Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-02-15
THE FAMOUS NEW BOOK.
Darkness and Daylight" or Lights and
Shadows Of New YORK Life.

In this illustrated work a noble |
Christian woman tells the thrilling
story of her personal experience in
Gospel. temperance, mission. ana res
cue work in great city. No recent
publication is now commanding sol
much attention nor has any other call
ed forth such ringing words OF God
speed" from ministers and eminent
women 1t has been preached about
| from famous pulpits. read by tens OF
| thousands of subscribers, and made
the subject of many clergy mans
Sunday evening lecture. Its author
ship is fourfold, its four authors being
no less than Mrs. Helen Campbell.
Rev. Lyman Abbott, d d Col: Tho D
w. Knox. and Inspector Thomas
Byrnes, thief of the New York Detec-
tive Bureau
"Strange, but most suggestive is the
fact" says Bishop Coke in warmly
! commanding this volume, that Christ
is to be visited in these dens and
dives"
{. Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott's lifelong
( interest in City Mission work, and his
: personal share in that work. pre-emi.
; nently fitted him TO write for this
{, book
i No appeal from temperance advo
2 Gates can do more TO promote the
cause of temperance than the thrilling
: scenes and incidents so wei describ
ed at least to say MRS Wary A. Liver
more and Miss Frances r. Willard
One of the most absorbingly inter
Testing portions of the book is tina
written by Inspector Byrnes givin
= the ripe experience OF thirty years Q
n 1 Dectective life. Many of the startlin
n revelations he makes are taken froI
n his private diary. They have neve
: before been published.
% This fascinating volume is indeed
.s wonderful tale of hristian love an
II faith. all alive with interest and stril
e. ing reality. The best of it is tn at 1t
pure and elevating book from begiI
selning TO end-a volume for the famil
ct circle
every one of them made from pilot
oraphs taken from life, mostly
fiash-light. Every face is a portal
every scene stern reality.
In looking at these splendid illustr
We tions the rea er sees at glance ju
how gospel work is carried on by di
and by night by rescue-bands he
shown strange sights in out of the W
nlaces that are rarely or never Sc
Nv the casual visitor he is taken in
H. lcheap lodging houses and cellars
on to the homes of the poor; into new
he bows lodging into the poll
,ks land detective departments, etc.
nothing seems TO be omitted.
,erI We do not know when 74O pas
,rg lhave given US more genuine pleasu
to IIf we speak warmly of the book, il
;ch because it richly deserves it. II
nw sold only by agents, and is meeti
mn with an enormous sale. Agents "
he Introduce such work ought to be C
~ Idlallv welcomed A better work
inc certainly never come to our table
will be read over and over again by
= and young, with every increas
pleasure and lasting profit.
The work is published by the
and well-known firm of A d Wor
= lington & Co Hartford, Conn ,wh
IN imprint is sufficient guarantee of
excellence of this first class voluI
Royal Octave, 740 pages 252
raj plates, portraits, and text illust
on tions
un- ~This book is sold by subsci
an, ton only and can only be bought
en- any book store or news stand-W
bly, White, who was cashier of Plant
for National Bank of Danville, Virgi
cen for u years, but now resident
ase Richmond is sole agent for this city