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Show LIFE OF JAMES C. CLAIIIE. The melanehol' death of Mr. Blaine has caused a shock to every citizen of this great republic, regardless re-gardless of political allegiance, and every intelligent man, woman and' child will be eager to know the secret (if the success of this truly great ma n . They will al so be eager lo know how it has been possible pos-sible for a man of such humble origin and pretensions as the tie-ceased tie-ceased statesman to rise to the point of playing so important a part in wielding the destiny of his country as he has done. As is always al-ways the case when a great man dies, (he market will be Hooded with what will be called his "biography." "biog-raphy." Many of these will be, tf they usually are in such eases, very little more than a coUeelioii of clippings clip-pings from old newspapers, and we warn our readers against so-called ''biographies" of this description, because they are comparatively mi-instructive mi-instructive and genera ll)- unreliable, unreli-able, if not mislcpding. Whenever there are several books written on the same subject, and particularly when" this subject is the lifenfsonie noted public man, there is always ne of such booics that. at. once stands out head and shoulders a hove all the id hers and that is. superior to them in every way. This particular honk heeomes the '"s-tandard work" upon the puhjeet treated of. We think that "The Life and Work of James ( I. Illaine." puhlished on the Pacific Coast hy the Dominion Publishing Company of Seattle, Wash., is destined to he the standard work on the subject of which it treats. We unhesitating" unhesita-ting" V express this opinion from the magnificent authorship nsso-einted nsso-einted with it. The hook itself is j written by Prof. John ('lark liid-pnth, liid-pnth, Lb. 1)., who is uivpieslion-ably uivpieslion-ably America's greatest living historian, his-torian, and who has been engaged on the work for over a year, in his great and laborious work, Prof. Ridpath has been ably assisted by ( ieneral Seidell Connoiex-gnvernor uf Maine, who has been a life-lone personal friend of Mr. IHaiue, and is the one man through whoso instrumentality in-strumentality Mr. IHaiue was first sent to ' the Toiled States Senate. Others scarcely less distinguished than the illustrious statesman himself have been engaged on tin-work, tin-work, by which means the bnok is replete with illustrations and material ma-terial that, could not otherwise In.ve possibly been -cured. The illustrations are beautiful, and constitute ,,f themselves a National Portrait (lalh-ry of the leading men of our lime. The book altogether alto-gether is iiiairnife-i-iitly gotten up, ' and both in literary and artistic merit and in nn-ehaniial skill, it does ample justice to that tiuly j great American. .I.tin-s i. IHaiue. I The b. U is sold onlv by Mib-.-rip ; j lion and Ihe pnbli-le i's advertise- , ment will be f. m nd i n a not In-r j KNIt twelve e.-liH in p. :i -e - ( n i m p ' t-' IJiCur an Ihii M i n-. Wa hi:, -lou. . ; j t , and vi .ii will H"-ei . i". .iir e. j , i , j K n r. I- o:i dV Wmiinmhn, e--hi ai id c' ! matter. .1" spe.-i:il illl.le -I. I ii v.- niiinr . I and iidiires-, iiinl -ay where aw !hi- advert a ment. 2.!-.r- |