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Which Was The Real Woman?
?N this beautiful body there were two girls?no, three,
four?or more. The discontented village girl, the
runaway, the vaudeville actress, the adopted daugh?
ter of wealth, the society butterfly, the stenographer, the
shipbuilder?which was the real girl?
She didn't know herself?the man who loved her
didn't know.
Once more Rupert Hughes has struck the bell. Once
more he has written (and the famous House of Harper
and Brothers has published) a great American novel that
will be read with wonder and excitement from the At?
lantic to the Pacific.
But this new one is the biggest of them all?the most
powerful?the most intensely American in spirit. For
woven through the humor, the tragedy, the romance, the
tears, the laughter, there is the frank facing of big
problems that are with all thinkjng people today?prob?
lems left us by the war: What is to be the future of the
women who left their homes to help save the country?
What is to be done to reconcile discontented labor and
bewildered capital in the reconstruction of the world?
How is the American merchant marine to redeem its lost
glories on the sea? What is to be the end of the War
after the War?
THE NEW NOVEL
ughes
The Unpardonable Sin The Thirteenth Commandment Clipped Wings What Will People Say? Empty Pockets
Long Ever Ago The Last Rose of Summer V'e Can't Have Everything In a Little Town
These books are published by Harper and Brothers and are to be had at any bookseller
Author of
America Is His Religion
Major Hughes 13 a man who dares paint America as it is. Here is a
?ne. who loves the litt!? boy on the Bowery wtih bis slang, the "movie"
q teen the society butterfly, the poor) air! benevolent people of wealth, the
fr?f. cleaner the shop-girl?because they are American He does justice
r.ot only to the poor, but to the rich?to the brilliant woman?to the
truly American man or vornan bent on making money. He makes his
people talk and act like real people. In Rupert Huglies' stories a taxicab
driver talks like a taxicab driver, and a bartender talks like a bartender,
a capitalist like a capitalist, a woman of fashion like a woman of fashion.
Major Hughes reads the newspapers. His stories keep up with the
times ?they are about the times. When you read a Rupert Hughes' story
you can be sure it is going to be about something you are interested in.
The Highest Paid Writer in the World
Both as a novelist an?i as a writer of short stories Mr. Hughes is
probabl? th? highest paid writer in the world. He never repeatj himself,
: , poii ' of view except that he aims always to b? faithful.
sympatl and vivid The late F, A. Duneka called Mr. Huches the
great L ? vriter of short stories. Many others have said the same
? I)i ? of 1 novel
And ? ?aching effect of them! "The Old Nest" was a simple
storr of a r '?? eft at home by h?r children who loved her, but forgot
to ?-.?' '.? mad .-; world-wide impression, Mother-, and sons wrote
Mr Hughes f om everywhere expressing their gratitude for the story.
Mothe ? that they had received large checks of money and letters
full of love pinned to the storv. Sons wrote that they were taking the
?first trains for home ; one tha? he was crossing two oceans and a conti
e?t:* to visit his mother. Yet for all the tenderness, it was not mawkish.
H I. MENCKEN wrote of this story : "It is by long odds the most
artistic thing that has come to me thi3 year."
When he was a young man Rupert Hughes thought he wanted to be ?
eo'iesfe professor. At Yale he won his degree as Master of Arts. He haa
live ?n many of the rrr-i-.t capitals of the world. He studied the classics.
His brilliant understanding saw m them one thing many others had not
?,;en They were great not because they were apart from life, but be?
cause the> were true to life?the life especially of their own times and
towns. They pictured the quarrels, the gossip, the slang of their neigh?
bors.
Wh-n Rupert Hughes saw this he was not content to watch life from
th? side-1 :.? through tit" academic eyes of a profeBSor. He plunged
into life himself- -and he is there toiiay. Wherever life is busiest and
mo" int< ting there you will find Rupert Hughes. He isn't ashamed to
w-ite <.?? life :.-. :? 1 and through his stories shine all the fascinating
colors tha? dar.'-e on the bubbl? He said once:
?'? ? I strive to de pi e no thing human, I come nearest to hating
the sneerers at our own time, the sophomoric satirists of the American
present an'l thi petty misrepresenters of ancient or medieval realities.
"1 ?? yea ' work as assistant editor of a history of th? world
taught me the essential unity of human nature from prehistoric days to
this evening's papei Incessant arid affectionate study of tho classics
keeps me warm in the belief that true classicism is shown in an intense
interest and pride il one's own town and country and generation. I eon
? d< scorn to be a pre of of ignorance, and 1 pity the poor critic* wi?
pit: Amer :an art.
"I Btrive to ! eep ?r, touch with the great spiritual storms, th?
scientific and political progr?s?, the big news, the little gossip, th?
heroism:, of th? petty thi pettiness of the heroes, the tears, the ulnng,
the flippai thi fashion the tragedy, the glitter, the pitifulness of as
much of my day as my eager little brain and heart can manage.
"I Hate to Sleep"
"I ha'e to (?'" to sleep because I miss some of my brief voyage."
