In the Schillingscourt

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: By Georges Ohnet, Author of "Dr. Rameau," "Antoinette," etc. No. 106 of Lippincott's Series of Select Novels. i6mo. Paper. 50 cents. Cloth. 75 cents. "Ohnet's characters are always strong, his portrayal of scenes vivid, and each work increases his fame."?Toledo Blade. " M. Ohnet is a lover of the good, the healthful, the aspiring elements of humanity ; his plots are clever, and hold the attention of the reader ; he understands contrasts and situations; and, while admitting as material some things not on the programme of English-writing novelists, always mindful of la jeune fille, M. Ohnet is distinctly moral and even ideal in his methods."?Boston Literary World. " Like all the author's works it is ingenious in plot, striking in incident, and with well-painted characters ; that of Wilhelmina is the stronges

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t in drawing. It is a story of intrigue on her part when she was a married woman, of happy life with her lover to whom she was married after her husband's death, and then of jealousy when she found he loved another. The ending is highly dramatic, in fact, like most of the writer's books, it leads itself easily to adaptation for the stage."?American Boohseller. "A Last Love" is quite as vigorous and absorbing as "Dr. Rameau," and deals with far nobler characters. The translation is very well done."?Washington Tribune. For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent by the Publishers, post-paid, on receipt of the price. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 715-717 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. . , . MILITARY NOVELS. . . . Laramie; Or, The Queen Of Bedlam. A Story Of The Sioux War Of 1876. ',By CAFT. CHARLES KINO, U.S.A. i2mo. Cloth, $1.00. "As descriptions of life at an army post and of the vicissitudes, trials, and heroisms of army life on the plains, in... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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