Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1904 — Rev. M. V. Brown An Author. [ARTICLE]

Rev. M. V. Brown An Author.

Rev. M. V. Brown, o? Miami* Florida, and son-in-law of David' H. Yeoman, of onr dty, is am author as well as minister. A book, written by him, named "The Boston Manor,” has just been pnbHeb—ed. It is issued by The BroadwayPnblishing Company, of 835*, Broadway, New York, and sold ait $1 50 per copy, Tbe following fce the publisher’s description of tha book: Tbe Burton Manor is a most interesting story of the greatest evil of modern times. The horror of our “legalised saloon system” supplies the motif of the book, but instead of makhgg simply a statement of unpleasant facts and dry statistics, tbe author has interwoven all bis closely studied and aocnrate knowledge of the subject with a remarkably vivid description of tbe excitements of a political campaign in a small town; and a really oharmiug town story winds its meshes through tbe pages, lending its brightness and joy to tbe necessarily touohiag subject. There are many passages of exceptional beauty throughout the book; one particularly worthy of mention is the sermon of tkm clergy man, “Dr. Lear,” vhiok absolutely out-rivals the very famous discourse in the Silence oC Dean Maitland. All those who are in say way interested in the future of thn> oountry—and who can fail to baand iu tbe temperanoe will find tbe book of inestimablevalue aud worthy of more them close study, as tbe facta mbi. therein are simply those found is every com inanity where thesalbam and saloon-keeper sway the- mimfe. and the bodies of their devotaaa