Macmillan's standard library

Margaret Donne is a young English woman living in Paris where she cultivates her singing voice and soon becomes an opera diva. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and probably royal.

The Californians, was Gertrude Atherton's first novel in the post-Spanish era. Critics of the era said it "was by far more convincing and attractive in delineating California manners and morals. . . . The novel fairly establishes her claim to be considered as one of the most vivid and entertaining interpreters of the complex characters of emancipated American womanhood."

Accounts of the explorations of Radisson, La Verendrye, Samuel Hearne, and Lewis and Clark.