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Show A STUDY IN DOUBLES. The Masqucrader: a Novel. By Kathcr-lne Kathcr-lne Cecil Thurston. Illustrated. Published Pub-lished by Harper & Brothers. New York; A. R. Dergo Si Co., Salt Lako City. Every one has heard oX two persons looking absolutely alike, having tho samo tones of voice, the samo walk, the same manner, and style. Well, here is a strange study on that lino. Two men not in nny way related, look absolutely alike; ono is a married man. the other a bachelor. Thoy secretly chango names nnd places, and the complications begin. A woman finds out the chango, but has no proof, and tho substituto or masqucrader, neither nei-ther asserting nor denying, permits her to havo her way. Tho wife, howover, sees no substitution. Tho situations growing out of tho substitution arc fnr-reachlng and of the most Intense character; and these nro not only psychological nnd domestic, but politics como in, and party fealty, promotion on partlsnn lines and in offlclnl life nro offered, and the solution of tho puzzle comes almost of itself, at tho behest be-hest of the wlfo, who ls decidedly tho strongest of tho threo characters. It ls a new sort of situation, nnd ono that made a reader who had heart troublo wrlto for advance Information of tho outcome, fearing fear-ing that sho would not llvo to read to the end tho Btory first appearing as a serial In Harper's Bazar. Tho advanco proofs wcro sent to her, but tho Information is not given whether or not sho lived to see tho end of tho story printed. There Is no question but that it Is a powerful story, Ingeniously planned nnd most skillfully wrought out Tho story ls sure of a wldo welcome, nnd should bo In great cimnnd. |