Prominent American Novelists

A SON AT THE FRONT

By EDITH WHARTON

This is unquestionably Mrs. Wharton's finest novel and as such has won highest praise from prominent critics. Even more than her other great books, this one establishes its author as one of the greatest of living novelists. A writer in the 'New York Times says: "She has done nothing which equals it. . . . At last there is a novel by an American artist which is subtle as it is perfect in its simplicity, and which can be read many times with an increasing feeling of reverence for the essential truths of life.”

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. $2.00

GRAVEN IMAGE

By MARGARET WIDDEMER Author of "The Boardwalk," etc. Margaret Widdemer's first serious, full length novel is the story of two modern girls, Anne and Kathleen Western, and their conflict with family pride and self-righteousness. It has a wide background and vivid characters, and contains the charm and sentimental appeal of her earlier works. "It is safe to predict a novel of power from her pen at no distant date," the Chicago Tribune wrote after the publication of "The Boardwalk." This is "the novel of power."

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY. $2.00

JEAN HUGUENOT By STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
This is the third novel of an author who has stepped rapidly
to the forefront of writers of creative fiction. It is an
unusual study of an unusual character-the kind of book to
fascinate everyone interested in human nature and human
experience and that includes most of us. Jean Huguenot,
impetuous, wilful, gloriously alive, is born for freedom and
for love. The story of her life, her triumphs and defeats
and the ultimate assertion of self are far from conventional,
but none the less magnificent. The Bookman: "Its dramatic
moments are powerful, its tragedy is fine, its humor is often
irresistible."
HENRY HOLT & COMPANY. $2.00

J. HARDIN & SON

By BRAND WHITLOCK

A story of American life that grips you because it is real as life is real. When you sell this novel, remember: that it is by a man numbered among our few great men, Brand Whitlock, who as Minister to Belgium wrote the famous book "Belgium"; that it is the life story of a Paul Hardin, from boyhood down to maturity today; that it is filled with sharply drawn characters and the scenes that go to make up a man's life in the average American small town; that its women characters are singularly interesting; that it truly shows the forces at strife in America today-the pagan and the Puritan spirits.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. $2.00

On Publishers' Fall Lists

SILK

By SAMUEL MERWIN

For his new romance, Mr. Merwin has taken a theme never
before used in American fiction, the picturesque and colorful
silk traffic between ancient China and the Roman Empire. His
hero, Jan Po, a young Chinese official, is sent on a secret
mission across the rim of the world to the opulent court of
Roxanna, the Virgin Queen of Balk. His strange adventures
in these unknown lands, and the thrilling intrigues in which
he is enmeshed, make a romance of absorbing interest. SILK
is a story that will appeal both to lovers of thrilling adventure
and to those who care for fine writing and a vivid reconstruc-
tion of past ages.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY $2.00

LUMMOX

By FANNIE HURST

The story of a woman, silent, unexpressed, who yet affects
vitally the course of every life with which she comes in con-
tact. Charles G. Norris, the well known author, writes: "Bertha,
the Lummox, is beautifully conceived, beautifully portrayed.
I know of no more human or convincing character in literature.
Nothing Miss Hurst has ever written approaches the heights,
beauty and pathos of the book. It is truly superb." John
Farrar, editor of the Bookman, says, "An extraordinary fine
achievement.”
HARPER & BROTHERS. $2.00

OLIVER OCTOBER BY GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON
There are few modern writers as widely popular as this famous
weaver of romance. From "Graustark" to "Viola Gwyn" his
many stirring novels have invariably been favorites. "Oliver
October" is vibrant with the adventure, mystery, and love that
McCutcheon can combine into so entertaining a story. As the
N. Y. Herald says, "It hardly needs to be said that it is the
work of a master story teller." Oliver is the kind of hero
everyone likes to read about. There is a girl-the right kind
of girl. There is action every minute, danger and weird
mystery. A great story.
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. $2.00

DEEP CHANNEL

By MARGARET PRESCOTT MONTAGUE

Miss Montague is author of the prize-winning story, "England to America." This is Miss Montague's first novel since 1912. It is not only an unusually fine story of present-day life but a keenly interesting analysis of the deep emotional natures of a sensitive man and woman. William Lyon Phelps says: "To write a novel with such a hero and such a heroine required originality and unusual literary skill. The author of 'Deep Channel' has both and has succeeded in producing one of the best novels of the year." Gamaliel Bradford says: "It has impressed me immensely. The close, tense narrative instinct with which the story moves, the remarkably fine and subtle analysis of the chief character, above all, the originality of the whole conception, have quite carried me away."

