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Show "Stillman Gott," by Edwin Day Sibley, is the first book to be issued with the imprint of John S. Brooks & Co. It is a clean, wholesome story of real folk, dwelling along shoie and islands of Maine, a people of true instancts, high motives, honest, faithful, and God-fearing. They live homely home-ly lives homely in the sense of being removed from the glare and glitter of fashionable town existence, but they are sincere and earnest In that they adhere to the old-fashioned belief that character char-acter is power, and the only power that endures. They have their joys and their sorrows, but they bear each with composure and becoming dignity. Their rugged candor, their rustic philosophy, their native wit, their shrewd commercial instinct, their uncompromising honesty, their unfailing sympathy, their healthy respect for law, and their hopeful faith in God render them somewhat unusual un-usual in this age of iconoclasm, skepticism, and individualism. It is with such folk that "Stillman Gott' has to do, and the picture is faithfully drawn. |