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Brain Fag, Nervous Exhaustion-
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Just a change of opinion was enough to give Mr. W. King his present prosperity, for he realised in the nick of tine that his way was not curing his brain fag and nervous exhaustion, so he tried the Phosferine way. Mr. King's method was to ignore his despondency and feeling of collapse, and persuade himself there was nothing unusual in the painful fatigue the lightest effort to work cost him, until, as he steadily got worse, he resolved to drop his own opinion and see what Phosferine could do. The result was so astonishingly beneficial, even after a few doses, that the brain ing and nervous exhaustion cer sed entirely, enabling him to do more work than before and yet not feel the strain. This remarkable advantage is seen in the extraordinary energy and vigour of Mr. King's public speaking, and so amazingly have his prospects improved since his speedy recovery, that he declares he and to come forward with the evidence of the magnificent benefit he derived from Phosferine.
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Galbraith of Wynyates. By E. EVERETT
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It is difficult to imagine a young girl kept almost a prisonor, in this twentieth cen tury, by a kinsman in her heritage in York- shire. This apart, Miss Everett-Green bas written a clever story, based on the same. what original woting of a strong man." Galbraith of Wyayates is a well-drawn oharacter, and the whole interest of the slory centres in his love of his young kins- wonian. The story moves quickly and grips the interest of the reader, and the and comes with something of a surprise
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Au infinite sadness pervades this story. It deals with the vexed problem of "mixed marriages. A pretty and charming English girl marries a man who has, unknown to hiraself, Red Indian blood in his veins. His ancestry is revealed to her in a way that ris's an insurmountable arrier between husband and wife; and the end is tragic. If there had been real love on the wife's sirle, there need not here been any tragedy; but besides this lack there is the whole weight of a selfish crew of relatives against ther unhappy husband, who remains most lovable to the end. The author is not quite con- vincing, but he stceneds in making us realise the strength of prejudice that exists in English middle-class society against every- thing and everyone that is not English in the limited view they take of a world that, after all, cannot be wholly English.
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The Marble Aphrodite; By ANTHONY KIRDY GILL. London: Stanley Paul & Co. We welcome the advent of this talented writer, and look forward eagerly for the next work from his pen. Here wo have dir played imagination, skill in composition, A richness and purity of diction seldom met with nowadays in the modern novel. knowledge of art, as it is revealed in paint- ing and sculpture, poetry and music and the drama, is coupled with a knowledge of West- Rnd London, and all of these are blended nto an exquisite work which stir the imagination and stimulates one's love of the pure and beautiful. Throughout, there is a sub-acid flavour of cynicism that is not altogether disagreeable, and we get tangled ends of the lives of minor characters; but it all works out to bring into relief the inspira- tion and emotions of the young artist whose Aphrodite is the wonder of an artistic age. Naiads do not appear nowadays in the gardens of Chelsen; they do not as a general rule-pow in the studios of Chelsea and South Kensington, at least, so far as our knowledge goes of the model of the present age; and we must assume that the Naiad of Aubrey Carroll's fountain existed only in his imagination and was sent merely to be his inspiration of the ident. There is no need to say more with regard to the story or its characters. Whoever reads it will,
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BY THEODORA WILSON WILSON. London: Stanley Paul & Co. The fact that this novel bas reached n second edition almost makes a review notice superfluous, but there must be some readers who like ourselves have not been introduced to Miss Wilson before, notwithstanding the long list of takes already standing to her name. For our own part, we have been so deeply impressed with "A Modern Alish" that we promise ourselves the pleasure of a more intimate acquaintance of such a de- lightful writer, Touching human nature in all the elemental emotions, she possesses the qualities requisite for a successful novelist. Humour she has in plenty, yet, like all truly humorgas writers, she can touch the deepest pathos with just that artistic touch which never degenerates into bathos. We may not agree with the political ideas she expounds, but we cannot deny the earnestness of ber own convictions, and it is that sincerity of
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A story without a heroine! It is almost impossible to believe that a modern novel can be turned out without a love interest, yet the author bes not only succeeded in doing so, but has succeeded in giving us a story of adventure which holds our attention from cover to cover. Captain Hawks, when the tale apens, is in San Francisco. He bus purchased a vessel, said to be a sealer, wrecked an island lying within the Arctic Circle, north of the Behring Straits. In a schooner called the fe Deans, and accom- panied by a very mizel crow, chief of which are George Henry Grummet, his mate (who tells the story of the cruise); and a delight ful little Cockney named Wilfred Gee (cock). better krova as." Cert'nly" Wilfred, Cap- tain Hawks sails north to salve the sealskins supposed to be on board his new purchase.
