The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-11


ed. Price $500. Publishers: The
Neal Publishing Company. New
York and Washington.
For forty years Mr.. Eugene New
man, under the pen name of "Sav-
oyard" has written for the American
press a series of letters that have
won instant and lasting favor with
the most intelligent readers in Amer
lea. His letters have been written for
the press, chiefly about the great men
who have made history in Washington
since 1865 Letters of this character
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tains the best of forty years writings.
including essays on Roscoe Conkling,
Matthew II. Carpenter, John j. ingalls,.
Oliver p Morton, Samuel j. Tilden.
Marcus a. Hanna Benjamin III. Hill,
Frank Wolford, Thaddeus Stevens,
Andrew Johnson, Sergeant S. Prem
tiss, Lucius Q. c.. Lamar. The Fam
lily of Field, Thomas Il. Reed, George
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trait of each of these distinguished
men-men who wrote their names
large on the statutes and on the most
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himself could have recorded"
THE LAW OF THE LAND. by Emer-
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This story will have larger sale in
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Hough's best novel; is Col. Blount'S
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The love story is a thrilling one and
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THE SCATTERED NATION by Zebu-
lon B. Vance, with an Introduction
by Willis Bruce Dowd Publishers:
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Nothing in his life will give him
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In his admirable sketch of Governor
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I'VE have complete revelation of
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people, whose blood was warm in re-
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THE BACHELOR GIRLS COLONIAL
BEAU by Anne. Price $1.00. Pub
fishers: The Neale Publishing Co.,
New York and Washington.
The day was when women looked