A Beautiful Alien

BOSTON 1901

CONTENTS

The New Literary Review

A Monthly News Journal of Belles Lettres.

Single copies 10 cents. By the year $1.00

The publishers wish to make no large promises, but they believe The New Literary Review will be found to be as interesting a literary news journal as any American periodical of the kind.

The department of notes and comment under the title of Various Appraisements the Editor will endeavor to make particularly inclusive and entertaining.

The Reviews of New Books while for the most part necessarily brief will be written with the object of giving a concise, impartial and careful summary of the books under discussion.

In addition to these Notes and Reviews there will be many contributions of Essays, Poetry, and Fiction.

The object of the Editor and Publishers is to present a programme which without undue pretensions, will prove to be both well proportioned and of considerable entertainment.

OUTDOORS

Wellesley Stories

BY GRACE LOUISE COOK

12mo. 340 pp. $1.50

The Stories

The Verdict

These Wellesley stories give a truthful picture of Wellesley student life that will appeal strongly to its alumnæ, greatly interest preparatory students, and should receive the hearty approval of its under-graduates; and also, as is sometimes not the case, they are worthy of a reading outside of college circles, for they meet the requirements of a good “short story” of whatever theme.

Wellesley traditions, customs, and spirit pervade the book, either described at some length or indicated by a masterly allusion. All kinds of girls are depicted, as all kinds of girls go to college—girls poor and rich, clever, dull, and commonplace, refined and unrefined, the unsubstantial and the dilettante, and those with genuine talent, and the life among them seems very real, for nothing is forced or strained in the stories. The trial scene in Professor Lamont is one of the cleverest bits of writing in any recent book of short stories, and it is a true picture of the way in which college girls embrace every opportunity for genuine fun. The last story in the book is one of the best college love stories ever written. The dialogue is spirited, the diction graceful, and a literary style is well sustained throughout.—The N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

[Ready

The Son of a Tory

A ROMANCE OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY BY

CLINTON SCOLLARD

Frontispiece. 12mo. 307 pp. Cloth. Ornamental. $1.50

The Son of a Tory is one Wilton Aubrey by name, who narrates his exciting experiences during the summer of 1777....

The first glimpse given of this Wilton Aubrey, also gives the news of the planned invasion by Barry St. Leger and his army from the north, with the hope by all his followers that every Whig should be forced to become a loyal subject to the king.... At heart Aubrey was a true Whig but a promise to his mother and his father’s impaired health made it stern duty, not to oppose his father, and to join a small Tory company, which made a daring escape from their home, the Flatts, to Oswego to join St. Leger. From this point one is introduced to countless important personages and in a skillful way the characteristics of each is portrayed. The hero’s flight to the Whigs is most entertaining reading, and then we meet with Aubrey many more men, who have made glorious history for Americans. Is it all war? By no means; Margaret is a girl we love with Wilton Aubrey, and revel in the descriptions of his perilous trips to see his beloved, for who can help liking bravery in love as well as in war. In the closing pages episode follows episode in rapid succession, and the reader is carried to the end all too soon.... It is a book, which if all the qualities that make a good book are taken into consideration, ought to prove more of a success than some recent novels which have gained a world-wide reputation.—Clinton Advertiser.

“His Indians are the real thing and his hero is true blue.”—N. Y. Journal.

[Second edition ready

A Beautiful Alien

A NOVEL BY

JULIA MAGRUDER

Frontispiece. 12mo. Cloth, ornamental. $1.25.

This delightful novel is gradually winning its way into popular favor as the most interesting and attractive piece of work Miss Magruder has ever done. It certainly merits all its success and commendation for never has she drawn a more lovable heroine or a more manly hero, and with characters like these no story could be otherwise than thoroughly charming. It is the story of a young and beautiful “Alien” cruelly mislead by an unworthy father and a scoundrel of an American, who finally succeeds in securing the love and happiness for which she so ardently longs and so well deserves. The plot is well thought out, the interest is wonderfully well sustained, and the charm of the story is irresistible.

[Third edition ready

There are several laughs on every page.—N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

Her Majesty the King

A ROMANCE OF THE HAREM BY

JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE

With 16 full page pictures, and an elaborate cover design in many colors. 12mo. $1.25.

