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Show "JACK HARKAWAY" COMING BACK Story That Thrilled the Boys of a Gen-eration Gen-eration Ago. For a regular thriller commend me to "Jack Harkaway." Thirty-five years ago this sensational bit of fiction fic-tion exercised a greater influence on the character of the average boy of 10 to 15 than father, mother and the Ten Commandments. It was devoured by millions on both sides of the water. "Jack" was the ideal of the youth of all English-speaking countries. I see that it has been started again for a long run in a periodical that claims 1,250,000 circulation. Bracebridge Hemyng died iu 1901. He wrote not only "Jack Harkaway," but forty-odd volumes of readable fiction, yet you will look in vain for his name in "Johnson's," "John-son's," "Appleton's," "Chambers'," the "International" and the "Standard" cyclopedias, and in the "Ridpath Library Li-brary of University Literature." The editors of all such works seem to make it a habit to leave out just what one wants to know. New York Press. |