England Pays Him Homage
' 1 Impossible to think of a book more flavored with race and
eountry than this." says CLEMENT K. SHORTER, in THE LONDON
SKETCH, of '"I he Thirteenth Commandment." "It. is American
to 'he bone and to the marrow of the bone ... no Henry James.
Arn.-.- p . : lorence Renaissance but America as it i.-i I feel I have,
learnt mon- from this sprightly story than 1 did from my visit to
America."
THE LONDON TIMES finds the same work "very American in feel?
ing an'l ?tyl? " and cali? his "What Will 1'eople Say"" "an absorbing
and original book " THE DUBLIN TIMES calls it "brilliant." THE
LONDON CHRONICLE speaks of "the author's vivid descriptions and In?
tel - 1'??>? dc ' ' ? there is power in the book, and ?s a social
<? ?:. it has a painful fascination." THF. WESTMINSTER GAZETTE
find" it "a solid engrossing ?tory of an American t.vpe The author holo>
us by his vigor . . . WE READ AX CLOSELY AS WE CAN ANTf
BREATHE "
The Last Book Theodore Roosevelt
Publicly Praised
He wrote: "'The Unpardonable Sin' is a very, verr strong book. It
teaches just the :? ?son our people should learn. I am mighty glad Cap?
tain Hughes wrote it, and I hope it will be roost widely read."
The Grand Rapids Prese says of th? same book : "It u as VIVTD
AS THOUGH WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF' BLOOD."
THE INDEPENDENT says: "All the horrors of w??- are piled Into
tmr girl? experience ?ntj described with almost unendurablo intensity.~
"THE UNPARDONABLE SIN" Is Now^
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE says: "RARE
THING AMONG NOVELISTS ?HUGHES AP
PEALS TO MEN AS STRONGLY AS TO WOMEN."
H. B, SELL in THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, says of "The Thir?
teenth Commandment" : "An American nove! written by an American
for Americans, mirroring American frailty ."rid American strength with
such \ ord ai tuations as Americans fan and will understand, is a
rarity. To find such .1 one is occasion for rejoicing;."
GORDON' KAY YOUNG in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES described
"What Will People Say?" a.; "A hook that looms like an obelisk out of
the field of books touching on the affairs and ambitions of America'?
social jot. With fine skill and an infusion of fatalistic irony so pro?
nounced in Russian literature and so rare in our own, the story move?
en to a terrible climax."
THE CHICAGO HERALD said: "It sears the soul U the core. It U
immeasurably modern."
THE CHICAGO TRIIH'NF. calls it "one of the most intense and
vivid hits of social history ever done into enduring print."
FREDERICK TARER COOPER wrote in THE BOOKMAN. "Persia
Cabo' is ai unforgettable figure in contemporary fiction. Phi is the in?
carnation of "1 ? social orchid 01" today, brilliant, vivid scintillating, in
finitelv desirable, yet infinitely remote There i=> one seen- that stands
out v th grim and haul ting power, the (?inner scene.''
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL finds "Clipped Wings" "extraordinary
both in analysis of character and in technic That scene in which the.
broker, down hack of a comedian, who had not aroused a hearty laugh
in his audience f<jr years, plays the part for the last time with the crip
of death at h i s vitals, and arouses a storm of mirth is simply over?
whelming This 1? one of the high points of modern American fiction."
BRANDER MATTHEWS wrote of "Clipped Wings." that it wai
"well planned, well written, rich in observation and reflection and un?
derstanding, and peopled with characters at once vital and significant.
Such stories attain to the ultimate purpose of fiction?they
enlarge our knowledge of human nature."
In THF. BOSTON TRANSCRIPT Edwin Francis Edgett says of hU
work.: "Everything is gri3t that comes to his literary mill. He never
thinks of turning away an idea that strikes his fancy, of rejecting an
incident, of refusing to use a word or a phrase that, enters his head and
overwhelm.- him with its pertinence. In plot, in dialogue, in incident
and mo,.t of all in Mr. Hughes' extraordinary English it is a novel that
is unvariably unconventional."
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE says: "He is as contemporary as a
newspaper new from the press ; and he conducts his story with an incom?
parable nonchalance."
THE riTII.AHEI.PHlA LEDGER says his work is "philosophically
valid and stylistically superb."
THE PHILADELPHIA PRE?? savs: "Hughes is unquestionably th*
foremost portrayer of metropolitan life: he is intent primarily upon
?iewing truth unclistorted by prejudice or tradition."
A prominent American novelist wrote: "If Rupert Hughe? digs
much deeper into human character he will come out on the other side."
Short Stories That Will Live Forever
THE BOSTON ADVERTISER says of "Long Ever Ago": "They nr?
stories, you will say at once, that will live forever and deserve to.
You will laugh till you crj or cry till you laugh, over a!! of them. For
Rupert Hughes is perhaps the most versatile of our writers."
Mr. Hughes could attack even the Christmas tradition. "Mies
SIR" was an exposure of the cruelties and follies of the Christmas spirit
gone awry It made a sensation that caused large reforms. It waa
given as a play with a hundred people in the cast.
The Washington Life and. Health ?aid: "IT IS FOR THE SHOP
GIRL WHAT 'BLACK BEAUTY" WAS FOR THE HORSE. AND
WHAT 'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN' WAS FOR THF: SLAVE."
