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CHOICE NUGGETS
 FROM LITERARY FIELDS
EDITED BY MAY cARrLEDoE.

presented to the reader in thorouslr bred manner. &
 In view of the fact that James RusseII Loweli's active connection with the anti slavery movement lasted only three year& the amount of his output on that subjsdf is amazing. Houghton. Mifflin and Cont pany have. brought together no less thar sixty of his anti-slavery papers in tw@& handsome volumes the edition being lime tied to 625 copies. published November 2. Many of the articles contributed t4 the National Anti-slavery Standard 6ur~ ing 1s47. is4s, and is4s. have much of tho literary charm of his later essays. Though, the slavery issue is dead. the invectfve. irony, satire and eloqence that Lowell put into these forceful essays deserve tho honor of limited edition.
 The genial philosopher who sits befera an open fire and discourses amid wreatho to his mind. has always been a favor. ite with readers. Donald Mitchell wex the first to hit upon this happy styi1, and many volumes along the same lirSx have followed. The latest apostle of tf5& 'fireside school of thought" as it has been called. prefers to conceal his idenks ity behind the Elusive initial. and .sTHe Reactions of Lonely Man bears onlF modest "A. c. M on its title pass. Whoever he may be. his publishers aa- sert that he is a most delightful discove cry and his book a very entertaining and original little volume. "The Lonely Man'f knows how to handle humor and phfl- osophy, and he Is concerned with mas~ -ters of immediate. everyday interests Especially will his defense of the mucI- abused habit of smoking appeal to nas~ cuiine readers. as many new and inGs- nious arguments arc advanced whicA will doubtless be of much service to those of us who have exhausted our own supply in conducting one side of an endless de@
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Ivanho, by Walter Scott, Bard.
THE PIT.
.v Frank Nor

By Frank Norris.
 The pit is an intensely interesting tale of a "deal' in the Chicago wheat pit. It is strong book. and has for back ground the characteristic social life of Chicago, with wel-drawn characters. It shows wheat. in the world of trade. shows the commercial possibilities acting in the lives of many. i
 The place Is Chicago and the Board of Trade; the characters mostly wheat man ipuIators and their relatives.
 From the first chapter through the en- tire book runs a spirit of speculation.
 The characters all from Curtis Jadwin, the matter-of-faet. sensible. financier. led into the pit by degrees. finally wholly fascinated and ruined. to Laura Dear born, afterwards his wife, an inconsist- .ent uncertain. but altogether beautiful. and q womaniy woman. are well drawn.
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WILL HONEST HISTORIANS
 EVER BECOME A REALITYp
BY EDWARD YOUNG CLARK, JR.

The veteran General Boynton has taken up a dozen recent and popular school his tories and gone through them to find Errors in the accounts of the Civil War. We may expect the criticised historians to come "tumblng after" with justifica- tions and excuses, or with prayers for a "suspension of opinion until they can find their justifcations. But to the reader who is not an expert on the subject it now Heems that, as a considerable number of these works, the critic has done much to Invslidate their authority and to put the readers of them on suspicion.
 General Boynton's field is not very wide, and there Is. therefore the more reason to suppose that he has gone over it very thoroughly. The Civil War is indeed his subject. But 1t Is the Civil War in the West that he has made his particular sub Ject and upon which he is recognized as an authority. Not inded by every one concerned. General Sherman for in- stance. used to deny publicly and with
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BY FRANK T. BuLLEN.

love with her. preferring to lavish her own affections on more romantic figure.
 Ramon Da Silva, who proves to be a william and a sea dog of the blackest and most vicious type. Then Priscilla, her air castles having tumbled in upon her and she sits weeping amidst the ruin. In q most wonderful fashion quickly falls out of love and pines for the old life in the little village by. the sea. He proves himself to be a most cruel and heartiess wretch of Draconian fierveness of purpose, a very devil tooth and eye. And the disappointed Rube. having also gone to sea to drown his sorrows. which by the by. is a very good place to drown them being the hero of the book 1t Is
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@ Bible Lessons For Little Beginners.

