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Live Questions" is the title Of a volu-
minous work Of over 900 pages, by John p.
Altgeld, ex- governor Of Illinois, The illus
trations include portraits Of Governor and
Mrs. Altgeld The work is a collection Of
| the productions of John =. Altgeld both as
governor Of Illinois and as an individual,
and IL purports to give the facts determin-
| ing his course in Office in several important
| matters which attracted the attention OF
| the country at the time. The various papers
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cover all the public questions that have been
brought up in recent years, as viewed by
! the author and his party George 5, Bowen
G. Son, Chicago.
THE Eternal Building or the Making OF
Manhood" by George T. Lennon is a work
| that ought to be in the hands Of every
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| the making of manhood is the greatest
| business in the world. He says: 81 have
| tried to so put my thought that the reader
may find himself hugged up clCee to the
great, warm heart Of the master builders
of the past and be by that embrace aroused
to work nightly and build grandly for him
| self What one man has done must always
| stir and nerve another. Deeds are eloquent;
| have tried to serve simply as their in
| terpreter" The whole work teens with
noble examples of what men of the past have
accomplished so Joined together as to make
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|
THE story Of Geographical Discovery"
| how the world became known, by Joseph
Jacobs forms No. 10 in Appleton's Library
of Useful Stories. 1t is practically !ittle less
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| A work that ought to be the most inter
| eetng, but which is rather disappointing 10
| the reader, is Gordon in Central Africa"
| The name of Chinese Gordon is almost as
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| fully appreciated by the Christian nations.
| What he saw and endured in the Soudan
| during these long years in which he was
| laboring to reorganize the Egyptian army
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all the while secretly handicapped by the
| Egyptian government, ought to make most
| interesting reading The author, however,
instead of telling the story for Colonel Cor
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| by means of his private letters. Unfortu-
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| scriptve writer and generally omits what
| would mCst interest the reader However,
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"The Throne Makers" is new work by
| William Roscoe Thayer, author of THE
Dawn of Italian independence" Poems
New and Old" etc. The throne makers
are Bismarck, Napoleon III, Kossuth and
Garibadi. To these are added papers on
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The research and uncommon power of state
ment which make Mr.. Thayer's volumes on
The Dawn of Italian independence" 81
noteworthy a contribution to modern his
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pers in this book unusual value; and the
broad intelligence and Independent judgment
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a high and permanent quality. Houghton
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Stevens Mechanical Catechism " just is
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books published by Laird & Lee, it is
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There is also much other valuable informa
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"Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer
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