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THE CONQUEST

By EVA EMERY DYE

BEING THE TRUE STORT OF LEWIS AND CLARK

SIXTH EDITION

12mo. Gilt top. 504 pages. $1.50

NO book published in recent years has more of tremendous import between its covers, and certainly no recent novel has in it more of the elements of a permanent success. An historical romance which tells with accuracy and inspiring style of the bravery of the pioneers in winning the western continent should have a lasting place in the esteem of every American.

Stirring deeds, stirringly recorded. New York Sun.

Mrs. Dye has covered the field. New York Times Saturday Review.

Every American should read it to understand the beginnings of his country. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

Mrs. Dye achieves what we conceive to be the true aim of the historical novelist the catching and fixing the reflex from individual lives of the greater happenings that belong to history proper. The Churchman, New York.

Brilliant to the point of inspiration. It is written with a rush and vigor which reproduces the breathless race of the Anglo-Saxon over the land. The Interior, Chicago.

The author's style is strong and graphic, the grasp of her subject so firm that it inspires confidence and, despite its wealth of historic lore, has not one dull page. Detroit News.

Mrs. Dye has produced a book of extraordinary strength and power, setting forth in splendid style one of the greatest episodes of American history. Los Angeles Express.

None of the popular historical novels of the last two or three years can compare with this in value, or will be apt to keep pace with it in popularity. San Francisco Bulletin.

There is in this book the best picture in fiction of George Rogers Clark and of his brother William. Never before has been packed between covers such a wealth of enterprising material. Louisville Courier-Journal.

The style is brilliant, dramatic, and enthusing. The reader is carried on from one exciting episode to another, and a series of vivid pictures is rapidly presented, keeping the interest alive from the first page to the last. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Ought to popularize the wonderful story of the subduing of the American wilderness. . . . Destined to be one of the popular books of the New Year. Chicago RecordHerald.

The virility of the book is fairly amazing. It does not seem at all like a woman's work, and indeed, would be worthy of the pen of any of the foremost American writers. Troy Daily Times.