The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-05

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and one may glance at any chapter and
ten IN . very Uncommon manner. f'The
is one Of the most contagious Of diseases,
and few Of us are immune. Some vtgor-
GUS moral constitutions never succumb,
i y
page is Wen nigh iirresistlb1e. Tell your
secret, then, broadcast, and let it have Its
way until it dies out. But above all never
the slightest desire to tell for there, like
a seed sown In fertile ground, it will ger
inmate and flower long after you have for.
gotten It, aye S and bring forth fruit you
Again: "F1attery is, however, an edged
tool and must be used with care. It is
not everyone who has the tact to decide at
a glance just how much his victim will
stand 49, - 4
/. The author treats of art, science and
criticism. and withal, with SO much Of
maSterful art as to render this book of
unusual interest w..
THE WORTH OF WORDS. T..
The Worth Of Words: BY DR.: Ralc
Hustled: Bell: 12mo.. gilt top, PIP: 300
In the introduction Dr.. william colby
Cooper says: words are the red corpus
cles in the blood Of language, and upon
language depends social integrity. See
the mighty importance of words. Is it
less than; sacrilegious to mistreat them?
Words beings<the red corpuscles of Ian
guage, it follows that the smaller ones
vocabulary is, the more anemic will be
DR.. Bell is a poet and understands the
value Of words as only the few do, and
in producing this work he has merely JUS
| titled his natural fitness in this line.
T. So1ae persons are correct as to gram
mar, others as to rhetoric. A wrong use
Of proposition or verb may be quite Of
fensive to the trained grammarian, the
improper application of figure of speech
offends the accomplished taste.
! There was a grocer who was very &C.
curate in bis grammer, and he wanted
| and took some trouble to instruct them.
| One day customer called and said to
him: Wnats IS. eggs tcday The sa reply y
! than half chickens" > 49, r..
In 1.-The Worth of Words, DR.. Bell al
lacks misused words, vulgarisms, every,
clear manner, and many errors Of speect
which are often made by persons of In.
telligence may be corrected by carefs
. THE ARCHERY OF sAMARA.
The Archery Of Samara, BY Henry lilo
VIII: $3.50. Philadelphia: Henry T.
Mr.. niowizi well remembers the terrible
| treatment of the Poles during their last
revolt and says he has been an eyewit=
ness of most Of the incidents narrated in
his romance: He writes with the t2eh bitter tie
tar enthroned in St. Petersburg is the
dragon that holds the half of two cont
| nents between his terrific iron jaws, ready
to crush him WHO dases to put straw a mn IN
limited to the confines of the pale; it COW
ers an empire where the sun never sets,
peopled by 100, 100000 Of beings who be-
| long soul and body to the czar. It is an
unwieldy mass of Heterogeneous humanity
in various stages Of degradation. at least
forty kinds of religionists hating each
other and all hating the police and the
army
| These sentiments form the undercurrent
Of the book and are in strange contradlc-
tion to what has been written of late re-
| adopted. They are in keeping, however,
with the latest newspaper accounts OF the
persecution of the: Jews. which cannot be
timely contribution to current literature.
| THE. ,M1LL1oNA1RE's SON.
The, Millionaire,s Son. BY. BY; Anna Robe
auth Boston, pana Ts9es
Go: The. Millionaires Son, the latest
novel by Anna Robson Brown, is the
story Of a. young mans bitter struggle TO to
tentatiously spent, and the. higher claims
Of thought and social service. The BOOK
is a study in temperament and hered1ty,
and a brilliant satire on social CONDITIONS
in America. It is, however, first of al: a; an
absorbing story, told with IT, re ansdss ie
p promp a9 caught in the current Of the
plot and never released until the a, tinal
paragraph is reached: The central sltuae
the the most novel and original in modern
! fiction. There is large gallery of we'll
drawn portraits, including that IT OF A lie
vitality and feminine charm, and OF Pau
Ellicott, the "millionaires son. Wh los
character is-drawn. with great insight an {,
sympathy. The novel is illustrated with
, full-page drawings by A. E. Becher
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STORIES OF GREAT ARTISTS:
| Horne and Scobeys Stories OF Great
| Artists Rx Olive Browne Horne and