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volume. The reader will fined Janets
Curiosity very entertaining, and The
Biggest Box in the World will arouse
the curiositv of many. The married
readers will enjoy Our New Servant, and
the newspaper people read carefully The
Other Times, certified circulation, ETA
copies weekly. Altogether it is spicy
little volume, and will become almost as
popular as any OF the authors other
efforts.
Roberts Bros. have lately published
DR.. Martha Scarborough, by Helen
Campbell, author of Prisoners OF Pow
erty. A classifying English receiver
lately took all the works of fiction treat
ing OF women doctors, and drew certain
deductions. One was that the American
treatment Of the subject WAS the wiser,
because, though there was some ideali-
zation, the practical part was more in
evidence. Helen Campbell, in her
present work, having an object in view,
is also practical. The doctor is little
girl, the daughter of the real old doctor,
and having lost other chil~ren, her
father is determined to bring her up in
the open air. 1t is the DOCTORS buggy
which is in part her school-room. As
he drives about in the New England
country, the doctor talks to his little girl
and she is quick to learn. Mrs. Camp
inveighs against common New
England diet. Strength is not
born of lard, sugar and starch.
The doctor will have it that in his house
there shall be good-sized bath rooms,
with porcelain tubs, and the village
wiseacres find fault with such new fam
gled idea. Mrs. Campbell is right when
she says that some women are
born Obstructioniste, resenting any
changes in their domestic concerns. Ut
terly ignorsnt as to the character of the
food they give their children and hus-
bands. they set up their stupid rule--of
thumb ideas in opposition to the abso-
lutte laws of diet.
The hook is useful one. and the in
formation in it is impaired in an intel
Iigent manner.
The Home Publishing company have
just issued very strong novel by Archi-
bald Clsvering Gunter, entitled Baron
Montez OF Panama and Paris. The work
exhibits the wonderful resources of the
authors mind and the richness Of his
imaginative powers. The charac-
ters are forcibly drawn, the de-
tails worked up with surprising
exsctness, and the plot unrsveled with
scrupulous care. The principal scenes
are laid in New York, the Isthmus and
Panama and Paris. The facts which
suggested the plot hinge on the expose
OF the Panama canal scandal. Mr.. Gun
ter has taken advantage of the De Les
seps fiasco and using it as frame work,
together with his experience as trav-
eler and his wonderful Imagination has
woven picture that is very vivid, and
complete as an interesting entertainer.
Although entirely q piece OF fiction
good fiction, still under the surface may
be found many direct hits at some OF the
social and political fsds of the present
day. His portrayal OF the hero, Harry
Larchmont. is excellent and will not
only win the admiration of the fair sex,
but also that of the men who admire
good athletic figure and q viii power
over which the Anglomaniac craze has
no control. In the heroine, Miss Louise
Ripley Minturn, we have one OF those
strong, sensitive characters, of the typi-
cal American girl--the girl to whom we
| raise our hat in honor, to her pluck, re-
nzse..to1<e sssa 1ssvdorty tnu girl WHO IN
the face OF poverty and temptation will
educate herself to meet the battle OF
life with smile. and even though a
| typewriter, will ASSERT her independence
and uphold the greatest Of all characters
the American woman. The central
figure of the novel, however, is the all
nation prince of villains, Fernando Co.
mez Montez, mule boy of Cruces, self
ennobled to s'Baron" Montez. AS
william he will challenge the admiration.
of all the readers. The conventional
smooth, oily villain has been succeeded
by an educated one, full of fascination,
a good conversationslist, during and
almost brave, clear, quick
witted brain, working like fast-re-
volving machinery, accurate in
calculation, precise in detail, with
strong will and commanding power
which fascinates all weaker natures first,
and then causes them to obey. The
minor characters are well cast, and fill
up the vacancies completely making
mosaic of history, sensation. adventure,
travel, friendship and love seldom seen
in the lighter literature of the present
day. The scenes are panoramic in their
changes, and carry the reader rapidly
from the rushing restless, bustling city
VI ~ CIV LULA w bhO AuU tuI-
moil OF the miasmic. fever-laden tropic
isthmus, and thence to pleasure-loving,
scheming Paris, the center of in
trigue, gay life, inflated stocks,
bonds, and feverish existence. The
situations are. very sensational and,
dramatic showing the authors dramatic
vein in the background of the novelistic
landscape. The effort is if anything
equal to Potter of Texas, and is far
ahead of any of his previous works.
The sale will be immense, and undoubt-
edly in the near future the author will
make of il one of the strongest dramas
ever presented on the American stage.
All the above books for sale by the Stoil &
Thayer Co, No. 139 South Spring street.
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aw Book Chat.
The new volume of the story OF the
Nation series will be The Story of Par
thia, by Prof. George Rawlinson, author
OF the Story Of Ancient Egypt, the Story
o Ph@nicia, etc.
Edwin A. Barber will publish early
next month, through the press OF G. P.
Putnam's Sons, fully illustrated edition
of A History OF Pottery and Porcelain
in the United States.
Sarah Orne Jewett's novel, A Country
Doctor, is no issued in the Riverside
series. 1t is delightful New England
novel, written with remarkable truth to
nature and with great humor and charm