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The Loom of life
The chief strength in DR.. Charles
Frederick Goss's work is his great
| dramatic ahilitY, whereby he is able to
gain the close attention of the reader
at the very outset and hold il until
! the final page. He has apparently writ
! ten the present work as a warning to
young men against youthful indiscre-
tons. 1t is the story of a young man,
| who while negaged to beautiful
young Cincinnati woman, allows him
self to fall under the spell of an In
| tensely beautiful young woman-a
kind of daughter of the forest-whom
he accidentally meets while on a. hunt
ing trip in the South. After he has
had his temporary passion for her
gratified he deserts her and returns to
his old love, resuming former rela-
tons After the birth of her child, the
Southen girl follows him up, logging
his footsteps wherever he goes. He
tries losing her by a trip TO England
and by burying himself in the forest;
but il Is all to no avail. He finally
drifts out West and is killed by an
Indian squaw.
The girl he wronged finally marries
a noble and good man and lives hap
PLY the balance of her life. The de-
piction of sin to point moral. is SIM
liar to dipping ones hand in the mire
to be convinced of it's filth The same
objection can be made against nearly
all of DR.. Goss's work; and it is one
which will continue to bring down the
ardent protest of those who love the
| highest purity and virtue.
There are some beautiful passages in
the book, and some striking lessons
drawn. This is an unusual and dectd-
eddy true way of expressing the
thought that the first encroachments of
1 sg,, = .I1.S go
with him, so his friends said. was that
! he could resist neither a delicious sit
uation nor a delightful emotion. II
virtue had consisted in bearing pain,
he could have stood his ground like the
Spartan boy with the wolf knawing at
his bosom. But when it came to re-
fusing pleasure, that was a different
thing. AS an organist loves to test his
beloved instrument by trying every
stop and pedal and swell, so had he
secret craving to know how many
| kinds of bliss his mind and body were
capable of" The trend of the book is
to show what a disastrous destruction
such feelings will lead to. new way
Of expressing a thought as old as the
hills is to be found in the following:
WHO can tell by what little open
switches a mans life will be shunted
upon another track? And for that mat
| ter who can tell where the broken
bridges may be. or in what dark tunnel
his car will meet another and be
| wrecked by it?"
| There is much literary value attach
! ing itself to the work but useless de-
scription of vice cannot be countenanc-
cd, even though its setting be of the
! finest known to literature. Bowen
| Merrill Co., indianapolis, Ind, $1.5O).
The SUBMITS of Success
! The great ma jority of books upon
this all absorbing theme are either
| puffs of living men who have attained
what might be termed worldly success.
or are a compilation of platitudes worn
to fragile long years ago. 1t is re-
freshing, therefore, to get hold Of a
| book like Professor Burnley's which
goes down to bed rock principles and
fashions answers for the question,
What is Success-IIow to Attain It?'
pointing the way to true success in all
departments of life. Not success in
getting money only; for, as he says,
the amassing of money is comparative
ly an easy thing But the man who is
a successful man in an all round and
full way, must attain this success
through toll and painstaking effort;
when, however. the goal is reached,
and the summit of success is attained,
the reward is a crown well worth all
the striving.
IN DISCUSSING lHe arrangement OF
topic heads of the work, Professor
Burnley says:
ut permits of a separate study of
each of the leading avenues to sue
cess, so that, not only can the student
follow up the particular course on
which he is most bent. but he can
also institute comparisons between
one route and the other and weigh
their relative merits"
Further on in his opening he says:
I'm the varied narrative here set
down, 1t has been attempted to bring
into prominence those higher elements
Of character and conduct which insure
the truest success, and to make clear
at different stages what special gifts,
of course, of action has been most con-
ducive to advancement. Thus 1t will
be seen that the point of view Is more
that of action than of generalized re-
Election, and that the book is intended
to be helpful and stimulating to the
workers and strivers rather than to
minister to the demands of those who
only resort to reading as passing d.
version"
Some of the heads for discussion
are THE Geography of Success"
Climbers of Bygone Days, Through
the Labyrinth of Invention" I'm
Realms of Gold" Men Who Have
Fallen by the Way" and dozen more
equally as suggestive.
We all desire to reach the great sum-
mits of success, and the writer has in
recent years run across no book so call
culated to materially assist in the ac-
complishment of this laudable desire
than the one now before him. &c. b.
Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pa, $3.50.