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feel that God grants me Life TO i've.
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p. R.-Tho passions Of jsaiousy Shown By Bob1ay
can DO altered to be moro modarato II desired by the
management. Instead Of en- attsmpt a. tragedy. I
can arrange 10 for D., o. and Il. to enter after ClevA
Estella, Haskell. and wsIlsdala had made their e1tG
and Bob3ay speak Of the occurrence with such fesL
inSs OF paASion that 10 result with nlness, combining
him to his bed after the curtain Of this act and until
the time Of the second act, when ho d supposed to
have recovered
In "DIomed 1 The Life. Travels. and Observe
Cons of Q Dog" uamson. Wolfe &c Col Mr.,
John Sergeant Wise has written . rattlins good
book. and one that will appeal to oil sportsnen
and to every healthy.minded boy. It Is the auto
biography of an English setter born in Rich
mond. Va, and In the old dogs story of his life
he tells of some glorious days among quail and
snipe. the prairie chickens Of Minnesota, and tho
rufred grouse OF the West Virginia mountains,
and incidentally gives tho reader somo pleasant
pictures Of life In the South. Mr.. ]. Linton
Chapman's numerous and beautiful illustrations
are an Invaluable addition 10 tho book, which,
in spite of an uninviting and somewhat bump
tious preface. In one that tho reader with a love
for sport will thoroughly enjoy.
Mr.. Jerome X. Van Sittart OF Now York, the
central figure Of Mr.. Tracy's story An Amori-
can Emperor" Putnams), Is something like O
hero; and no modern portrayer OF tho heroic,
from Ouida to Mr.. Davis. has, SO far as we know,
produced anything to equal him. Not only Is he
young, beautiful, OF surprising strength and
dauntless courage. but he has tho blood OF tho
Bonapartes In his veins. he Is the richest man In
the world, and he juggles with millions In tho air
lest and most graceful manner. He buys up hotels
and railway systems as q mere amusement, and
clears the markets and tho private cellars of
the world Of all the 1852 Chateau Lahtte,
the 1884 port, and the 1880 Veuve Clicquot He
secs o beautiful young woman in a box at tho
opera and wants to know her. Nothing more
simple. He buys up all tho boxes for the rest Of
the season, and when that experiment fails, finds
out where she Is living, buys tho hotel, and thus
becomes her landlord. His exploits after q
while become bewildering; but from O hasty
glance at the last chapter wo believe that he
eventually buys France and becomes Emperor
OF the French. After the first few pages we are
prepared for anything. The Illustrations, which
are of the dime novel order, arc distinctly
funny.
The most noticeable thing about Mr.. Perclval
Pollard's Dreams OF To Day" 10 the cover de.
sign. This represents u nude young woman with
a blue backbone and pink hair. kneeling on a
slab Of stone and waving a bath towel over her
head; while from tho background two dyspep-
ito birds gaze at her in mild establishment.
From a newspaper clipping inclosod with
the volume we learn that this cover design
caused some trouble, the New York booksoll.
ers refusing to give any orders for the book
unless 1t was changed. This seems unreason-
able. A hypercritical student OF the beautiful
might object to the color OF the lsdy's hair. or
even TO tho length of her waist and the short
ness of her legs, but from the moral point OF
view even Mr.. Comstock could hardly take ex-
ception to her. Mr.iPollard's dreams oonslst,
for the most part, Of rather commonplace ideas.
clothed In q style that is q studious attempt at
precioslty.
When Mr.. Julian West OF Boston, after the
extraordinary adventure described in "Look.
ing Backward" awoke on the morning of May
81, 1887, the Ingenious reader who had consci-
entiously followed him TO the last chapter was
left With tho comforting assurance that the