The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-05-22

anu q o4C nCkoCL4 ob3SScy - - sfst
last that DiH ever come from he,
pen. 1t is q thrilling narrative oi
her life from infancy to old age
portraying the sunshine and shadow
of seventy years of q most marvel.
Gus career, told In her own words
1t seems almost incredible that
q woman now 90 famous made
"mud pies" in her childhood, was
often sent supperless to bed, and
was frequently bounced down into
a kitchen chair with an emphasis
that caused her to "see stars. %
When a young giil, struggling to
support herself, she took in "slop-
work." made shirts, and subse-
quently learned the trade of a dress
maker, at which she worked for
twenty-five cents day. At eighteen
she Gran away from home like q
boy" and spent three eventful years
on a Southern slave plantation
years full of comedy and tragedy,
and packed with thrilling expert
ences.
She tells Of the eventful Christ
mas night when she wandered into
the church of Q strange young
preacher, who soon afterwards be-
came her husband. Their comical
experiences in their first attempt at
housekeeping, the ignominious fate
that her husband awarded to her
first fish chowder Che buried it after
dark in the garden); and the many
trials and tribulations that followed
are marvelously entertaining. They
were poor. She tried her hand at
tailoring, and with the money saved
by secretly making q pair of trou-
sers for her husband she paid for a
years subscription to a weekly
newspaper.
Mrs. Livermore threw her whole
heart and soul into measures for
the relief of sick and wounded sol
diers, and spent four years as q
nurse in the Union army. Her in
tellectual greatness and Lobility of
character led her to rise from those
thrilling experiences to become the
best known woman of America,
and opened the way to her phenom-
email platform career, that has con.
tinued for more than thirty years.
At her feet millions of people have
sat and listened in admiration and
wonder. The rich and poor, the
high and low, the learned and un-
learned have been alike thrilled and
moved by her burning words. She
has sWayed brilliant audiences of
fashion; has spoken in State pris-
ons, jsils and penitentiaries; to au-
diences composed of outcasts, and
to audiences numbering thousands
Of children. In this autobiography
she gives many "Reminiscences Of
her platform experiences, with an
ecdotes and incidents "too funny
for anything"
Many distinguished men and
women have long urged Mrs. Liver
more to tell the marvellous story of
her life. She has received letters
from thousands of men and women,
unknown to her, expressing the
hope that such a volume would be
written.
This work is wholly and entirely
new. 1t contains nothing that APP
peared in her "Story of the War"
l887), of which sixty thousand
copies were sold.
The book is splendidly illustrated
by beautiful and costly full-page
photogravure plates and portraits,
and over one hundred fine text IL
lustrations. Many of them are in
tensely humorous, while others de-
pict thrilling scenes full of pathos
and tragic interest.
We do not know when $50 pages
have given us more genuine pleas
ure. If We speak warmly Of the
book, it is because it richly deserves
It. It is sold only by agents, and
is meeting with . large sale.
Agents who introduce q frst-class
work like this ought to be cordially
welcomed. We. believe that the
best way to keep out poor books is
BY introducing good ones, and a
better one than this has never been
brought to our notice. Put il into
Jour homes. Il viii be read over
and over again by old and young,
with pleasure and lasting profit,
and may well be handed down from
father to son and mother to dangh-
ter as 3 priceless legacy.