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TOUR Uncle Lew, by Charles Reginald
Sherlock, with a frontispece by b. West
Clinedinst Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany, to 7 East Sixteenth street, New
York city, publishers. 1t is claimed that
in this story the Cardiff Giant fake is
for the first time exposed. 1t is said that
there is ground for thinking the claim is
well founded. The story is a genuinely
American one, and is full of interest
There should be a fellow feeling between
Minister WI and Lewis Dunbar the cen
trail figure in it. One of the most anus
ing chapters i'm the book describes Dun
bars experience as a member of a jury
sitting on a case of murder. A lawyer
named Bartlett was the prosecuting off,
Ger, and he built up such a formidable
case, and summed 1t up with so much ell
oquence that conviction seemed certain,
until Dunbar, who, pretending to be with
the majority In a vote for that verdict,
shrewdly won over his associates one by
one, and in the end brought the jury in
with verdict of not guilty. To the great
discontinue of Bartlett, Dunbar tells
how, having saved the life of the ac-
cused woman, the jury spent four days
In retirement trying. on their own ac-
count, to fix the crime on somebody,
there being no dispute of the fact that
murder had been done. AS Bartlett,
in his official capacity. had nearly in
duced the jury to convict an innocent
person, the jury turned on him, and as
Dunbar makes out, would have convicted
him for attempted murder of the prisoner
had not his protest prevailed. This an
ecdote might have been based on the Chi
nese system of justice, as lately describ-
ed and upheld by the Minister WI, in an
address before the New York State Bar
Aao< aAII
China, IL 1t was shown by subsequent
events that a prisoner had been wrong
fully convicted or punished, the court and
all officials participating in the proceed
ings became culprits themselves, and
we're adjudged guilty of the crime wrong
ly laid to the charge of the innocent per-
son.
Elements of Agriculture" by J. B.
McBryde, C. E., 12mo.. cloth, $50 PIP
Mailing price, 70 cents Richmond, Va,
B. F. Johnson Publishing Company This
volume Is an elementary text book on ag-
riculture designed for use in the common
schools In this book the author presents
! in clear, simple way the fundamental
| principles of agricultural science. THE
style" writes an intelligent farmer, us
| delightful. 1 had no idea that such a
! commonplace subject could be made so
! attractive" 1T is not a primer" says
Prof Nourse, of the chair of agriculture
| in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute but
a textbook that deals with the subjects
involved in concise, crisp terms. easily
understood, and will be of great value in
the hands of farmers and school chill
dren.'
Newfoundland in 1900: A treatise of
the geography, natural resources and his
tory of the island, embracing an account
of recent and present large material move
ments." BY Rev. NJ. Harvey, LII. D..
F. r. 8. c. Elegantly Illustrated with
maps and half-tone engravings. New
York: The South Publishing Company.
Newfoundland is an island with an area
of 1900 square miles lying off the Amer
lean continent, opposite sydney Cape
Breton from which it Us separated by
Cabot strait, the distance across which,
az this point, is but ninety-three miles.
The coast is rock-bound, at many points
presenting bold cliffs hundreds of feet
In hight. In this respect it resembles
Norway which has led to its designation
of the american Norway" The inte-
rior is diversified by hills, mountains,
plains, forests, rivers and lakes. The for
ests consist chiefly OF FIR, spruce, pine and
birch. There are good agricultural lands,
as yet little titled. The population of the
colony was 10000 at the date of the last
census. ten years ago. The inhabitants
are chiefly engaged in cod, lobster and seal
fisheries the annual revenue from all of
which is 5000 900. The population is al
most exclusively confined TO the coast
owing to the inacoessibility of the interior
for lack of roads. The chief city Of the
island is St. Johns. the capital, with
a population of 10000. II is a place OF
large commercial Importance and has
one of the best harbors in the world. The
winter climate Of Newfoundland is not
severe, while the summers are delight
fun the thermometer rarely marking over
80 degrees.
1.-THE Fanatics" by Paul Laurence
Dunbar Dodd. Mead & Co., publishers.
S72 Fifth avenue. New York. Cloth $50.
In this story of life in Ohio at the be-
ginning OF the Civil War is graphically
portrayed the hight to which party feel
ing ran in those days. even to the ulti-
mate ranging on opposite sides, in the
conflict, OF lifelong friends and members
of ha "a mil Mr. lar