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The fascination of girls from Dixie is proverbial. This, book pictures episodes in the early career of one of them, who studied at Plissestadt (Leipsic?) to become an operetta singer. While she had an unconscious faculty for inspiring devotion in others, notably two other young Americans in Plissestadt, she looked on life with an easy nonchalance, and felt no warmth in return. Mr. Olmsted knows his Leipsic, where he studied the piano, and most happily reproduces the humour and quaintness of that most musical of towns.

"A book th&t holds the reader absorbed . . . will stir the blood of any not deaf to the inspiration of brave deeds."—Book News.

A story of filibusters of reckless humor and courage, who fought and most of whom died for a woman. The scenes are chiefly aboard a yacht in Guatemala, and the time to-day.