Show THROUGH TEXAS with the compliments of the mis mi ouri bourl pacific railway and through the medium of its agents agent mr 8 13 V derrah and mr B R F nealen tile the has baa received a copy of a neatly printed and bound and graphic graphically written little book bearing the above title the author is ig walter B steven a special correspondent of the 8 at louis who we made li tour of ef the lone star state stale during the fall of 1892 he wrote a series of ef de d letters letten to his paper and them have been collected in the volume before us mr stevens has hai established in this work if he had not done me M before a reputation for acute observe ob serva tion and admirable descriptive power his sketches are interesting inter eating the style racy and the narrative all though graphic and charming every page to supplied with one or more illustration which assist and add to the pleasure of the perusal we are told in the introduction that the object of the work to IN not to boom texas but to supply rella ble information this much would certainly seem to have been done and in a most moat attractive manner |