Arms And The Woman

1899. MacGrath, a prolific writer, wrote for newspapers until 1890 when he published his first novel Arms and the Woman. The book begins: The first time I met her I was a reporter in the embryonic state and she was a girl in short dresses. It was in a garden, surrounded by high red brick walls which were half hidden by clusters of green vines, and at the base of which nestled earth-beds, radiant with roses and poppies and peonies and bushes of lavender lilacs, all spilling their delicate ambrosia on the mild air of passing May. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.