Peter the Priest Part 20

NEW YORK R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

THE MAN WHO WAS GOOD

BY LEONARD MERRICK

AUTHOR OF "A Daughter of the Philistines," "One Man's Views."

"A second success.... An exceptionally able novel."--_Literary Review_.

"Remarkable for its splendid delineation of character, its workmans.h.i.+p and natural arrangement of plot."--_Chicago Daily News_.

"Has distinction of style and character, dramatic force and literary effectiveness."--_Phila. Press_.

"An intensely dramatic story, and written with force and precision."--_New York Times_.

"Mr. Merrick's work is of a very high quality. Is the most masterly of his three books."--_Chicago Tribune_.

"The delicacy of the character sketching has a brilliancy and fascination strangely magnetic."--_Minneapolis Tribune_.

"Is a forceful, dramatic and altogether human story of English life."--_Boston Times_.

"Strong story."--_Chicago Record_.

"It is useless to say that so strong, so fierce a book must be written well."--_Chicago Times-Herald_.

NEW YORK R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

DEFIANT HEARTS

BY W. HEIMBURG

AUTHOR OF "My Heart's Darling," "Her Only Brother," "Tales of an Old Castle," Etc., Etc.

"The story is true to life in some of its manifold phases and will repay reading."--_Minneapolis Tribune_.

"It is written in the usual entertaining style of this well known author."--_Boston Courier_.

"Very good reading."--_New Orleans Picayune_.

"The action is vigorous and the story interesting."--_Public Opinion_.

"Capital story by an established favorite."--_Philadelphia American_.

"Is a charming German story by the author of "Heart's Darling," "Good Luck," "Her Only Brother," etc."--_Southern Star_.

"It possesses the positive virtue of being pure and wholesome in sentiment."--_Detroit Free Press_.

"It comprises all the many qualities of romance that recommend all Heimburg's other stories."--_New Haven Journal_.

"It is simple, but dignified and free from any of those smirches that suggest the presence of vice and impurity."--_N. Y. Home Journal_.

"When The World Was Younger"

By M. E. BRADDON

"Miss Braddon skilfully uses as a background the great plague and fire in London, which gives realism to her picture."--_Rochester Herald_.

"The characters are clearly drawn and strongly contrasted. The manners of the times, the intrigues of the court, the landmarks of London, are unerringly painted."--_Boston Times_.

"The first attempt Miss M. B. Braddon has made in the line of the historical novel."--_Literary World_.

"She has chosen the period of the Restoration of Charles the Second for her romance, and has given us an excellent description of the state of society in London and at the Court during the reign of that dissolute monarch."--_Home Queen_.

"It is needless to say that the story is well told."--_San Francisco Chronicle_.

"One of the strongest and most enjoyable of her stories."--_Philadelphia Inquirer_.

"It abounds in mystifying plot, lovable characters, rapid and thrilling incident and delightful descriptions of English scenery."--_Boston Globe_.

"A tale worth reading."--_San Francisco Call_.

"Full of incident, chapter after chapter, br.i.m.m.i.n.g with vital meanings."--_Boston Courier_.

"Beautiful, innocent and brave was Angela, the heroine."--_Philadelphia Bulletin_.

"It is a Braddon story in the famous old Braddon vein."--_St. Louis Mirror_.

"This one reviewing the days of Cromwell and the Charles is no shallow piece of work."--_Philadelphia American_.

"Miss Braddon has caught the atmosphere cleverly and manufactured a stirring novel which bears evidence of careful thought and planning."--_Chicago Record_.

"The scene is laid in England in the early days of the Restoration.

Charles II., Nell Gwyune, Pepys, and Milton are among the characters."--_Buffalo Express_.