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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eeping underground—are the Dooks which help-us to cross lifes difficult places. This is so true that, afterfinishing La Debacle, tortured by the revival of mysaddest memories, I instinctively took up a volume of War and Peace. Thus the traveler, after bathing in the Dead Sea,goes to wash in the neighboring waters of Jordan. TheArab guides say it is the only way to get rid of the heavj^,mephitic and corrosive liquid, which burns the skin. TheDead Sea is, none the less, a curious and magnificent phe-nomenon : people come to see it from all quarters of theworld ; they do not resist the temptation of a plunge init. But how good it seems afterward—the sweet andclear water of the river ! RECENT AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS. HISTORY. A Footnote of History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. By Robert Louis Stevenson. 12mo, pp. 322. New York : Charles Scribners Sons. $1. Mr. Stevenson remarks in his preface that an affair whichmight be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any gen-
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. eral history has been here expanded to the size of a volume.He proceeds to explain that he has brought out this storyof the political distractions and difficulties m Samoa with con-siderable haste, yet with care and painstaking, in order to do a practical service to the islands at a moment somewhat crit-ical, both for the internal and also the foreign relationshipsof the Samoans. It happens that the volume falls upon tneAmerican market under circumstances which give it a specialinterest not anticipated by the author, although it has so re-cently come fiom his pen. Americans have been fumblingtheir atlases somewhat curiously, and asking one anotherquestions about these same islands, because they have learnedthat there is supposed to be a disposition ohthe part of England to share with us the ex-clusiAe rights to establish a naval and coalingstation in the Samoan harbor of Pago Pago,which we supposed we had secured some yearsago. If Mr. Stevenson could have fores

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