Dorothy Canfield’s the Squirrel-Cage
Illustrated by J. A. Williams. 4th printing. $1.35 net.
This is, first of all, an unusually personal and real story of American family life.
“One has no hesitation in classing ‘The Squirrel-Cage’ with the best American fiction of this or any season. Regarded merely as a realistic story of social ambitions in a typical Ohio town, it has all the elements of diversity, feeling, style, characterization and plot to captivate almost any member of that large and growing public which knows vital fiction from brummagem. The author has a moving story to tell, and with a calm, sure art she tells it by stirring our sympathies for the singularly appealing heroine. The characters are all alive, well contrasted, wonderfully grouped.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“She brings her chief indictment against the restless ambition of the American business man, and the purposeless and empty life of the American wife.... The story of a young girl’s powerlessness to resist the steady pressure of convention.”
—Bookman.
“A remarkable story of American life to-day, worth reading and worth pondering.... Her book is, first of all, a story, and a good one throughout.”
—New York Tribune.
BEULAH MARIE DIX’S THE FIGHTING BLADE
By the author of “The Making of Christopher Ferringham,” “Allison’s Lad,” etc. With frontispiece by George Varian. 3rd printing. $1.30 net.
The “fighting blade” is a quiet, boyish German soldier serving Cromwell, who, though a deadly duelist, is at bottom heroic and self-sacrificing. He loves a little tomboy Royalist heiress.
New York Tribune.—“Lovers of this kind of fiction will find here all that they can desire of plot and danger and daring, of desperate encounters, capture and hiding and escape, and of nascent love amid the alarums of war, and it is all of excellent quality.”
Chicago Inter-Ocean.—“The best historical romance the man who writes these lines has read in half a dozen years.... The heroine is a dear maid and innocent, yet nowise sweetish or tamely conventional.... The story’s hero... is certainly as fine a specimen of fighting manhood (with a gentle heart) as ever has been put before us.... He lives, mind you, he’s wholly natural.... Oliver Cromwell makes a brief appearance, but a striking one.... Some of the minor characters... are as well drawn.... From the beginning... until the very end the story holds the reader’s glad, intimate interest.”
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Containing tables, etc., of the Opera Season 1908-11.
“The most complete and authoritative... pre-eminently the man to write the book... full of the spirit of discerning criticism.... Delightfully engaging manner, with humor, allusiveness and an abundance of the personal note.”—Richard Aldrich in New York Times Review. (Complete notice on application.)
CHAPTERS OF OPERA
Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the Lyric Drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time.
This is perhaps Mr. Krehbiel’s most important book. The first seven chapters deal with the earliest operatic performances in New York. Then follows a brilliant account of the first quarter-century of the Metropolitan, 1883-1908. He tells how Abbey’s first disastrous Italian season was followed by seven seasons of German Opera under Leopold Damrosch and Stanton, how this was temporarily eclipsed by French and Italian, and then returned to dwell with them in harmony, thanks to Walter Damrosch’s brilliant crusade,—also of the burning of the opera house, the vicissitudes of the American Opera Company, the coming and passing of Grau and Conried, and finally the opening of Oscar Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera House and the first two seasons therein, 1906-08.
“Presented not only in a readable manner but without bias... extremely interesting and valuable.”
—Nation.
“The illustrations are a true embellishment... Mr. Krehbiel’s style was never more charming. It is a delight.”
—Philip Hale in Boston Herald.
“Invaluable for purpose of reference... rich in critical passages... all the great singers of the world have been heard here. Most of the great conductors have come to our shores.... Memories of them which serve to humanize, as it were, his analyses of their work.”
—New York Tribune.
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