Here is a beautiful and delightfully seasonable volume that everybody will want. The story is a bubbling romance of the German imperial court with an American girl heroine.
Decorated and illustrated in color by John Cecil Clay
By BRAND WHITLOCK Author of The 13th District and Her Infinite Variety
Mr. Whitlock has done more than simply repeat his earlier success. He has achieved a new one. In The Happy Average he has voiced a deep-seated human sympathy for the unheroic.
A most delightful romance that is as fresh as the flowers of May.
As an example of a good, healthy, entertaining and human story, The Happy Average must be given a place in the front rank.
Not only the best book that has come from Mr. Whitlock's pen, but a really noteworthy achievement in fiction.
"Three great men ruined in one year--a king, a cad and a castaway."--_Byron_.
BY HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES Author of Hearts Courageous
Lord Byron's personal beauty, his brilliancy, his genius, his possession of a title, his love affairs, his death in a noble cause, all make him the most magnetic figure in English literature. In Miss Rives's novel the incidents of his career stand out in absorbing power and enthralling force.
The most profoundly sympathetic, vivid and true portrait of Byron ever drawn.
Calvin Dill Wilson, author of _Byron--Man and Poet_
Dramatic scenes, thrilling incidents, strenuous events follow one another; pathos, revenge and passion; a strong love; and through all these, under all these, is the poet, the man, George Gordon.
With eight illustrations in color by Howard Chandler Christy
From the moment when, in another girl's chinchilla coat, Nance Olden jumps into the unknown carriage, and, snuggling up to the solemn owner, calls him "Daddy," till she makes her final bow, a happy wife and a triumphant actress, she holds your fancy captive and your heart in thrall.
If jaded novel readers want a new sensation, they will get it here.
For genuine, unaffected enjoyment, read the adventures of this dashing desperado in petticoats.
It is beguiling, bewitching, bristling with originality; light enough for the laziest invalid to rest his brain over, profound enough to serve as a sermon to the humanitarian.
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS Author of Golden Fleece