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the pilot pulled the horse's head round to the right in order to cross the stresi, but before the animal could start motor cars came dashing by in streams and forced us back to the kerb. After a time policeman held up the traffic for s the but when we joined the stream un
The other side the sense of peril grew. motor-cars passed us so fast and so close that they crowded us to the kerb.
"They could steer so exactly that I had no tear of a motor-car running into us. but the horse's unscientific mechanism caveed constant disturbance of the balanes of the chassis and created an uneasy sort of presentiment that he was going to fall down and tip me out under a motor- But the worst sensation was omnibus. going down the hill in St. James's-street. With the weight thrown forward upon his back the horse seemed conscious of im pending disaster. We got through safely, but I was glad when it was all over.
A RIDE IN A HANSOM CAB.
STRANGE VEHICLE IN REGENT-STREET. From the Daily Mail of the 4th January we take the following:-
Londoners of the present generation are afforded by the taxicab strike an interest ing glimpse of the ways of life of their "It's all up, captain,' said the driver. predecessors. The withdrawal from the
ww shall never come back. London's no streets of so many of the taxicabs has place for us. I thought the strike was k tempted back into the central area some good chance to see the old streets again, There isn't specimens of a curious vehicle called the but there's too many taxis out as it is,
hansom. which in the days before the and London's all altered.
Most of us have had to modern development of mechanical science driving room. was in such general use for passenger sell the 'orses and eat the 'arness,' be transport in the metropolis that it was added as he announced that he should
the gondola of the London described as
return to Colder's Green, there to carry streets."
theatre parties between the acttage and of the old times in Regent-street yester-
I found one of these curious vestiges the tube station."
correspondent, day afternoon," writes
SUFFERERS FROM
DISEASES
and with a pleasing sense of adventure hailed him for a ride. The vehicle has a single-seater hooded body mounted upon
between which, by two-wheeled chassis with two projecSKIN & BLOOD prongs of complicated system of leather ligaments, a tractor horse is attached to supply The pilot, stability and motive power.
as Eczema. SCROPULA, BAD LEGS, or George, as he is more correctly such described, occupies an oddly placed seat Ascesses, ULCERS, GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, projecting from the rear gable of the BOILS, PIMPLES, ERUPTIONS, PILES, BLOOD body at a sufficient height to give him a Porson, RHEUMATISM, GOUT, &c., should at clear view over the roof of the vehicle of once realize that outward application, such the roadway and the movements of his as lotions, ointments so-called balms, &c., though they may give relief for the time tractor quadruped.
being, DO NOT CURE. The trouble lies leeper-ia the blood. These complaints are the result of clogging impurities in the blood
and so
METHOD OF STEERING:
"Steering is accomplished not by wheel, but by two long leathern thongs running through guiding rings and socketed at either end of a rudimentary lever fixed in the horse's mouth at right angles to the line of direction in such a manner that the pilot or George, by drawing one or other of the lines, can cant the horse's head to the right or left according to the direction in which it may be required t proceed. By pulling upon both thong together the horse's head is retracted and his weight thrown backwards so as ments have failed. provide an effective hrake, and even in cases of necessity to reverse the power.
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CAN BE CURED ONLY BY PURIFYING THE BLOOD. For cleansing the blood of all impurities, from whatever cause arising, there is no other medicine just as good as Clarke's Blood Mixture that's why in thousands of cases of skin and blood diseases it has effected truly remarkable cures where all other treat-
The Editor of the "FAMILY DOCTOR," London's popular medical weekly, writes: For accelerating purposes the George' we have seen hests of letters bearing eploys a long wand ending in a leather testimony to the truly wonderful cures by thong. Access to the vehicle is gained by Clarke's Blood Mixture. It is the first Blood strangely contrived double half-door Purifier that Science and Medical Still have opening just in front at an angle of about brought to fight, and we can with the utmost Codek, and opening upon a little low plat confidence recommend it to our subscribers form to which the traveller mounts by a Small iron step. The odd appearance of and the public generally."" thehanson is completed by the huge! six of its two wheels.
I confess it was with some trepidation that I climbed upon the platform, lowered rugself backwards into the seat, and shut myself in behind the folding half- deurs. There was a feeling of unstable equilibrium about the structure, the fors and aft stability of which depends upon the horse keeping his fees. I could under- stand how it was that in former days a hansom-cab ride szemed to have a flavour of dashing, devil-may-care adventure, and was regarded by young ladies almost as a defance of old fashioned conventions.
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