PROFESSOR WILLIAM IVON PHELPS writes of "Long Ever
Ago" : "The art displayed here is worthy of the real masters of the
? hort story. They ar.> an addition to the literature of our time."
EDWARD J. O'BRIEN praises their "rare literary art, marvelousljr
documented which il will lie difficult for Americans to forget.
The series form-- as a whole the most faithful portrait yet drawn of the
Amer ica n i zed I r ishman. "
JAMES HUNEKER wrote or another story: "It is told in para?t
Americanese. O. Henry is insipid compared with this talo."
America Acclaims Him
"Rupert Hughe;- knows." says Mrs. Peattie ii THE CHICAGO TRIB
CNE. "He is what may be termed a very sensitive writ ? He can con?
vert himself into a perfect medium and transmit colors lilce n
in a howl of aha'on<- He is wittj tragic, g.'.y morose : ' rope,
pessimistic, sardonic, tende-, complex, snr.pie. cynical trustii i and al?
ways human?neighborly, inquisitive, a splendid go -.: : that
news about a neighbor is the most interesting thing tt.?.- side of im?
mortality."
THE NEW REPUBLIC ?ays: "The work places him head and
?houlders above the ranks, in the select Fchool of sincere American
novelists."
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY says: "The sturdy quality of the
human nature offered for inspection is such as wo a-e ;:lad to think
American. Mr. Hughes has a mastery over his material, a :;rip ot) the
essentials of life, and a vigorous, clear-cut way of expressing himself.
J. B. KERFOOT says of him in LIFE: "Life is .-till a nU
to him as royalties. The real interest and it i* very real
fact that it deals with phases of contemporar - with which the
author has been in close personal and professions .:? : that
pages fairly bubble with evidence?'coi ver ati< ? tvidences r *
*K a bad description?of his alert reactions to this ei
H W. BOYNTON says in THE NEW YORK PO
"We feel that these are a!, real people a
we have cosed the doors of tneir dwelling plac?
THE NEW YORK TIMES says thai ? hort stories "are of the very
essence of the spirit of American life richly and t ' ?' ' ? ? ;?"'- ' ' of
the basic things in national character written ???? th a tenderly i ? ?:; a
understanding of the souls of the people."
THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT s.?-. = - "t'p-to--h--m;nute fiction is one
of the manifestations of present day America, and no one I as more
surely grasped the manner of this fiction than has Mr H tghes H !
?tories are intensely modern and intensely American m
MR. GORDON RAY YOUNG, ir. THE LOS ANGELE! TIMES, says:
"At least for the hour, the great American nove '"i? appeared
written with a felicity of style, an artistry " met .; r :.:. 1 r-:rr?:ie. a
keenness of thought and an accuracy of charact* I tion that may
well keep it as one of the great American novels. ? te ? it the
sheer interest of what a paragraph on a page c ?tains, M !? ighes has
a facility nothing short of fascinatinc."
Which Was the Real Woman?
Life had cnurrht her up an! hurle i I id or.';. "?'
real girl the one who played for vulg! r anp'.ai ! iv iry
little theatre? Was the laughing, .
and luxury the real sbon Or was h< tin workei tl ? hard
woman of brawn and musc'.o who cast .. :? i .' r
the life of the commonest laborer'.'
There was one man who saw her as all three, lie ?
knew?she never knew herself?which was the life
meant to live. You won't know, until you come. ? ? .
cause the book unfolds, naturally and mysteriou" y, , . !
itself unfolds.
Follow her through the swirling tides in whose path fortune
swept her?through poverty, when for ;. as to
spend the rest of her life as a cheap
through amazing years in London wher . surround
and fashion, she wondered whether life was to be all part
dances and the homage of fascinating ;: ?
ing days m Washington where her wits were pitte against aomi
of the most gigantic problems of war?through da\ and ni)
of toil amid deafening sounds of pounding rivel
struggle of a woman battling to save herself from : ; :. i :. >. f
a man?through a thrilling mystery.
The hero is one of the real men of the time, a man's man.
who has built himself up from poverty to wealth: who. bavins:
been a laborer and knowing the laborer's rights and ?Tongs, fintis
himself an employer and sees the necessity of building things,
of borrowing money for payrolls, facing strikes, dishonesty,
sabotage. He confronts the greatest of all wars, th'.' "war ait,?
the war," with an unshrinking courage. He faces death and
bankruptcy and tights for his ideals. He is a business man in
love and a lover in business, the most American of American men.
This breath-taking book is the work of a great :
torian of the living present. Major H.ighos is like Balzac, "the
secretary of society," the dramist and interpreter > :' to-day's hap?
penings?those terrific events which are so bit; and world-shaking
that mere newspaper accounts give us no grasp of t: ??::-,.
You will wonder how he came to know so much about you.
You will recognize your friends, your neighbors, your relati
your enemies. You will know them better than you ever ?.new
them before. No matter who you are or what you are, you will
be touched, fascinated, startled, thrilled by this powerful story,
"The Cup of Fury."
$1.75. Beautifully illustrated
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