The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-25
HOOKS.
New rhlnE, From tho rrc.,, anu Some

Now Things From tho Press, and Some
Particular Good Ones.
Travels in tho Trcc-Top," By Dr..
Charles Conrad Abbott, is a delightful
picture Of country lifO as vol as an in.
tclliCCn. description OF the myterics and
beauties OF nature. 1t is just tho book
for tho city man, who has not yct for.
gotten tho perfume Of the flowers and
tho early Joys Of the old homestead he
lett fora buster life. II, when ho reads
this book, his memory is nottrcshened by
tears his finer feelings have withered in.
deed. The writer ia u naturalist and
botanist OF no mean ability. and one
whose tastes have inclined him to pro-
for dreaming in tho torestto drudging in
the city, His vision seems TO be all see.
Ing. The smalies, object docs not es-
cape him-thc crawling ant becoming
as great under the charming treatment
OF his pen as tho soaring eagle. He
throws j human interest around every
thing, the leafy oak, the toathered
~sonGatess, the purltng brook, the
meadow and the waving field. The
trees TO him are monuments, hills are
mountains, and the valleys canyons,
and in them no
'Findi tongues In trees. books in the running
brooks,
Sermons IN stones Aad good in everything"
h animate and iRanimate have an
eloquence that inspires his pen 10 paint
pictures with a color and n~a.uraIuess
no canvas could reflect. Even the ro-
pellant desolation laid on the once
bright scenes by winters cold hand is
transformed into Il cheerful panorama
by his tender aud touching musings by
the old log fire, unit! ono can almost
hear the musical tick Of the old.tssh-
Toned clock in the
Enchanting indeed arc the environ.
ments OF tho country home OF our boy
hood days when the author with the
tenderness OF experience and the pa.hos
OF reitospection talks OF "the old
kitchen door" "cornsIalk idilcs," up
the creek" bees and bucGwhesI' and
dead leaves" Even out OF the last
subject, by many associated with som.
Der and melancholy reflections, he
draws Il cheerful picture with an artists
pen. Where some would see shadows
he tEds nothing bus soft t~wiligh,s: 20
him the cypress is always crowned with
the laurel. We read and read, the las.
page becomes din, our eyes are moist,
and We lay the book down with . chok-
Ing sensation in our throat What is
1t? Nothing more than our old heart
Knowing its youth.-L 3. L~ippraa&9,
PhEGGsptiGs Fh-HS S!IEsoa, HiStisg,
". u.
THE Mystery OF the Patsiciaa Club"
By Albert D. Vaudan, is 5 distinctly
English novel. the leading incidents
and interest OF which depend more on
the PeHpicscity Of detective than the
intelligence or ait:actiyeness OF the
characters who furnish the motive
for the activity OF the representative
OF Scotland Yard. The plot rsyoIves
around the murder OF 4 waiter in the
card room Q; the Pai-iciaa Club, OF
London L is somewhat CT s mystery
urIi the detective puts on the screws
and briggs 20 Light 4 scandal, which &C.
cured over 4 game oic2Ecs s few nights
previous 10 the ul.de-, vhea ! noble
man accused = captain OF dragons Of
cheating. The only witness was the
waiter. The question is. Who cheated!
and which OF the TWO killed the wiz
mesa? The running down q Ehe ccimi-
nai gives rise 70 several interesting
complications in which the Inevitable
sweetheart: and swain Sra made 70 SUI
Ter the customary suspense inflicted OF
them by &A we'll regulated aoye!islx
Eliminate the nGr3e. and The
Mystery Of the Ps:ric!Sa GLIB SSo.Ss
apossibls explanation o. recent scac-
6I ;a:s seR;Captaia Gordon Cummings
70 coventry, and IN which tie Prince
Of NSls and LSdy Brooks vers con
eesaeST 5. LiEoasoa, PhSGi5pSS7;
FrcsS &a=taz, H8sS!ian II. u.
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