. The Argonaut . hecareer of this fascinating cracksman. Published by Charles Scribners Sons;$ ^ Love on an , whether adventuring forth or re-turning from their travels, will rejoice thatC. X. and A. M. Williamson, authors of TheLightning Conductor, have issued anothernovel in which are rehearsed the delights,the excitements, the perils, and the predica- ments inseparable from automobiling on thehighways and byways of Europe. MyFriend the Chauffeur has all the attractivequalities of the Williamsons earlier chauffeur is young, handsome, and, ofcourse, titled; the
. The Argonaut . hecareer of this fascinating cracksman. Published by Charles Scribners Sons;$ ^ Love on an , whether adventuring forth or re-turning from their travels, will rejoice thatC. X. and A. M. Williamson, authors of TheLightning Conductor, have issued anothernovel in which are rehearsed the delights,the excitements, the perils, and the predica- ments inseparable from automobiling on thehighways and byways of Europe. MyFriend the Chauffeur has all the attractivequalities of the Williamsons earlier chauffeur is young, handsome, and, ofcourse, titled; the girl is poor, proud, andbeautiful; the enfant terrible is amusing; thecountry is Italy. As in the earlier books, thetale is by turns taken up and dropped bydifferent members of the automobile party,and as the authors never lose an opportunityto slip in bits of guide-book lore, and theirgenuine delight and enthusiasm in waysidescenery and architecture frequently breaksthrough, these different recitals are not al-. A. and A. M. Williamson, authors of MyFriend the Cluiufreur. Published byMcCIure. Phillips &? Co. ways in character. An exciting incident ma-terializes at the close, which expedites thecourtship by automobile, and will go far toappease those readers who prefer a romanticbackground to books of travel. Published by McCIure, Phillips & Co.;$ Actually, an Original Idea !All men and women who were broughtup on a farm will infallibly gravitate toward Back Home. Says Eugene Wood, whowrote it: All the books printed are con-cerned with the problem of how she can gethim and how he can get her. He considers that the grown-ups are being unjustly dis-criminated against, and has written a bookfull of jolly reminiscences of the time of theLittle Red Schoolhouse, of home-cured hamsand Dutch ovens, of the Sabbath-school, ofcircus day, and the county fair. Mr. Wood,in his disdain of literary convention, hasstruck an absolutely original note. His bookis pleasantly permeated with se
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