Saturday, May 19, 2018

Seibert of the Island by Gordon Young

Seibert of the Island - South Seas Adventure Novel.


Seibert of the Island - A tale of adventure on a tropical South Sea island. Written by Gordon Young, a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco. Literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. A story with a pirate, two half native girls, a gentleman vagabond and a German planter. The German marries one of the girls, loved by neither, both girls loved the vagabond.

South Seas novel, set on the island of Pulotu, and featuring Adolph Seibert, a German plantation owner.

Young dedicated the book to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault, who born in London, and started his career there.

Gordon Young (1886–1948), an American writer of adventure and western stories. He born in Ray County, Missouri. Gordon worked as a cowboy and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Philippines. He moved to Los Angeles and taking a job at the Los Angeles Times in 1914. Eventually Young became Literary Editor of the newspaper.

Gordon Young began writing fiction for the magazine Adventure in 1917. His first stories for Adventure were a series of crime thrillers about a gun-wielding gambler, Don Everhard. Soon he became one of the most popular of Arthur Sullivant Hoffman's roster of authors for Adventure. He followed the Everhard stories with a series of South Seas tales about Hurricane Williams, an adventurer.

Several of Gordon Young's stories were adapted for the cinema, including the 1936 film Captain Calamity.

He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, February 10, 1948.

Foursquare by Grace S. Richmond (Illustrated)

Foursquare - An absolutely beautiful story worthy of discovery by a new generation of readers.


Foursquare - A Charming loves story, but a powerful study too, of a beautiful talented girl at the turning point of her career.

This such a delightful lovely story. Written in 1922 by Grace S. Richmond a very prolific writer of her time. This the story of Mary Fletcher, an aspiring young author. She comes to live with her aunt in a small college town where she would come in the summer when she a small child. Professor Mark Fenn and his sister Harriet Fenn live next in the same house. They were raised in and played with Mary when they were all children.

With Juliet In England by Grace S. Richmond

With Juliet In England - Charming Early Romance Novel.


With Juliet In England tells of Juliet Marcy Robeson visits England and Chaperon to Diantha Brown a vivacious young lady from the States!

A charming story in which Juliet Marcy Robeson, one of Mrs. Richmond’s most lovable diameters, reappears. Juliet, visiting England for a while, chaperon to Diantha Browne, a vivacious young lady from the Western States. The love adventures in England of Diantha and her friend Agnes Gilbert art? amusingly interwoven with the account of their visits to Torquay.

A wonderful Snapshot of life in the 1930's from a time when Romance Novels for Women were new and daring!

Grace S. Richmond a well known romance novelist in the 1930's, her books included, 'The Indifference of Juliet', 'Midsummers Day', 'Cherry Square', 'Bachelors Bounty' and many more.

Grace Louise Smith Richmond (1866–1959), American romance novelist created the Dr. R.P. Burns series.

Her first short stories were published in various women's magazines including the Women's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal, and Everybody's Magazine as early as 1898. Richmond wrote 27 novels between 1905 and 1936. Red Pepper Burns was published in 1910. Like most of her strong-willed yet compassionate characters, R.P. Burns is a kind, old-souled country doctor who makes house calls. His fiery red hair and temper to match earned him his nickname Red Pepper, though he is still a charming and endearing gentleman. Mrs. Red Pepper (1913), Red Pepper's Patients (1917), and Red of the Redfields (1924) followed.

The Duchess of Powysland by Grant Allen

The Duchess of Powysland - Adventure novel listed in Hubin as a marginal mystery.


The Duchess of Powysland Excerpt:
Basil Maclaine said nothing to Douglas Harrison next day about his interview with Cecil. Why should he, indeed? Douglas was already 'more down than enough on him.' Like a prudent young man, he preferred his fellow-lodger should learn of it, if he learnt of it at all, from the lips of the Figginses. He didn't want to have Harrison pitching into him, he thought to himself, about that girl Linda. His moral censor would cut up nasty enough about it when he came to hear of it, anyhow, without any necessity for Basil to anticipate matters and take the bull by the horns prematurely of his own accord. Never volunteer for the lion's den. It was no fault of Basil's, after all, if these Figgins people had taken it into their joint heads that he meant to fling away his chances in the world by marrying so absurdly beneath him. And in any case, right or wrong, what was Douglas to him or he to Douglas? He wasn't bound to answer for his conduct in life to the man he lodged with.

Clancy, Detective by H. Bedford-Jones

Clancy, Detective - one of the most interesting detectives since Sherlock Holmes.


Clancy, Detective originally published in "Blue Book" magazine. The title character one of the most interesting detectives since Sherlock Holmes. The story sure to please everyone who likes Sherlockian detectives with extraordinary deductive abilities.

The first of a captivating series detailing the exploits of Peter J. Clancy, the dentist-detective of Paris - the most interesting detective since Sherlock Holmes!

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.

Excerpt:
Half a second more, and the truck would have backed the little old man out of existence. It was one of those traffic jams for which Paris is famous, at the corner of the narrow Rue Caumartin. Caught between two lines of taxicabs, oblivious of the truck coming at him from behind, with everybody vociferously shouting at everybody else, the old chap stood bewildered and hesitant, or so I thought.

Consequently, I made a grab for him, rushed him under the nose of a taxi, and literally carried him to the sidewalk. There, to my surprise, he turned on me savagely with a flood of French.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

The Five Hundred Dollar Check by Horatio Alger

The Five Hundred Dollar Check - Jacob Marlowe's Secret


The Five Hundred Dollar Check written in the typical Alger style. Herbert - a poor boy who sets out. He the help of his great uncle, to clear his father's name of a crime he did not commit.

Horatio Alger, Jr. wrote more than a hundred books on the same theme: that honesty, cheerfulness, virtue, thrift. The hard work would rewarded with success. His plots and dialogue sometimes lacked creativity. He can be credited with helping to create an uniquely American philosophy of Strive and Succeed. Titles such as Sink or Swim, Shifting for Himself, and The Five Hundred Dollar Check convinced generations that they could triumph over their circumstances and become an Alger Hero.

Imagine an old uncle of yours named Jacob Marlowe shows up on your doorstep in old tatty clothes wanting to stay with you for a few days. How would you receive him? You will required to read this great story. You find out how Jacob Marlowes' releatives reacted to just this situation.

The Five Hundred Dollar Check by Horatio Alger

The Five Hundred Dollar Check - Jacob Marlowe's Secret


The Five Hundred Dollar Check written in the typical Alger style. Herbert - a poor boy who sets out. He the help of his great uncle, to clear his father's name of a crime he did not commit.

Horatio Alger, Jr. wrote more than a hundred books on the same theme: that honesty, cheerfulness, virtue, thrift. The hard work would rewarded with success. His plots and dialogue sometimes lacked creativity. He can be credited with helping to create an uniquely American philosophy of Strive and Succeed. Titles such as Sink or Swim, Shifting for Himself, and The Five Hundred Dollar Check convinced generations that they could triumph over their circumstances and become an Alger Hero.

Imagine an old uncle of yours named Jacob Marlowe shows up on your doorstep in old tatty clothes wanting to stay with you for a few days. How would you receive him? You will required to read this great story. You find out how Jacob Marlowes' releatives reacted to just this situation.