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'?HE SUNNY SOUTH
Whence Comes This
Mighty Healing Power
All the Land Wonders at the
Remarkable Cures Effected
by Professor Adkin.
HEALS DISEASES CALLED INCURABLE
Ministers, Doctors and Professional
Ken Tell How He Has Cured
the Blind, the Dame, the
Paralytic and Many
on the Very Brink
of Death.
PBrEE HELP FOB THE SICK
Professor Adkin Offers To Help All
Sufferers from Any Disease Ab
solutely Free of Charge.
Professional Men In
vestigate His
Powers.
PROF. THOMAS F. ADKINS,
President of the Institute of Physicians
and Surgti ns.
In all parts of the country men anl
women, doctors and surgeons, clergymen
and educatets, are wondering at the re
markable cures made by Professor
Thomas F. Adkin, discoverer of the Ad
kin Vitaopathle treatment.
Professor Adkin heals not by drugs, nor
by Christian Science, nor bv Osteopathy,
nor by Hypnotism, nor by Divine healing,
but by a subtle psychic force of nature
in combination with certain vital mag
netic remedies which contain Ihe very
elements of life and health.
A reporter recently talked with Pro-
lessor Adkin and was asked to invite all
readers of this paper who are sick or who
nee worried by the ills of those dear to
them to write tc him for assistance.
‘Some people have declared." said Pro
fessor Adkin. ‘that my powers are
God; they call me a Divine healer,
man of mysterious powers. This is not
»o, I cure because I understand nature,
because I use the subtle force of nature
to build up the system and restore health.
But at the same time I believe that the
Creatcr would not have given me the op
portunity to make the discoveries I have
made or the ability to develop them if
He hid not Intended that I should us.;
them for the good of humanity. I. there
fore. feel tl at it is my duty to give the
benefit of the science 1 practice to all
who are suffering. 1 want vou to tell
your readers that they can write to me in
the strictest confidence if they are trou
bled with any kind of disease.' and I will
thoroughly diagnose their cases and pre
scribe a sipple home treatment which
I positively guarantee to effect a com
plete cure, absolutely free of charge. I
care not how serious their cases, nor how
nrpeless they may seem, I want them to
write to me and let me make them well.
1 feel that this is my life’s work."
So great is the sensation wrought in
the medical world by the wonderful cures
performed by Professor Adkin that sev
eral professional gentlemen were asked
to investigate the cures. Among these
gentlemen were Dr. L. B. Hawley and
Dr. S. Dutton Whitney, both famous
physicians and surgeons. After a thor
ough and painstaking investigation these
eminent physicians were so astounded at
the far-teaching powers of Professor Ad
kin and the wonderful efficacy of Vltao-
pathy that they volunteered to forsake
all other ties in life and all other kinds
of treatment and devote themselves to
assisting Professor Adkin in his great
work for humanity. With the discovery
of the Adkin VltaoDathic treatment emi
nent physicians are generally agreed that
the treatment of disease has at last been
reduced to an exact science.
In ail some 8.000 men and women have
been cured by the powers of Professor
Adkin. Some were blind, some were
lame, some were deaf, some were para
lytics. scarcely able to move, so great
was their infirmity. Others were afflicted
with Bright's disease, heart disease, con
sumption and other so-called incurable
diseases. Seme were sufferers from kid-
rey trouble, dyspepsia, nervous debility,
insomnia, neuralgia, constipation, rheu
matism. female troubles and other simi
lar ills. Some were men and women addict
ed to .drhnkenness. morphine and other
evil habits. In all oases Professor Adkin
treats he guarantees a cure. Kven those
on the brink of the grave, with all hope
of recovery gone and despaired of by
doctors and friends alike, have been re
stored to terfect health by the force .f
Vitaopathy and Professor Adkin's mar
velous skill. And. remarkable as it may
seem/ dlstar.ee has made no difference.
Those living far away have been cured in
the privacy of their own homes, as well
as these who have been treated in person.
