“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the space.”
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“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work formidable and rather dreary reading.”
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“Very interesting memoir.”
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Stanton, Coralie. Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.
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The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the adventuress.
Starbuck, Robert Macy. Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly by the author for this work. $4. Henley.