Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-17
LITERARY AND BOOK NOTICES.


oil New York, is distributing, through
us agents, treatise OF IS pages on
Tine Money OF the United States, It's
Character and Legal Status from
1913 TO 1898, and It's Volume from 1873
TO 1898. with an Abstract OF Vari-
Gus Plans Proposed for the Solution Of
the Currency Problem" The work Is
by Maurace l.. Muhleman. Cashier OF
the United States sub-Treasury at New
York, and is quito exhaustive. The
REGISTER is indebted 10 Claude Buck
ley, the Company's General Agent here,
for a copy.
The Traffic in Girls and Florence
Crittenton Missions" is the title Of a
WORK by Charlton Edholm, published
by the Woman's Temperance Publish
Ing Association, Chicago. Horrible
stories from real life OF the methods
used Ia procuring young girls for i'm
moral purposes and causing their down
tall MI one part OF tho book, while de-
tails OF the work OF saving them by the
Florence Crittenton Missions make up
the rest. Pictures OF workers for the
rescue OF women and notable mission
houses are scattered through the book.
Recolectlons OF the Rev. John Nc
Elhenny, ID. d., by his granddaughter,
Miss Rose W. Fry.-Dr. McElhenny
was one OF the most famous OF the
early Presbyterian preachers in Vir-
ginia, and was for g. years the pastor
OF tho church at Lewlsburg, where his
descendants still reside. lie died in
1871 AT the age Of 90 years after having
done as much TO advance tho PTesby-
terrain BELIEF as any man then living.
The recOlleCtiOns OF his life are pre-
pared in a scholarly aud very attract
I've manner by his grand daughter, and
Will be most interesting TO the many
people in that part OF the State In
which for over half century Dr. Nc
Elhenny was an earnest worker. As
illustrating the early struggles Of
PresOyteranism and the labOrs OF the
ministers OF the church I'm the pioneer
days the book will be OF interest To all
the members OF that church
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a HsHlr
in the last few years 10y the COSmOpoU-
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prising proprietor has cut the price In
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Beautful bali tone and tinted repro
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deterioration in the character of The
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a2ine.
a portrait Of Gerald Massey forms
The frontispiece OF the January number
OF the ArsuG, which is fully mp 10 the
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fridge, Robert Forman Horton, fiamlin
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