Life — December 1, 1904 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Editions Beautiful Books for Discerning People made un- der the personal directions of Mr. Ralph Fletcher Seymour Books in the House A Defence of Poetry By Percy Byssie Swetiey. $00 copies, hand.made paper, $2.00, | (Postage 15¢.) The Book of Ruth Lettered by hand, decorated in color, $2.00, (Postage 156.) The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise $15 copies, English hand-made paper, $3.00. (Postage tc.) Four Old Christmas Carols Hand-lettered, three colors and gold, $1.50, (Postage 10°.) Agamemnon Translated by Edward . Printed in blac fed, $3.00. (Postage 15, Twelve Songs by Maurice Maeterlinck goo copies on hand-made paper, $r.so." (Postage toc.) The Song of Demeter and Persephone Translated by Walter Pater. Printed in red, black and gold on hand-made paper, $3.00. (Postage toc.) The Art of the People By Wittiam Moxers, + zoocopies on hand-made paper, $5.00. (Postage 15c.) These books, made with ex- quisite skill, represent the best American “book — production A Romance of the Loves of Lord Byron Byron’s genius, beauty, brilliancy, love affairs, and daring combine | to make him our most romantic hero. His career is here recounted with marvelous sympathy and insight by Hatuie Erminie Rives, author } of ¢* Hearts Courageous.”? Eight Illustrations in Color by Howard Chandler Christy. THE HAPPY AVERACE A thoroughly American story of a young man who found himself; telling the fight of a young college graduate ® for a place to share with the girl he loved. Ic is instinct with ambition and success. By Braxo Warrtoce, author of ‘Her Infinite Variety." 12mo, cloth, $1.50 postpaid. By the author of The Missisippi Bubble.” THE LAW OF THE LAND A romance of the ssissippi Delta. Mr. Hovgh's knowledge of the race problem and the Southern view of it, and his keen description of Northern : hension, equal his tre- mendovs power as a story-teller, By Exteason Hoven. Mlustrated by Arthur I. Keller. 12mo, cloth, $1.50 postpaid. HULDAH Here for the first time we have the great-hearted capable woman of the Texas plains, At her * Wagon-Tire House "she dispenses biscuits and genial philosophy. ‘The kind of woman loved by the whole world, is Huldah. By Auice McGowan and Grace McGowan Cooxe. Mlustrated by F. Y. Cory, 12mo, cloth, $1.50 postpaid. Miss Mictetson’s Famous Novel Price One Dollar Everywhere. (Postage 12 cents.) Pa Se aE NETEELe = aa THE CIRL AND THE KAISER | A delicious story of an American girl at the court of | the strenuous Kaiser. Loved by two German officers, one | rich and one poor, she cannot tell which to choose. “The | Kaiser attempts to straighten the complications, with | unexpected results. | By Pavtinz Baraprorn Mackie. Illustrated |, decorated by John Cecil Clay, 12mo, cloth, $1.50 postp oon, By the author of Under the Rote. BLACK FRIDAY A dramatic novel of New York in the days of the famous “comer in gold."* At the end | the scene shifts to Paris | at the time of the Commune. “Black Priday"* shows a ste in Mr. Isbar asa story-tel By Frroratc S. Iswam. Illustrated by Harrison Fisher. 1209, cloth, $1.50 postpaid, WANTED-—A COOK An uproariously funny comedy-novel of a self-conscious couple in contact with the servant question, ‘The fare and satire of the asthetic-home-life-in-a-flat paradox, tol Mr. Dale’s brightly entertaining manner, all centering about the ludicrous predicaments with “ Cook."* By Atay Date, 12mo, cloth, “Something Doing All the Time”? “To-day every one who reads novels reads (In the Bishop's Carriage," and enjoys it.""——The Critic. Speater Cannon writes: ‘When I finished ¢In the Bishop's Carriage,’ I drew a long breath and felt I had forgotten everything else but the book, an¢ regretted that there was not more of By Mixiam Micuexson. Illustrated by Harrison Fisher. 12mo, cloth, $1.50 postpaid.