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Show ANNOUNCEMENT OF SISTER GRATIA BY C. Edgar Snow. m Thi.s fiwiii:itinr new novel frt-in the )en o( Cliiuinri'V Ktlur Snuw in nine In attract wale.-prejul attention. In point of originality, tin ilti i nlerest ami jjotul moral motive, "Sister (iraltti" lm.i no, peer. The Unik is realistic, but not marred with evil Iteer.f-e or moral taint ; it is tlrainatie, but not ranlinj;; it lias a puqtose, Inn not to "reform llie lniinan i are," or to "furnit-li bread for lite lumpy;" it object is to elevate, enliven en-liven and entertain. The ripening chapter of "Sifter Gratia" admits vis into "one of l hope old honM in the ietu'tiMiie environs of guy Paris, "and here we are introdtit-ed to the tiro heroineM and the hero of the story. Of the two beautiful girls we at first eannot decide which w ill enlist our pyin-pathy. pyin-pathy. "Sister Gratia" lakes us through Pari", Florence, liT-nie and New York ('ity; it introduces us to Kvert liollond, n he noble chui acter wins our endearment endear-ment ; to (oace and l.illiau, the former -trong and title to ftiendphip for the latter, who, in coniderul ion of her nr.-reipiitcd nr.-reipiitcd love for Kvert, enlist." our eym palhies; lo M. Jean Ortila, a kind heait-ed heait-ed hut eccentric frenchman of means, in -whose disposition is a tine sense of the hmnorou-i ; to Count Victor Ville-main, Ville-main, the shrewd chciner who endenv-ors endenv-ors to win by fair or foul means the love of Grace; and who, being a sagnciouf-mmi-vf-the world, tiMt.-hes the foul lingers of felony with so light nn impress ! as to challenge our wonder if not ndmii-1 ndmii-1 ution ; to the Marquis de Villont e, a ! -'cold digniiied jiersonage" who aids the Count i i many gentlemanly (?) enter-' enter-' prises ; to the cautious coachman, Antc-i Antc-i ine, and Madame Fesch, Count YiHe-j YiHe-j main's housekeeper, who "is but a living monument of Ixjne and skin;" and then come numerous ininorrliaraclersof more or less importance; and last to le considered con-sidered by us is that "pretty little mitt of humanity," Cain i lie, of only four summers: for her sweet self lives are risked and fortunes spent; and yet, ij. her own words, "Camille ain't dot no doll," she acknowledges her poverty. With a nicety of tact Satan himself is made to strut upon "this lUminutivi ball of substance and matter ;" and the way his Satanic Majesty scores the weakness, the sinfulness and the moral depravity of aristocratic humanity, u truly soul-stirring. And from the opening open-ing .sentence of "Sister Gratia" to tin-denouement tin-denouement on the final page of the book there is carried through this story a plot of thrilling interest. To achieve personal possession of the beautiful "Sister Gratia" becomes Count YMle-main's YMle-main's object in life; to ascertain which girl, Grace or Lillian, is his Eister, Kvert Dollond spends a fortune and endangert his life repeatedly; to shield from the duiftjer's tlirust Uie boOy of the man tin-loves, tin-loves, Lillian tlirows hertelf before the glittering blade; to save her maiden virtue nnd prove to the world that, in the nineteenth cc-ntury,tlierenre women j ivliu would prefer death rather that surrender sur-render honor, "Siiter tiratiu" Iwromes ! a prisoner. And so we might go on indefinitely in-definitely reciting incidents that oecui in thi.s brilliant story, whose men and women seem to live and breathe, "Sister Gratia" will he brought out in good style aloiit April or May, and in all probability hut a limited consignment consign-ment sent west, for tthirh reason those who desire procuring the Kink will til: out blank spaces in coupon on this page, and mail ihe order to P. O. Box L'o, Boxelder, Utah. |