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Show HI ? i I II I "77? 3PV' 1 j Doubleday, Page & Company, of New York, 1 f have brought out a new, beautiful edition of "The i j Pit," by the late Frank Norris, the story of a h l I Chicago wheat deal. Those who have read the H I 1 I story will read it again; those who have never m j 1 I read it will want to read it now, for the lamenta- S 1 a I ble death of the brilliant young author kindles m I I a new interest in what fell from his pen, which B 111 made him famous, while yet he had reached only m i 2 the dawn of his real manhood. There is a won- M $ a derful charm in his writings, one of the chief of B 111 which was his skill in making his words exactly R I ft 1 express his meaning; then all his writings are B I clean through and through absolutely free from m I I all suggestions of anything coarse or rude. K 111 "The Pit" is a love story, but it carries more B i ij I than one moral. One is that the pursuit of money B i!ji may be carried on until the better attributes of m. $' m f men can all be blunted and benumbed, another B w is that great wealth carries with it no guarantee Bj f 1 of happiness. Another is that when with a woman jH $ 5j her truer self is subordinated in her desire to pos- B ' f? 1 sess wealth, she cannot evade suffering for her H I II 8in- H i;f In many places the young author was shrewd B i ffj ( and keen in his delineation of character; the fact B ( K j of his careful observations of men and things is B ml brought out vividly; it is altogether a charming Bl i K W ', book, and as one read the sorrow increases that B i ii one so young and brilliant should be called away B : jftj ! while yet his masterful abilities were but half B '1 J j trained. |