@ This is one of the volumes comprising a two years course of lessons for little folks. This is the second part of the se- ries giving the f1fty-two. lessons in the second year of the course. which Is in- tended to present foundation course to prepare children to derive the greatest benefit from the international series. The need for such a course of instruction in Sunday school teaching as shall impart to the child by natural methods and in harmony with the best known laws of mind and heart-culture. is apparent to- day, and Mrs. Haven has done an in- valuable work in preparing this series of
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BY MARGARET J. cusHMAN HAVEN.

studies, which presents fundamental
 truths in such an order that the child mind is gradually. led from truth to truth. The position taken is that there Is vital importance of creating a need in the chiids mind for the truth we are to present before introducing it. so that one truth follows another as if 1t were necessity. and with the mind ready to receive 1t. The second year series con- tains two lessons on penitence, three on praise, three on giving, five on faith, two on Gods day. one on his word. two on contentment, three on truthfulness, five on right living thirteen on Jesus, our example and helper, and thirteen on Je- sus's life and words as revealing the Fa-
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vehemence that he was an authority at all upon that part of history which the general himself had had to do with mak- ing. But the war in the West Is naturally less known in the East than the war in the West, than the history of the four years conflict of the army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia It is fin the history of the war in the West, accordingly. as 1t is told by the school histories, that General Boynton has been able to pick most flaws. Some of his cavils, naturally, are of less importance, than others. But none can he fairly said to be SO minute as not to be worth mak- ing. And some are important enough quite to discredit the works against which they are directed
 EnGlishmen complain that the histori- cal food on which the American youth are nurtured Is calculated to bring them up in unjust hatred of the mother coun- try. There was. and there is still. some reason for this complaint, though the
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up to him towards end of the narrative to rescue his long lost love and carry her back to the quaint little Vermont set- clement. Which he does. and In very dramatic manner.
 The book Is a clever production, In that tho writer has . knack of graphically de- picting maratime events While he is telling us how whales are caught he Is most interesting but outside of that he is not ne plus ultra. All else is lost in the roar of the sea. But 1t Is a good book, but not as good as the writer's The Cruise the Cachalot" and ''Deep-Sea wanderings." CD. Appleton q Co.,, New York. N. Y)
 Horatio l.. King.
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ther. Tn teaching the lesson there are first passages for the teachers study and analysis. showing the point of contact with the things to be taught and results to be secured from the lessons. including hints for blackboard sketches; then the approach to the lesson Is shown and how to present it with the emphasis necessary to secure results. Mrs. Haven has had long experience in teaching, and has, a thorough grasp of the needs of the child mind. The course will, doubtless, meet long-felt want and prove of great value to primary teachers who desire to take advantage of the best. methods of in- struction. tFleming H. Reveil Co.,. New York, N. Y.). Nellie Catherwood.
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@ When Jesus Was Here Among Us. As

A capital book is this. The writer knows how to tell a story for the young. She has here told with delightful fresh- ness and really powerful charm the old, old story. With marked skill as we'll as fine judgment and reverence, she utilizes the fascinating help of the imagination in conscience. But while there is this free
 dom in the use of the imagination. as the souls realizing faculty in association with the concrete instances. there Is also a fine sense of reserve. being careful to
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BY NELLIE LATHRoP HELM.

suggest much without saying too much. The story as here told opens with the scene at the preaching of John the Bap- tist. the thronging, eager. expectant. re- pentent crowds. and the baptism of the One, "the latchet of whose shoes the Baptiser declared himself unworthy to loosen, and closes with: the ascension.
 Bnt a certain delightful humor and realis- tic and winsome element is given to the presentation of the story in connection with the home life of 8 particular Jewish family. in which Simon and Ezra. with
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their young Ezra and Miriam, who was
 blind. altogether impersonate the typical hopes and longings. and quickly respond ing faith and love of those who hailed the divine radiance as soon as 1t began toia pear among them? The whole story is in this way a beautiful showing forth of the spirit of the true faith, and that, with such natural potency as there is in the law of suggestion and spiritual contagion. A remarkable good book for a mother to read at a quiet hour to her eager little ones Theo Young.
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A Happy Day.

 A heart full of thankfulness, 2T. A thimbleful of care;. "a A soul of simple hopefulness, a!t An early morning prayer. Es@2-3 A smile to greet the morning with. t-T A kind word as the key. To open the door and greet the day, Whate' CT it bring to thee. A patient trust in Providence,
 To sweeten all the way, All these. combined with thoughtfulness, Will make happy day. To James whitcomb Riley, Gardener. Yours is garden of old fashioned flow
 CTS;
 Joyous children delight to play there; Weary men find rest in Its bowers, Watching the lingering light of day
 there. Old time tunes and love's young laughter Ripple and run among the roses; Merflory's echoes come murmuring after. Filling the dusk when the long day closes.
 Simple song with a cadence olden-- These you learned in the forest of Ar
 den:
 Friendly flowers with hearts all golden These you borrowed from Eden's garden. This is the reason why all men love you, Remember, your songs and forget your
 art;
 Other poets may soar above you You keep close to the human heart.
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LITERARY DEPARTMENT OF
 BUMTOWN DAILY DIATRIBE

