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Show II I,1 JACK LOGON'S LATEST. P I' The Sea-Wolf. By Jack London. "With lilt li-lt 11 lustrations by w. J. Aylward. The Mac- , raillan Company, publlnhoru, Now York. I ' 1 This, tho latest, story by tho younjj and I '. ' f imoua Woat-coast author, extends his I Hold of artlstlo effort, and h gives ua H ' - hero somo frightfully oruol sconce an oc-I oc-I y , urrlng on a scaling vnaacl In tho Pacific, y A pampored son of vroallh and luxury 1b I . '1 lropped from a ferry ntoamer In San I " Vroneisco bay after a collision with nn-fl nn-fl nthor steamer. Ho Is picked up by the I M ' utgolng sealer, -which lo commanded by a I $J' levll for ferocity and strength named I Wolf Lareen. A fiend ho -was, sure I j enough, a terror to his mon, and relentless I In his savagery. The soft young: man wan I I rut- to the most monlul tasks; irroon he I J; i was, and helplosa, so ho was monstrously 1 ' Imposod upon, and Bufforod many hard f .mocks. But with all his brutality. Wolf j, , arson had a mind of supernatural brlght-jj brlght-jj ' noao; ho was well read In philosophy, and A, wiu able to maintain his positions wltl y rruol realism, and apply them to th' vents aa thoy aroe, with lngonulty anr I (j ' ndroltnosa that wcro llttlo short of ea-I ea-I : tanlo. A long list of' brutalities grows to-I to-I ' dloua In tho reading, and horror is piled ' upon horror. Finally tho coming trial and t 1 pportunlty for further demoniac fury and f j 1 -.pravlty 13 added by the picking up of a j I boat at sea In which Is a bcautliul young 1 1 1 uoman. And tho young Sun Franciscan, I ' helpless and at tho mercy of tho horrible vi, c aptain, falls In love with this girl, under-'. under-'. Mnndlng her feelings on realizing her po-I po-I 'Itlon in this floating hell, and yet wholly , ! ' 'mablo to savo or protect her. But at the j - 1 1st, after a miraculous escape or two. tho j' -iri jg ablo to get away In an open boat ', it with the San Franciscan, after a battle on y ' if sea In tho waling fleet, which war f 1 ..thins less than murder and piracy. Tho ji mo fugitives flnnliy land on ono of tht ,j leutlan Islands, and lead a sort of Swiss , : Family Robinson existence, until they ar 1 1 f hocked by the drifting In of tho Larsen j " r ssel, with him on board and alone, blind. j1 nd suffering from a brain dlseaso that af-; af-; " rwards paralyzes him, yet hla flcndlsh-f flcndlsh-f ' 'fts Is noi, gone from him. It Is a utory I r great "power, by far the strongest work ! that Jack London has yet done. "The ! 1 t all of the Wild" was nothing compared ' 1 lih it. A very great multitude will ; ; v ,mt to. read-this book, and will bo well ' rr paid. In'. doing It'. |