Strings of Steel (Photoplay Edition)

276 pp. 8vo. A novelization of the motion picture by Philip Hurn and Oscar Lund, with a colorized still from the film on the front jacket panel, black-and-white frontispiece and plates from scenes in the movie in text. "A thrilling romance of the early days of the telephone, shortly after the invention of 'the talking wire' by Alexander Graham Bell. Many of the scenes are laid in the Bowery of '78, when that section of New York was the center of political power, and the quaint fashions of the period form an interesting background for one of the great romances of American business. The most exciting parts of the story deal with the intrepid zeal of the young engineer, Ned Brown, in projecting the lines of the new company in hostile territory over the heads of a ruthless and unscrupulous gang who seek to break the Bell Company and secure a monopoly. From a historical standpoint, 'Strings of Steel' is intensely interesting to every American, and there are but few true stories more gripping than the glowing tale of the telephone."