. Review of reviews and world's work. MR. GILBERT PARKER. the locomotive since his graduation from the engine-cabin to the rank of a very successful American has published previously three volumes celebratingthe railroad profession in verse and prose ; and now thisgroup of short stories, under the title Short Rails(Scribners), witha score of sketch-es inspired bythe life of therailroad track, inwhich Mr. War-mans ready hu-mor, keen obser-vation, and thor-ough knowledgeof his subject-matter show togood advantage,Mr. S. newl)ook is calledTheSticklt Mhi-isters Wooing( D o u

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. Review of reviews and world's work. MR. GILBERT PARKER. the locomotive since his graduation from the engine-cabin to the rank of a very successful American has published previously three volumes celebratingthe railroad profession in verse and prose ; and now thisgroup of short stories, under the title Short Rails(Scribners), witha score of sketch-es inspired bythe life of therailroad track, inwhich Mr. War-mans ready hu-mor, keen obser-vation, and thor-ough knowledgeof his subject-matter show togood advantage,Mr. S. newl)ook is calledTheSticklt Mhi-isters Wooing( D o u b 1 e d a y ,Page & Co.).The thousands ofreaders of TJieSticMt Minister,which was pub-lished seven (^^ P^i-^^ whose new book of French- ^^^„„^ T Canadian tales is noticed here, has just years ago, and , , * ,., t. •!• . T\T been elected a member of the British first won M r . Parliament for Gravesend.)Crockett notice in the literary world will understand what to expectin the way of homely humor and pathos in the

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