Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-21
SOME BOOK REVIEWS.
(copyright, 1871. BY c. B. Lewis

cUME bVOh REVIEWS.
Copyright. ls5l. BY C. B. Lewis.)
"Disowned' is the title of a book WHIT, |
kept Us awake all Elght and spoiled On,
breakfast next morning Al stern fatbs,i
thinks his son has marris-d she cool
and in his naughty impetuosity not only
disowns him. but harrows up his fee.
ings BY calling him lgp shouiezrae
knock-krseed. low browed ison Of a en-,
The son bows in humility ami leaves m.
mansion, and 1T is - u ars before IN.
father discovers that instead OF marrvirs
Bridget. the cook. he married There's.
the cakes daughter, There is a recon,
Citation at last. and the father make,
the dssowned James an allowance OF 81.
per week, but somehow the end Of IN.
book leaves something to be desired.
In Her own Coin T. a book which will
take the place Of Webster's Dictionary for
a rainy afternoon. Carrie. "a coquette. en-
courages about 50 different fellows to fan
in love with her that she may turn them
down. and as the reports of the suicide
of over 80 of them Gene in she simply
gloats over them. She is still breakln1
fails in love with ldm. and after leading
her on to declare her feelings he calmly
informs her that he is a sausage maker
with ten children. She swoons and fails
upon a pitchfork and Is stabbed 10 the
heart. and we are glad of it. The author
is put down as unknown" and We are
glad of that also.
"a Life's Mistake" is a book which all
young wives are recommended 70 read and
keep beneath their pillow Three nights
after the marriage of the hero and hero
Inc he went off to his club and came
home drunk. Had she been a wise bride
she would have uttered no reproaches, but
she wasn't wise, and she reproached, and
, the consequence was that the young man
skated out every night of his life and got
a Jag on This had continued for 30 years
before the wife realized her mistake. and
II was then too late. All she could do was
to hang herself with the clothesline and
! leave a note begging forgiveness.
"Who Was the Heir?' is a volume to
thrill. The nurse of a duchess changes
the babies in the cradie---her child for the
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CHANGES them back. The cook sees the
maid at work and removes one of the
kids and slips in stranger. The butler
realizes by the cook $ confusion that she
has been up to snuff, and he overhaus
the cradle and wrings in the coachmans
sem There are no more changes, but as
the kids grow up an heir is wanted to a
fortune of $l0,090.e90 Three doctors, four
lawyers, six old servants and a fortune
teller try to untangle the web, but they
could never. never have met with success
but for detective who discovered the let
ter d on the toe nail of one of the con-
testants As it was plain to all that D
stood for duchess and duke, the rightful
heir was put in possession and the goose
hung high.
THE Harbor Bar" seems at the first
go off to be a sea tale, but that's where
the author gets in his little joke. The
Harbor is a village hotel, and the bar is
the usual one to be found in all respect
able caravansaries The author picks out
GO different villagers and walks them UP
to the bar and then takes a space of 30
years to tell how each and every one went
down TO degradation and died in the cab
bage patch or behind a haystack Ihere
is no doubt a great moral to be Drawn
from the book, but we cannot give 1t our
unouaIified Endorsement. In the first place
most of the GO would have been dead in 20
wears anyhow, even if each one had drunk
two gallons of cold water per day, and IN
the next the sort of whisky that let's a
man sIosh around for third of cen-
fury after beginning on it must be pretty
good stuff to take, or the reader VIII De
apt to so argue. We think the author
would have done better to devote the last
200 pages to pirates.