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eis = “OTHELATEST PA, Cae SE SARUAY PPOR so extended a biography, Horace ptionally entertaining. This is due i part to the author's unaffected style and in part to the fact that his work is a discrimi generation. (Ifoughton, Mifllin and Company. Russell Lowell is e: The House with the Green Shutters is the story of a business feud and a study of local types in a small Scotch village. It is strongly conceived, but doubly handicapped by the dialect of the characters and the peculiar vocabulary of the author, Mr. George Douglas, (McClure, Phillips and Company. $1.50.) Henry Seton Merriman’s latest book, The Velvet Glove, is a Spanish story of the Carlist insurrection in 1870, It would not be Merriman's were it not exciting, but both the plot and the author's love of epigram are held well in hand. It is the best thing he has written. (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) Poor * Elizabeth” is being worked time in fiction these d: Her latest appearance is in The Ordeal of Elizabeth, by an anony It is a New York Journal story told in New York e sensationalism: mous writer. Tribune language and should please lovers of po (J. F. Taylor and Company. $1.50.) enth of Harper's American novel pus a study of the idealism of a ss unnoticed among many loudly vertheless it is worth reading, and (Harper and When Love Is Young, the ele series, is so simple and unpreten: boy's mind that it is apt to heralded works of less merit. its author, Roy Rolfe Gilson, is worth watching, Brothers, $1.50.) 1 rous, The Lifting of is a natveté Ina Brevoort Roberts's story of a bold, bs a Finge y bad that it is amusing. ‘The about it that is almost suggestive of the little girl’s celebrated dramatic representation, “ We, too, have not been idle.” (J. B. Lippin- cott Company, Philadelphia. is so ve Memories of a Musical Life, by William Mason, is modest, unaf- fected and interesting. The v abounds in personal reminiscen of celebrated composers, notably Liszt, and is illustrated with fac- similes of the author’s collection of musical autographs. (The Century Company. $2.00.) J. OB. Ke Natural Mirrors. YHE LAWYER: Yon say that you were walking behind this woman, could‘not distinguish her figure because of the cape she wore, saw nothing of her face, and yet knew that she was a very pretty woman. How do you account for that? Tue Witness: Well, I could see the faces of the men coming towards me. “a WASTED Lire.” LESE.MAJESTE. W UHELM R. 1, by Divine Right full of talent and renown, Was a soldier and a sailor from his spurs up to his crown; The Nation stood his preaching with a smile upon its face, Ilis writing and cartooning in every paper found a place ; As architect and artist he forced the people to enthuse, As pilgrim and musician he did nothing but amuse ; But now he's turned to temperance, the Germans, filled with fear, Cry, ‘‘Gread Himmel, dis ad all von't do, he vonts to sthop our peer.” Allerhochgnadigstendurch- laucht! GiB tam Fremder what you call, not Eingebor- ener which have invent a green light who look Ted by the cotor-bilnd and save all the trains life in tunnel and a man say go let sec It the Board of Criminals N Y C peraps they take it they need a such thing, peraps they gleich- glitig and remark at you goto hell, never can tell what Board of Criminals gotng do at a railroad, but é know, by Gott they dont fake tt. Tad they hiren man nicht an, Now 1. Fremder no money no friend mutterseelenallein dead broke cant sell it what the hell I going do Ergebenst, Bad News. ~UPERINTENDENT (of Met. St. Ry) + Here is an article saying the average American is gaining in weight. PRESIDENT: That’s too bad. We won't be able to pack so many of them in acar. As it is, we are only making about 900 per cent. on each passenger. Ernst Miller comicbooks.com