BARLASCH OF THE GUARD

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The story is set in those desperate days when the ebbing tide of Napoleon’s fortunes swept Europe with desolation. Barlasch—“Papa Barlasch of the Guard, Italy, Egypt, the Danube”—a veteran in the Little Corporal’s service—is the dominant figure of the story. Quartered on a distinguished family in the historic town of Dantzig, he gives his life to the romance of Desirée, the daughter of the family, and Louis d’ Arragon, whose cousin she has married and parted with at the church door. Louis’s search with Barlasch for the missing Charles gives an unforgettable picture of the terrible retreat from Russia; and as a companion picture there is the heroic defence of Dantzig by Rapp and his little army of sick and starving. At the last Barlasch, learning of the death of Charles, plans and executes the escape of Desirée from the beleaguered town to join Louis.

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By Henry Harland

Author of “The Cardinal’s Snuff Box.”

MY FRIEND PROSPERO

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Everything that has ever delighted you in Mr. Harland’s work is to be found at its best in My Friend Prospero. Mr. Harland introduces us again to the lovers’ Italy of blue skies and marvelous landscapes. The story takes place in a magnificent Austrian castle in northern Italy, and the hero, whose real name is John, is an Englishman—such a witty, charming Englishman as only Mr. Harland can create. The heroine is the beautiful Maria Dolores, an Austrian Princess, who is quite John’s match in joyous fancy and quaintness of wit. The dialogue is contagious in its dainty humor, and the book ripples with laughter from beginning to end.

Radiant in literary style…​. The book must be read in order to appreciate the author’s delicacy in recording the prayer and wit of love in conversation…​. In this novel we have the lovers’ Italy.—New York Evening Post.

As continuously and unflaggingly witty as anything that has appeared in a long time.—Philadelphia Record.

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By David Graham Phillips

Author of “Golden Fleece.”

THE MASTER ROGUE

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A study in the tyranny of wealth. James Galloway founds his fortune on a fraud. He ruins the man who has befriended him and steals away his business. Vast railroad operations next claim his attention. He becomes a bird of prey in the financial world. One by one he forsakes his principles; he becomes a hypocrite, posing, even to himself. With the degeneration of his moral character come domestic troubles. His wife grows to despise him. One of his sons becomes a spendthrift; the other a forger. His daughter, Helen, alone retains any affection for him. His attempts to force his family into the most exclusive circles subject him and them to mortifying rebuffs, for all his millions cannot overcome the ill-repute of his name. At last, with his hundred millions won, his house the finest in America, his name a name to conjure with in the financial world, he realizes that the goal he has reached was not worth the race. Still he clings to his old ways, and dies in a fit of anger, haggling over his daughter’s dowry.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

End of 's The Shame of the Cities, by Lincoln Steffens