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in archaic dialect written by a young girl whose ideas of romance are confined to costume and titles, but a tale of today, American as corn on the cob, brimming with youth and adventure and telling a love story as enchanting as a Spring day. The personages of the story are delightful company, and the scenery-well, it keeps you out in the open air for you are jumped right into an automobile on its way across the continent from Minneapolis to Seattle, and prairie, mountain, river, and the winding road, not to say the at times extremely muddy road, are spread before your eyes. Mr. Lewis can give the feel of reality to his descriptions, which are not so much descriptions as impressionsthe sort of impressions that would come to yo were you at the wheel of your own car, faring forth across the miles day after day in whatever weather.

It is a book of this sort that heartens one as to the future, one might as well come out flat and say the present, of American literature. It is so good a book and yet so distinctly American. A book by Wells or Locke is English, as well as human. Lewis's book is human, but it is an American story in every page. The

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A melodious medley of Italian-American and Irish-American dialect poems, with a large infusion of poems in straight English, containing the best verse written during the last seven years by this James Whitcomb Riley of the American City.

$1.50 net

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Ellen Glasgow

among the established novel-
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and should be, have corrupted
her.'

"The Builders," her first novel in more than three years, is Miss Glasgow's comment on the changed events of American life.

With an artist's scrutiny, she has probed its depths, and has seen America knitting together -into a unity of ideals.

In the powerful drawing of the builder and in the poignant realization of his tragedy, Miss Glasgow's achievement is great.

But greater still is the truthful portrait of the woman, his wife, who clothing her little spirit in the appearances of virtue, deceives the coarse vision of the world. .

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THE BUILDERS

By the author of "Virginia" and
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THE TEST OF SCARLET

A ROMANCE OF REALITY

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