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| thing as fatigue or a tagging Of his pow
erS.
Naughty Nan" is a story made up of
conversations on the order of the Dolly
Dialogues, though less witty. Sufficiently
so, however, to make the fame of the
writer, John Luther Long.
The Conqueror," Gertrude Athertons
latest, and some say her best, contribution
to fiction, will be reviewed later in these
columns. 1t is a story of Alexander
Hamilton, and according to one enthusi-
astic reviewer, justice is at last done
this historic parsonage. 1t is pleasant to
know that Gertrude Franklin AInerton
(as she now calls HERSELF has written
something worth while and redeemed the
bad impression left by her Senator
NCrth,' a most ridicuIousIy impossible
book which was without doubt a base
libel upon official life in Washington. 1t
is strange that with all the discussion
pro and con the color question, that no
one has mentioned this book as case in
point of the utter impossibility of any
social ningling of the two races. 1t was
in this story that a high-born Southern
girl introduces the ilegitimate negro
daughter Of her father to a cousin of
hers passing her off as a white woman
and he ultimately marries her not suspect
ing the faint in her blood. Although near
ly white and very handsome, the girl
eventually reveals the secret to her huS-
band and the shame induces him to nln
himself which example his wife follows
Whereupon the Atherton heroine gives a
dinner party a few days afterwards and
continues her intrigue with Senator North,
just as though she had not been re-
sponsible for a tragedy. 1t is well for
Gertrude Franklin Anterior that she has
given us something to take the taste Of
that out of our mouths.
There are very few books written espe-
cially of fiction, that are utterly without
reason for being in the matter OIL plot or
incident, but it would be difficult for even
the least critical to comprehend why
George Horton wrote 1.-THE tempting of
Father Anthony" 1t is the account of a
Greek boy who got hold of the lives of
the saints and determined to become as
like St Anthony as possible. The novelty
of a modern boy desiring to become a
SAINT may from it's rarity be conidered
not too strange for fiction, but the story
based upon this idea is absurd and value
less. This Greek Anthony becomes Il
monk but finds that monks are very diff
ferent in reality from what he has pic
tuTed as mOnaStic life in his imag ination
and so he leaves and eventually falls in
love with girl, renounces his vows and
marries her II is one more added to a
large class of tales built upon periured
vows, escaped nuns, and unfaithful monks
for which III world was never any better
and in which scandal and sin have been
glOritied into romance.
One more has been added to the flood
Of Napoleon books of which there seems
to be no end, although it is doubtful if the
supply exceeds the demand Napoleon"
by Thomas L. Watson, is the latest con-
tribution and is an interesting account of
the life, struggles, character and achieve
ments of Bonaparte 1t does not pretend
to be a deep investigation but a reauabIa
survey of the strange career and the
great successes and pitiful failures of this
NEST fascinating figure in history.
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