The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-31
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| New York, publishers. Cloth, $3.50. 1t
is an interesting story, written in a
pleasing, epigrammatie style There
are two leading characters, John Hart
| ley, a young Englishman of literary
! ability and with ambition, and Cor
| della Vaughan, a beautiful young
woman, who has won fame by mas
| querading as the author of THE Silver
Poppy" 1.-THE Silver Poppy" of the
story had really been written by a
man, whom Cordelia Vaughan had
known in Kentucky. Dying, he turn
| ed the manuscript over to her. She
dressed it up, went to New York, pre-
| scented it for publication, and basked
in the glory of it's authorship. Hart
| ley appeared They met. She permit
ted him to read the manuscript of
THE Unwise Virgins an inane sec
ond story. This lacked the force and
| fire that had created THE Silver
Poppy" Hartley offered his aid. The
result was what was to have been
| collaboration. Cordelia Vaughan, how
ever, secured the manuscript and had
1t published above her own name. Then
she learned how much she loved Hart
ley, but too late. She used every eff
fort to stop the publication of THE
Unwise Virgins under her own name
and have it appear under Hartleys.
She was too late. When Hartley, after
a long illness, during which he was
separated from the woman he had
learned to love and in whose honesty
he trusted, saw a copy of THE I'm
wise Virgins" alleged to have been
written by Cordelia Vaughan, his heart
was steeled against her There was
a final meeting. She pleaded with him
for his love, but he left her.
1.-THE Law of Life" by Anna Nc
Clure Sholl. D. Appleton & Co., pub
fishers, New York. Cloth, $3.50. This
story deals with an entirely new and
a very entertaining feature of Ameri-
can national and social development.
Miss Sholl has sought her inspiration
in the life and interests of a large
university, as that life is felt and
known from the faculty and post
graduate standpoint. The author has
brought to a fascinating subject close
personal knowledge and an enthusiasts
tic appreciation of it's possibilities for
literary purposes.
New Harlem. Past and Present" by
Carl Horton Pierce. The New Harlem
$3.50 The purpose of this volume is to
prove ''that the town of New Harlem
has not been effectively erased from
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but a present New Harlem; that the
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is at last to stand, stripped of its gil
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American law" The text of the vol
ume is interesting, and the illustrations
are of a high standard of merit. Those
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early history of part of what is now
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Set Publishing Company, 452 Fifth ave-
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ern conditions, including child labor |
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Practical Journalism" by E. L. Shu- |
man. d. Appleton & Co., publishers,
New York city. Cloth, SLIPS net. An
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The reader of this admirable work is
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ing of a metropolitan daily journal |
The advice and suggestion, both inn |
pAcit and explicit, is notably sane, and
has the spontaneity of expression that
comes from matured thought sincerely
urged. Mr.. Shuman treats his subject
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vice, therefore, to those undertaking
such career is full of value while the
lucidty of the style and the many
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'The Lee Readers" by Edna Henry |
Lee. Cloth, 12mo, with illustrations. |
First Book, 1913 pages, % cents. Second
Book, 176 pages, 30 cents. Third |
Book, 24O pages, 40 cents. Fourth |
Book, 352 pages, so cents. Fifth Book,
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Company, New York Written by a |
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in this series the best literature and |
the best thought of the South are rep |
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