Profes3or Adkin asserts that he can cure
any one at any distance as well as though
he stood before them.
Not long ago John Adams, of Blakes-
bury. Iowa, who had been lame for twen
ty years, was permanently cured by Pro
fessor Adkin without an operation of am-
kind. About the same time the city of
Rochester, N. Y.. was startled by the
cure of one of its oldest residents, Mr.
P. A. Wright, who had been partly blind
for‘a long period. John E. Neff, of Mil-
lersbuR. Pa., who had suffered for years
from a cataract over his left eye. was
speedily restored to perfect sight, with
out an operation. From Lcgansport. Ind.,
comes the news of the recovery of Mrs.
Mary Eicher. who had been practically
deaf for a v<;nr. while In Warren. Pa..
Mr. G. W. Savage, a noted photographer
and artist, who was not onlv. partially
blind tnd rl ‘a f. but at death's door from
a complication of diseases, was restored
to perfect health and strength by Profes
sor Adkin.
Vitaopathy cures not one disease alone,
but !t cures ail diseases when used In
combination with the proper remedies.
If you are sick, ro matter what your dis
ease nor who says vou cannot be cured,
write to Professor Adkin today: tell him
the leading syntbtoms of your complaint,
how long you have been suffering, and he
will at once diagnose veur rase, tell you
the exact disease from which you are
sufferirg, and prescribe the treatment
that will positively cure you. This costs
vou absolutely nothing. Professor Ad
kin will also send you a copy of his mar
velous new book entitled “How to Be
Cured and How to Cure Others.” Th'i
book tells you exactly how Professor Ad
kin will cure vou. It fully and complete
ly describes the nature of his wonderful
treatment. It also explains to you how
vou veurself may rossess this great heal
ing power and cure t'ne sick around you.
Professor Adkin does not ask one eent
for h!s services in this connection. Thev
will be given to you absolutely free. He
has made a wonderful disco' ery and he
wishes to rlace It in the hands of every
sick person In this country, that he mav
be restored to perfect health and
strength. Mark your letter personal
when vou write, and no rne but Profes
sor AdKIn will see it. Address Professor
Thomas F. Adkin. office 100 N. P. Roches
ter. N. Y.
OEL, CHANDLER HARRIS'
new book, “The Making of
a Statesman; and Other
Stories," will be published
about the middle of March
by McClure, Phillips & Co.
In the novelette which
gives th etitle to the book
the creator of, “Uncle Re
mus” has gone Into a very
different line from his for
mer work. The story deals
with a young college grad
uate who gives up his ca
reer in payment of a debt of gratitude
to his patron, a Georgia planter. The
planter has a possessing ambition to
become a successful politician, but is
hampered by his inability as an orator.
The young man, who is naturally gifted
in this respect, trains his senior for years,
and finally wins success for him. There
is a very charming love-story interwoven,
with the planter's daughter for heroine.
The shorter stories in the volume are
character sketches of somewhat the type
for which Mr. Harris is famous. The
author's illness has somewhat delayed the
publication of the book.
♦
John Murray has just published^n Lon
don Lord Goschen's long-promised book
on his grandfather. The title page reads:
"The Life and Times of George Joachim
Goschen, Publisher and Printer of Leip
zig, 1752-1829. With Extracts from his Cor
respondence with Goethe, Schiller, Klop-
stock, Wi eland,* Korner and many other
Leading Authors and Men of Letters of
the Time. By his Grandson, ' Viscount
Goschen. With Portraits and Illustra
tions."
The London Literary World has an In
teresting article on the.English poets as
makers of popiilar\quotatiqns. Pope, of
crurse, stands high upon the list, his
“Essay on Man" alone furnishing almost
as many famous lines as can be found fti
a like amount of text from Horace.
Gray's “Elegy” has strings of much
quoted phrases, while Goldsmith furnishes
many. Cowper's most famous lion is—
“England, with all thy faults I love thee
still!"
