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A CAPTAIN OF RALEIGH'S

By G. E. Theodore Roberts, author of " A Cavalier of Vir- ginia," " Comrades of the Trails," " Red Feathers/' etc. Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, decorative jacket

Net $1.25 (carriage, 13c. extra) A typical Roberts romance — dashing and brisk with the scenes for the most part laid in the infant colony of Newfound- land, at the time when Sir Walter Raleigh and other famous captains swept the seas for England. Sir Walter is one of the characters in the romance but the chief interest centres about one of his officers, Captain John Percy.

Elizabeth Duwaney, the heroine, is beautiful and vivacious enough to quite turn the heads of the several gallant gentlemen who struggle for her hand, and to keep the reader guessing until the very last page as to which suitor will find favor in her eyes. Unusual and unexpected situations in the plot are handled skil- fully and you close the book agreeing with our editor that " Mr. Roberts has given us another capital yarn! "

" Mr. Roberts has undoubted skill in portraying character and carrying events along to a satisfactory conclusion." — The Smart Set.

" One can always predict of a book by Mr. Roberts that it will be interesting. One can go further and predict that the book will be fascinating, exciting and thrilling." — Boston Globe.

A SOLDIER OF VALLEY FORGE

By Robert Neilson Stephens, author of " An Enemy to the King," " Philip Wmwood," etc., and G. E. Theodore Roberts, author of " Hemming, the Adventurer," " Red Feathers," etc.

12mo, cloth decorative, illustrated .... $1.50 The many admirers of the brilliant historical romances of the late Robert Neilson Stephens will be gratified at the announce- ment of a posthumous work by that gifted writer. The rough draft of the story was laid aside for other work, and later, with- out completing the novel, the plot was utilized for a play. With the play completed Mr. Stephens again turned his attention to the novel, but death prevented its completion. Mr. Roberts has handled his difficult task of completing the work with care and skill.

The story, like that of " The Continental Dragoon," takes as its theme an incident in the Revolution, and, as in the earlier novel, the scene is the " debatable ground " north of New York. In interest of plot and originality of development it is as re- markable as the earlier work, but it is more mature, more force- ful, more real.