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 A Romance of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

Author of “The Sorceress of Rome,” “The Court of Lucifer,” “The Crimson Gondola,” “Under the Witches’ Moon,” etc.

Illustrated in color by the Kinneys

Cloth, decorative, 8vo, $2.00

A Romance of Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic, in the fourteenth century, of which the central figure is a noble Venetian, the Prince of Lepanto, Zuan Castello, known as the Leopard Prince from his coat of arms, a dramatic and dashing hero who combats the conspiracy headed by Lucio Strozzi to betray Venice to the Ban of Bosnia and Louis of Hungary. The “eternal triangle” is complete with the two heroines, Fulvia the young wife of the Leopard Prince and the Princess Yaga—the confidante and secret emissary of the Ban of Bosnia.

It is interesting to note that Mr. Gallizier has chosen scenes for the story which played a prominent part in the World War and which have presented to the treatymakers at Versailles, the same difficulties between the races on the Adriatic which Mr. GaUizier’s hero prince encountered 600 years ago.

“This new book adds greater weight to the claim that Mr. Gallizier is the greatest writer of historical novels in America today.”—Cincinnati Times Star.

“The author displays many of the talents that made Sir Walter Scott famous.”—The Index.