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  THAT PRINTER OF UDELL'S

  "Altogether an estimable story."--_New York Sun_.

  "Done to the life."--_Chicago Tribune_.

  "Well written and decidedly interesting."--_New York Times_.

  "A thoroughly good novel."--_Boston Globe_.

  "Wrings tears and laughter."--_Record-Herald, Chicago_.

  "Absorbing, thoughtful novel."--_Kansas City Journal_.

  "Full of movement and passion."--_Standard, Chicago_.

  "It is human to the very core."--_Nashville American_.

  "Excellent character creation."--_St. Louis Republic_.

  "Wholesome and strengthening."--_Albany Press_.

  "Rich in humor and good sense."--_Philadelphia Telegraph_.

  "Full of thrilling interest and moral heroism."--_Pittsburg Dispatch_.

  "Many well drawn characters."--_Washington Post_.

  "Has not a peer in English fiction."--_Providence Telegram_.

  "It is strong and wholesome."--_Chicago Post_.

  "Not a chapter that is not interesting."--_St. Paul News_.

  "Is a fascinating story."--_Portland Telegram_.

  "It should be read to be understood."--_Grand Rapids Herald_.

  "The reader's interest is stirred to its very depths."--_OmahaWorld-Herald._

  "Many strong situations and some delicate ones."--_San FranciscoChronicle_.

  "The Ralph Connor of Kansas."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.

  "Most clever, stirring and original."--_Birmingham News._

  "A tale of exalted ideals."--_Denver Times_.

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  THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS

  "There are many bits of excellent description in the course of thestory, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grimeas one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves."--_New York Times._

  "Amidst all the ordinary literature of the day, it is as a pure, whitestone set up along a dreary road of unending monotony."--_BuffaloCourier_.

  "It is filled with laughs and tears, this beautiful story, and no onecan help laughing or crying in turn, if his heart is right."--_PuebloChieftain_.

  "It is a heart-stirring story. A tale to bring laughter and tears; astory to be read and read again."--_Grand Rapids Herald_.

  "The people who move within it are so human that the reader of theirstory will pick them out for like and dislike, as if he had really knownthem in the flesh, rather than in the pages of a book."--_ChicagoJournal_.

  "One of the best novels written in the English language for over adecade. * * * Good luck to the man who can put upon paper so fine anovel of American life."--_Pittsburg Press_.

  "One of the really good books of the year. * * * A powerful andanalytical study of character."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer_.

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  THE CALLING OF DAN MATTHEWS

  "Mr. Wright has written other novels, but this one is so strong andwholesome, so attractive as literature, so interesting as a story, soartistic in preparation, that it wins increasing favor as one gets intoit."--_Buffalo Evening News_.

  "Mr. Wright has the gift of knowing people well and of being able to setout their characteristics so clearly that his reader also knows themwell."--_Chicago Journal_.

  "It is a privilege to meet the people whom the author allows you toknow. They are worth while; and to cry and feel with them, get into thefresh, sweet atmosphere with which the writer surrounds them--and aboveall, to understand Dan Matthews and to go with him in hisunfoldment--these will repay you."--_Portland Spectator_.

  "Harold Bell Wright has done a fine big piece of work. * * * One mightquote at length from the old doctor's homely philosophy. The book cannot be read without the keenest enjoyment and at the end of the storyone feels that the people are old friends, real flesh and bloodcharacters, so human are they all."--_San Francisco Call_.

  "A skillfully mapped battle-field of human souls, relieved, it is true,by humor, but, for the most part, pathetic and, at times, brooded overby the mystery of spirit-strength, life's close, never-endingtragedy."--_Chicago Examiner_.

  "Mr. Wright's books are wholesome in the best sense. They express afaith which lies in practical deeds. This latest of them shouldmaterially extend the author's favor in a field which he has made hisown."--_New York World_.

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  THE UNCROWNED KING

  "The Crown is not the kingdom, nor is one King because he wears aCrown." _--From "The Uncrowned King"_.

  "It embodies the aspiration, civic and moral, of the present day."--_NewYork Tribune_.

  "Beautiful both in language and in sentiment."--_Chicago News._

  "It represents dreams of artistic magnificence."--_Buffalo EveningNews_.

  "The secret of his power is the same God-given secret that inspiredShakespeare and upheld Dickens."--_Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch_.

  "It is the greatest story since Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress.'"--_GrandRapids Herald_.

  "It is a classic in nature and spirit and rendering."--_OmahaWorld-Herald._

  "The language throughout is exquisite--such as one might expect of HenryVan Dyke."--_Richmond Journal_.

  "It is an insight into the temple of truth to be found in every man'slife if he looks for it."--_Wilmington News._

  "It is beautiful in its wording, almost poetry."--_Birmingham Ledger._

  "Harold Bell Wright has given to the world a literary gem that willlive."--_Oregon Journal_.

