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the society of other artist and writers in London, whose careless, jovial and im- 
provident methods furnish the title of the book. " Dolly," who is the chief 
heroine and most brilhant member of the family, is engaged to a newspaper writer, 
named Griffith, who is smart, shabby and jealous. She is invited, as an attrac- 
tion, to an evening party given by the rich Lady Augusta, where she meets Mr. 
Ralph Gowan, whom Griffith had described to her as " a complacent idiot in a 
chronic state of fatigue," but whom she found to be a gentleman of education 
and taste, and who was particularly attracted to her. Mr. Griffith becomes in- 
sanely jealous without cause, which condition is greatly aggravated by certain 
accidental complications growing out of an ill-advised love affair of sister MoUie's 
in which Dolly and Mr. Gowan figure suspiciously to him, and disappears, leaving 
Dolly to become ill almost unto death. Gowan sees through the trouble and 
generously searches Griffith out just in time to save Dollie's life, discovers that 
Mollie is, after all his fate : rich relatives opportunely come to the relief, all 
marry appropriately and settle down in comfortable affluence, etc. Around 
this meagre plot a very readable story is woven, perhaps not fully equal to some 
of Mrs. Burnett's later productions, but yet interesting and brilliant enough to 
absorb the attention of almost any reader for a few hours very pleasantly. 
The Resources of the Rocky Mountains: By E. J. Farmer. i2mo., pp. 
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Mr. Farmer has put a great deal of useful information upon the mineral, 
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the people of the West, who are so abundantly suppHed with hand-books, guide- 
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ar ranged compilation of valuable information drawn from authentic sources 
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The Words of Christ: By John Bascom. i2mo., pp. 220. G. P. Putnam's 
Sons, New York, 1884. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $1.50. 
President Bascom, as writer and lecturer, has placed before the public 
some eight or ten volumes which have elevated him to a high rank among modern 
thinkers, and this work will strengthen that position, at least with the orthodox 
readers of the day. It is an effort to turn attention, quietly, fairly and consid- 
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sufificent theory of spiritual growth, the force, and the only sufficient forces where- 
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/s not doubtful that the spirit of the Gospels is the regenerative power of the 
