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SHOWING Cold" BY Rsx Bach.
author OF '"Ths spoiisrs." stc. IL
lustratsd. Nav York CITY: Harper
4 Brothers. (t3J
No tale of the froxon north 10 this,
but OF tho oil f1elds Of sunny Texas
and the magic changes wrought by
tho sudden discovery OF tho riches OF
the earth. now being unlooeed In the
recently discovered southwestern OH
territory. It 10 . wonderful story. re-
veAAng In the oil producing picture IT
painta, and vivid In its picturtng Of
the rare effects sudden wealth has
upon those who acquire 1t unsxpect-
sdiy after ysars Of poverty.
Rarely attractive 10 the character OF
Calvin Gray. who figures boldly IN
tho story from the FIRST. A man OF
brains and daring. who. although an
outcast from society. owing to an in
Justice. perpctrated upon him while in
the army service. and which drove
him out In disgrace. was man OF
resource and determination. And his
chief dissemination WAS to conquer
the man whose perfidy had brought
his stern but undesorved fate upon
him. and compel him to make reeti-
tuition by confession. And this he did.
The story OF this mortal combat In
most remarkable. His enemy was
keen and resourceful, and strongly
entrenched behind the bulwarks of
business prominence ana wealth. He
was in oil speculation up to his eyes
and into this business, with all its
ramifications. its manipulations and
schemes. Gray also plunged, at first
without money. dependent only upon
his wit and courage. And in the end
he won--was fully indicated and
proved his nobility in the end by fall
ing TO crush his enemy in the dust
after FINAL victory. although he might
have covered him with public disgrace
and infamy.
The oil portrait carried throughout
the story is vivid and most interest
ing. The reader learns of the fren-
zied excitement that attended tho oil
fever. appreciates the great Joy OF
"gurhers." and realizes the plight OF
the poor who suddenly become rich
and know not how TO comport them
selves in their strange environment
of wealth. IL lays bare the minds Of
some OF the sensitive ones who know
enough to realize their shortcomings
their crudeness in the ways OF good
living, and their unfitness to acquire
the ease and grace of those born tC
the purple. Also. there is pleasing ro'
nance throughout, some exciting adj
venture, and a thoroughly satisfying
though unexpected conclusion.
Altogether, Flowing Gold" 10 q
rarely fine story and will please al
lovers OF the ever popular Rex Beach
novels
Received OF the publishers
sThe Fugitive Millionaire" By An
thony Carlyle. author OF Grain
of Dust" and The Hoofelide." Bos
ton, Mass: Houghton Mifl1in Co.,
Park street. CSs)
Here Is a mystery story that /
solved most delightfully."- and without
the aid o. wizard detectives who d
the most remarkable things as tn
result Of extraordinary provision
Love is the potent agency that form
the motive power for dissipatin
I
to a right ending in this very fas
cinat!ng novel.
We have frst tho attractive youn
English woman who - so desperatel
poor that she Is willing to marry a
most any man to insure her futur
Economically she meets young ma
on a lonely island and then ensue
the inevitable love at arst sight. Ne'
she meets an ancient millionaire WI
! offers her marriage, and somewhat n
luctanty she accepts.
Immediately after marriage 81
meets her lover. He ia a fugtti'
from justice. having escaped from a
: American jail after conviction c
q the charge OF numbering his wife T
E protests his innocence and she b.
= lieves him. She meets him frequent
: and their love increases IN intensit
but she remains true and faithful {