Bums and Byron and Keats were very
happy in this respect. Mr. Tennyson
shows probably more familiar lines and
phrases than any English writer since
Shakespeare. It is noted very truly that
some of the greatest authors furnish the
fewest pf Wiese “jewels five words-long,'*
while many obscure poets will live just
because of their gift for pregnant diction.
Thus Browning and Ruskin yield very
little to the gleaner, while Coventry Pat
more abounds in the “glorified common
places" which are the pemmican of ex
perience.
Edited by Lucian L. Knight
items: “History of Haverhill. Massachu
setts. by B. L. Mirlck.” Haverhill, 1832.
The poem is as follows:
“When our moments of youth are glided
away.
When the pleasures of youth are sunk In
decay.
Wlien the hopes we have cherished and
the joys we have known
Oblivion has covered and time over
thrown.
If these lines come before thee, thy
memory may cast *
Through the wreck of long years a dim
thought of the past. -
Thou mayst thine upon him who thus
feebly has penned
The lines here annexed to the name of a
friend.
“Life, at best, is but a rqund of weariness
and care.
In which few delights are found, so
transient all our piea'sures are;
Joined in friendship’s sacred ties,
Our hearts forget each earth-bound woe;
Nor can on earth be found a prize
Enhancing our joys below
So pure as friendship's sacred glow.
“W.. 1823.”
These lines, which are unknown to any
biographer or bibliographer of Whittier,
are not included In the “complete and
definitive” edition of his writings, and are
not referred to in the authoritaiive “Life”
of the poet, written by h.'s nephew in law
and literary executor, Samuel T. Pickard.
The earliest of hhs boyhood poems that
Whittier saw fit to reprint in that collect
ed edition of his works (seven volumes,
188S-9) are dated 1825, Most of these early
verses were published over the names of
“Adrian,” “Donald,” “Timothy," “Mlca-
Jah," "Ichabod," and “W." The poem
now first printed is signed, like many of
these youthful efforts, “W.” The first
poem that appeared with his full name is
the ballad. "Pericles: by John G. Whit
tier, Havertiill, 9th Mo., 1827,” which ex
ists in the unique copy sold at Libbie’s
March 5. 1901, and now in the library of
Joseph W. Stern of this city. The latter
antedates, of course, the poetical address,
"J. G. Whittier to the Rustic Bard,
which was first published In Robert Dins3
moor’s “Incidental Poems,” Haverhill,
1828, and was long believed to be his first
poem to appear in a book.
te-
Some cf the most famous authors of the
day have suddenly risen in arms against
the quality of British book printing and
production, which is variously described
as “cheap,” “shoddy,” “vulgar," and
“very decadent.”
Mr. George Bernard Shaw leads oft the
grumble In the new number of the Cax-
ten Magazine, in which he Says that
“many fashionable books show that the
printer has not only not known the first
canon of his art, but that he has actually
gone out of his way to Introduce leads and
spacings wherever he can. Well-printed
books are just as scarce as well-written
ones, and every author should remember
that the most costly books in the world
derive their value from the craft of the
printer and not from the genius of the
suthor.”
Mr. H. G. Wells says: “I must confess
I don’t think much r.f contemporary book
production Modern type to Pickering
type is a treacle to good wine.”
Mr. Gilbert Parker. M.P.. thinks that
lockbinding is far more artistic, origina ,
and tasteful in the United States than in
England, but that the printing is better
here than in America. Mr. Eden fhilpotts
complains that hit books rre always dead
and flat and tame in their English covers,
and nearly always bright and attractive
as bound and produced in America. Mr. I.
Zangwill deo’ares that there are some
new books properly printed “because their
authors gave a special order therefor.
But the majority can only be described as
shoddy:” and Mr. Morley Roberts does
not think anything bad enough can be
said of the ordinary bindings of books,
and refuses to try.
