Lazarre Part 74

A FINE STORY OF THE COWBOY AT HIS BEST

WITH HOOPS _of_ STEEL

By FLORENCE FINCH KELLY

"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel"

_From the San Francisco Chronicle:_

"Western men and women will read it because it paints faithfully the life which they know so well, and because it gives us three big, manly fellows, fine types of the cowboy at his best. Eastern readers will be attracted by its splendid realism."

_From Julian Hawthorne:_

"For my own part, I finished it all in one day, and dreamt it over again that night. And I am an old hand, heaven knows"

_From the Denver Times:_

"Mrs. Kelly's character stands out from the background of the New Mexican plains, desert and mountain with all the distinctness of a Remington sketch."

With six ill.u.s.trations, in color, by Dan Smith

A NOVEL OF EARLY NEW YORK

PATROON VAN VOLKENBERG

By HENRY THEW STEPHENSON

_From the New York Press:_

"Many will compare 'Patroon Van Volkenberg,' with its dash, style and virility, with 'Richard Carvel,' and in that respect they will be right, as one would compare the strong, st.u.r.dy and spreading elm with a slender sapling."

The action of this stirring story begins when New York was a little city of less than 5,000 inhabitants.

The Governor has forbidden the port to the free traders or pirate ships, which sailed boldly under their own flag; while the Patroon and his merchant colleagues not only traded openly with the buccaneers, but owned and managed such illicit craft. The story of the clash of these conflicting interests and the resulting exciting happenings is absorbing.

The atmosphere of the tale is fresh in fiction, the plot is stirring and well knit, and the author is possessed of the ability to write forceful, fragrant English.

_From the Brooklyn Standard-Union:_

"The tale is one of vibrant quality. It can not be read at a leisurely pace. It bears the reader through piratical seas and buccaneering adventures, through storm and stress of many sorts, but it lands him safely, and leads him to peace."

A STORY OF THE MORGAN RAID, DURING THE WAR _of the_ REBELLION

THE LEGIONARIES

By HENRY SCOTT CLARK

_The Memphis Commercial-appeal says:_

"The backbone of the story is Morgan's great raid--one of the most romantic and reckless pieces of adventure ever attempted in the history of the world. Mr. Clark's description of the Ride of the Three Thousand is a piece of literature that deserves to live; and is as fine in its way as the chariot race from 'Ben Hur.'"

_The Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune says:_

"'The Legionaries' is pervaded with what seems to be the true spirit of artistic impartiality. The author is simply a narrator. He stands aside, regarding with equal eye all the issues involved and the scales dip not in his hands. To sum up, the first romance of the new day on the Ohio is an eminently readable one--a good yarn well spun."

_The Rochester Herald says:_

"The appearance of a new novel in the West marks an epoch in fiction relating to the war between the sections for the preservation of the Union. 'The Legionaries' is a remarkable book, and we can scarcely credit the a.s.surance that it is the work of a new writer."

THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN CRUCIFIXION

THE PENITENTES

By LOUIS HOW

_The Chicago Record says:_

"To describe the customs of this band of intensely religious people, to retain all the color and picturesqueness of the original scene without excess, was the difficult task which Mr. How has done well."

_The Brooklyn Eagle says:_

"The author has been fortunate enough to unearth a colossal American tragedy."

_The Chicago Tribune says:_