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physician of the scientific attainments
and wide practice of DIR. r. Y. Pierce
VIII be welcomed by many. The pur-
port OF this volume is apparently to
bring the merits of the particular treat
ment OF diseases at the Buffalo insti-
tute and the remedial qualities of
P1erce's Golden Medical Discovery be-
fore the public. At the same time il
contains a large amount of valuable
information which will prove available
for those without medical knowledge.
1t shows what to do in case of accidents.
when timely relief may save suffering
and life, and also the treatment of those
lesser ills which donot require the sery-
ices of an experienced physician.
"a Book of Strange SINS" by Coulsim
hernahan, author OF "a Dead Mans
Diary" New York: Ward, Lock &
Bowden. Price, so cents.
This volume hardly equals the au-
thor's first work. Dead Man 5 Diary"
in vigor and intensity. but these tales of
Strange SINS" strange only as all sins
are. being violations of divine laws,
furnish abundant food for solemn, tu-
multuous thought.
The analysis of a crime, going back
step by step from one sin to its prede-
cessor until the primary temptation is
reached. yielding to which the soul
started on its dark road to degradation,
is not an easy task. This book power
fully illustrates the words of Prof.
Drummond in his mastery work
Natural Law in the Spiritual World"
He says: "Unforgiven sins are not
away in keeping somewhere to be let
loose upon us when we die; they are
here within us now. Today brings the
resurrection of their past. tomorrow OF
today. And the powers of sin, to the
exact strength that we have developed
them, nearing their final elimination
with every breath we draw, are here
within us now"
This work shows not the Sordid par
ticulars of crime and sin. but the in
huence of those crimes and sins upon
the men and women who commit them.
1t is the secret of souls and not of sins
which the author endeavors to reveal.
He points out in a clear, searching way
that part of the penalty of the sin of
yesterday is the sin of today, and SO the
fearful burden increases. bearing its
retributive consequences, giving new
meaning to the words "a strange pun
ishment to the workers of iniquity."
TALES by the Colonel" by W. L..
Alders. illustrated by Richard Jack
and Neal Hurst. From j. Selwin TAFT
d Sons, New York. Price S1.25.
This book is a compilation of the
stories which, under the title of "As
Told by the Colonel" appeared in a Sc
rial form in the Idler. 1.-The Ornitho-
logical Romance" My Brother Eli
jah'' and "Thompson's Tombstone, I"
which provoked somuch fun and laugh
ter with their quaint humor. are among
the selections.
Through Thick and Thin" and 1.-THE
Midshipmen's Mess" by Molly Elliot
Seawell. Published by d. Lothrop 81
Co., Boston. Price, S1.50.
Any book from the pen of Miss Sea-
we'll will. be read with eagerness by
boys and girls who have enjoyed her
other stories. The first tale of the vol
ume relates the experience of two sec
ond lieutenants in the American army,
and displays the heroism of the subor-
dfnate officers which is common trait
of those who wear our country's uni
form.
The other part is nautical story, and,
as usual, Miss Seawell is at her best
when writing of the sea and those "who
go in ships" She seems to have caught
the flavor of the seaweed and the salt
spray. The midshipmen in the steer
age, with their gay banter and jolly
songs, are not imaginary boys, but real
middies, whom the reader seems to
know. Wholesome acquaintance they
are, too, with their keen sense of honor
and quick acknowledgment of wrong
when they have been unjust.
"Dado; A Detail of the Day." by c.
f. Benson; published by Charles II.
Sergil Company, Chicago. "a Detail of
the Day" is London story, said to be
drawn from real life. 1t is told in a
wonderfully fascinating manner, bright
ened by joke and repartee. and yet with
strong undercurrent of pathos. for it
is not merely love story, but a tragedy
of human lives. "Dado." the heroine,
is a London girl with ia beaute du
diabie' and the wit and charm of a fin
i,h nd nnfr II fhA
cinating power to charm men such
women possess. she wins the love of two
noblemen of contrasting types, Lord
Chesterford and his cousin Jack, and
marries the former for his money, while
loving his cousin. Growing tired of her
husband, she proposes an elopement
with Jack; but he, not ''being born to
be a blaekguard," as he expresses it,
refuses.
The husband dies soon after from a
fall in the hunting field, and her en-
gagement to Jack, now Lord Chester
ford. follows. He is saved from such a
marriage by the fascination of a Rus
sian prince, a masterful brute, whose
potent charms overcome Der love for
Jack, and she elopes with him. 1t is
satisfactory ending to "Dado's" career.
The story may or may not be drawn
from real life, but the fact is very real
that selfish, utterly heartless, brilliant
woman will be loved with loyalty and
intensity true, pure woman never in
spires.
That such woman could win the de-
votion of two such men as Lord Chester
ford and Jack. handsome. stalwart and
clean to the core, is not wholesome
lesson to teach. But since the world
runs so, it is well that the conclusion
should also teach that beauty without
morality leads to shipwreck aud ruin.
The one fault in this weIl.told story
is that the one true, honest woman in it
is drawn in neutral tints. as if truth
and loyalty, which made Lord Chester
ford and his cousin so splendid, would
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