Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Ralph Albert Blakelock and Martin Johnson Heade. An inventor builds a machine that detects the affinity between two people and sets it loose on a family of marriageable daughters, with the results one would expect and a few one would not. Chambers wrote sixty-odd books and made a fortune from light society comedy; this is that vein at its most cheerful. Sixty plates of moonlit harbors, harvest moons, and quiet water by Fitz Henry Lane and Antonio Jacobsen carry the same gentle romantic glow as the story.
