_By Frank H. Spearman_
While railroad life affords fewer elements of passion and emotion than
the life of Wall Street, it offers however a far greater field for the
depiction of the heroic. Deeds of bravery are probably more common among
these hardy, cool, resourceful men—the railroad employees—than among any
other members of society. “Held For Orders” describes thrilling
incidents in the management of a mountain division in the far West. The
stories are all independent, but have characters in common, many of whom
have been met with in _McClure’s Magazine_. Mr. Spearman combines the
qualities of a practical railroad man with those of a fascinating
storyteller, and his tales, both in subject and manner of telling, are
something new in literature. (12mo, $1.50.)
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