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Show SOME NEW BOOKS. H A Parish of Two a recent interesting vol- IH ume of fiction issued by the Lothrop Publishing H company of Boston, represents the corre- H spondonce between a clergyman, who is an invalid H for life, and his friend, a man of the world, and H tho letters portray modern social conditions from H the diverse viewpoints, in very vivid and attrac- H tico form. The collaborating authors are Henry H Goelet McVlckers and Percy Collins. Douglass H Dayton is a typical society man, married to an H uncongenial wife, and his friend and confidant, H Percy Dashiel, is the clergyman who, after his H unfortunate accident, devotes his career entirely jH to books and letters. IB Douglas meets with a tragic death after res- B cueing a child from drowning. In the meantime B ho has sent the love letters of the woman in tho Pfl case to his trusted confidant, the clergyman. It B develops later in a scene which is pathetic and H dramatic in the extreme that she is the same B woman with whom the now invalided clergyman Pfl had fallen in love in his youngrxr days. B The book has a fine literary flavor and tho B reflections of the minister during the days of his M ostracism are deep and full of character and sub- PB tie wisdom. The book is one of tho season's lit- M erary successes. I'"f H l3 ( t?v H "Bigotries of a Bachelor," compiled by an old fl maid and approved by a young bachelor, as an- ,.nounced in the preface, is a clever compilation fl of quotations referring to spinsterhood and bach- elordom. The excerpts show a wide acquaintance PB with the most pungent of modern literature. Tho H classics are not overlooked, and Pindar and H Shakespeare are both brought Into requisition in H the volume. It is a medley of deep interest, with H quotations of Kipling ranging side by side with H pithy epigrams from Puck and Judge and E. W. H Townsend. There are in all three hundred and H sixty-five quotations, one for each day In the year. H Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco. For sale by A. H It. Derge & Co., city. I |