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The Garden of Paradise
By EDWARD SHELDON
Author of "Romance," "The Nigger," etc
Cloth, 12mo, $1 25
Taking Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid
as his basis, Mr Sheldon tells with a great deal of charm
the story of the youngest daughter of the sea-king, who stakes
everything on winning the love of a mortal so that thereby
she may share his immortal soul and one day enter into the
infinite garden of paradise That Mr Sheldon knows how to
write drama his previous contributions to the stage have
proved beyond a doubt, and while the present work is slightly
different in character from its predecessors it reveals the same
sure touch, the same understanding of the fundamentals of
dramatic technique, and in addition a poetic quality of no
mean order.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
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