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of those free ielandsrs which alone
would give strength to a story. and when
to this ia added some OF the most forcible
MISUNDERSTANDING OF the Gay, We have
q work OF power which 10 another stons
sdded to the foundation OF enduring
fame to which Mr. Csine ;s yearly ad-
ding. We aro brought in contact not
only with the governor and the dreem.
ster, but the more or lass simple folk OF
a leas refined class. In Pete we have o
marvellous creation aI type oil 'selt.
abnegaton and great ai-heartedness with
out trace of mawkish sentimen,ality;
we cannot recall anything better. The
character might almost be termed super
human were it nat for the vein Of genu~
inc human nature attaching to all the
acsions Of the rude, uneducated Man1-
man. For the sake Of those whom he
loves, although they have proved them
selves unworthy OF him, he gives up all
| that is desr to him, but not batore he
| hes sacrificed himself in a vain effort to
save the reputation OF his wife. The
| same care which is bestowed in the de-
velopnent OF his personality is given to
each oil the actors in the drama. There
| is nothing slighted or suffered to pass
! without being duly Z atured.
Where all the work is go good 1t is
hard to particularize, and whether we
wstch with brenthlesa interest the Gull
mination of Philips career, or hear
that Caesar preached on text until it
wet him through to the waistcoat, or
smile at Black Toms remedy for the
mistake he made in buying COW, the
same artistic skill is always there to
charm us. We drop into the Manx ver-
nscular quickly, so that We find our
selves thinking In it, and whom Pete
avows that be loves Kate in way that
is scandalous and shocking, we know
that he is merely using superlatives to
express his affection. WHAT Scott and
Burns did for the Scotch, Hall Caine
has done for tho ManxmRn.
TOM SAWYER ABROAD, by HUcK FINN, ed
tied by Mark Twain; illustratlans by d an
Beard. Cloth edition. Sl.50. Published
by Charles J.. Webster Il Co., New YORK city
For sale by thu A. w. Berry Stationery COM
pany, 120 South spring street,
And here we laugh again with Mark
Twain aud his dry humor, sparkling with
wit and humor like the choicest cham
payne. Certainly there are no oharao-
ters more popular than Tom Sawyer,
Huek Finn and Niger Jim. 1t was a
happy thought to have them take trip
abroad under the leadership OF Tom.
| After his adventures down the river,
Tom wished TO organize a crusade to
rescue the Holy Land from the Paynims.
Jim, however, couldn't see what they
were going to do with the Holy Land
after they got it, and HGck rather doubt
ed their ability to whip such a lot
of Psynns, 30 the scheme was aban-
doned. Another opportunity for distn-
gnishing themselves was soon presented
In q marvellous flying machine they
crossed the Atlantic. finally landing in
Africa. The opportunities ior humorous
and thrilling situations are readily to be
imagined Toms fertile brain never
accomplished greater results, nor did
Jims quaint euperstitions and Huck's
hard common scnss ever chow to better
advantage. The interest never lsgs. and
the humor is delightfully."- spontaneous.
In introducing these favorites to the
public under new conditions, their pop
ularity will surely be increased.
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A BANKRUPT HEART, by FLORENCE MAR
EyAT: cloth e1ition, $1.25. Published in
White Cross Literature ssries by Charles B.
Reed, New Y ork city. For sale by the A. W.
Berry Stationery company, l20 South spring
| street.
AS long as the world stands love and
all its intricacies will be the theme
through which the novelist will seek to
help mankind to forget itself.
Florence Msrryatt has written many
interesting stories which have made her
name almost household word wherever
ths English language is spoken-stories
that, while they amuse, have, at the
same time, held light to nature and
taught, through suggestion, at least,
many useful lesson. In mono of her
works has she developed more compli-
Gated plot or delineated her characters
with more consummate skill than in A
Bankrupt Heart. e
The social question is difficult one at
best, and yet. prolific in the expansion
1t offers. The terrible conditions exist
ing in European life-and the world
over, for that matter-which are con-
stsntly being revealed by the scandal
Gus proceedings Of the divorce courts,
to warrant this brilliant writer in the
use OF her caustic pen.
Lord Ilfracombe is q fair type of the
English nobleman, to the manor born,
who, from his early childhood, has been
educated in the theory that whatever
would conducs to his pleasure was his
by right. He starts out on a career Of
idle amusement. and, only aftsr many
years OF fashionable folly, learns too late
that ''the wages OF sin are death )" while
Nellie Llewellyn, who sought to hide her
shame beneath the black waters of the
Thames, finds, after trials and struggles
unnumbered, that sometimes in this
world noble striving wins its reward.
The Camille OF Dumas, or the chsrac-
ter of the second Mrs. Tapqueray, are
not more deity drawn than 10 the CEN
tral figure. roHnd which the scenes Of
this life etcry rsvolve. The description
OF the lower classes, their oimple modes
Of living and honest thinking, are true
to life; and after psrusal of its pages
the reader will lay the book down, fpd-
ing himself fitting the situations into
experiences with which he is personally
familiar, so naturally and graphically
are they told.
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Houghton, Mifflin & Co, OF New York
city have just ready History OF
the United States for the use Of
schools, by John Fiske. This also
contains Topics and Questions. Sug-
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and Topics for Collateral Reading, by
Frank II. Hill, secretary of the state
board OF education, Massachusetts. 1t
is also fully illustrated with maps and
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