On getting an enquiry from a young engineer who wanted to leave his work in London and start farming, the Editor wrote to some experts among his subscribers—and their establishment of the Republic in 1911, make thoroughly interesting and stirring reading, whilst the very &ble descriptions of Shanghai and Tsingtao in the nineteen-hundreds and the manner in which the foreign communities in those ports passed New Fiction Fleeing from home under the impression that he had killed a man, and finding five years later that he hadn't, Barry Weston returns to the Flying W ranch. In "Woives of the their days in commerce and pleasure Chaparral" (Ward Lock.
London Will certainly make readers of the [pow Barrys return restored his younger generation open their eyes in wonder and astonishment. Mi Wallace knows her China, or at lea her China of bygone days, extremely well and it is quite within the bounds of possibility that should the present strife and turmoil in this part of the world finally snap the bonds of friendship between Chinese and foreigner and bring them to an abrupt close, then this novel may indeed become all the more important, rai: ing, as it were, an "ancestral tablet" in memory of alliances that have stood the acid test of many a troublous mother to health and improved the behaviour of his stepfather—but all did not go so well with the girl he loved. He found her with a haunted, desperate light in her eyes, talking to Alonzo F. Frothingham, a banker. Listening to this banker with his clients it is plain that he is more encouraging than is custom ai I want to know you ranchers better. It is your patronage which keeps my bank operating. We should work together. your problems d he my problems.
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A most attractive story, well conceived, finely written and peopled with characters that are truly alive, Mrs. Wallace's latest effort is confidently recommended to discriminate ing readers—r.a.
"You have something more valuable then bonds, Mr. Billings. You have a Ifelong reputation for honesty and square dealing. I'd rather lend inv money on such collateral than on all The gilt-edged bonds in the world What is to be thought of such a banker? It is soon evident. And it But above all, nothing conduces more to the well-representing a man's self, and securing his own right, than not to disarm oneself by too much sweetness and good-nature, which exposes.a man to injuries and reproaches; but rather, in all cases, at times, to dart out some sparks of a free and generous mind, that have no less of the sting than the honey.—Francis Bacon. is this mingling of sophisticated finance with the more natural pursuits of the Wild West that makes "Wolves of the Chaparral" stand somewhat apart from its fellows.—b.r.
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