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STORIES OF ROMANCE
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1915
NEW YORK
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IC LIBRARY
ASTOR LENOS
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FOUNDATIONS,
THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
1915
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
By John Keats
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his
demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and
bold;
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific-and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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STORIES OF ROMANCE AND
IMAGINATION
Adventures of François, by S.
Mitchell.
Weir<
A vagabond and thief in the French Revolution.
Curious wanderings in odd parts of Paris.
Amos Judd, by J. A. Mitchell."
A strange meeting of East and West - an Indian
rajah of occult powers in a New England village. A
whimsical and charming love story forms part of the
plot.
Ashes of Empire, by R. W. Chambers.
The downfall of the French Empire and the escape
of Empress Eugénie. Adventures and love-making in
Paris.
Autobiography of a Quack, by S. Weir
Mitchell.
A rascal's story of his career; his dabblings in pre-
tended spiritualism, in theft, in bounty-jumping, and
in various forms of small crime. Period of the Civil
war.
Blix, by Frank Norris.
A love story of humorous incidents, with a thorough-
ly pleasing girl and young man as the chief characters.
The atmosphere of the San Francisco of fifteen years
ago is well suggested.
Book of Wonder, by Lord Dunsany.
The author has almost invented a new kind of
story. His yarns suggest terrible things, and they are
told in peculiar manner, and in peculiar language.
Casa Braccio, by Marion Crawford.
Story of an Italian elopement and a vendetta.
Fiercely passionate characters, Italian, Scotch, and
American, vividly described.
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Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, by Arthur
Morrison.
Martin Hewitt is one of the best of the followers
of Sherlock Holmes. His adventures are told in four
books that named above, and "Martin Hewitt,
Investigator," "Adventures of Martin Hewitt," and
"The Red Triangle."
Country of the Blind, by H. G. Wells.
Large collection of short stories, dealing with many
themes, imaginative, creepy, ghostly, and humorous.
Elsie Venner, by O. W. Holmes."
One of the most eerie, fascinating, and pitiful
heroines in fiction reaches the climax of her strange
career in the commonplace surroundings of a country
town.
Faith Tresilion, by Eden Phillpotts.
Story of smugglers, wreckers and other interesting
characters in an English fishing village a hundred
years ago. Good old-fashioned book of adventure,
with an old-fashioned love story and a happy ending.
First Men in the Moon, by H. G. Wells.
Although it is scientifically correct up to a certain
point, the author's imagination has full play.
Gentleman of France, by S. J. Weyman.
The author wrote many novels of action, but none
better than this. A story of rapiers and duelling, of
secret missions and plots.
Gold Bug, by E. A. Poe.'
This celebrated story of buried treasure is an ac-
count of the clever solution of a cipher, rather than
a story of piracy or bloodshed. The more famous
of Poe's other stories, such as "The Black Cat," are
nearly all tales of horror.
Great Shadow, by Conan Doyle."
The shadow is that of Napoleon. A charming
and fickle heroine bewilders the hero and drives him
to the wars. He takes part in the battle of Waterloo.
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Green Diamond, by Arthur Morrison.
A stolen jewel, a great green diamond, is supposed
to be hidden in one of twelve bottles of rare wine.
The bottles are scattered hence the problem of find-
ing the gem.
Green Flag, by Conan Doyle.
Stories of war, sport, and pirates.
and spirit.
Grey Man, by S. R. Crockett.
Full of dash
A novel of Scotland in the seventeenth century.
Thrilling and mysterious feuds and fighting.
Island Nights' Entertainments, by R. L
Stevenson.
Three stories of the South Seas.
"The Beach of
Falesá" is one of Stevenson's finest works - a wild
tale of native superstition and white man's villainy.
"The Bottle Imp, a curious fairy story adapted to
the Pacific islands.
John Silence, by Algernon Blackwood.
Combinations of detective stories with tales of the
weird and grotesque.
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling.<
The author seems to have opened a window, allowed
you a glimpse of mysterious and many-colored India,
the hidden workings of the Indian Secret Service
and then, closed the window when your interest was
highest.
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King and a Few Dukes, by R. W. Cham-
bers.
Romance and comedy in an imaginary kingdom.
King in Yellow, by R. W. Chambers.
Fantastic stories centering about a book of evil
influence.
King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Hag-
gard.
Perhaps the best of the half dozen first-rate stories
by this author.
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Lorraine, by R. W. Chambers.
Excellent battle pictures of the early days of the
Franco-German war of 1870.
Lost Valley, by Algernon Blackwood.
Stories of mystery; tales of the occult and ghastly
by an author whose reputation for writings of this
kind is rapidly growing. Other books by him include
"The Listener, "The Empty House" and "The
Centaur."
