Show himself again HY J C GOLDSMITH I 1 we would like to look upon the person who can call read a chapter of this thi novel without wishing to read the rest there is something in ill it hard to describe de scrib which touches the emotions and enlists the sympathies of the reader from the opening to the close perhaps the secret lies in the tile unconventionality antiona i il it 0 of f the story one does ines not fee feer that the characters were created to order to fit ft a certain niche in a temple of art but that they are taken f from am the world of flesh bongs beings about us with warm sparta and beating beati g pulses and passionate hopes boves and lo 10 longings aings gings A vein ous and resistless good humor pervades the book but is always self governed and never discordant or offensive the charac teri some of them would have done credit to dickens himself from the the smug alers in new york harbor and peter mcginnis and hb s wife in ill til their leir grogshop in new percey ersey to old lecren with his bubbling wit and philosophy jay pt pj yellow and bob manning age the eminent lawyer and kate one ane 0 of f the most inos t pathetic ic chac ac ackers in fiction aad henry wil more the young minister aho is the liero othe tal tale ethere ignot a character charter ac ter but is drawn with i I 1 mimi nimi table skill from a ke enand edge of human nature we are mistaken it if the book falls into that limbo of or obscurity that receives nine 11 in 0 out of tea of the noval nov cl of the day published in iii funk wag nails nalls 10 and 12 dey street N I 1 standard bibra paper 25 acts |