Clinging to the Judge closer than a brother, is Solomon Mahaffy—­fallible and failing like the rest of us, but with a sublime capacity for friendship; and closer still, perhaps, clings little Hannibal, a boy about whose parentage nothing is known until the end of the story.  Hannibal is charmed into tolerance of the Judge’s picturesque vices, while Miss Betty, lovely and capricious, is charmed into placing all her affairs, both material and sentimental, in the hands of this delightful old vagabond.

The Judge will be a fixed star in the firmament of fictional characters as surely as David Harum or Col.  Sellers.  He is a source of infinite delight, while this story of Mr. Kester’s is one of the finest examples of American literary craftmanship.

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MADAME X. By Alexandra Bisson and J. W. McConaughy.  Illustrated with scenes from the play.

A beautiful Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would not forgive an error of her youth.  Her love for her son is the great final influence in her career.  A tremendous dramatic success.

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An unconventional English woman and an inscrutable stranger meet and love in an oasis of the Sahara.  Staged this season with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.

THE PRINCE OF INDIA.  By Lew.  Wallace.

A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the warm underglow of an Oriental romance.  As a play it is a great dramatic spectacle.

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A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell University student, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives of those about her.  The dramatic version is one of the sensations of the season.

YOUNG WALLINGFORD.  By George Randolph Chester.  Illust. by F.R.  Gruger and Henry Raleigh.

A series of clever swindles conducted by a cheerful young man, each of which is just on the safe side of a State’s prison offence.  As “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,” it is probably the most amusing expose of money manipulation ever seen on the stage.

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Social and club life in London and New York, an amateur burglary adventure and a love story.  Dramatized under the title of “A Gentleman of Leisure,” it furnishes hours of laughter to the play-goers.