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rest of his wealth came comparatively
| easy. His children he did not con-
slider appreciative of his genius and
most of the story is taken up with
| telling what trials he had with them.
! One of his daughters, Helen, was true
blue, and did not show the cringing
! fear of her father that characterized
the others. In the end Helen inherited
| his wealth and made every one happy
| about her. The writer has done much
! better work than this, and "The Mas
| ter Rogue" will soon be lost in OBJ
| security.
Rebecca Of sunnybrool Farm-By Kate
Douglas Wiggin. Houghton, Miff1in &
Co.. publishers. For sale by ST. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
For anybody suffering with the blues
one could not do better than to pre-
scribe this last book of Kate Douglas
| .Wiggin, with the certainty that it
| would effect a cure. The writer may
| have done better work than this, but
| surely she never created a more wholly
| delightful character than Rebecca.
! There is nothing unnatural about Re-
| becca, because once in a while we meet
some one entirely original absolutely
different from anyone else, and that is
| Rebecca. She is one of a large family
in a small New England village, and
| ever since she can remember there has
| been baby to undress at night and
| dress in the morning. Her father dies
at the opening of the story, and at the
outset we find Rebecca starting in the
stage-driyen by stout Mr.. Cobb-for
Riverboro, where she is going to live
with her mothers two maiden sisters.
Miss Miranda and Miss Jane are two
unique characters in themselves; Miss
Miranda is typical old maid, but Miss
Jane is softer, as she had been en-
gagged and her lover was killed in the
war. Into this prim, precise house
hold Rebecca enters like a summer
breeze, and from that time on there is
something doing" to use the slang of
| the day. Whether at school, at home,
in disgrace or in high favor, Rebecca
is always delightful and highly orig
| inal. She makes conquests of every
one, from old Mr.. Cobb, the stage driv-
er, who adores her, to young man
from the city," who is in the country
visiting his aunt
Rebecca is considerable Of trial to
Aunt Miranda, and, truth to tell, her
|. stiff maiden aunt is a sore trial to Re-
becca, but in the end it all comes right,
and even the cross Miss Miranda falls
under Rebecca's spell, and. dying,
leaves her the brick house and all it
contains within and without. The book
ends just as Rebecca is seventeen, hav-
ing lost none of her childish charm,
and the reader will hope for the sequel,
which the writer will undoubtedly give
| us, telling Of Rebecca grown up. One
book like this is an excellent antidote
for all the prurient trash with which we
are flooded, and everybody who likes a
| fresh, sweet story will say thank
heaven there is Kate Douglas Wig
GIN"
The Gentle Reader-By Samuel McChord
Crothers. Houghton, Miff1in & Co., pub
fishers. For sale by ST. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
This series of delightful essays are
of particular interest to st. Paul, as
DR.. CrotherS made his home here for
some years and has many friends and
admirers in the West. In this little
volume there are ten chapters of wise
and witty conversation, as well as COM
ment and discussion of various themes,
both grave and gay. The writer has a
| quiet sort of humor of the school of
| Charles Lamb. One of the best-and
most cheering to the average reader
| is the essay on "The Honorable Points
of Ignorance" He says: But the af-
| fectations of the pedants or the sciol-
| lists should not be allowed to cast dis
credit on the fair name of ignorance.
| 1t is only natural Ignorance which
praise; not that which is acquired. It
was saying of London that If a man
| had large mind he could afford to let
the greater part of it lie fallow. OF
course we small proprietors cannot do
things on such a generous scale; but
| 1T seems to me that if one has only a
little mind it is mistake to keep it all
under cultivation. I hope that this
| of mr. oix -
Tense to any intelligent reader who may
| feel that he is placed by reason of his
requirements beyond the pale of our
| sympathieS. He need fear no such ey-
clusion. My Lady Ignorance is gra-
cious and often bestows her choicest
| gifts on those who scorn her. The
most erudite person is intelligent only
| in spots"
| There is much that is charming In
wit and fancy in this book of Dr.
Crothers, and it is the sort of thing to
keep on ones table to pick up at odd
| times and read a bit here and there
The volume is bound in the manner of
fifty years ago and is quaint and inter-
esting.
billiards. Aus dem Deutschen Dichter-
Wald-By j. H. billiard, professor in
Iuiane University OF Louisiana Amer
I
| natl and Chicago.
The favorite poems of German litera-
ture, both lyric and descriptive, are
represented in this collection, which in
cludes, among others, all those pre-
scribed for memorizing by the Uni
versity Of the State of New York
Notes have been given where they
! seemed helpful toward the accurate
understanding of the poems and likely
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