The fascination of girls from Dixie is proverbial. This, book pictures episodes in the early career of one of them, who studied at Plissestadt (Leipsic?) to become an operetta singer. While she had an unconscious faculty for inspiring devotion in others, notably two other young Americans in Plissestadt, she looked on life with an easy nonchalance, and felt no warmth in return. Mr. Olmsted knows his Leipsic, where he studied the piano, and most happily reproduces the humour and quaintness of that most musical of towns.
The Times Review further says: "It contrives to get the reader so strangely obsessed by the personality of a young woman that the sensation is measurably like that enjoyed by a man in love. . . . Sets out especially the humors of the local opera and theatre and the psychology ot the Hausfrau. For one, a delectable opera singer of uncertain age with cats and hopes matrimonial. . . . Admirable observations of an epigrammatic character, and many excellent sayings in particular about the Germans. . . . The grip of the book is the grip of Miss Bilton but it is entertaining even when she is off
Life says: "Barring the author's mannerisms, it is one of the really striking things of the spring fiction."
"A book th&t holds the reader absorbed . . . will stir the blood of any not deaf to the inspiration of brave deeds."—Book News.
By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON. $1.50
A story of filibusters of reckless humor and courage, who fought and most of whom died for a woman. The scenes are chiefly aboard a yacht in Guatemala, and the time to-day.
"These men are swept by the momentum of the game into a fever of enthusiasm, . . . it sweeps you along . . . unusually readable."—New York Times Review.
"This lively book may be described as a blend of Bret Hart and Mr. Richard Harding Davis, and the mixture is commendable."—Dial.
"A novel in which there is something doing all the time. . . . No ordinary fighting. . . . The author has succeeded admirably in showing, even in an exaggerated narrative, how men will 'wade through slaughter to a throne,' by force of woman's power."—Boston Herald.
"Lots of love-making; lots of fighting: lots of adventure. We commend 'Losers' Luck.' ... A book like this is often worth a dozen of the plodding, petty, realistic sort."—The Argonaut, San Francisco.
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