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 Rex E. Beach. author of ''Pardners," Mcclure, Phillips and Company, New York; is an instance of tae typical young American going into literature. He is big and muscular---a thorough going athlete who has won many med als for swimming, and has been also, in his time, a football hero. Though in his early twenties, he is already vice-presi- dent of a big Chicago construction and manufacturing company. Born in Michigan in 1877 he went to Florida when small child; then returned north to attend the Chicago Collegs of Law, where he graduated in 1896. A yenturesome disposition led him to join the first mad rush into Alaska after gold. He lived there for several years; and acquired 8 knowledge of the cot1n- try and the people second to that of no one writing to-day, a knowledge of which he has made ample use in his stories. He saw the humorous side of Alaskan life, which other writers seem to have overlooked, and has brought it into fiction for the first time. His new book "Pardners" is an absorbing story of the Klondike where the tender foot" comes into hiso Graduates of Amer tcan college football figure in thisclev- CT romance. '"The wild may call to all equally and the jungle invite to spring running, but from a Rampant City po- ker game to cross-country six-day en- durance test through Arctic passes, the race is to the Meestaire Weelards and the battle to the Justus Morrows." The "Pardners" were in it for fair. The Sun says: "Tarantula Bill Joyce said, A true partnership is the sanctified re- lation that grows" and he lived up to his creed in Klondike, Texas, Arizona and Short Storyland generally. We take off our hats to Annie, the only honest woman in Klondike; to the Indi- an wife of Big George the squaw man, where the northern lights come down; and also to Shorty and the Sheriff's wife, to Charley Captain and the scourge, and to Bitter Root Gillings, ar bitter, by both force and circumstances, of dock strike in Chicago.
 Between the devil of dialect ard the deep sea of doubled and trebled quota. tions Mr Beach carries off ten rattling stories in almost as many first persons singular. He "dove" and he got s'onto" things, as dialecticians will. Persons in hurry will find that he dishes up the wild west and north in compressed ta- I,t,J ao+ c,,,r h,rt aor to swallow" .s
 ''The First Stone" by w T. Wash- burn; pp. PIT; R. F. Fenno and Compa- ny New York.
 The First Stone and Other Stories is a small volume made of fifteen short stories or sketches which abound in sensational and dramatic situations, and though hurried and vague at times, some of the stories have a Munchau- ssn-like flavor, and there are many sur priseS to interest the reader. Some of the stories have humor that lends flavor, such as '"The Boss" "A Lucky Watch and Madagascar" Among the more clever stories we may men, ton ssTolnuk and Ima,' the Eskimo story of love and adventure; Mrs, OfRafferty,' the sketch in which the love of the warm-hearted Irish woman triumphs over the cold machinery of the law and saves the inheritance of the in- faint of her dead mistress, and "Ildra,' ' the story of the unselfish devotion oi the Arab maiden to her English master For sale by all leading booksellers.
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 A book which young people will eager. ly read and decidedly enjoy and profit by also is ''The Young Folks Cyclopae dia of Natural History" by John Deni- son Champlin, A. M., late associate edi- tor of the American Cyclopaedia; editor of the Cyclopaedia of Painters and Paintings and Cyclopaedia of Music and Musicians; and associate editor of tht Standard Dictionary. In the produc. ton of this work MT. Champlin had the very valuable editorial cooperation o1 Professor Frederick A, Lucas, late Gu rator of division of comparative anato- my at the National Museum, Washing. ton; curator-in-chief of the Museums oi the Brooklyn Institute. The work is published by Henry Holt and Company New York, and is for sale by the E. P Judd Go. The introduction is also by Professor Lucas.
 The object of this work, which it ad. mirably realizes is to fill gap among books relating to Natural History, ant it includes in a single compact volume of seven hundred and twenty-five pages at the very low price of $2.50, an outline of the entire animal Kingdom from tht largest mammal down to the tiniest in. sect that has to be studied under { magnifying glass. No importan branch or class has been neglected, ant the fauna of no one part of the world has been neglected to the exclusion O. that of another part The work is botl universal and catholic, both in scientific delineation and geographical range Naturally greater space has been deyo ted to the more interesting animals, bu none have been neglected, and proper balance has been preserved. The open ing sentences give the scientific facts in dicating the animals place in nature Next are given a few generalization respecting its family or genus, and last ly an account is given of the more i'm portant species, indicating the habitat personal history and habits of each ,.f. Ca