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The Autobiography of Mark Ruther- 

 ford. (H odder.) 

 The recent death of Mr. William 

 Hale White has made opportune 

 the reproduction of this auto- 

 biography. " 

 oott's " story of 

 and yearnings of 

 candid, though gloomy, 

 brought up in a rigid 

 istic atmosphere, is usefn 

 present day when the 

 rather for light and 

 incr literature than 

 thought fulness. 



Reuben Shap- 



the struggles 



a sincere and 



mind, 



Calvin- 



at the 



cry is 



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The Curse of the Nile. By Douglas 

 Bladen. (Stanley Paul.) 

 The " Curse of the Nile " is 

 Mahdism, for, as one of the 

 characters in Mr. Douglas 

 Sladen's story says, wherever it 

 lifts its vile head nothing can 

 be grown except by slaves or 

 stealth. This romance, intro- 

 ducing the siege and fall of 

 Khartum, is, in reality, a vivid 

 historical account by a man who 

 has studied his material on the 

 spot, and, moreover, has had the 

 help of Slatin Pasha's reminis- 

 cences and those of Charles Neu- 

 feld and Father Ohrwalder. The 

 hero of the story is a young 

 English soldier, who, visiting a 

 Sicilian cafe in Cairo, falls in 

 love with the daughter of the 

 restaurant keeper. Francesca 

 Lentini is a very remarkable 

 woman, betrothed to a young 

 Sicilian. She goes to Khartum 

 with her father, who acts as 

 Gordon's provision agent, and 

 was in the city at his death. 

 Francesca is taken prisoner and 

 conveyed bo tin- Mahdi's harem. 

 Her mother, in default of any 

 other weapon, provides her with 

 a poison which will produce the 

 same effect as the spotted fever; 

 so, unable in any other way to 

 . 1 void her fate, Francesca poisons 

 the Mahdi, and, through some 

 strange superstition, his death is 

 supposed to have happened be- 

 cause he broke the law by marry- 

 ing a nun, for Francesca had 

 worn a nun's habit as a disguise. 

 The romance, interesting as it 

 is, is subordinate to the story 

 of the terrible Sudan .vnr, Kit- 

 chener being one of the charac- 

 ters introduced, and the battle 

 of Omdurman described in de- 

 tail. 



Open Sesame. By B. Paul NVunian. 

 (John Murray.) 

 Mr. Neuman has taken tor his 

 chief character a young fellow 

 who is rather an oaf. and whose 

 father will not help him finan- 

 cially until he settles down to 

 some kind of occupation. In- 

 stead of doing any practical 

 work, he seems to have evolved 



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