"A clever, fascinating love story."--_Detroit News._
"Bright, exciting, and decidedly up-to-date. The characters are sharply drawn and well contrasted, and the background of social opulence well colored. It is decidedly worth reading. Sure to be a best seller."--_Springfield Republican._
"A rattling good story. Wholesome, sweet-spirited, well planned, absorbing."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
"Admirably constructed. Interesting episodes succeed each other and the frothy and clever dialogue of the fashionable butterflies of the New York smart set is wittily flippant and amusing. It is a capital novel. The real depths of human feeling are treated with fine emotional power."--_Philadelphia Public Ledger._
"The most distinguished society novel for a long time and one of the most dramatic."--_Hartford Courant._
"As up-to-date as the steam yacht. More than ordinarily pleasing."--_Brooklyn Eagle._
By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS, author of "The Danger Mark," "The Fighting Chance," etc. Illustrated with over 50 Drawings by America's foremost illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Cloth, $1.40 net.
In this new novel the author treats his readers to a splendid story of society and studio life in New York city. It is a novel that holds attention from the first, having all the interest and fascination of a Chambers society story, with the added charm of the gay artists' life in a great city with its frank camaraderie, witty small talk and undisguised disregard of convention.
It is a great love story, concerning itself with Valerie West, a gently bred girl, who from a cloistered life with an invalid mother comes to the studio of Louis Neville, an artist of aristocratic and snobbish ancestry. She seeks employment as a model, and her beauty readily wins an audience, while her physical perfections suit the work that Neville has in hand, so that she is eagerly engaged.
The story follows this association through a rapid progress from intellectual companionship, pure friendship and then fervid love. Love triumphant over tradition is the concluding note of the story.
"Mr. Chambers has written charmingly as usual. He has a most fascinating manner of putting abstractions and theorizings into seemingly pulsating actuality, and his delineation of human emotions is so boldly and palpably real he is able to illustrate it with the most fantastic and wonderful circumstances."--_Des Moines Register-Leader._