The PARTICULAR Reader

needs now more than ever the help of the Selecting Publisher. Our
Autumn books have been selected with extraordinary care. We
have fewer new books but they are better. Two novels are
specially recommended: - The Star in the Window, by
Olive Higgins Prouty (author of “Bobbie, General Manager” and
"The Fifth Wheel"), is a charming romance of an American girl,
a New England girl brought up in the school of submission, self-
denial, self-suppression until she nearly becomes a meek pawn of
the will of others. But she breaks away, achieves a life of her
own, makes a most unusual marriage, which leads to even more
interesting consequences, and finds the new complications more
puzzling than the old problems. The interest grows steadily,
rising to a climax in the very last chapter. This novel has never
appeared in whole or in part in any periodical, so that you may
pass it on to your friends with the safe assurance that it is really
"new." ¶ For readers of every variation in taste this novel is
commended-The Ghost Garden, by Amélie Rives (Princess
Troubetzkoy), is a super ghost story with super thrills—a won-
derful story of two lovers and a haunted garden in beautiful old
Virginia. If you care at all for ghost stories you'll care very much
for this. Those who know Harold Bindloss' novels of the Great
Northwest will especially want The Lure of the North,
just published.

Not to forget the younger folk, there's a sunshine story
for girls, Girl's-Nest, by Stella G. S. Perry, author of
"The Kind Adventure," and a remarkable volume for
boys and girls who like history-In the Days of the Guild,
by L. Lamprey, which, in telling of the little apprentices
who worked for the master craftsmen of long ago, teaches
much about the beginnings of our industries and decora-
tive arts. Both volumes are unusually beautiful, with
really good colored illustrations. If you're thinking of
gift-making for birthdays, or are planning ahead for
Christmas, you'll find them just the thing. ¶ At all book
shops. Send for full descriptive circular, gratis.

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