Lost World, by Conan Doyle.
all of them interest-
Four curiously assorted men
ing find a strange region in South America, a sur-
vival from an early geological epoch. The book is
so absorbing that it has kept many readers up half the
night.
Man of Mark, by Anthony Hope.
Unusual story of a South American revolution.
Merry Men, by R. L. Stevenson. <
A tale of shipwreck and horror, usually published
with a number of other ghastly tales, of the kind which
Stevenson called "regular crawlers.'
Micah Clarke, by Conan Doyle.´
One of the best historical novels of the last thirty
years. A story of Monmouth's rebellion.
Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarking-
ton.
Story of Bath in the days of patches and powder.
A great personage in disguise.
Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins.
The first, the longest, and probably still the best
of all the detective novels describing the hunt for a
mysterious stolen gem. The plot is highly ingenious.
Mystery, by S. E. White, and S. H."
ADAMS.
A modern story of unaccountable happenings at
sea and on a desolate island.
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Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles<
Dickens.
Left unfinished at the author's death. Four.novel-
ists, as many dramatists, scores of literary critics, and
hundreds of readers have tried to solve the puzzle of
the plot, to explain the mysterious disappearance of
Drood, and discover if a murder really occurred.
Mystery of Number 47, by J. S. Clouston.
What happened to a bashful novelist who tried to
fool a bishop; how he was accused of murder, and how
he had to bury bones in his garden to live up to the
part.
Naulahka, by Rudyard Kipling.“
An American man and an American girl have
singular experiences in India.
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New Arabian Nights, by R. L. Stevenson.<
Lively exploits in a country that is half Fairyland,
and half modern London. Stories which vary from
tragedy to burlesque, and are always highly entertain-
ing. A sequel to this book is "The Dynamiter."
Pair of Blue Eyes, by Thomas Hardy. ‹´
A love story of Cornwall; a tale of misunderstand-
ing and pathos set in romantic surroundings, and given,
by the author's magic, a haunting significance hard to
define and impossible to forget.
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Parasite, by Conan Doyle. <
An uncanny story about hypnotism.
Peter Ibbetson, by George du Maurier.^
The author's most charming, though not his most
famous work. A curious story of dream life follows
the account of an English boy's school-days in France.
The central idea of the plot is also used in Kipling's
"The Brushwood Boy."
Red Republic, by R. W. Chambers.<
Exciting story of the Commune.
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Refugees, by Conan Doyle.
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Court life and intrigue in the France of Louis XIV,
and Indian warfare in Canada.
Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy.“
Tragic story of love at cross-purposes, against the
somber background of Egdon Heath.
Rodney Stone, by Conan Doyle."
A novel of the sporting days of the Prince Regent,
with vivid description of prize fights.
Round the Fire Stories, by Conan Doyle.<
A good collection of stories to be read on a winter
evening or any other time when mysterious tales
can be enjoyed.
St. Ives, by R. L. Stevenson.<
The escape of a French prisoner -one of Napo-
leon's soldiers from Edinburgh Castle, and his flight
through England. A gay, rollicking book, full of
excitement and fun.
Sir Nigel, by Conan Doyle.-
"The White Company" is a sequel to this book.
Both are full of the picturesque side of medieval war-
fare; this one shows rather more of its horrors.
Sons of the Morning, by Eden Phillpotts.<
A moorland novel with much of the spirit of the
open air.
It contains an unhappy love story, and
something of the supernatural.
Spanish Gold, by G. A. Birmingham.<
A comical, and sometimes exciting treasure hunt,
by one of the oddest heroes in fiction — a talkative,
cheeky, and highly amusing clergyman.
Story of Francis Cludde, by S. J. Wey-<
man.
Rattling adventure in which the interest never flags
for a moment. Period: the reign of Bloody Mary.
Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper
Cylinder, by James De Mille.
A man finds a new world in the antarctic regions,
where all the usual desires of mankind are reversed.
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Time Machine, by H. G. Wells.
One of the greatest flights of imagination ever made
into a story. The hero travels into the future hundreds
of thousands of years.
War in the Air, by H. G. Wells.
An imaginary attack upon America, by German
airships, starts a world war. The personal adventures
of the hero are extremely funny, as well as thrilling.
Wessex Tales, by Thomas Hardy.<
Stories of unquestioned power; some supernatural,
others merely gloomy.
White Company, by Conan Doyle.<
The author's favorite among his books. Packed
with excitement and interest, giving a stirring picture
of life in France in the fourteenth century, and of
warfare of those days.
Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerhohm."
An extravaganza about a Duke and a magician; a
story of Oxford which will be enjoyed by those who
are fond of nonsense.
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