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    Afterwards , by the Author of ' Winning her Way . ' A slip pasted ^ in this volume states that when it had passed through the press it was discovered that another story alreadexisted b bearing jh ¦ the same B BhBpdBb title b bm and vw «&»¦¦ bb that Arrangements ¦ b had biobw ¦* bbi been bbbb made that bb in

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    x be a full repayment for whatever may be given up to secure them . The story is full of interest from beginning to end . Few more helpful "hnrVU-s +. hn . n f . Tiis r » nnlH lift fonnri t , n rAa . o . f * . in t . hfi Tianrls of vonncr mftn and wrnnftn .

    Sbayning- Castle , by Miss E . Lu Davis , gives an unusually fresh and entertaining story ,

    or rather mystery , of a young man who engages himself as valet to a test ^ old invalid

    noblenfan . The y mystery is not explained until near the

    close , and it would be both needless and unkind to

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    others , to influences of a moral and spiritual nature

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    satisfactory part of the book is the tilC love 1 U V C- - IXI making . OI ( JVl . J . l ^ . . There 1 . UC 1 C is IS ,,

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    fall of the curtain . Shayning Castle , ' if a serious , is at

    the same time a readable—it might almost be said romantic—volume . The Mr style . Stepaway of the author ' s Two of * Feet The , Oiled and other Feather Sketches 3 shows , no by si the of Rev decadence . P . B . Power indeed , M . .

    Rev . P . B . Power ' s last book is one of his best . The foibles of gn unreasoning and ; domineering , ^ husbands — ¦ " •^ ^»» ""^ »«^»^ — ¦^• ¦^ r « i ^ , •¦ the vr ^ . mi - ^ w confidence - ^ - ** r ^— — " » - *«^* ¦ *¦ »¦ ^^ ¦«¦• - *^ gained af" ^ **•» ^ ^ ^ ^ " ^ ^""^ b «*^ y W ^ a ^«» discreet - ^^^ ^ ( Mbt ^^^¦ s . ^«^ ^^ ^* use ^ t ^ . T ^* ^ t ^ of - *^ rfh the ^^ ^ ap >> - » rf- tongue ** fc * - -axHilK ^> " » k ^ b ^ , m with TV Mr * 4 > /^ Jb | an ^ AA ^ added y ^ t ^^^ ^/ ^^ t word ^ Y * . i * \* Ht against I ^ QT % Jtf *¦* * ^» **

    cowardly silence , the kind of ignorance that is not bliss , and a Christmas story on Christ as the beet Christmas gift , are here the subjects of six brief and sprightly chapters written in the colloquial Bk vein of Bk the modern ft hBht «¦> * Old rf Hump ¦ ¦ hrey & . ' The volume / has a le of illustrations

    and ^^ ^^ ^ ^* ^^ its ^¦ 'V **» ^ B *^ p ^^ unsparing » ^ V ^ B ^ ^»^ M « H » ^^ ^ , —* ^ but ¦>> ^^^ * K *»« good - ^^ ^ ITB ^^ ^ -tempered ^^^^ >> *^^^ ¦! — —h « ^ . ^ , ^^ exposure ^ V «^ « B ^ . ¦ B ^ ^ B ^ V V of _ J « ^ human ^^ ¦ ^^ ^ fr ^^ Bfc , b * ^ . ^ weaknesses ^ B ^ ^ Bi ^ % Vt ^ . J f ^ , ^ coup » ^^ ^ ^ »^ sho ^ B ^ ^ ^ uld f ^ W ^^ render JL ^ L Jft ^ A IhJ Tk / JL W ' ¦! " it JL ^ .. ^ * * in * ** , "i many a disordered home , a pungent but palatable medicine . ,

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    caug from ht the the earl glowing y history and imag of the inative Christian style of era his . As surroundings an Eastern . His missionary language , Mr is . coloure Langdon d with has rich imagery II IB IP WWBM BB and W » yet - ^ BT sobered with < V much truth . The story of the Jfc settlement »^| / ^ j | of Syrian

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    heathen test of putting his hand to the , Sacred Serpent to prove him , is told with , conspicuous , and ability the . reader The writer will find has his evidentl book y a studied great treat the . subject of comparative religion to high purpose ' ,

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1608, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/74/