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libeled by the passengers or their agents, when to their great surprise they learned that a previous attachment had been placed on all the property belonging to the Vanderbilt Steamship Company by the agent, C. K. Garrison, for the sum of $800,000, an alleged debt due to him from Vanderbilt. All the property was sold to satisfy this attachment. So ended the Vanderbilt interest on the Pacific Coast. The strata forming the basis of Commodore Vanderbilt's colossal fortune was an inordinate thirst for

gold and perfidy to mankind to acquire it. During the four years of the Vanderbilt steamship line to California, the books that are now packed in the basement of No. 5 Bowling Green, New York City, show a clear gain of $1,100,000 every three months, and yet a vast uumber died from miserable fare, ill ventilation and over-crowding. The widows and orphans deprived of their inheritance by the Vanderbilt deal in the Harlem Railroad in years, gone by could chant a sad requiem to their memory.

WITH THE NEW BOOKS

BY ARTHUR H. DUTTON

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"Frozen Dog Tales, and Other Things," is the title of a small collection of humorous stories, purporting to be written by the editor of "The Howling Wolf," the leading newspaper of the strenuous town of Frozen Dog, Idaho. The stories, newspaper extracts, and general features are in conformity with the theoretical wild and woolly West of a past decade, with the proverbial bad men, lynchings, gunplay and other familiar adjuncts of the conventional frontier townwhich exists more in fancy and the comic weeklies than in fact. The little book is entertaining and quite appropriate for the idle hours traveling, or for relaxation after a day of care and hard work.

Its author is Colonel William C. Hunter, and the illustrations by F. Holme and R. M. Hynes are numerous and clever.

The Everett Press Company, Boston.

"The Valley of Dreams" is the title of an attractive collection of

short poems by H. Hayden Sands, an English poet, whose verses exhibit finish, culture, and, aptly enough, a poetical imagination beyond even those of many of the world's famous.

The poet is plainly an extreme dreamer, and frankly admits it in. his preface, in which he says: "Beauty, symbolism and mysticism, these abstruse forces, which to us. may seem so strange and distant, are alluded to in many of the succeeding pages, by one who confesses to crave a life of idealities rather than realities."

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strife, in which the author, Albert E. Lyons, presents as a hero a type of virility that is ideal, but rarely found in actual life. This hero is a marvel of physical, mental and moral strength, truly an admirable man in every way, and the principal merit of the book is in its presentation of so noble a character af

ter which to pattern. The story is replete with action, its scenes are laid in every-day, twentieth century American surroundings and conditions. It teaches commendable moral lessons, and ends satisfactorily.

Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston.

William Byron Forbush has supplied a conspicuous want in "The Boys' Life of Christ," which арpeared on the literary market just

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BECAUSE

BY FRANCES ANNE COWLES

In Nature everywhere I find

Sweet solace for the sad and troubled mind. Oft-times I come, worn and oppressed,

From man's hard world of toil,

Of strife and anxiousness,

And give myself to her;

She leads me into God's own world of peace,

Where tired hearts find rest.

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