TWO CHARMING STORIES.
The Little King of Angel’s Landing.
By ELMORE ELLIOTT PEAKE. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.25.
This is a story of a plucky little cripple of indomitable energy and perseverance. How, boy-like, he forms an ideal love for his school teacher and wins a great voting contest for her; how he patiently saves his pennies to get himself “fixed”; how his faithful dog is killed and the shock it brings to the frail little soul; how he struggles onward, upward, and at last comes into his birthright—all these are incidents of a story the kindly humor and infinite pathos of which are deeply appealing.
“There are tears and smiles in every chapter of ‘The Little King of Angel’s Landing.’”—Denver Post.
“There is a mighty human interest—a something that takes hold of your heart and sometimes hurts it a bit, but which presently makes you correspondingly glad—in ‘The Little King of Angel’s Landing.’”—Cincinnati Times-Star.
The House of Hawley.
By ELMORE ELLIOTT PEAKE. Ornamental Cloth, $1.50.
“‘The House of Hawley,’ by Elmore Elliott Peake, is one of the ‘homiest’ stories we have met in a long while.... Instead of calling so often for the great American novel, perhaps we should give more attention to the many good American novels, of which ‘The House of Hawley’ is one, containing faithful and interesting portrayal of life in some one of the many and diversified sections of the country.”—New York Globe.
“There is not a dull page in the whole book. It is well worth reading.”—St. Louis Star.
“‘The House of Hawley’ is a fresh, readable story by Elmore Elliott Peake, the theme of which is laid in the ‘Egypt’ of southern Illinois. The title fits better than usual, and the characters depicted are real people. There is not a single stick of dead timber among the various men and women.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
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