The Red Year and Other Louis Tracy Railings
A vintage review roundup covers Louis Tracy novels The Red Year and The Captain of the Kan gas along with The Silver Blade by Charles E. Walk and Weiga of Temagami by Cy War man. It notes Tracy’s bold adventure themes set during the Indian Mutiny and highlights Walk’s detective Tale with Con verse while praising War man for ethnographic storytelling.
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Louis Tracy
New York
Edward J. Clode
Lucknow
Mars
Kangas
Charles EB. Walk
Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co
Sherlock Holmes
Converse
The Breaking In of a Yacht's Wife Novel Review
Mary Heaton Vorse’s first long fiction follows a woman married to a nautical husband through adventures from Long Island Sound to the Mediterranean. The plot blends two love stories with breezy repartee as seacraft, venues, and vivid maritime tangents give a salty, entertaining summer read.
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Mary Heaton Vorse
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Mediterranean
Provincetown
Venice
The Chaperon by Williamson brothers a lively travel tale
The Chaperon sails into a motorboat journey through Holland with two young English girls and a lively cast. The Willamsons aim for romance, wit, and brisk plotting while enchanting readers with entertaining incidents abroad.
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Chaperon
C. N
A. M. Willamson
New York
the McClure Company
Williamsons
Holland
Alana
Rotterdam
Misadventure Aboard Dutch Canal Quest Inspires Chaperon Tale
A young American named Starr hires a boat and a chaperon posing as his aunt Lady McNairne of Scotland. They travel with a Dutchman Van Brederode, pursued by the aunt’s husband after seeing gossip of the tour. An exciting Dutch canal chase ends happily for all, especially the chaperon.
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Starr
Lady McNairne
Scotland
van Brederode
Holland
The Half Smart Set by Anonymous
A New York novel about a wealthy social circle who cruise, tour, dance, and flirt. A young man from a Puritan family falls for a beautiful, free-spirited heroine who drives her own car and is not fully serious. Their romance ends in separation as family pressures mount.
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Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
New York
Harper & Brothers
New England
Reison
Rose Fletcher
Henry
Sylvia Whitman
Horace Allen
Whitmans
Lucy Ayres
Alen
Rose
Lucy
Allen
Mrs. Whitman
M. P. Willcocks
John Lane Company
Devonshire
Thyrza Braund
Ghana
Tolstel
Helen M. Winslow
Boston
L. C. Page & Co
Peggy
Jack
Mexico
Nevin Otto Winter
Winter
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Mindy
Armand Both
The Four Pools Mystery in Shenandoah Valley
Mystery tale set in the Shenandoah valley on a famed stock farm called Four Pools. An anonymous Century Company publication follows tragedy and intrigue as owners and guests interact at the estate during a vacation period.
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Four Pools
The
Century Company
the Shenandoah
Theg
New York Lawrer
Sacs
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Dr. Ellen
Weiga
Temagami
Cy Warman
H. M. Caldwell & Co
Express Messenger
White Mail
Middle North
Temegami
Torio
Marshall P. Wilder
Fank .& Wagnabe Company
Taft
Roosevelt
Wilder
Jesse Lynch Williams
the Century. Company
van Bibber
Nick
Duchess
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Williams
Newspaper World
Wallace Morgan
Frederic P. Ladd
Gordon Grant
Mitchell Kennerley
Henry James
Rge Eliot
Tennyson
Matthew Arnold
Wait Whitman
Swinburne
Browning
Kipling
Japan
Oliver Lodg
Powe Acto
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Arthur Brisbane
the Ball Publishing Company
Atlantic Ave
Michael L. Rookinson
Send For
Prospectus Tee New Talmud Fublishing Co
Colonial Tidg
Mass
George Rhoade
J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Bese Street
Boteworthy
Bliss Carman
Oward L Crode
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