SUPERSEDED

"Makes one wonder if in future years the quiet little English woman may not be recognized as a new Jane Austen."—New York Sun.

AUDREY CRAVEN

"It ranks high in originality, interest and power.... Audrey is a distinct creation."—Times Review.

BOOKS BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN ALICE-FOR-SHORT

The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family, with some decidedly dramatic happenings.

"'Joseph Vance' was far and away the best novel of the year, and of many years.... Mr. De Morgan's second novel ... proves to be no less remarkable, and equally productive of almost unalloyed delight.... The reader ... is hereby warned that if he skims 'Alice-for-Short' it will be to his own serious loss.... A remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest."—Dial.

"Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan."—Boston Transcript.

"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Page by page the new book is as rich, piquant and interesting as its predecessor.... Everywhere are wit, learning and scholarship ... the true creative imagination.... Will be remembered as Dicken's novels are remembered."—Springfield Republican.

JOSEPH VANCE

A novel of life near London in the 50's.

"The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."—LEWIS MELVILLE in New York Times Saturday Review.

"No novel since Thackeray's own will give you so much honest comfort and delight."—World's Work.

"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson' he can find the two books in this one."—The Independent.

"A perfect piece of writing."—New York Tribune.

OTHER BOOKS MRS. E. L. VOYNICH'S THE GADFLY

An intense romance of the Italian rising against the Austrians early in the nineteenth century.

"One of the most powerful novels of the decade."—New York Tribune.

ANTHONY HOPE'S THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

Being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson.

ANTHONY HOPE'S RUPERT OF HENTZAU A sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda." Illustrated by C. D. Gibson.

These stirring romances established a new vogue in fiction and are among the most widely-read novels. Each has been successfully dramatized.

C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON'S THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR

A humorous love story of a beautiful American and a gallant Englishman who stoops to conquer. Two almost human automobiles play prominent parts. There are picturesque scenes in Provence, Spain and Italy.

"Altogether the best automobile story of which we have knowledge, and might serve almost as a guide-book for highway travel from Paris to Sicily."—Atlantic Monthly.

C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON'S THE PRINCESS PASSES Illustrated by Edward Penfield.

"The authors have duplicated their success with 'The Lightning Conductor.' ... Unusually absorbing."—Boston Transcript.

D. D. WELLS' HER LADYSHIP'S ELEPHANT

This humorous Anglo-American tale made an instantaneous hit.

"He is probably funny because he cannot help it.... Must consent to be regarded as a benefactor of his kind without responsibility."—The Nation.

R. M. JOHNSTON'S LEADING AMERICAN SOLDIERS Biographies of Washington, Greene, Taylor, Scott, Andrew Jackson, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Meade, Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, Joseph E. Johnson. With portraits.

The first of a new series of biographies of leading Americans.

"Performs a real service in preserving the essentials."—Review of Reviews.

"Very interesting.... Much sound originality of treatment, and the style is clear."—Springfield Republican.

AS THE HAGUE ORDAINS Journal of a Russian Prisoner's Wife in Japan. Illustrated from photographs.

"Holds a tremendous human interest.... Author writes with wit and a delightfully feminine abandon."—Outlook.

"This surprisingly outspoken volume ... could have been written only by an extraordinarily able woman who knew the inside of Russian politics and also had actual experience in Japanese war hospitals."—Chicago Record-Herald.

W. F. JOHNSON'S FOUR CENTURIES OF THE PANAMA CANAL With 16 illustrations and 6 colored maps.

"The most thorough and comprehensive book on the Panama Canal."—Nation.

JOHN L. GIVENS' MAKING A NEWSPAPER

The author was recently with the New York Evening Sun.

Some seventy-five leading newspapers praise this book as the best detailed account of the business, editorial, reportorial and manufacturing organization of a metropolitan journal. It should be invaluable to those entering upon newspaper work and a revelation to the general reader.

THE OPEN ROAD THE FRIENDLY TOWN Compiled by E. V. Lucas.

Pretty anthologies of prose and verse from British and American authors, respectively for wayfarers and the urbane.

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