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The God of Civilization: A Romance

Chapter 24: PRESS NOTICES.
By Mrs. M. A. Pittock
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A young woman, weary of a life of parties and social expectation, seizes an opportunity to sail to Australia with a captain and his family. The story follows her hurried preparations, family debates over duty and marriage, and the early weeks aboard a sailing vessel. Shipboard life is sketched through reading, card games, candy-making, and long sunlit hours under an awning as the voyage moves into tropical seas. Domestic relationships and social pressures frame the journey, while the relaxed rhythms of the tropics reshape daily routines and companionship aboard.

PRESS NOTICES.

The sketches of Hawaii and the Hawaiians, with illustrations, which appeared last week and are completed in this issue, were written by Mrs. M. A. Pittock, who spent a year on the islands, and has recently become a resident of Chicago—Graphic, Chicago, Sept. 27.

Mrs. M. A. Pittock, who has contributed a number of bright, readable stories for the Inter-Ocean and leading papers and magazines, has just written a clever little book descriptive of tropical life, entitled “The God of Civilization.”—Inter-Ocean, Chicago, Sept. 28.

“The God of Civilization” is the title of a romance, by Mrs. M. A. Pittock, which is soon to be published. The scene of the opening chapters is laid in San Francisco, and the story is said to have a very tropical flavor. Mrs. Pittock is well known on the Pacific Coast, and has written much for the eastern magazines and papers.—Argonaut, San Francisco, Oct. 6.

“The God of Civilization” is the odd title of a charming story of adventure, which has just been issued by the Eureka Publishing Company, Inter-Ocean building, Chicago. The author is well known in Portland, being the wife of G. W. Pittock, formerly of Portland, and the daughter of R. Weeks, Esq. The favorable notice which her writings have attracted of late from leading eastern papers is very flattering.—Sunday Oregonian, Oct. 5.

One of the brightest books of the season has just made its appearance, entitled “The God of Civilization.” The author is Mrs. M. A. Pittock, whose writings in Chicago and eastern papers have been favorably commented upon. It is an extremely interesting novel, treating of life in the mid-Pacific tropics in a style that shows that she is both familiar with the people and the customs, and loves the scenes which she describes so vividly.—New York Journalist, Oct. 11.

Chicago Opera House
COR. WASHINGTON AND CLARK STS.
Most Comfortable, Fire-Proof Theatre in the City. Supplied with the Latest Ventilating Devices.
DAVID HENDERSON, Manager.

The summer season of 1890, the most successful in its history, during which was given an extended run of the CRYSTAL SLIPPER and a season of BLUEBEARD, Jr.

The fall and winter season will include, among other attractions,

LAWRENCE BARRETT.
FRANCIS WILSON,
And his “MERRY MONARCH” Company.
CITY DIRECTORY COMPANY.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. P. 55, changed “For drinking, were provided” to “For drinking, we were provided”.
  2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  3. Retained archaic, non-standard, uncertain spellings, and chapter numbers as printed.