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rewly Kale.Ofie of the mm% agreeable additions to thelight literature of the present day is Mark Twain1* hew book, called w The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims* Progress,” for wfefe^b we are indebted to Bliss Ons* New ark, New Jersey. Mr. Twain, whose real name is Hamm) L. Clemens, was one of the famme; i xettrrionista who went to the Holy Land in the Quaker City, and this volume is a lively record, humorously told, of the sayings and doings of the party, together with a graphic description of the various scenes and incident* through which itsjnembers passed. We doubt it an equal amount of entertain-Mi wm ever presented in the same number of page*. It is rich and racy, bright and bril-limit, original and fascinating, keen and satir-hahimdany one who buy* it will discover that 1m- has got double hi* money’s worth longIs fore he reach* the middle of the volume. Jt is a large and handsome book of G51 pages, illustrate*I with 2M serious and comical cuts of various eorts, views from photographs, portraits. odd costumes, scene* on shipboard, and on istid, which are all excellent accompaniment* to the text It is issued by the American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut,.and is so Id only by subscription and can 1m* obtained of the Agent at 724 Chestnutstreet, in this dty, * .in - iH PJai» Educational Talks with Teachers andParents,* by Albert N. Kauh, A. M., Kuper-riVU]|M»t*1illmm
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Philadelphia Age
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 30, 1869
Page 4
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