The Washington weekly post., 1900-05-29
The Editors Opinion Of a Few Late Book
Hot from the Press.


The EDITORS Opinion Of a Few Late Books
Hot from the Press.
We are in receipt Of a new publication
entitled, Did She Marry for Money" As
near as We can make out she did. but she
got beautifully left After keeping an old
man bobbing around for five years Lucille
hears that he has come into possession
Of an even million. She then tells him
that her love has always been his and
hurries up the wedding. The honeymoon
is only week old when her husband is
sued for laundry bill. and it transpires
that he isn't worth a red. The book
leaves Lucille scattered over the floor i'm
dead faint. and we are not going to
bring her to and ask questions. Let her
turn TO tapestry painting and make an
old mans life happy.
According to our office scales, the book
entitled The Love of Theodore weighs
just twenty-four ounces We can't find
out that Theodores love was anything TO
brag Of, and the fact that he loved for
thirteen long years before saying any
thing about it does not recommend him
10 our estimation. young man who
loves girl so that he can't sleep nights.
Hi-N ~ PNA hiiNH lifi " ildht dfNiIClIt
mowers for so cents a day. and attempt
suicide nine different times. should te
chained up to a Digger Indian. The book
leaves her clasped TO his bosom; but. I'm
spite of his long love- he may have found
some other excuse to stand her off. We
can't cOnscientiously recommend the
book
The title of a very fair book for the
hammock Is, who Loved Him Best?'
Charlie Devon is the hero of the story,
and Dora Lee and Dolly Brown fall in
love with him. The one seeks to draw
him 10 the theater, the circus. the late
| supper and the church rattle, and thereby
ruin him. and the other pulls him to-
ward camp-meetings, sacred concerts, and
ginger ale a steady beverage. We must
leave the reader TO find out who loved him
best 1t is all there and the last chap
ter is frightened up by d vivid description
Of A hunt for a lost nickel in a street
car.
We can't say that we admire the book
entitled won by Chance" It's too much
Of chance. Geraldine Hopkins gets lost
in a forest twenty miles long by fifteen
broad and On the same day Reginald
SchemerhOrn does the same thing They
find each other. Reginald has Just es-
capped cyclone, and Geraldine has been
hanging over the brink of precipice for
two hours. We think It would have been
far better to have had the couple meet in
first class chophOUse and get acquaint-
ed through Geraldine finding that her
watch had stopped or that she had left
her purse al home.
4 book which will appeal largely 70
! Western sentiment is entitled Found at
! Last" The daughter of a New York mil
| liOnaire has had forty offers OF marriage.
She knows that every one OF the forty
/ young men simply wanted her cash. She
/ determines that whoever gets her snail
, get her through love and she packs her
/ trunk and goes West and pretends TO be
| poor. She strikes job of teaching school
1 at So a month and board, and after about
/ six months along comes POpSy Harrison.
a young man in a red wooden shirt who
/ is head boss in a sawmill He says gosh
/ hang it, and Col durn it, and he
wipes his mouth on the tableclOth, but
| she discovers that he loves her for herself,
/ and she gives him her heart and a stack
/ of government bonds as big as a house.
/ Things ought TO always come out that
way. and We hope the book will have a
/ large sale.
! We can't conscientiously recommend the
/ book entitled The Hatbox Mystery"
| young man calls on a young girl and
| leaves his hatbOX behind. She opens it.
/ OF course. and she finds a letter showing
1 that he loves another and has put up a
| Job 10 rob a bank. The girl sets out 10
I thwart him and bring him 10 Justice and
after falling down a we'll being blown Up
! on a steamboat. and run over by trolley
/ car she discovers that the supposed viii
/ lain is a millionaire in disguise and that
I the hatbOX belongs 10 another man. There
/ are too many adventures for a small box,
and the girl doesn't even marry the nall
/ lionaTe after his innocence has been
| proved and the hatboX dropped out OF a
| third-story window
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