From L. C. Page & Company’s Announcement List

of New Fiction

KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD

B L. M. MONTGOMERY, author of the “ delightful and irresist- ibie ANNE books,” “Anne of Green Gables ” and “ Anne of Avonlea."

Cloth decorative, with four full-page illustrations in color by

George Gibbs . . . . . . . . . $1.25

Miss Montgomery’s new book—a charming love story— has again for its setting the author’s favorite Prince Edward Island. Kilmeny Gordon, the heroine, is certain to prove as clear to the hearts of old and young readers alike as did her predecessor, Anne Shirley, “ the clearest and most moving and [delightful child since the immortal Alice,” according to Mark

warn.

The following quotation from one of the early chapters will be sufficient to give a clue to the story.

“ Under the big branching white lilac tree was an old, sagging wooden bench; and on this bench a girl was sitting playing an old brown violin. Her eyes were on the faraway horizon and she did not see Eric. For a few moments he stood there and looked at her. . . . To his latest day Eric Marshall will be able to recall vividly that scene as he saw it then — the velvet dark- ness of the s ruce woods, the overarching sky of soft brilliance, the swaying filac blossoms — and amid it all the girl on the old bench with the violin under her chin. . . . Her loveliness was SO perfect that his breath almost went from him in his first delight of it. Her face was oval, marked in every cameo-like line and feature with that ex ression of absolute flawless purity found in the angels and Ma onnas of old paintings —— a purity that held in it no faintest stain of earthliness. . . . There was something very child-like about her and yet at least eighteen sweet years must have gone to the making of her.”