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The book, he said, should be published
as the author left it. Knowing this
fact, readers of the present volume
may feel assured that no one has been
permitted to tamper with it. Although
the last book by Mr.. Stockton to be
published it is not the last that he
wrote. He had completed The Cap
tain'S Toll Gate and was considering
its publication, when he was asked to
write another novel dealing with the
buccaneers. He had already produced
a book entitled Buccaneers and Pirates
of Our Coasts The idea of writing a
novel while the incidents were fresh in
his mind pleased him, and he put aside
The Captains Toll Gate as the other
book, Kate Bonnet was wanted soon,
and he did not wish the two works to
conflict in publication"
The scene of the Captains Toll
Gate" is laid partly in Washington but
mainly in that part of West Virginia
in which the author spent the last
three years of his life. Incidents cen
tering about the '"Toll-Gate," and a
fashionable country house in the
neighborhood, are related with all the
authors peculiar humor and charm of
diction which have endeared him to a
host of readers.
The heroine, who is an embodiment
of the healthy, vigorous girl of to-day,
and her several suitors, together with
the mistress of the country house, and
a meddlesorne unmarried-woman of the
village, combine to afford the reader
fascinating and varied illustrations of
the social life of the period.
"A Spectre of Power" by Charles Egg
bert Craddock, author of "The Prophet
of the Great Smoky Mountains" "The
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Houghton, Miffin & Company, IS Fifth
avenue, New York city. Cloth, $1.5O.
The Tennessee mountain region be-
longs in fiction to Charles Egbert
Craddock, Miss Murfree," and her
stories mark the life and action of that
district as wildly and as truthfulIy as
Miss Jewell portrays Down East or
as John Fox depths the Mountain Re-
gions of Kentucky" There is always
adventure, peril, and excitement in
Miss Murfree's novels, and 1.-THE Spec
tire of Power" is no exception to the
rule. 1t deals with the struggles of
the early French and English and CEN
tres about the charming love story of a
Scotch girl, the daughter of trader.
The treatment of the Indians will inay-
itably recall Cooper, while in work of
incidentWe are reminded of Miss John
ston'S Virginian romances.
The Manual of Statistics" 1908, 1,O44
pages, 5RxS. Price, IS. The Manual
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New York. Marking the completion of
quarter century of useful and pros
porous existence the 1908 edition Of
The Manual of Statistics" more than
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mercial and industrial circles. The
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gives abundant evidence on every page
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trusted to them.
Only one material change appears in
/ the volume this year, but that Is strik-
I ingly noteworthy. It is found in the
department devoted to Industrial Sc
curities. In that classification are now
included all the street railway COM
| panies. Heretofore the street railways
and the industrials have been grouped
separately. In that section Of the book
| devoted to Industrial Securities are
grouped manufacturing. Industrial.
mining and miscellaneous corporations
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