Almost the only good word that is
spoken for the modern book comes from
two eminent lady writers—“John Oliver
Hobbes" and Mrs. L. T. Meade.
Literary Outlook.
Reviews of Latest New BooKs
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WANTED on very
liberal terms. Address
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p. o. Sox 484. Washington, D. C.
“Aliens, a Novel of Contemporary Life
ir. the South,” by Mary Tappan Wright,
which will come from the press of
Charles Scribner’s Sons next week, deals
with social and political conditions south
of the Mason and Dixon line during the
period of reconstruction, and up to the
time of the birth of the new south. TMT
author is the wife of Professor Wright,
of Harvard, and her father. Professor
Tappan, was at one time president of
Kenyon college, Ohio.
♦
Ainsworth R. Spofford, former librarian
of eoneress. has issued in brochure
form an address on “Rare Books Re
lating to the American Indians," which
was read before the Anthropological So
ciety of Washington last May. Mr. Spof
ford says that "books and pamphlets re
lating to the aborigines of both Americas
and their islands amount to many thou
sands of volumes, _ in many languages—
Latin. Spanish, Freiici, English, German,
Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Rus
sian, and native Indian of many vary
ing dialects.” He regrets “the lack of
any Indian bibliography which is .at
all comprehensive in its scope or its ma
terials ” Mr. Spofford gives “Herman
E. Ludewig's ‘Literature of American
Aboriginal Languages,’ published by
Trubner & Co., London, 1858,” as the first
catalogue representing portions of the
“great wilderness'’ of Indian bibliog
raphy. Toward the end of his discourse
the author says: “I come now to the rar
est of all rare Americana connected with
the Indians—the Holy Bible translated
by John Eliot into the Indian language,
printed at Cambridge, Mass., during the
years 1661 to 1663. This early typographi
cal monument was an achievement which,
in view of the age in which it appeared,
in the infant Massachusetts colony, may
fitly be called marvelous.”
Herbert S. Stone Co., are to publish
shortly a dictionary of art, beginning
with the Renaissance, and including the
great painters and sculptors down to
the present time. The editor’s aim will
be to give something of the relation be
tween the painter and Jiis time in a con
cise biography. The volume will be val
uable as a reference book, and will have
several hundred reproductions of notable
paintings.
♦
Maxim Gorky is taking Great Britain
by storm. ’.‘Foma Gordyeeff" is extensive
ly reviewed in the daily press as well as
in the literarles; and. as in this country,
the young Russian is accepted as a giant.
The Athenaeum says: “Maxim Gorky has
Just been ’discovered.’ and undoubtedly,
as soon as any one discovers a new writer
of any power at all, the temptation is al
most inevitable to welcome him with an
enthusiasm which maturer judgment is
sometimes apt to modify. We have tried
to bear the danger in mind while reading
Foma Gordyeeff,” nevertheless we must
confess to being carried away with genu
ine enthusiasm for this writer, who seems
to have something real and something
new to say.”
Below will be found for the first time
in print what is believed to be John G.
Whittier's earliest poetical production. In
1823, then 16 years old. he visited some
friends in Newburyport. Mass., and while
there wrote in an album fifteen lines,
which are said to be the first of his pro
ductions in verse of wnich there is any
definite record. These lines are now
printed through the courtesy of a friend
whose knowledge of Whittier and his
writings is intimate, anl among whoso'
many bibliographical discoveries in con
nection with the poet is the notable one
which identified Whittier's name with a
work long prized as a scarce volume of
lccal history, but now ranked high among
the most important of the early Whittier
“The Jew as a Patriot,” by Madison C.
Peters, is the first book which has ever
been printed to point out conclusively the
soldierly qualities of the Jews both in Eu
rope and America. The book, written by
the author of “Justice to the Jew,” a
well known Baptist clergyman, is in the
nature of a reply to 'Mark Twain's article
in Harper’s Magazine where he accused
the Jew “with a patriotic disinclination
to stand by the flag as a soldier."