[" (Our subscribers know that we run a two-mule farm in connection with The Diatribe. and we have been so busily en- gagged asriculturally that our literary column has been neglected. Our spring oats are all in. however, and it gives us pleasure to proceed with our book criti- cisms,-which seem about to give us national reputation.)
 Commentaries on the Gallio War by
 Caesar.
 We do not know what Mir. Caesars given name is, as the book does moi say. We are sure. however, that he Is no Kin to Pompey's Caesar. Our read CTS will remember old Pompey, who was Colonel Jim Bledsoe's body servant dur ing the war. And. by the way, we reckon Old Jim Bledsoe needed a body servant IT anybody ever did, because he was un- doubtedly the laziest man in Pike Coun- ty. He was perfectly willing to let the Gold Dust twins or anybody else do his work. But, coming back to Caesar. he was pretty peart and ambitious, and we ike his style of seeing things and telling about them. We were a little deceived at first as to the character of his work. He started out by saying that all gaul IS divided into three parts--wflich made us think for time that the book was a nerve food advertisement.
 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.
 There was a won nan in the case. Ev- cry man should have this book, because 1t shows that if man lets his wife run over him, he will begin to see things Macbeth got so mad that he saw a whole forest get out in the big road and start on a trot for his castle. He was dead gone at the end, however, and when he hollered, Lay on Macduff, and damned be he who first cries, Hold, enough' there was something doing. Mrs. Mac duff was peevsh and worried a great deal because she couldn't get her hands clean. She should have used Hand Po- solie. (We are going to cut out these ,refersnees hereafter unless these fellows cone up with their ads. and we give them fair warning.) Mrs. Macbeth was worse than Shrewish: she was absolutely fero- cious. If she had been the lady in the Lady or the Tiger" tableaux to which we think we have referred. little prayer for the tiger would have been about the proper thing.
 Ivanho, by Walter Scott Bard.
 Some of the local Shylocks who lend money to our farmers at 20 per cent. and take their cotton crops in the fall, should read this book and draw a lesson from the fate of Isaac of York, His daughter. Rebecca. was all right, though. and we can't account for her unless there was a crosS in the strain somewhere. The description of the tournament is pretty good tournament consists of a lot of men on horses running at each
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The Lieutenant-Gov a novel dealing with strikes in the imaginary State of Alisghania, by Guy wetmore Carryl will be published soon.
 pr. Washington Gladden's lectures. which he has just delivered at Harvard University under the William Belden Mo- ble endowment. will be published under the title of Witnesses of the Light"
 
 The author of Captain Craig is q genuine poet, with a bright future. Ev- cry page is fascinating.
 Maude Egerton Hing's picturesque story of Swiss life. Bread and Wine," is to be soon issued in an English edition un- der the title of "Christian's Wife; a Story of Graubunden.',
 "The Right Princess the first novel founded on Christian Science, is now In it's fifteenth thousand. It Is consid- cred to be Clara Louise Burnham's best story. but that is not saying much for the story.
 President Rooseveit's opinions are ai- ways, vigorous and worth listening to. In his History of New York, he refers to one ofsthe volumes in the American Men of Letters series. as follows: "Loundsbury's admirable Life of Cooper -the best piece of American literary bi- ography ever yet done" In this series.. to which Professor Lounsbury is a con- tributor. the lives of Hawthorn and Long. fellow have just been added. ez ss 4k has been pointed out that Our Lady Of ffe Beeches" has a charm which was feund in "Elizabeth and her German GArden," and very few other books, ths precise merit of which Is not easily deaned. Reviews of such books can be no more convincing than description of a beautiful day. Perhaps this is because the characters are thoroughbred and are
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SHOOT, A STORY OF
 UNCONVENTIONAL GOODNESS
By Cora o. sadler.

ny OUIH v. ShuIUr.
 In this story Miss Sadler portrays the character of little fellow. the shlm Of Pinch Alley. named ''Skoot." by the boys on account of his length of limbs and the unparalleled rate of speed he made. While bully among the boys he was tender and wonderfully kind to a neighbor, little blind girl who had A wonderful Influence over him. The good work of some college girls is also wrought into the story effectively, It Is written In a happy style and suggests
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SPOONS CAUSE RACE TO WED.
Girl Steals March on Her Sister to
 Secure Coveted Heirloom.


 A Wabash. Ind, dispatch to The Inter Ocean says: A double wedding has just taken place in the family of Newton lz- gard of Fulton County, his two daugh- ters. Misses Maude and Jennie, being marrned within an hour of each other Lee Cole had wooed and won Miss Maude and the hour for the wedding was fixed at o'clock. Mir. Izzard is the owner Of g fine set of ancient silver spoons that had descended through the family for many generations. and he had promised the spoons to the first of his daughters who married. Frank Cole, younger brother of Ice. had been paying court to Miss Jennie Iszard. Miss Maude'A sister, and fhey conceived 1t a brilliant Idea to get married an hour in advance and take in the spoons, A license was procured, the Rev, Mir DeVoe was employed and the knot was tied at o'clock and at [ the pair presented themselves as man and wife at the wedding of the other couple. Consternation prevailed, but after expla- nations all was forgiven, the spoons were produced and given to Mir, and Mrs. Frank Cole and the marriage of the older brother and sister proceeded,
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PUNGENT EXERPTS
 FROM THE NEW BOOKS.

