The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-05


Peattfe Way e. Williams N.2s.
"pippins and Cheese is the title OF
collection of short stories. relating how q
number OF persons ate number OF dinners
a; various times and places. Dinner for
Two" tells OF a chance meeting between
charming French noblewoman and the
fourth of the courteous lire OF Sansons. az
a wayside inn. After the fine lady has
dined and parted with the gentleman IN
green. she learns that she has been be-
slowing her smiles upon the hereditary
exscutaoner OF Paris. She presents a Pc
tition 10 parliament that Charles Henri
Sansons shall beg her pardon with rope
about his neck and henceforth be made TO
wear some insignia Of his calling. Four
teen years pass by and the last scene rep
resents the high spirited little marquise
stepping UP to the guillotine and saying:
Monsieur you affronted me once. You
are doing me favor now. l shall join 3
brilliant company. for all who were
worthy TO live are now dead
Have you any request TO make?"
Il have one-a foolish one. Be good
enough to discharge your assistant for
moment. / should like to feel that had
been executed by a gentleman"
1T shall be as you say. Farewell.
Farewell, monsieur. BY the way, how
well that pigs head looked in the pars-
ley!' She kept on laughing till she was
bound
Say a prayer" whispered Sansons.
81 have prayed. I have no fear. 1t Is
the fashion to die now Sansons. and have
always followed the fashion,
THE STORY OF ALB. Tale of the Time
of the Cave Man. BY Stanley Waterloo.
Chicago: Way & Williams.
Sedate and absorbed as may be your
anthropolosist or archaeologist he never
theless must at times theorze. for there
are problems that cannot be solved unless
imagination has its play. The story of a
cave mans life has been narrated before.
but never better more interestingly than
by Mr.. Stanley Waterloo In THE Story
CT Abb The hero, Alb. and heroine,
Lightfoot. are OF that remote time. when
men and women still retained their ab-
normal instincts, and We're fairly at home
among the hill tops, where they swung
like our trapese performers from branch
TO branch. Wooings were practical in
those days and ceremonial slight. When
Alb was first entranced by the graceful
L!ghtfoot, the bold hunter slung the girl
a well-cooked portion Of u great steak of
the mammoth's choicest part, and the wild
maiden caught IT deftly looked at Alb.
and laughed, and began mastcating her
half-cooked steak. Such was the express
sion of love at first sight. say hundreds
of thousands of years ago.
Alb had a rival in his friend Oak who
would have carried off Lightfoot. Alb had
to kill him, but the shadow of his friend
haunted Alb, and thus he began to ponder
on the mystery of death. Alb and Light
foot lived very happily together. There
were enemies proving in the woods and
among these the cave tiger. Sabre Tooth,
and the many dangers lurking in the wild
erness TO be met made their days anything
but monotonous. The author then goes
ON to tell how this curious prehistoric
man becomes eheftain of a tribe, and how
he made 1t great In his time. repelling all
attempts at invasion. He also bestowed
many great benefits on the infantile race.
The first idea of the bow and arrow as Alb
invents them is Well imagined. Through
modern practical experiment, the latest
conclusion is that it took very much less
time for primitive man TO fashion an
arrow head and ak or a hammer than
was formerly believed.
The story OF Alb is very we'll told. and
the general get up of the book. its print,
lltic page, SOSGis dfG
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TRUE TO HIS HOME. BY Hezekiah
Butterworth. D. Appleton Co.
True to His Home is story Of the
hoyhood of Franklin. With the history Of
his life has been mingled an element OF
fiction In keeping with the facts. The
author has made 4 conscientious study of
the time and incorporated greaa deal of
useful information In the story. In spite
of a very strong tendency to sermonize
Mr.. Butterworth's other stories have been
popular. and this one should be, too.
SEALTH, THE CITY BY THE INLAND
SEA. BY Elizabeth II. Calvert The
Calvert Co. Seattle. Price $l.25.
sealth is the Indian name for Seattle.
| The title is very appropriate for this ex-
ceedinsly handsome and artistic collection
Of souvenirs Of the Gateway City and her
surroundings. The elegant press work
and the attractive binding make the vol
;nle IN ornament for any hook table. The
half-tone illustrations i'll colored ink are
veritahio gems of art, held together by
an attractive setting OF interesting bits
of description and several poems, which.
though for the most part co not conct rn
Seattle directly, serve 10 dress the volume
In holiday garment. Both author and
publishers are 70 be Congratulated or
bringing out this pubiaca ton At the Chris
Rlas season 1t viii &c most acceptable
gifT-book and very effectively call the at
tention of Eastern people to the incom-
| parable natural beauty OF Seattle.
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LIKE \ GALLANT LADY. by Mrs
Kate NJ CleaFy. Chicago: Way & Will
Jams. sl.25.
Like a Gallant Lady, is a tale Of r,io-
neer Nebraska aud Kansas life with "A
thread Of mystery and hove running
through IT. The strange crime which
forms the motive of the story is so orig.
inal ard IS so cIeverly concealed tina; the
| most base novel reader will be unable TO
fathom ii before the closing chapters.