New Novels and Romance Highlight the Reading Season
The Philadelphia North American reviews several new titles including The Princess Debra by John Reed Scott with four color illustrations. The Blue Lagoon by H De Vere Stacpoole is praised as a unique romance. Edith MacVane’s Duchess of Dreams features social ambition amid adventure and passion in a Newport setting. Grace Livingston Hill Lutz’s Marcia Schuyler portrays simple life in 1830s New York with humor and tragedy, plus six color illustrations. John T. McIntyre’s In the Dead of Night offers a brisk mystery, with a colored frontispiece and three illustrations.
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The
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Duchess of Dreams
Edith Macvane
Newport
Alonzo Kimball
Marcia Schuyler
Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
New York State
Anna Whelan Betts
Philadelphia North American
Summer reading picks mix romance and travel in new novels
A parade of reviews covers Shorty Ford inspired tales, villa life clashes, a Boston set caper, and a Canadian survival drama. Titles include Side Stepping with Shorty, Villa Rubbin, June Jeopardy, The Ancient Law, Gleam Do Dawn, A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt, Idlehurst, The Voice of the City, The Spanish Jade, and Big Game at Sea. Noted authors like Sewell Ford, John Galsworthy, Ellen Glasgow, Arthur Goodrich, Maurice Hewlett, and Charles Frederick Holder are highlighted with brief opinions.
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Charles Frederick Holder
The
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Henry James
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