Dr. Peters first points out that Jews
furnished the money necessary for Co
lumbus’ expedition and that the won
derfully well planned expedition of Co
lumbus was due to the scientific achieve
ments of Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
He takes up the part which the Jews
played in the colonial cause, how freely
they gave their lives for independence and
aided with their money to equip and
maintain the armies of the revolution.
Next, the author speaks of the Jews
who distinguished themselves in the Mex
ican war, while in an interesting chapter
he portrays the conspicuous place of the
Jew in our regular army and navy, show
ing that in every branch of the service
he has made an honorable record. Al
though there were only 150,000 Jews in the
United States at the time of the civil
war, nearly 8,000 Jewish soldiers served
in the union and confederate armies.
The first official call to_organize the
abolition movement In 1853" was signed
by five Germans of Chicago, four of them
Jews.
Over 4.000 Jewish soldiers served in the
American armies during the war with
Spain. - - r r V
In the : armies of Europe the Jew-has
likewise been conspicuous. Some of Na
poleon's greatest marshals were Jews.
Some of the greatest soldiers of Germany
and Austria were Jews by birth and in
herited genius. The Jewish population of
Europe is about 8,000,000. They contribute
*350,000 men of the war strength of Euro
pean armies. The, proportion of Jews
among the soldiers of Europe is greater
than that of any other race. Nearly
1,000 Jews have served England in her
war with the Boers. All over the empire
Jews arose one in heart and interest with
the imperial people.
The book is strong, clear and convinc
ing. It has the interest of historical rev
elation coupled with an electrical style
which has made Dr. Peters one of the
best ktlbwn pastors of New York. (Baker
& Taylor Company, New York.)
♦
Elien V. Talbot has laid lovers of
Shakespeare under especial obligation to
her by filling an inviting gap in “The
Merry Wives of Wlnd-
*‘THE COUaT- sor” with the charming
SHIP OF romance of Sweet Anne
SWEET ANNE Page and her courtship
P.» E" by Ellen by the three lovers—Abra-
V. Talbot ham Slender, the tallow-
faced gawk chosen by her
father; Dr. Calus, the garlic-scented fa
vorite of her mother; and the “gallant
Fenton,’’ the choice of that "youthful un
derplotter,” her own wilful self. How
thd second suitor was played against the
first, and the third, bantered and co
quetted and finally eloped with, is made
the matter of a plot which Shakespeare
himself could not have construed more
artistically.
The diction, too, has the true Elizabeth
an flavor, and the humor possesses all the
wit of that period without its vulgarity
and horse play.
Indeed, if Shakespeare had written "The
Merry Wives of Windsor” to suit his own
refined taste instead of that of the coarse
"virgin queen,” he would have developed
into the main plot of the comedy the very
story that is told so charmingly by Miss
Talbot. She has, therefore, accomplished
a task second in value only to the discov
ery of a lost play of Shakespeare, and
every book lover should add the dainty
voluipe to his Shakespeariana. (Funk &
Wagnalls, New York.)
•THE CRIM
SON WING”
Chat-
nerd- ■■■-
Taylor’
"The sandals” referred to in this story
were the foot covering of the "blessed
feet" which were “pierced for our re
demption,” and the story
“THE tells what • were their
SANDALS” 'wanderings and who were
BY their wearers from the
Z. Grenell • time that they fell to the
lot of a Roman soldier
when Christ’s garments
were parted among His crucifiers, to the
day when they came back to Mary, the
mother of Jesus. The little book exhib
its both strength and beauty of literary
style. The initial scene, where the sol
dier pawns the sandals at a drinking shop
in Jerusalem, is written with masterly
vigor, and the love story of Zera'h and
Elihu, the shepherd lass and lad Into
whose possession . the sandals shortly
come. Is told with the delicate touch of a
true poet.
