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Show MORE BUSINESS HUMOR. Old Gorgon Graham t Being More Letters from a Solf-Madb Merchant to His Son. By Georgo Horaco Lorlmer. With pictures pic-tures by F. R. Grugcr and Mar.tin Justice. Jus-tice. Published by Doubleday, Pago & Company, New York; A, R. Dcrgo & Co., Salt Lake. Mr. Lorlmer. tho author of this series, also wrote tho first book, "Letters from a Self-Mado Merchant to His Son," which was an Immense success, having sold to tho number of 300,000 copies. That first series of letters was written to the Bon an when tho latter was a subordinate clerk in tho concern; this series Is to the son after ho has graduated from the clork-shlp clork-shlp and has become actually engaged in business as ono of his father's managers. If tho first series of theso letters was great In humor and shrewdness, this second sec-ond scries is oven moro so, and on a broader basis, with a moro assured touch. The new standpoint gives a wider vista nnd a more general and genial piny to the humor, nnd it Introduces the female element, as tho young man falls In love, marries, and has certain domestic problems prob-lems to face, which afford the scopu for a varied play of fancy. There ls a dlntlnct American flavor about tho book, which makes it bright, daring, and cheerful, abounding in humor and full of a quaint philosophy So assured wcro tho publishers publish-ers of the reception of this book, that It i,s published simultaneously In nine different countries and in four different languages. |