Lucy Furman
  Hindman settlement school,
  October, 1914.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Mothering on Perilous

Decorated cloth, illustrated, 12mo. $1.50 net:  postage extra,

This book tells in lively fashion of the experiences of a young woman who, to escape from grief and loneliness, goes to work in a settlement school in the heart of the Kentucky mountains.

There she instantaneously “acquires a family” of a dozen small boys and henceforth finds her life “crammed with human interest.”  The ludicrously funny and sometimes pathetic doings of the little, untamed feudists, moonshiners, and hero worshippers, form the subject-matter of the tale.

The story centers about one of the boys who has an “active war” in his family and whose martial adventures with those of his grown-up brother give a strong appeal to the narrative and furnish an exciting climax.

“Good luck to this admirably written narrative, a model of direct and simple humor and very sincere human understanding.”—­The Bellman.

“Certainly no romance of the Kentucky mountains ever told more that was amusing, or picturesque, or tragic than her chronicle does.”—­N.  Y. Post.

“Her style is graceful and clear, and her fascinating narrative cannot fail to widen the horizon of her readers in more ways than one.”—­N.  Y. Times.

“A charming story and it is well told.”—­Christian Advocate.

“A story full of humor and pathos.”—­Chicago Evening Post.

“The book forms a valuable link between an interesting and isolated people and the reading public.”—­San Francisco Chronicle.

NEW MACMILLAN FICTION

Saturday’s Child

By Kathleen Norris, Author of “Mother,” “The Treasure,” etc.  With frontispiece in colors by F. Graham Cootes.  Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net.

  “Friday’s child is loving and giving,
  Saturday’s child must work for her living.”

The title of Mrs. Norris’ new novel at once indicates its theme.  It is the life story of a girl who has her own way to make in the world.  The various experiences through which she passes, the various viewpoints which she holds until she comes finally to realize that service for others is the only thins that counts, are told with that same intimate knowledge of character, that healthy optimism and the belief in the ultimate goodness of mankind that have distinguished all of this author’s writing.  The book is intensely alive with human emotions.  The reader is bound to sympathize with Mrs. Norris’ people because they seem like real people and because they are actuated by motives which one is able to understand. Saturday’s Child is Mrs. Norris’ longest work.  Into it has gone the very best of her creative talent.  It is a volume which the many admirers of Mother will gladly accept.