An inference may be drawn by snmp
readers that the author imputes mystical
virtue to the sandals, but the conclusion
is Just as legitimate that the wearers re
ceived power from them because of belief
in their supernatural qualities. Whether
this virtue is physical, that is, inherent
in the substance of the relic, or psycho
logical, pertaining wholly to the mind of
the venerator, Is the problem of all relic
worship. Small as the present book is,
therefore. It may be regarded as a con
tribution to a very fundamental and im
portant controversy, as well as a delight
ful bit of Oriental fiction. (Funk & Wag
nalls, New York).
♦
This is a romance of the Franco-Prus-
sian war. the heroine being a young girl.
Marguerite, who sheltered a wounded
Prussian from the Franc-
Tireurg under the com
mand of Pau'i d’Arblay,
jrho loved Marguerite,
but "wlTo did not return
her ; love. Ludwig, the
Prussian, was engaged to
another, and he Was sotely tempted to
yield to the ycung French girl’s fascina
tions, but she nobly saved his life for her
rival, and in despair committed suicide
to escape, the'hgtefp) attentions of Paul
d'Arhla;V :^'|4(pr” * rt ”'‘° a faithful but
lurid picturji-of tfie hLprrors of war on the
borders of Grande, and describes many
daring deeds qf braVery on both sides.
The only fault' that etui be found with the
story is Its tragic'gliding. (Herbert S.
Stone & Co., Chicago.)
The Fofit Track Magazine
As an up-to-date periodical. The Four
Track News, published by the New York
Central and Hudson River Railway Com
pany, udder the editorial supervision of
Mr. J. E. Root,, chief of the advertising
department is rapidly becoming one of
the best magazines in the country, and It
appeals with growing interest to general
readers as well as to tourists and sight
seers. Each issue of the magazine con
tains an interesting assortment of arti
cles representing the best thought of the
day and contributed by the mos' popular
writers. The magazine is bouncLJn yellow
covers and outwardly bears some resem
blance to Scribner’s, while inwardly it i3
not below the, standard of this old estab
lished publication. The illustrating and
typographical features are fully abreast
with the latest developments in the art
of magazine making. Altogether it is an
exceedingly attractive and unique period
ical.'' More than 50.D00 copies of JJie mag
azine are published monthly and still the
demand is increasing. But no one who
reads it can marvel at the favor it seems
to have found in She eyes of the public.
NE of the most important
announcements made thus
far during the present sea
son is an autobiography of
Helen Keller, the deaf,
dumb and blind girl who
is now a student in Rad-
cliffe college. For years
Miss Keller has been a
study for the psychologists.
Gradually she has acquired
the equivalent of the senses
without which she was
* „ - born - until now she cannot
y ta.k but also enjoy to a very large
degree all the privileges of those who see
and hear Her story is the account of
this unfolding of her nature and the de-
veiopment of her powersi She has de
scribed her first sensations of life, the
first impressions .of the world, and the
first, realization of understanding. Here
should be a story of unusual “human in
terest. ’ The work wili appear serially
during the coming spring and summer
and will be published in book form this
rail It is said that Miss Keller under-
took writing the story in order that she
might earn enough by it to purchase a
small island in Halifax harbor and build a
summer -home there. I
The following are Brander Matthews’
twelve rules for reviewers, as set forth in
his last book. “Pen and Ink:”
1. Form an honest opinion
2. Express it honestly.
3. Don t review a book which you can-
not take seriously.
4. Don’t review a book with which you
are out of sympathy. That is to sav. put
yourself in the author’s place, and try to
see his work from his point of view, which
Is sure to be a'coign of vantage.
5. Stick to the text. Review the book
before you, and not the book some other
author might have written; obiter dicta
are as valueless from the critic as from
the judge. Don't go off on a tangent. And
also don't go round in a circle. Say
what you have to say and stop. Don’t
go on writing about the subject, and
merely weaving garlands of flowers of
rhetoric.
6. Beware of the sham sample, as
Cnarles Reade called it. Make sure that
the specimen bricks you select for quota-
tioii do not give a false impression of the
fatjgde, and not only of the elevation
merely, but of the perspective also, and
of the ground plan.