Admiring Friend-I don't see how you manage to read all these books.
 Great Reviewer (stifiy)--I don't read; criticise.
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And somehow, when you have finished the book. you feel that at least the author had an unusually true insight into the hearts of his tellowmen and women. Doubleday, Page & Co.). May Cart ledge.
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Castleton-I have been making big i'm provements in my library.
 Clybberly-What have you been doing? Castleton-oh, giving away a lot of books. ~,.,..
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, other with poles. pistols being barred These men on horses are knights. There are other men who cry, "Shivering ol lances," The eyes of fair ladies look up- on you," etc. These are called herRids. These heralds also cry. "Largesse. !" ante a fat purse, else be considered short. The knights seem to have been more highly regarded but we-well we will let 1t pass, because the days of chiv- airy are gone. anyway.
 Dr. Jekyl and MT. Hyde, by R. L.
 Stevenson.
 We have not been able to catch the drift of this story exactly, except that with Mir. Hyde 1t seemed to be a case of bad booze. We suppose it Is tract got ten out by prohibition people. but as usual they have gone about 1t in the wrong way. What we need is not less. but better liquor. Hanging is too good for any man who will bottle kerosene oil and cayenne pepper and sell it for ten year old sour mash.
 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Conan Doyle.
 MT. Holmes is the first man we have heard of who used dope and was proud of 1t. He departs considerably from con- ventional detective methods--seems more apt to pull a hyperdermic than a colts The author works up his climaxes in rather peculiar way. Instead of the Bang! bang" of old Sieuth, MT. Holmes merely walks up, and dipping the ashes from his cigarette, remarks pleasantly: How are you Mir. Jones Cor whatever the party's name is he has been chasing) why did you enter through the southeast door instead of the northwest window?" Upon this. Jopes coliapses. tells the story of his life to Holmes and is turned over to the regular cop. Holmes and Hyde would have been good for a ten round bout. and it's a pity they didn't get together.
 SPECIAL NOTICE-In our last issue we referred to the ''Rime of the Ancient Mariner by s. T. Coleridge, and we intimated that Mir. Coleridge was better acquainted with the pipe than he should have been. This was the result of a gross oversight on our part. and we ten- der our sincere apologies to Mr. Coler idge. Upon reading a little further in his book wo found his state of mind fully explained. He says:
 Water, water, everywhere.
 And not a drop 10 drink!' .,,.
 Of course, he was up against 1t, and any gentleman would have felt just as he did. in case he has not fully recov- cred we want to tell him that our mint bed is doing fine. and We shall be glad feels like 1t.
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New York Evening Sun.
 The Philosophical Msn--It is curious how liquor will make man have so good an opin- ion of himself.
 Matter of FactMan-NothIng curious about it; 1t makes a man rate himself at his full value. that's all FtE
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What would you say" began the vol uble prophet of woe, If were to tell you that in very short space of time all the rivers in the country would dry up?"
 T would say" replied the patient man, Ego thou and do likewise"
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many good lessons. (Jennings & Pye, Cincinnati, O.
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Water. water. everywhere. And not a drop 10 drink! :.
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Witb 1nakcrs and Lovers cf Literature.

conducted by Edward Yourg cIarlee, Jr,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-12-21

boys dragged him to gbe edge Of the
canebrake, and the pleading voice, call
ing "L-o-u-i-e, Louie" seemed to recedc
into It's black depth, and they tried to
push Lewis into it. .Iust then Stephen
and Mack each picked up lightwood
knots and threw them over their heads
among the canes.
A chain could not have held Lewis, az
he rushed among the boys, knocking each
one OF them down. or. rather. all IN
bunch and fairly flew toward the house
Daddy Governor had been too frighten-
ed to say a word. But after while the
boys went for Lewis and found MIN
covered up head ana ears in bed. still
trembling They told him enough to see
that the boys had played a prank on
him. and he came back TO help them pay
off the people who had made Roman
candles Of their guns.
First they fired off all their guns IN
Tho piazza Of the house to awaken the
other neonle. Then every time the boys
would think the people IN the house "ere
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aqain lust about fully daylight thelr
last salute was from two anvlls ioaaNo
win nowder. The only thing that souno-
,.d I;tla II was the cannon that Sherman
fred when the writer vas near the same
mace during the civil war. But an '"r
ttno thought they might nave hed'o
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