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16 ‘BOOK REVIEWS From an Unbiased Viewpoint. By A. E. RAM SA UR. “The Struggle” is a nice book of 324 pages, bound in cloth boards and well prepared mechanically, in the creation of which A. Wessels & Co., of New York City, and Sidney C. Tapp, of Atlanta, Georgia, are joint accom plices, the former as publishers, the latter as author. The plot is laid in the United States, germinating at Rocktite, Tenn, and branching into Wall Street—something like a four-leaf clover in form, but not so lucky. The name of the book is an appropriate one, but does not apply to the book itself so much as to the reading of it. After an unnecessary stay at Lexington, where due attention is paid to Henry Clay—also unnecessary, as Clay cannot appreciate it now—the reader is “whirled along” to Rocktite, Tenn., where the trouble really begins. The expression “whirled on” is used nine times in making a trip of two hundred miles. But what if we do make a whirling dervish look like a white chip, a great end is accomplished. We reach Rocktite, Tenn., where is the home of Colonel John Shelton. In the yard of the homes are vines “en twined around” oaks, and a broad farm “recedes back” from the house. The Sheltons have four beautiful daughters. They grow up into the four heroines of the book—preserving the four-leaf clover scheme. Enter Thomas Kinston and John Winston, classmates at Yale, the sons respectively of wealthy planters in Louisiana and Alabama. They meet two of the Shelton girls, and in two chapters woo and marry them. At the wed ding Mr. King, of New York, and Alex Wilson, a neighbor of the Sheltons, fall in love with the other remaining daughters. Wilson, in particular, is in a sad state of affection. These are some of his symptoms: “In his room all alone he could see, in his mind’s eye, her long queenly auburn hair adjusted over her head and falling down here and there over her neck, . . . and her plump and beautiful form, for she stood five feet and seven inches and weighed one hun dred and forty-five pounds. And as he sat there alone in his room thinking over his thoughts, his heart went out for her—he desired her—he longed for her. Rest he could not, sleep he could not—her vivacious, living animated form ■was ever in his mind’s eye.” His mind’s eye must have been on the blink with all that in it. He couldn’t stand this, so the next evening he called on her. “She was dressed and ready to receive him. Her queenly, solid and compact form wore a white silk dress with the usual evening parlor trail, with short sleeves and low neck. Carefully adjusted was the bunch of roses resting at the proper place. Her heavy suit of auburn hair seemed to hang a little loose here and there.” They were seated and talked awhile. “All the time he was moving by degrees a little nearer her, and she, conscious of his touch, was quietly leaning from him.” This is the culmination of the scene, and Wilson went home, with an engagement to call the next Sunday evening. The author and reader are present while Grace is completing her toilet to receive Wilson on that evening. On this occasion, “arranging her golden hair and low-necked dress and placing the flowers at the proper place.” Everything at its proper place, she meets young Wilson in the parlor, and they sit on a lounge near the open window, through which great streams of moonlight are pouring. After some unimportant remarks, young Wilson tells her how he admires her beautiful golden auburn locks, and touches her hand. This is his first touch. After a few seemingly desultory remarks, he still holding her hand, “then, squeezing her hand tighter and placing his other hand firmly against her forehead and her golden locks, said, “I declare I hate to leave you.” She said nothing, and he looked into her face again and said, ‘I declare, I hate to leave.’ ” And, reader, he did actually leave, with out, so far as we know, taking away that hand placed so firmly against her head, or closing that beautiful face he had opened to look into. But no harm resulted, for on Tuesday evening next he is back to see her. Soon they are engaged. In the next chapter Summer arrives. Mrs. Shelton, Grace and her sister go to the Springs, and there Morris Slogan, son of Pont Slogan, multi-mil lionaire banker and broker of New York, meets Grace and falls in love with her. John King comes back into the story to be with Ruth. Grace was true to Wilson, and soo after the girls returned to Rocktite there is a double wedding—the Shelton girls and Wilson and King. Rocktite was enough to drive any woman to early matrimony. Now we have a fair start, the four heroes married to the four heroines, everything ship-shape, so that we can give our attention to the Wall Street branch of the foliated plot; for we must now, dear reader, mingle with the bulls and bears of The Street. Here in the very haunts of Corporate Interests and in the lair of the Trust Octopus we mingle for a few chapters, while all the workings of high and corrupt finance are laid bare. It is terrible, the way they do; and through their machinations the finances of the country get into such shape that the planting industries of the South begin to fail. Chapter Seventeen takes up the troubles and misfortunes of our original characters. Colonel Shelton having realized what a crowd of people the author has on his hands, dies quietly of heart disease. Mrs. Shelton, ani mated by the same obliging spirit, goes to join the Colonel. This in the first of Chapter Seventeen. The characters now remaining are very much detrop, and the author is forced to remove them, even if they are inconvenienced thereby. Kinston, who has been reduced to poverty by the Wall Street people, commits suicide The Golden Age for March 22, 1908. B The Wonderful Medinical B B Value of Lemon Juice I is used to its fullest extent when I compounded by The Mozley ■ I bEMON Elixir Co. with other ■ ■ liver tonics, laxatives, aromatics, I stimulants and blood purifiers, the ■ I whole making that ideal LIVER I H MEDICINE. B Mozley’s Lemon Elixir. B ■ More than %of a century attest ■ BH that there are none ■ “JUST AS GOOD.” in permanently curing Chronic Con- I I stipation, Indigestion, Biliousness, ■■ Dizziness, Sour Stomach, Bad ■ ■B Breath, Pains in Back or Sides, ■ I Loss of Appetite, or anything I I caused by a disordered or torpid I I liver. 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