As Mr. Roche modestly says in his Forewarning, “This volume, containing the surprising adventures of the good Kayenna and the marvellous wisdom of Shacabac, the wayfarer, needeth no apology. Its merits are as many as its words.”

And the reviewers have heartily agreed that “there are several laughs on every page.”

Published over two years ago, Her Majesty the King is more popular to-day than at any time since its publication. It is plainly not only a book to read but to recommend to your friends.

“The wittiest book of the year.”—Boston Journal.

[Fifth edition ready

Irish Mist and
Sunshine

A BOOK OF BALLADS BY

REV. JAMES B. DOLLARD

(Sliav-na-mon)

With an introduction by William O’Brien, M. P.

Small quarto. $1.50

This is a book of ringing Irish ballads that will stir the heart of every lover of true poetry. “Here and there a verse may be as frankly unadorned as the peasant cabins themselves in their homely cloaks of thatch, but every line rings true to life and home and with the tone, as heartmoving as the Angelus which holds Millet’s peasants in its spell,” from Mr. O’Brien’s introduction.

“Father Dollard’s ballads have all the fire and dash of Kipling’s, with a firmer poetic grasp,” says Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole.

[Ready in May

Four Days of God

By HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

With about 90 illustrations. Bound in white and gold and purple

Small 4 to $1.00

It is quite impossible to describe adequately the surpassing charm of this book. We can say simply that it will appeal to every lover of nature who sees in her manifold beauties the living glories of the work of God.

No one can write more beautiful or sparkling prose than Mrs. Spofford and never has she been so absolutely charming as in Four Days of God.

The book has about 90 illustrations by Miss A. C. Tomlinson which catch the spirit of the text to perfection and with the harmonious print and paper and binding make the book a little gem.

[Ready in September

When Half-Gods Go

A NOVEL BY

JULIA MAGRUDER

Frontispiece in photogravure. 12mo. 330 pp. $1.50

A new novel by Miss Magruder is always sure of its welcome and When Half-Gods Go will find for her even a wider audience than she has hitherto enjoyed. It is a fascinating story of social and musical life in New York, full of human interest and those happy touches Miss Magruder can do so well. The title is from Emerson’s lines “When half-gods go the gods arrive.” In addition to its charm as a story the publishers think this book will be presented in the handsomest dress ever bestowed upon a novel. The fascinating frontispiece is reproduced in photogravure, the book is printed throughout in two colors, the text being enclosed in remarkably well done decorations, and the cover design, in colors, is at once delicate and effective.

[Ready in September

THE ANVIL

The Wings of the Morning

KENTUCKY STORIES BY

ELEANOR TALBOT KINKEAD

12 mo. About 300 pp. $1.50.

This volume by a writer who has already achieved considerable distinction as a delineator of Kentucky life contains ten stories all of which are notable for their originality of conception and delicacy of treatment.

The stories are: The Wings of the Morning, The Sifting of John Witherspoon, The Piggins, Penelope’s Suitors, My Young Miss, A Pseudo Madonna, A Point of Honor, Mrs. Vail, The Pine Tree and the Palm, A Glooming Peace.

[Ready in October

The Lyric Library

A series of little books of verse in which it is the publishers’ aim to include the best work of the representative poets of America. The volumes are in size a small 16 mo., handsomely printed and bound in full flexible leather, stamped in gold. The price is $1.25 each.

POEMS OF THE TOWN by Ernest McGaffey.

“For terse English, for picturesque and appropriate imagery, for keen and faithful portraiture Mr. McGaffey has no superior. And there will be many to say that this book entitles him to recognition as the interpreter of his age.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

SONG SURF by Cale Young Rice.

“A volume of unusual proportion, artistic workmanship, lyric inspiration; an absence of so much as a trace of morbid feeling, a felicitous and poetic choice of subjects and intuitive good taste raise the writer at once above the ranks of the versifier.”—The Arrowhead.

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER by Madison Cawein.

[Ready in May

FOR THINKING HEARTS by John Vance Cheney.

[Ready in May

IN THE HARBOR OF HOPE by Mary E. Blake.

[Ready in June

Others in Preparation.