7. In reviewing a biography or a history,
criticise the book before you and don't
write a parallel essay for which the vol
ume you have in hand serves only as a
peg.
8. In reviewing a work of fiction don’t
~ive away the plot. In the eyes of the
novelist t^jis is an unpardonable sin. And
as it discounts the pleasure of the reader
also, it is almost equally unkjpd to him.
9. Don't try to p.;ove every successful
author a plagiarist. It may be that many
a successful author has been a plagiarist,
but no author ever succeeded because of
his plagiary.
10. Don’t break a butterfly on a wheel.
If a book is not worth much, it Is not
worth reviewing.
11. Don't review a book as an east wind
would review an apple tree—so it was once
said Douglas Jerrold was wont to do. Of
what profit to any one is mere bitterness
and vexation of spirit?
12. Remember that the critic's duty is
to the reader mainly, and that it is to
guide him not only to what is good, but
to what is best. Three parts of what is
contemporary must be temporary only.
“Did you ever notice,” inquired an old
reader, “how many of the book reviews
today bear evidence to the fact that the
reviewer has frequently read no more
than the preface of the book he has writ
ten about? It reminds me of the story of
Lamb's letter to Coleridge. It seems that
Coleridge had written a very extended re
view of Priestley’s works, whereupon
Lamb wrote:
“ ‘Dear Coleridge: 1 was very much
interested in your review of Priestley's
works. Priestley'is a great favorite of
mine, and I am sure, if you would' read
him, you would like him, too. Yours.
•• ’CHARLES LAMB.’ ”
♦
“Probably the next great book of trav
el," says an English literary journal, “will
he Dr. Sven Hedin’s account of his two
years’ wanderings in Thibet, western
China, and the desert of Gobi.” Accord
ing to recent newspaper accounts. Dr,
Hedin claims to have traveled 6,000 miles,
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Andiron Tales
Continued from, third, pago
“ ‘Yes,’ said I.
“ ’Ve.ry well,’ said she. ‘It shall be
so. Goodnight.’
“Next morning I waked up to find my
self as. you see—nothing more than a
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“Audrey,” Miss Johnston’s
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When Miss Johnston began the writ
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her attempt, knowing that many authors
had made brilliant successes with earlier
works and disastrous failures with later
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one who has read “Audrey’ can fail to
acknowledge that Miss Johnston has ably
sustained her reputation as the author
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they are not less vivid or real, but reveal
the same beautiful landscapes through
maturer eyes. What is true of her de
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generally; while preserving the individual
ity apparent in her former works, it also
shows distinct growth.
"Audrey” fails to command the reader’s
attention at the start on account of the
cumulative contents of the introductory
1 Chapters, but once in the current of the
| story we are borne with swift and com
pelling force to the breathlessly attained
close. Certain faults lie upon the sur
face; here and there a careless expres
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a split infinitive smiting the ear. The
branded schoolmaster is introduced with
too muoh circumstance to fall into “in
nocuous desuetude.” The romance of the
Highlander and the pretty Quakeress,
evidently Intended as a relief from the
more intense emotions of th tale, seems,
after all, somewhat superfluous; and,
white we are in captious mood, we may
add®hat no extremity of provocation
could have forced from the lips of that
most courteous gentleman. Colonel Byrd
of Westover, a sneering insult to the por
trait of his host. We foresee wide diver
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have ended with the lovers reunited in
the drawing room of Westover. Read
ing it as a serial, it seemed that then
and there the final word was said. Should
it indeed have been so. or is the wholly
unexpected close artistically better? Had
Miss Johnston taken counsel of her read
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to ring down the curtain upon a tragedy:
yet. with the artist's unerring instinct,
she has chosen wisely for her heroine and
for her book.
We are forced to agree with Gordon
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mv young ladv. hath been told me of the
goodly land of Virginia, but of her beau-
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