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Show H A STORY OP THE OLD WEST. fM When Wilderness Was King: a Talo of Ifl the Illinois Country. By Randall Parrlsb. Vv "With six pictures In full color and other mxI decorations by Troy and Margaret West . ry. . Kinney. Published by A. C. McClurg & 1 K JS - "0', Chicago. jj T A forclblo reminder of the days and ways 1 L 4 of lhe nra,rlc ILnd tno fon?st a Uttlo less Wm; X tliftn a hundred years ago. A young farm- IT A' er lad on the Upper Maumec Is called by J an obligation of his father to go to Fort i m Dearborn to bring home the "little girl" of U 1, an old comrado of tho Revolutionary war B A' who was dying at Fort Dearborn, later B R,. Chicago. It was a perilous Journey, tho JkBt savages woro out for blood, and all the In- j? jV. genultles and carofulncss of frontier traln- 8 B Ing were put to their uses In getting I- M; through unscathed. On tho way the hero, I., AV , John Wayland, falls In with "one Captain 3pf 1 do Croix, gentleman adventurer, and for nflR oafcty, and eafoty only, they are glad of R. ono another's company. Then the strangc- Hk !' assorted pair encounter Captain Wells Ppfr. and his company of Mlamls, also bound j for Fort Dearborn, and are only too glad HH to avail themselves of tho added protec BH tlon. But ono evening young Wayland goes In for Independent exploration and, jBti! among tho sand dunes, In an open boat UH beached by the tide, ho sees for the llrst lime tho fascinating, changeable and alto-gcthor alto-gcthor bewildering young girl who Is to M glvo him so much trouble, (ipf "But they finally reach Fort Dearborn, rtM4 and flnd tne slluat,on tlierc appalling WT enough. A thousand menacing brayce on v'll the outside, discord and sedition within 2" DW the walls, and hardly any two opinions llr alike na to what must be done. It "What they did do is a matter of his- E lory but before they march out through $ &' ,tho gates poor John has a sad. perplexing hr1 tlmo of l1, wnat 'n'lln lhc wilfulness of his fljlil lady-love and the mystery surrounding. her movements, to say nothing of tho nppa- B ' rcntly superior prowess of Captain do t. Croix. And finally comes the day of tho rj "Dead March played for Dearborn's men B P Just marching out of life,' and comedy Is W U at an, end. But stern realltlos serve tho mMj w I purposes of John Wayland' s lovo better jPc H Ihan polite Inaction, and from the day of H W I the maesacro the story Ib ono of thrilling B 11 peril and escapes at tho very edge of Rl I death. How Wayland got away from his Bdj j ' pavago captors and how ho rescued Toln- Bal f nctto It would be purposeless to detail BfJ ) hero. It Is all wonderfully told In the V. I story, and It lo only necessary to say that Kw y K . everything comes out to the satisfaction I of the reader at the end." V' It Is a story full of dramatic power, and Bm'9 W 0. faithful picture of a stirring and bloody 9BV s fig time. Tho publishers have made a work ft;f f r of art of the book, with Its colored plc- mm 'i f tures and embellishments. The book Is f. .T ' sure of a largo demand, for John Wayland, j'UJli big. powerful, resourceful, a mighty 31 an Jg I In fight or toll, Is a worthy hero, whllo B -di rq Tolnnetto, sweet, shy, baffling, and true of JbJIi tc I heart, Is as dainty and winsome a heroine fpH a as ono could wish to And. |