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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS' BOOKS for SUMMER READING

A Novel of Character

UNLEAVENED
BREAD by Robert Grant

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Fascinating in the force of its truth"

¶ Cleveland Plain Dealer.-"It is a wholesome story, most skillfully constructed along natural lines, arousing the better emotions and impressing the highest moral lessons. It is fascinating in the force of its truth, and few who open it will be disappointed."

"The ablest social study of its sort"

New York Evening Sun.-" Mr. Grant is to be congratulated on an artistic triumph in having succeeded in making this woman entirely objective. He has presented her true

to the life. And there he has left her.
The moral is there or it isn't. But
the novelist leaves that to his read-
ers. . . . It is about the ablest social
study of its sort that we know of."

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admirably conceived"

THE AUTHOR

TChicago Evening Post - He includes within his scope fairly the who.e field of our national life, especially the national life of the American woman as it it bourgeoning and blossoming-yea, even unto the present and on into the future. And no American lives who can fail to be amused and instructed by his admirably contrived story."

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¶ The Independent.-"We have never read a better imaginary history of an unscrupulous woman's long and unfaltering chase after the will-o'-the-wisp of social distinction. The details are given with admirable accuracy. It is genuine life that passes before us. We can distinctly feel how powerfully magnetic have been the pages over which we have so steadfastly hung."

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By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY

The Grip of Honor

A Story of Paul Jones and the American Revolution

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"IN N his titles Archdeacon Brady gives his books a great deal to live up to. 'For Love of Country, 'For the Freedom of the Sea,' The Grip of Honor'-how the words make the cheeks glow and the pulse leap! That the strong and stirring stories do live up to their titles is sufficient praise. ardent patriotism, according generous recognition to the patriotism of the enemy, the rush of the salt sea breeze, the clash of arms, and, best of all, men and women that ring true to the call of duty are in them all. Perhaps because The Grip of Honor' is the latest read it seems the best."-New York Times' Saturday Review. Illustrated by Gibbs. Second edition. 12m0, $1.50.

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12mo, $1.25.

one can read a dozen pages of what Mrs. Wharton writes without being struck by her positive Mrs.

Mr. James, and some of her crisp and brilliant sentences deserve to become classic. Wharton's novel is certain to give to the discriminating reader that rare delight which comes from the combination of remarkable intelligence, an extraordinary power of analysis. and a style that exemplifies precision, grace, lucidity, and, above all, distinction."-The Bookman. 12mo, $1 25. The Greater Inclination.

By EDITH WHARTON.

Fifth Edition.

12mo, $1.50. T is a book of wonderful delicacy and power both, but of cultured power. In workmanship it stands among the masterpieces of modern Anglo-Saxon fiction-a monument to the possibilities of the language in the hands of a master."-New York Mail and Express.

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By BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD

The Garden of Eden
freshness

ITHOUT intention, apparently, and certainly without sensationalism, Monica nearly represents method of controlling the relations between her husband and Monica, and the dialogue is as sparkling and delightful as anything in 'Guenn' or 'One Summer.'"-Philadelphia Press. 12m0, $1.50.

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Dionysius the Weaver's Heart's Dearest

By BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD. 12mo, $1.50.

EALTHFUL to the core, full of humor and of brightness, without the sense of strain noticeable in some very clever stories."-New York Times' Saturday Review.

By HARRISON ROBERTSON

Red Blood and Blue

"A WELL-WRITTEN a the

with Spain. The hero is a Southern boy who begins life, not only with no advantages, but with He succeeds in becoming the man of action of a load of debt and disgrace from his father's ill deeds. his town and section, and not only builds up a fortune, but, what is better, builds up an independent and fine character. The book is deserving of decided commendation."- The Outlook. Second edition. 12m0, $1.50.

If I Were a Man. By HARRISON ROBERTSON. Ivory Series. 16mo, 75 cents.

"A

S a study in practical politics, written with abundant dash and revealing shrewd insight into conditions which prevail, not in Kentucky alone, the book is good to read."- The Nation.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S

SIDE AND

COUNTRY

By JAMES A. WICKERSHAM

Enoch Willoughby

A Novel of the Middle West

"NEVER was the important part that religious beliefs and enthusiasms played in the lives of the

common people of the Middle West-or, for that matter, any other section-more vividly and effectively set forth. The book is one of the most interesting studies of human character that has lately come before the thoughtful reader."-Brooklyn Eagle. Third edition. 12m0, $1.50.

By ALLAN MCAULAY

The Rhymer

"A SCOTTISH, tale of ry and sweet, Robert Burns appears as one of the act rare character, farm

but loving, womanly

one actors in story and

plays a part not very creditable, but quite consonant with his known personal history."-The Outlook. Second edition. 12mo, $1.50.

By RICHARD HOLBROOK

Boys and Men

"IT.

T is the peer of any college story ever written. Inevitably, a college story must rely for attractiveness upon the author's skill at picturing characters and weaving together some interesting scenes. In this the author of Boys and Men' has succeeded splendidly. His pictures of college life are intensely vivid. It is a pleasure to repeat that 'Boys and Men' is a college story that will be hard to surpass."-Boston Journal. Second edition. 12m0, $1.25.

By A. T. QUILLER-COUCH

R. QUILLER-COUCH is in

"MR. as is The Ship of Stars.'

Cornish coast."-New York Sun.

"MR.

The Ship of Stars

all that he writes an artist, and it is good to get a book as well written A pleasant, wholesome story this, full of the salt-bracing air of the 12m0, $1.50.

By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann

R. HARRIS gives a captivating, and, we believe, a true picture of a much-misunderstood people, a fine companion-piece to Mr. Page's exquisitely sympathetic portraitures."-New York Times. Profusely illustrated by A. B. Frost. 12mo, $1.50.

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OUT-OF-DOOR BOOKS

Enlarged, Rewritten and Entirely Reset

HOW TO KNOW

THE

WILD

FLOWERS

By MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA

With 48 Colored Plates and New Black and White Drawings

A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Common Wild Flowers. With 48 full-page colored plates by ELSIE LOUISE SHAW, and 110 full-page illustrations by MARION SATTERLEE. 60th Thousand. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.

"NO popular work on botany has ever achieved such universal and deserved popularity as this volume of Mrs. Dana's. To those who love wild flowers it has proved a treasure, and with the additions now made it will be of yet greater value. One of the specially valuable features of the book is that it gives the common or popular name of the plants and flowers as well as the scientific terms."

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By FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS (Mrs. Dana)

A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native Ferns. full-page illustrations, and 6 full-page illustrations from photographs. $1.50 net.

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With 144 Crown 8vo,

"THIS gifted and enthusiastic naturalist knows the ferns literally like a book,' and her book makes the first lesson of the novice in the lore of fern-life an easy and a delightful task."

-New York Mail and Express.

OUR NATIVE

TREES

And How to Identify Them

By HARRIET L. KEELER

With 178 full-page illustrations from photographs, and with 162 illustrations from drawings. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.

"THE plan of the book must be heartily commended. No admirer of trees should be without it, and if you go away into the country for even a short stay, and care to know-as you should careanything about our native trees you will find this volume an invaluable guide. One could bring home from a walk a collection of leaves, and then, with the aid of the illustrations in this book, identify them all. Then you will know those trees the next time you encounter them, and they will take on a new interest and meaning to your eyes. Surely thy state is the more gracious' for such knowledge."- Brooklyn Eagle.

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