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Show A COMPLICATED SITUATION. The Amethyst Box. Bv Anna Kalharlncr Green.- Published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis A detective (lory, which keeps the mystery mys-tery till clmot the last, and hides It very well It involves two young glrlll, their lovers, and a gorgon of nn old aunt slnguicr wadding pres nl which was missing, and which war. the cause of astonishing as-tonishing complication", cues, miscues, clues that led to nothing and that led wrong, and other clues that came In unexpectedly, un-expectedly, follow each other in swift succession: solutions that do not solve, and then explanations that have matter-' worse than before, came along In their due sequence, and the reader Is'kept constantly con-stantly guessing. It Is an Ingenious theme, carefully and artistically worked out- Tho author will reap Increase of fame out of It. |