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"Sheer sparkle and unflagging humor."

-San Francisco
Chronicle.

"Swiftly-moving, colorful, attention-holding."-Baltimore News.

A rare little book to read aloud.

For every one who enjoys a good novel of genuine human nature.

Have you read the best book of the year?

E. F. BENSON'S

DODO'S DAUGHTER

Of which Hildegarde Hawthorne says:

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'Dodo's Daughter' is a kind of glorified nonsense, but it has the juice of life in it, and it has the power of making you feel entirely content as you read."

Price $1.35 net, postage 10 cents

JAMES OPPENHEIM'S

IDLE WIVES

Here is the story of how one New York woman, who chafed under the emptiness of a life of too much ease, dynamited the situation.

Price $1.30 net, postage 10 cents

RICHARD WIGHTMAN'S

THE THINGS HE

WROTE TO HER

Those whose ideals of love face the future instead of the past will find in these letters a very tender, beautiful and spiritual expression of the human longing for a mate who shall be also friend, companion, and inspirer.

Price 60 cents net, postage 5 cents

HELEN R. MARTIN'S

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BARNABETTA

Helen R. Martin knows well and relishfully her Pennsylvania Dutch, and she gets them into a book with some of the same smack and savor and quiet humor as the old painters of Holland get the burghers and housewives upon their canvases."-Hearst's Magazine.

And

Price $1.30 net, postage 10 cents

T. TEMBAROM

"The most delightful of all Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's successes. In it the art of story-telling seems to have come again to life.”—Boston Transcript.

Price $1.40 net, postage 10 cents

See them at your bookseller's, or, if remote from a bookstore, send direct to the publishers: THE CENTURY CO.

Union Square

New York

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HENRY OF
NAVARRE, OHIO

A Harvard Romance by Holworthy Hall

The masculine prototype of "When Patty Went to College.'

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Henry stands out from the pages like an island completely surrounded by girls."-Kansas City Star.

Hildegarde Hawthorne says of it: "I have had every
kind of a laugh out of the small volume, big hearty ha-
ha's, rich low chuckles, joyous giggles, as well as those
snorts of surprised amusement which come upon one
unawares while watching the untrammeled enthusiasms
of youth at its youthiest."

Your bookseller has it. $1.00 net, postage 5 cents.

Published by

THE CENTURY CO.

Union Square

New York

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An Endowed School-FRANK DAMROSCH, Director Session Opens Oct. 12. Examinations for Admission Sept. 28 to Oct. 8. The Institute gives preference to those applicants whose natural ability and earnest purpose give promise of musical excellence.

Endowed and conducted without thought of profit, the Institute commanda the services of artist-teachers whose private terms would be prohibitive to most students. Tuition fees are moderate and uniform. Besides providing a thorough and comprehensive musical education to students in all branches, it is equipped to give the highest advantages to the most exceptional talents, removing the necessity of going abroad. Correspondence invited from those desiring the best. Eligible students admitted as vacancies occur. Address

The Secretary, 120 Claremont Avenue, New York

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1814

MPA

New York (Continued)

Mount Pleasant Academy

Founded 1814. A hundred years of service is a guarantee of merit.
Your son will enjoy here an ideal school home and will be prepared for college, technical school
or business, as you choose. He will also grow in manliness and self-reliance. We have Manual
Training and a rationalized military system, while this Hudson River country is superbly beau-
tiful and inspiring. Mount Pleasant Hall is for boys under thirteen. We also maintain a Sum-
mer Camp in the Berkshires under Mr. Brusie's personal charge. Send for literature to
CHARLES FREDERICK BRUSIE
Box 501, Ossining-on-Hudson, N. Y.

1914

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