Judge — July 2, 1921 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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Fiction to make you enjoy life—aitd forget it— BEAUTY By Rupert Hughes “Love of beauty is thé root ofall *y ness,” writes Rupert Hughi¢s in his novel. This power a the thing that happens t6*Clelia* Blakeney, but that at the same time immortalizes the influence of her beauty and youth and vigor on the men and women of her set, is the author’s epic achievement. The story begins in a camp in the Adirondacks where a motley company of New York society folk were spending the fag-end of a perfect autumn. It ends on a Texan plain where Gad Larrick at last discovers what really happened to Clelia, and is encouraged to start life anew. Illustrated by W. T. Benda. $2.00. THE SEVENTH ANGEL By Alexander Black The Boston Herald writes: ‘Beyond doubt, Alexander,Black is a novelist of power and originality. The New York Tribune calls it: “A digression in form, for it merges brief, pithy discussions of social facts with the incident and accident of a love story that threads many mazes before arriving at finalities. A book full of thought for honest and profitable rumination, and yet with a happy measure of merriment and brilliant talk.” The Chicago Post writes: “As in ‘The Great Desire,’ Mr. Black gives us an array of intimate, colorful, extraordi- narily living pictures of New York life. It is safe to say that no novelist under- stands the first city of the land with such sympathetic insight as Alexander Black.” $2.00. THE MADONNA OF THE HILLS By Arthur Guy Empey The New York Times writes: “A tale with plenty of incident, the story of a fight . . . the struggle of a girl against the forces of New York’s underworld.” The Baltimore Sun writes: “The work is full of the same exuberance that made his “Over the Top” a record-breaking seller. There is not a dull moment in his swiftly moving story. The book contains much real fun, and here and there are bits that make a lump rise in one’s throat and tears come to the eyes. It is worth reading.” The St. Louis Post- Despatch writes: “He has a knack for abbreviation and invention and knows how to bear a tale swiftly, funnily, and to the point.” $2.00. Est. 1817 STAR DUST By Fannie Hurst Here's the first novel by this famous short story writer. -It js the story of a young woman wWho-is*.married off by adoring parents: before, ye has had time to discover herself. >WOw.three weeks af- ter her marriage slg runs.away, and pro-* ceeds to work oiit, hey own how she fights to achieve in hi her own thwarted ambition, the searching story of “Star Dus the | Philadelphia Record writes: “‘Star* Dust’ is written in Miss Hurst’s usual at- tractive style. Her characters ‘are well- drawn and are full of the customary good and evil that adorn and defile humanity.” The Boston Globe calls ‘Star Dust”: “A striking, powerful and absorbing story, with unusually fine character draw- ing.” $2.00. THE SILVER SIXPENCE By Ruth Sawyer Whether or not you have read ‘Dr. Danny,” “Seven Miles to Arden,” “Leer and Ruth Sawyer’s other de- lightful stories, you ought not to miss this new novel. You will love “The Silver Sixpence’ with its refreshing philosophy and delightful heroine who believes in her fellow men. The New York Times writes: It is like a whiff of clean, fresh air, straight out of country fields, blowing down slummy city streets. The San Francisco Bulletin calls it: “A clever and delightful romance told around a moving picture star and a professor’s daughter, who is to inherit millions on condition that she successfully invests 20,000 dollars. The girl backs a first play with the money; and how her venture turns out makes an absorbing tale.” Illustrated, $2.00. ON SECRET SERVICE By W. N. Taft Twenty-four rattling good detective stories, based on actual exploits of our Secret Service operatives. The Boston Herald writes: “The themes of the stories vary as widely as the range of human passions and human cunning.” The Chicago Evening Post says: “There is no attempt to be melodramatic; the interest of the episodes is sufficient to banish exclamation points. . Here, one fancies, is the real detective as he does not ordinarily appear between covers.” The New York Tribune says: “They challenge the imagination of the most adept of spinners of detective stories in their records of criminal audacities and shrewd analyses. . . . A bad book to open at 10 p.m.” $2.00. ughter HARPER & BROTHERS mn, and ~ THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER By Zane Grey Zane Grey’s new novel has been hailed by the public and critics alike. as his masterpiece. Even more than its predecessors, it catches the Western spirit of freedom. In story, character and setting its pages breathe the freedom which is the balm of American life. Here’s your chance to discover why the American public paid over $1,500,000 to read Zane Grey’s book last year and will by all indications pay more next year. Why people who never read fiction and people who read every type of fiction, read Zane Grey. “The Mysterious Rider” is a story of great spaces, of color, of fire, of action. You'll find it wholesome, different. As one critic writes: “Its characters are not neurotic; they are nervy.” Illustrated $2.00. SCATTERGOOD BAINES “By Clarence Budington Kelland Make Scattergood’s acquaintance—he is a charming companion. His story is refreshing and real. The things this shrewd, witty Yankee philosopher says are becoming part of the American lan- guage. John W. Davis, Director of the Department of Education of New York City wrote to the publishers: “I enjoyed it to the full. I have just finished reading it for the second time. Scatter- good is a wonderful combination of Socrates and David Harum, and when he begins to wiggle his toes and think aloud he injects some of the wisdom of Solomon into his remarks.” $2.00. THE FILM MYSTERY By Arthur B. Reeve takes Craig Kennedy, scientific detective into the secret councils of the film world | and to the startling discovery that a beautiful screen idol may be her com- pany’s worst enemy. He unravels one of the most ingenious criminal plots ever conceived and finds a pretty film star at the bottom of it. And at the top of it— for it is her mysterious death he is called in to clear up. “Excitement runs rampant from cover to cover. In addition to all that it is an exceedingly clever piece of liter- ary work.”—Baltimore Sun. “How the invincible Kennedy convicts the murderer on the evidence of the camera is what Rosalind would call, ‘wonderful and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all whooping!’”—San Francisco Chronicle. $2.00. New York “104 Years of Good Books”’