Caught in the Snare

This catalog page describes the "New Eagle Series," a line of affordable popular fiction issued by Street & Smith Corporation (publishers, New York). The series contained romantic novels priced at fifteen cents, comprising 256–320 pages printed in readable type. Featured authors included Charles Garvice, Mrs. Georgie Sheldon, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, May Agnes Fleming, Laura Jean Libbey, and Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. The catalog lists over 340 titles, predominantly sentimental love stories and romantic melodramas with titles like *Ruby's Reward*, *A Wasted Love*, *Thrice Wedded*, *The Heiress of Glen Gower*, and *His Guardian Angel*. The page also includes a synopsis and opening chapter of title #1035, *Caught in the Snare* by May Agnes Fleming, a sequel to *Edith Percival*. Set during the American Revolution, the narrative follows Frederic Stanley, a young Englishman supporting the rebels, who rescues Edith Percival from a burning ship. Edith is betrothed to the Royalist Ralph de Lisle but loves Stanley; when De Lisle abducts her, Stanley attempts her rescue, only to be captured.