Alphabetical List of Books by Authors

Barry, John D.
    JULIA MARLOWE. A Biography. Illustrated.
      75 cents.      New Edition in preparation

Blake, Mary Elizabeth
    IN THE HARBOR OF HOPE.  See Lyric Library.

Brown, Charles Hovey
    MOSES. A Dramatic Poem. 16mo. Flexible leather.
      $1.25.

Campbell, Floy
    CAMP ARCADY. A Story for Girls. 16mo. Illustrated.
      Cloth. 75 cents.

Cawein, Madison
    ONE DAY AND ANOTHER. See Lyric Library.

Cheney, John Vance
    FOR THINKING HEARTS. See Lyric Library.

Cook, Grace Louise
    WELLESLEY STORIES. 12 mo.  330 pp.  $1.50.

Crane, Walter
    THE SIRENS THREE. Illustrated. 4to. Cloth. $1.25

Dollard, James B.
    IRISH MIST AND SUNSHINE. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.

Emerson, Edwin, Jr.
    PEPYS’S GHOST. Narrow 16mo. Boards. $1.25.

Gallaher, Grace M.
    VASSAR STORIES. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25
      [New edition in preparation

Guthrie, James
    AN ALBUM OF DRAWINGS. 4to. $2.50 net.

Housman, Laurence
    SPIKENARD. 4to. Decorative boards. $1.50.
    ILLUSTRATED DITTIES OF THE OLDEN TIME.
      4to. Decorative boards. 75 cents.

Irving, Henry
    THE THEATRE AND THE STATE.  An Address.
      Photogravure portrait. 12mo. Cloth. 75 cents.

King, Dorothy
    VERSES. 12mo. Vellum wrappers. $1.00 net.

Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot
    THE WINGS OF THE MORNING. Kentucky Stories.
      12mo. $1.50.

McGaffey, Ernest
    OUTDOORS. 8vo. 300 pp. $1.50.
    POEMS OF THE TOWN. See Lyric Library.

Magruder, Julia
    WHEN HALF-GODS GO. A Novel. $1.50.
    A BEAUTIFUL ALIEN. A Novel. $1.25.

McFall, Haldane
    THE HOUSE OF THE SORCERER. A Novel. 12mo.
      Cloth. $1.25.

Men des, Catulle
    THE FAIRY SPINNING WHEEL. Illustrated. 4to.
      Cloth. $1.50.

Miller, Marion Mills
    THE SICILIAN IDYLS OF THEOCRITUS.  16mo.
      Flexible leather. $1.25.

Nissen, Hartvig
    RATIONAL HOME GYMNASTICS. Illustrated. 16mo.
      Cloth. 50 cents.

Pollard, Percival
    CAPE OF STORMS. A Novel. Illustrated. $1.25.

Pyle, Howard
    THE PRICE OF BLOOD. An Extravaganza. Illustrated
      in colors. 4to. Decorative boards. $1.25.

Reed, Helen Leah
    MISS THEODORA. A West End Story. Illustrated
      16mo. Cloth. $1.00.

Reed, Verner Z
    ADOBELAND STORIES.  Stories of the Southwest.
      12mo. Cloth. $1.00.

Rice, Cale Young
    SONG-SURF. See Lyric Library. $1.25.

Risley, R. V.
    THE SLEDGE. A Novel. 12mo. $1.50.
    THE ANVIL. A Novel. $1.50.

Roche, James Jeffrey
    HER MAJESTY THE KING. A Romance of the Harem.
      Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25.
    THE VASE AND OTHER BRIC-A-BRAC. A Volume
      of Verse. 12mo. Cloth. $1.00.

Scollard, Clinton
    THE SON OF A TORY. An Historical Romance. $1.50.

Spofford, Harriet Prescott
    FOUR DAYS OF GOD. Illustrated. 4to. $1.00.
    OLD MADAME AND OTHER STORIES.  12 mo.
      Cloth. $1.25.

Thompson, Vance
    FRENCH PORTRAITS. Appreciations of the Writers of
      Young France. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth. $2.50.

Richard G Badger & Company (Incorporated) Publishers Boston

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

1. Minor changes have been made to correct typsetters' errors; otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author's words and intent.

2. A Table of Contents has been added to this text for the reader's convenience.