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Wholly sympathetic and delightful
Is the study Of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning" by Lillian Whiting Little.
Brown q CoD, alike n biography and
ana informing reVeW Of the art and life
work Jf the subject. We are told that
Miss Whiting passed TWO summers in
Florence amid the scenes which Mrs.
Browning had known and loved, visit
ing he old grav church OF San Felica,
on which the windows OF Casa Guid
looked. watching the sunsets from the
heights of Bellosguardo. where Mrs
BroWning's dearest friend. Miss Blag-
den. lived. and which f. introduced in
Aurora Leigh And In Rome. Venice
and England Miss Whiting followed
the traces Of Mrs. BroWning,s haunts
and WduderDgS. There was. indeed,
kind of occultation OF happy condi-
tOns that revealed L. che writer phases
of Mrs. BroWnings intimate life that
have not heretofore been chronicled
and if love gives insight Miss Whiting
may have gained some aid Of this ma
ture from her lifelong devotion 20 the
poetry of Mrs. Browning. which she has
felt TO be- more potent i'm its influence
than has been fully realized. The most
spiritual Of poets. Mrs. Browning has
also a philosODhic breadth and an in
tellectual vigcr that richly repay
study" 1t appears further that Miss
Whiting has had the privilege OF draw
ing freely on the published Letters" OF
the BroWnings To enrich her material
and The WhOIe work is thus most COM
pete and satisfactory. n : u Is a sim
cerc and painstaking accomplishment.
\ portrait frontisniece adds 10 the at
tractiveness Of this study. The book
is dalntilv fashioned aud bound in a
green and gold cover. CFor sale by
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| The manv folks who take 10 spooky
stories will find great delight in THE
/ Bronze Buddha.' a mystery romance
| by Cora Linn Daniels Interest is awak-
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| page and only a second chapter il re-
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! stirring by the initiation of a love story
| that promises at once 10 be delightfully."-
| mysterious and. as is a little later de-
! veloped. that is completely entangled
| i'm the weird history OF the little image
| known as the bronze Buddha The au-
I thor apDar0Itlv knows India quite
az well as New York. which latter is
| the place Il most OF the exciting epi-
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! distinctly Indian until the mystery is
| worked out. and from chapter to chap
| ter the reader Is made the happy sub.
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| mystic story is unfolded in curicss
| and quite happv fashion. That is while
| the hero tells a part of the tale in the
| first person much OF the heroine's part
| is related. as bv the author. i'm the third
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new novel by sheppard stevens.
author Of II am the King is entitled
The Sword of Justice" 1t is an exhil-
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! characters are not drawn from the au-
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as compiled and Interpreted by Francis
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| Indeed. as the author has recognized
! frankly no Action could surpass the
! real history for romantic sensational
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! actual facts provide amply exciting in
| scenes and customs makes "A capital
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"The Heiress Of the season" No 273
| in the Appleton's Town ana Country
Library, is an English political novel
| OF unusual interest. Its author is sir
William Maguay. Bart. and it's pict-
urcs Of London society life are scarcely
less interesting than it's clever political
! story INTRIGUE 60 brace up ruined fort
un,s and to drag down "a young pOliti-
cian whose progress upward threatens
exalted interests. with love story run
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material FOR the tctionists art. while
character study as well as skilfully
wrought out plot and episode. make
she novel ono of the most readable of
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