The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-15

spised N q Jewess, had no hope that Jonel could
ever marry her; and Jonel, not knowing the
cause but condemning her for her worldliness
struggled against his love He found Eympa-
thetic woman who, after Les's death, inspires
him with gratitude for her unselash devotion to
him, and the story closes with their union
The characters are human, the narrative is real
isttc and the incidents dramatic, although con-
sfstent and unstrained- There Ia no moral
Right does not triumph, neither is love re-
vsrded. The hero ful6Ils the necessities of q
novel, and the only one who obtained her wish
Is the gentle Pia, who good-naturedly marries
Jonel, after two other women whom be liked
better have died Still Il is good, wholesome
book, and as q sample OF Roumanisn literature
IL Is OF exceptional interest
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BL Ism MAHxy. A song Of the sunny South. By
Calvert -
The well-known editor, Colonel WIN I. yi...
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that during ais twenty-five wears as soldier
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poar poser % temps. from which he has selected
9 few (which friends have been kind enough =.
call poetry. The most ambitious of these IA
BLACK Nanny" plantation tdyl in clever dis
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Primes 81 Go a-Fishing," and a library edi,io,
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