Show Naughty Nan By John Luther Long Published by tho Century Co Now York A R Dcrgo Co Salt Lake City A sprightly work on the Dolly Dialogues style but which carries a warm love story through It In which the girl docs tho courting Thcro la an aunt who decides that Nun must be saved from a horde of suitors who aro supposed to b after hoi money tho aunt culls upon her nephew a goodlooking honorable but rather stupid stu-pid young man t do time saving act this saving consisting of keeping tho troublesome trouble-some suitors away from time girl so that she shall marry nn English clergyman whom a will has directed that silo shall wed and tho traditions of tho family are all to tho purport that she shall wed tho clergyman who Is to rise rapidly by house ho-use of her money and become L bishop rime way the nephew takes this saving business In hand the hot love tho girl makes to him tho honor that holds bin to his task and tho rejections of her advances ad-vances though ho very soon Is so deeply In hove with her that It wrings his heart to hold In lo aro them things not all written In tho four hundred odd pages of tho handaomo and wollmado book Wo admit tho sparkle and tho wit tho play of scnllmont und tho IntercBllngncss of tho main Bltuallons and of tho little ones but must protest that theres too much of It and that at times tho very play of wit and halftold meaning grow wearisome A Judicious editor with avery a-very largo and heavystroke blue pencil would do much for tho needed emendation of time work |