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS. $1.90

Jeremy
and Hamlet

HUGH WALPOLE

GLUEGE H DOBAN COM

England's Writers

JEREMY AND HAMLET

By HUGH WALPOLE

The adventures of the small boy of "Jeremy" and his fit companion-his dog Hamlet. It has a great deal of fun and an undercurrent of tenderness: all of Walpole's charm and moments of a touching dignity. Jeremy's encounter with the Black Bishop, his adventure with the Night Raiders, Hamlet's experiences and their joint exploits are all of the stuff of which literature is made. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY. $2.00

ANTHONY DARE

By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL

There is a large section of the reading public to whom a new novel by Mr. Marshall is one of the most welcome events of any book year. Novels like "The Squire's Daughter," "The Eldest Son," "The Honour of the Clintons," etc., have created a wide, demand for his clean, entertaining fiction. ."Anthony Dare" is the story of a young man's early career. Anthony is full of the zest for life. He makes mistakes, of course, but carves out successfully, a worthwhile career. Much of the novel is placed in London, but there are also scenes laid in the rural England Mr. Marshall loves so well and pictures with such simple beauty.

THE LENGTHENED SHADOW

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. $2.00

By WILLIAM J. LOCKE

Anyone who read and enjoyed "The Mountebank," "The Beloved Vagabond" or any other of Mr. Locke's whimsical and entertaining novels will want this new romance. For it is the same Locke introducing us to another lovable, sympathy-winning. character and telling his appealing story with simplicity and charm. Lovely Suzanne Chastel is put under the guardianship of two men-Peter Moordius, a brilliant man of the world, and Timothy Swayne, timid, self-effacing, but pure gold. When both men come to love her there is romance typical of the Locke so well loved by all fiction readers.

DORAN
BOOKS

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. $2.00

YOUNG FELIX

By FRANK SWINNERTON

A story of the intimate affairs of the Hunters, mother and. father, Godfrey and Felix. The sensitive boy Felix and the radiant mother stand out from the others. The author has known his characters always and declares that he enjoyed writing this novel as much as his first. A story of poignancy and surpassing gaiety in the face of the slow march of disastrous circumstance. We are reminded of the quiet loveliness of "Nocturne."

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY. $2.00

Popular in America

THE WOMAN OF KNOCKALOE

By SIR HALL CAINE

The distinguished author of "The Woman Thou Gavest Me," "The Christian" and other impressive novels of life has written what one prominent critic calls "his most powerful and dramatic story." It is the story of a great love frustrated at every turn by humanity's most acute problem today—a story which typifies in the deep experience of one man and one woman the consequences of what we are calling "peace" in the world. A new novel by Hall Caine, especially one with so vital and timely a theme, is a book destined for universal reading. DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. $1.75

THE GREAT MOMENT

By ELINOR GLYN

THE GREAT MOMENT will appeal at once to every reader
who desires above all things a story. For here is a love story—
clean, dramatic, full of movement. The temperament inherited
from her Russian Gypsy mother plunges Nadine Pelham into
a strange marriage and still stranger separation from the man
she loves until a romance, begun on an old English estate and
running its course through a Western mining community,
reaches a fitting climax in her dramatic rescue from a sec-
ond mistake even more dangerous and impulsive than the first.
Mrs. Glyn has never written a more strikingly vivid novel.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. $2.00

By BERTA RUCK

THE DANCING STAR
She was a little dancer who loved her art and saw alluring
success ahead. He scoffed at "this rot of careers for women.'
And they were passionately in love. Anyone who has read
"His Official Fiancée," "Sir or Madam," or others of Berta
Ruck's sparkling stories (and most people have) can imagine
the delightful originality with which she would tell a story like
this, For this is a romance of tangled emotions and seemingly
impossible difficulties that calls for all of the cleverness and the
understanding of human foibles that have made Berta Ruck
one of the most popular novelists of the day.

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. $2.00

THE EIGHTH WONDER AND OTHER STORIES
By A. S. M. HUTCHINSON

While Mr. Hutchinson, author of "If Winter Comes," is popu-
larly known as a novelist, some of his best work is to be found
in his short stories, eight of which are here collected for per-
manence in book form. They are widely varied in theme, but
each is marked with some one of the Hutchinson characteristics,
whether of humor, of vivid, intense drama, of spiritual struggle,
of character portraiture or of the clash of temperaments. These
stories are altogether different but promise excellent entertain-
ment and need no other introduction to a public already
acquainted with this author's work.
Cloth, $2.00
LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Leather, $2.50