![]() ![]() He also worked on the staffs of “Puck”, “Life”, and “Harper's Weekly” and did illustrating for “Collier's” and the “Cosmopolitan.” Here, his illustrations are bold and bright, gracing many pages in the story. ![]() Born in Hope, Indiana in 1869, Levering's career included working for the Minneapolis Times, Chicago Tribune, and New York American. What makes this book even more special are the wonderful illustrations by Albert Levering, an American artist. ![]() His "The Spy in Black" was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. Clouston was also a historian, author of a history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. It details a delightfully entertaining story of a Frenchman who exiles himself to England pending the return of a French monarchy. His most popular novel, "The Lunatic at Large" was published in 1899, and this book, "The Adventures of M.D'Haricot" was published three years later. Clouston hailed from Orkney, Scotland and was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Magdalen College, Oxford. ![]()
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