The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-13
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/ q Z. PutnamS Sons, New York. The
writer is supposed to be a poor violin
lst, in an orchestra with only a violin
between himself and poverty. He falls
in love with a beautiful girl, one whom
he never hopes to win, one who has
only the night before refused him. He
still loves her and writes letters to her,
which he never expects her to read
and drops them into a box fixed in his
trunk with an opening in the side made
to represent mail box. He writes
some thirty letters, all of which are
| beautifully written and express beaut1-
fuI sentiments quite true to nature, at
last aIter some two years a spell OF
sickness brings her to his side. She
| finds the letters addressed to herself.
An explanation ensues, which ends in
the right way.
Each chapter is introduced by a bar
OF music The headings to the pages
are in red letters which add much to
the already beautiful delicate blue
binding with gold stamping
"a History of the World" by Zenaide
A Ragozin Published by VIM. Bever-
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