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  THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH

  "It is a novel with 'body,' with a large and timely idea back of it,with sound principles under it, and with a good crescendo of dramaticthrills."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.

  "To the reader the characters will appear as real as friends theyknow--all of their aims, and likes, and hatreds being portrayed as trueto life as snapshots caught by moving-picture cameras."--_Boston Globe_.

  "The characters take the reader with them wherever they go, and they arecharacters that seem to have temporarily stepped from real life into thepages of the book."--_Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph_.

  "The romance of the novel is told in a very charming love story whichhas 'Barbara Worth' for its inspiration. With her winning the author hasdeftly interwoven an epic of national reclamation work and present-daygood business."--_Richmond Times-Dispatch_.

  "With a vividness that assumes reality Mr. Wright shows how capital maybe used to gain its end and at the same time save the community andstill be 'good business'."--_Omaha Bee_.

  "'The Calling of Dan Matthews' was a fine tale; 'The Shepherd of theHills' was an inspiration. And now he sends us 'The Winning of BarbaraWorth'--the best thing he has done so far * * * a twentieth centuryepic."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer_.

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  THEIR YESTERDAYS

  "It is a book embodying high ideals for men and women, and one that willstimulate young men and women toward pure and noble love."--_BaltimoreSun_.

  "'Their Yesterdays,' by Harold Bell Wright, is a really great book. Youfeel better, you feel refreshed, and you feel a desire to drop to yourknees and thank Almighty God for such a book and for permitting you toread it."--_Memphis News Scimitar_.

  "This is the gentle story of the love of a man and a woman in which thevigor of 'That Printer of Udell's,' the kindliness of 'The Shepherd ofthe Hills,' the power of 'Dan Matthews' and the grace of 'Barbara Worth'are all woven into a strain more delicate and more beautiful than thisgreat writer has ever before penned. Through this medium has Mr. Wrighttold more plainly than before the inmost secrets and joys of his bigheart."--_Boston Globe_.

  "Some one has called Harold Bell Wright 'the apostle of the wholesome'in fiction, and his latest volume, 'Their Yesterdays,' certainly bearsout his claim to the title. Also it shows the man's remarkable genius.We may liken the per
usal of the book to listening to some magnificentorgan played soft and low by a master hand. And, as one never wearies ofgazing upon great paintings nor of listening to the uplifting strains offine music so one reads this volume with deep appreciation and pays thetribute of regret when it is ended."--_Nashville Tennessean_.

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  THE EYES OF THE WORLD

  "Tense situations, clear-cut, strong characters, the struggle of rightover advancement, and cleanliness against wealth are all pictured in'The Eyes of the World' with all the vigor for which the author hasbecome known."--_Spokane Chronicle_.

  "Harold Bell Wright has always stood for clean, pure, wholesome fiction,and helped the cause by that quality in his books, but in 'The Eyes ofthe World' he has made the most profound appeal of all, and who canforetell the far-reaching influence of such a book!"--_Raleigh Times_.

  "When the author produced 'The Winning of Barbara Worth,' the readingpublic believed he had written his masterpiece of fiction but thisliterary genius, the wizard of American novelists, has surprised theliterators in 'The Eyes of the World.' * * * the most intense anddramatic novel of today."--_Grand Rapids Herald_.

  "The Eyes of the World' is an unusual novel. It is that rare event, apure love story. It deals sledgehammer blows at animalism andsensualism, and is as a strong white light on a rock illumining the darkvalley below."--_Portland Oregonian_.

  "It is a protest of a prophet against modern society and a strong storyof the triumph of high ideals."--_Baptist Standard_.

  "Harold Bell Wright has told his story in a way to honor purity andloveliness and to depict in their real colors theiropposites."--_Worcester Gazette_.

  "The description is poetic and rich in literary merit, while the storyis full of action and purpose."--_Sacramento Bee_.

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  WHEN A MAN'S A MAN

  Illustrations and Decorations by the Author

  When a Man's a Man is a fine, big, wholesome novel of simple sweetnessand virile strength. While the pages are crowded with the thrillingincidents that belong to the adventurous life of the unfenced landdepicted--Northern Arizona--one feels, always, beneath the surface ofthe stirring scenes the great, primitive and enduring life forces thatthe men and women of this story portray. In the Dean, Philip Acton,Patches, Little Billy, Curly Elson, Kitty Reid and Helen Manning theauthor has created real living, breathing men and women, and we are madeto feel and understand that there come to everyone those times when inspite of all, above all and at any cost, a man _must_ be a man.

  NOTE: Harold Bell Wright's books appear in these advertising pages intheir order of publication