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Show ' I STOBXES OF 1TA2TY LANDS. '() 1 Atoms of Empire. By Cutcliff Hyne. The 1 , i t Macmlllan Company, publlahora, New ji 4 York. 1 Horo is a collodion of elxtocn vivid M.lj j Rtorloa told by a master of vivid narrative L 1 j Ir- Hyiie's personal skotches havo made B'' 1 hm famous; his "Captain Kottlo, Partlcu- ; i 'r Methodist," Is a well-known and vlrllo Hf.tj I ' haractor of fiction whoe adventuress arc j! j r, the doings of an Aladdin of traval. i1 : Thrso stories lutvo no particular hero, bu Bf 'iiey aro all exceedingly well told. Thero U i !s "Tho Bait," a story of the Wcct Africa B' e-oart; "Run Down." a narrow escape on Bjjf I tho ea; "Tlio Finger of Hankln," a Bjli ! blended English and African coa.it utory; B; : The Cholera Ship," a fearful story of flfi' suffering; "Tho Horralt," a story of the 1 ; Alabama coast. "The Lizard," a grim j I story of Yorkshlro; "Held Up," a railroad B ; j agony; "Shot," a storj' of rough Jiutlco; J 'The Connumptlvea," a tolo of love and Hr ' ! tno Grand Canaries; "Tho Place of the Hf j Sacrod Bo-trec," a storj' of Buddha; "Tho Hh I Mummy of Thompson-Pratt," a wolrd tale j ot aclenco rcacarch; "Tho T-nchors," a B j 6l0rJ of ncgro-hant In Louialana; 'The Fauclnatlng Mrs. Whitehead." which tells ol a seeker and an artist; "Tho Fire." a vivid account of a great destruction; "Tho Kid." a sympathetic story of a rescue from brutality, and "Tho Renegade." a story of Zanzibar. So the tales cover many lands and a great variety of tho phases of life, and they are very woll told indeed. |