much in them which is
calculated to inspire a generous, healthy ambition, and to make
distasteful all reading tending to stimulate base desires.--_Fitchburg
Reveille._

FOR ADULT READERS.

LIVING TOO FAST;

OR,

THE CONFESSIONS OF A BANK OFFICER

12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. $1.50.

* * * * *

This is a most entertaining story, and it also carries with it an
excellent moral, self-evident to almost any reader. It is beautifully
printed and graphically illustrated. The scene of the story is laid in
Boston; and the author's experience with his mother-in-law is very
readable, as is also his reckless expenditures for his wife's sake, he
harboring a false pride which inclined him to think that keeping up
appearances was nearly the whole life. _If you want to place a
thoroughly entertaining and profitable book in your library, do not fail
to send to the publishers of this charming story, who will promptly
furnish it on receipt of the price._--_Boston Cultivator._

"Here is the last and best work of that instructive author. It is full
of incidents of a fast life, the expedients to keep up appearances,
resulting in crime, remorse, and the evil opinion of all good men. The
narrative is replete with startling situations, temptations, and all
that makes up a thrilling story, in the semblance of an autobiography
well rendered, sprightly, pathetic, with a dash of sensation.

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