The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-30
BOOKS AND MEN.


acy with the East, but to demand by their
worth a recognition of equality The
dramatic instinct Mr.. McGovern has In o
marked degree, and this, added to his
Saxon power OF expression, makes him
figure. One OF the editorial writers on the
Chicago Herald, he finds time to
produce works out Of the news
paper rit, and works which will
not bc lost sight OF as time passes.
"Daniel Trentworthy" gives by all odds the
best account in print OF one OF the great
events Of the history of mankind, but It
does It incidentally and 10 a manner not to
interfere with the plot or Interest Of the
story told. IL Is a vivid pen-picture from
beginning TO ond, Turner In black and
white, graphic piece Of storytelling Asto
the romance OF the book, the wooing and
the fortune-shIfting, II Is attractive and
healthful. Mr.. McGoverp's remarkable
power Of expression has this possible draw
back In a novel that IL sometimes makes the
reader forget all save the sentence, but that
ia fault 40 seldom shown that IL may be
deemed a merit. Daniel Trentworthy'' Is
not the sort OF book TO win sudden facti-
tious place In literature,but It Is one which,
l,ke o,bsr Lis,or,cal uovo,a-.sor s,cb :,
really is-will go upon library shelves and
attain gradually tho place II deserves, not
because Of its rhetorical value alonc, but
bccauso Of i,s strong features.
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v.nsop, being No. II of volume 4, The
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A story Of German intrigue of considera-
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the editor.
A tale OF wild adventure and so.ne.cotn-
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Paper, 20 cents.
Iy,vgs ypoN DarNu,p,s Dt,py. "A
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Fry Am FACT. BvFU Chambers
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From Rrontano,s wash,poton. ID g.
The sSrAiEsMAS's YgAR BOOK, being
statistical and historical annual of the
States of the civilized world for 1889.
Published by Macmillan & Co., London
<. and New York.
The Year Book is the standard publics-
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From Gray 4 Clarkson, Publishers, 3S9,
341 Pennsylvania avenue:
A PRIMER OF JESUS THE CHRIST AND HIS
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| What Joe Howard calls "a real Amer.-
can novel with pnrposeu will appear
from the house of Belford, Clarke & Co,
in few days. It the work OF j. A.
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man, and of It the publishers' notice says;
This tsawork of themost telling interest
fromethe first page to. the last II deals
with some most exceptional scenes and
episodes inconnection with the late war,
and in relation to Mormonism. The be-
trayal Of pure and Innocent girl from her
Northern home by Southern spy, and the
terrible ordeals to which abe is subjected
are depicted most graphically and with
great power. Her history Is strange one,
and themorc so, as she At last finds herself
the unconscious inmate OF splendid man
sion Of sin kept by her own mother, who
bad abandoned her when an infant to join