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MYRTLE REED'S NOVELS
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_LAVENDER AND OLD LACE._
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romancefinds a modern parallel. The story centers round the coming of loveto the young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it is one of theprettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old fashioned love stories,* * * a rare book, exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicatefancy, of tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaneity.
_A SPINNER IN THE SUN._
Miss Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story inwhich poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a cleverand entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she alwaysdisplays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathoswhich give a touch of active realism to all her writings. In "A Spinnerin the Sun" she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady wholives in solitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen.There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over it theglamour of romance.
_THE MASTER'S VIOLIN._
A love story in a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old Germanvirtuoso is the reverent possessor of a genuine "Cremona." He consentsto take for his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an aptitudefor technique, but not the soul of an artist. The youth has led thehappy, careless life of a modern, well-to-do young American and hecannot, with his meagre past, express the love, the passion and thetragedies of life and all its happy phases as can the master who haslived life in all its fulness. But a girl comes into his life--abeautiful bit of human driftwood that his aunt had taken into herheart and home, and through his passionate love for her, he learns thelessons that life has to give--and his soul awakes.
Founded on a fact that all artists realize.
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