The Ways of Life: Two StoriesOliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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The Ways of Life: Two Stories
Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Fiction
“The story tells of the every-day life of a young man called the
Babe.... Cleverly written and one of the best this author has
written.”--_Leader_, New Haven.
=A Princetonian.= A Story of Undergraduate Life at
the College of New Jersey. By JAMES BARNES.
Illustrated. 12° $1.25
“Mr. Barnes is a loyal son of the College of New Jersey, with the
cleverness and zeal to write this story of undergraduate life in
the college, following his successful use of the pen in earlier
books, _For King and Country_, _Midshipman Farragut_, etc.... There
is enough of fiction in the story to give true liveliness to its
fact.... Mr. Barnes’s literary style is humorous and
vivid.”--_Boston Transcript._
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=I.=--=THE LEAVENWORTH CASE.= A Lawyer’s Story.
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“Well written and extremely exciting and captivating.... She is a
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“It is a tribute to the author’s genius that she never tires and
never loses her readers.... It moves on clean and healthy.... It is
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=VI.=--=A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.= In quarto, paper,
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“A most ingenious and absorbingly interesting story. The readers
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“Shows the author’s skill in the manufacture of entirely new and
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