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For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York.
THE LITTLE BLIND GOD A-WHEEL
BY
SIDNEY HOWARD
Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 50 Cents
Surely the name of this author is not familiar, and yet it seems as though we must have met it before. No one but an experienced writer could have given us such a charming combination of incident and description. Perhaps some well-known author is testing his real merit by a little masquerade. We will wait, in confidence that such an excellent production will be traced to its rightful source. Briefly, it is a bicycling novel. A jolly party make a tour through northern New England with all the amusing happenings incident to such a trip, not excepting the experiences of the chaperon, who learns to ride that she may better perform her duties. And then—there is a boy. And besides the boy there is the little blind god who shoots his arrows so industriously that the whole party return engaged save the boy, the chaperon, and the poor odd man; and even he makes a determined effort to join the majority; but in his case the Fates are stronger even than the Little Blind God.
For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York.
TWO WASHINGTON BELLES
by
LESTER M. DEL GARCIA
Neely's Primatic Library Cloth, 50 Cents
"This is a modern, up-to-date "society" novel with considerable local coloring and many pictures of life in the "hupper suckles." It describes the career and love experiences of one who eventually becomes Viscountess Landale. The frou-frou and fripperies of nineteenth-century social gatherings and drawing-rooms are here described in analytical detail, while much plot and counterplot go toward the making of a book that is a departure from the usual run of what is ordinarily written under the genre of "novel" literature.
For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York.
ALLIQUIPPA
AND
DR. POFFENBURGH'S CHARM
BY
W. A. HOLLAND
Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 50 Cents
Are tales that deal with life in Pennsylvania, within whose rich valleys and sequestered byways are hidden many phases of quaint and charming life of which the world knows all too little. "Alliquippa" is the story of an Indian prince of the Alleghanies, and deals with pioneer life in that wild region. There is an air of freshness and novelty to these tales which, combined with the interest of the plots, commends the volume to the attention of book-buyers. In "Dr. Poffenburgh's Charm" Mr. Holland has told a romantic tale, which he has located in the historic locality of eastern Pennsylvania originally settled by the Germans, whose descendants are now known as Pennsylvania Dutch.
For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York.
AMONG THE DUNES
BY
MRS. D. L. RHONE
Cloth, $1.25; Paper, 50 Cents
'Among the Dunes' reads like some of the best work of the new school of Scandinavian writers; but it is in fact an American book, the production of a Pennsylvania lady. The scene is laid in Jutland, and the story, which is quite out of the common, is full of an intense romantic interest and charm."—Review of Reviews.
"Excellent entertainment for a fireside audience."—Richard Henry Stoddard.
"It is a pleasure of the simplest and purest sort to turn from the high-pressure novels of the day and read a tender and touching romance like this story of the Far North."—New York Independent.
"Readers who are old-fashioned enough, in these days of so much somber, realistic writing, to enjoy a romance pure and simple, full of variety, adventure, and mystery, will be pleased with 'Among the Dunes.'"—New York Christian Advocate.
"The narrative has a wonderful, fresh, salt-sea flavor, and the strange series of events culminate in a most dramatic situation."—Boston Advertiser.
"Exuberant fancy is shown by the author, and there is a plenty of adventure in her volume. It fills one of the main wants of the novel reader—it is always interesting and sometimes strikingly so."—New York Times.
"There is all the weird fascination that belongs to the Danish country and the Oriental race contained in the plot."—Baltimore Telegram.
For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York.
THE CHILD WITNESS
BY
HELEN NORWOOD HALSEY
Cloth, $1.00
This is a story within a story, and will appeal to all; childhood and youth will devour it with a keen interest, and the maturer mind will detect in the simple, light, fantastic wording a portrayal of the deepest passion to which the human heart is susceptible. Thus it is a story for all, and will be read by all with a zest and interest which will neither flag nor grow dim from the title to the finale. There are few characters, and the story is simply told, and while the reader is following with an unflagging interest the tragic events which present themselves so rapidly and vividly before the mind's eye, there lies hidden beneath the startling drama the germ of the story, the pitiful picture of the little Child Witness, Danny, whose life is sacrificed to the greed and cunning of a nature far below his own; but so lightly has the author touched upon this phase of the story, so daintily is it handled, that the heart of the reader goes out in a deep and mighty compassion to the helpless child, the victim of the brute negro Barney, and there is no feeling of revolt even to the most sensitive mind; and while, in some of the situations of the story, the reader is carried into the center of the slums, among the fallen and degraded, and while there are scenes and circumstances from which the delicate mind may shrink in horror, let the reader remember that it is wholesome at times that those in the higher walks of life should realize that such a condition of life actually exists and has grown too common even to command a passing notice from those who pass by on the other side. The story has, too, a touch of fine humor from which the mind may find a relaxation and relief from the almost oppressing tragedy with which every page is replete, and is an offset to that portion of the story which presents, like a living, moving panorama, the torturous suffering of the helpless child in the grasp of the negro. It is a story which will be read and re-read from Maine to California—a story which will linger in the memory and be eagerly devoured while one word remains—a story which will be laid aside, stored away, and turned to again with a fresh and reviving interest.
For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York.
NEW YORKERS OF THE XIX CENTURY
BY
MRS. JOHN KING VAN RENSSELAER
Cloth $10.00
This work is issued in a limited edition of two hundred copies only
and contains Charts of prominent families, who have lived in New York for the past one hundred years, and they will show at a glance, and in detail, all the members of each branch of the family. These Charts have been prepared by the aid of lists, papers, and other data, accessible to Mrs. Van Rensselaer only, and have been added to and corrected by members of the different families to whom they have been submitted, and the information thus gained has been verified by comparing it with marriage and death notices that have been published in the daily papers, of which this lady has kept a faithful record. The value and importance of these Charts will be recognized, not only by members of the families whose names appear in them, but by genealogists who require trustworthy information on these points, lawyers who search for legal evidences of marriage, and all who are interested in family ties and relationships. When the fact is recalled that the records in the churches of New York have been culpably neglected and irregularly kept, and that there was no law in this city requiring the registration of births, deaths, and marriages between the years 1777 and 1877, the importance of these Charts will be seen. The first issue will contain the following families, viz.: Bard, Barclay, Bronson, Buchanan, Delafield, Duer, Emmet, Fish, Glover, Hamilton, Hoffman, Jay, King, McVickar, Morton, Lynch, Ogden, Renwick, Rutherfurd, Schuyler, Stuyvesant, Suydam, and Van Rensselaer.
For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher,
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