The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

James Otis, a well known writer, is a book which boys will delight to read and older folks too. It deals with revo- lutionary times and catches well the Spirit of '76" The book teens with details of startling adventures with tories, Indians and Britishers, and there are many illustrations by George Eos ter Barnes, realistic and spirited, which add much to the attractiveness of the volume The book is In attractive cov- CTS. Estes & Lauriat of Boston are the publishers.
 Beyond the Pale" is novel by B. M. Croker, author of Proper Pride" "Diana Harrington" Pretty Miss New ille," etc., and is published by K. r. Fenno & Co., of New York, and for sale by E. P. Judd. It is a very entertaining readable story. The scenes are laid in Ireland and the story tells of life in castles and among the peasantry, and of a charming heroine and an ardent, spirited lover, whose wealthy parents ambition for a marriage of distinction for their son which should unite them to family of ancestral dignity clothed with the pride of long descent, Is at last happily realized.
 In "Corleone," a charmingly bound work in two volumes of about $40 pages each, we have one of F. Marion Craw- ford's delightful high class stories, re- plete with life and adventure thrillingly told. It Is another picture of Roman society, contrasted with the more sonl- bre shades of the Sicilian mountain into which MT. Crawford carries his readers with our old friends, San Gta- cinto and Don Orsino. It is a brilliant tale of life and love amid many vicis- situdes, tinctured with perils from the Mafia and closing happily with an un- expected denouement of most satis- factory character, especially to Orslno who wins at last beautiful bride whose love he had long possessed and who instead of being affiliated by family ties with ruff1ans turns out to be lady of high birth and family, which her gen. tie manners and refinement and high bred air had long evidenced.
 'The Industrial Army" by Fayette Stratton Giles, author of "A Century Onward" This book contains discus sion of certain proposed means of re- leving and eliminating poverty and crime-a huge problem. The authors idea is to confer upon the individual economic and locative freedom and equality of opportunity, and through these to achieve a higher civilization and a greater human happiness, conse- quent upon the proposed attainment of higher moral, mental and physical de- velopment of the individual. "In elu- cidation of these questions" the author says, i've shall attempt to prove that ,11 t,,I, trial forces of labor, and the resources furnished by the natural media, may be so organized, under just equitable and desirable sociological conditions, that the material necessities of each normal individual may be provided for, against full equivalents rendered by him, with out infringing the law of just individual freedom. conditioned by the law of right, and without doing violence to our existing civic institutions" The book is published by the Baker & Tay Tor O., New York.
 When the World Was Younger" is the title of highly interesting novel by that prolific, gifted and widely read author, Miss M E. Braddon. It is a brilliant story of English life, well de- picting certain phases of British soci- ety of a century ago, and tells of love, diplomacy, strife, convent walls, lords and ladies, manors and Puritans, with an abduction of fair chaste lady, his own sister-in-laW, by q chivalric baron, and his combat with and wounding of the lady's betrothed husband, whom she seeks to escape from. Then a trial for the abduction and alleged attempted murder worked in. There is 8 plain tive ending to the tale. All does end happily as two loving hearts are des- tined by adverse circumstances to live forever apart. The book is published by R. F. Fenno 6 Co.,, New York, and is for sale by Judd.
 "The Colonial Witch" by Frank Sarl- uel Child, and published by the Baker & Taylor Co.,, New York, is story of the time when belief in witchcraft and terror of witches was as common in New England as a disbelief In the black art to-day. The scene is laid in @ Con- necticut hamlet and aside from being an interesting account of the supersti- ton of the period is readable story, well written.
 "The Italians of To-day" translated from the French of Rene Bazin, by Will liam Marchant, and published by Henry Holt & Co., New York, is an account HrSt or the people ana lncldcnthliy F the country, industries, economics, scan- cry, literature and opera of the modern Italy. Chapters are devoted to the northern provinces. Roman houses and the Roman Campagna, Southern Italy and Sicily. It is a 12 mo-, well printed on good paper, and neatly bound,
 My Longholme," by Mrs. Moles- worth, well known and discriminating writer for girls, is new book from the press of the J. B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia. It Is the story of girls life from babyhood to her marriage with a sweetheart who comes home from h. dia just in time to rescue her from Q great peril. It Is thoroughly healthy in tone and is a charming mingling of TO- nance and realism.
 Newport" by W. c. Brownell, pub- lished by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, is an interesting description of that famous American summer resort The volume Is profusely illustrated by ". s. Vanderbilt Allen.
 "The Madonna in Art" by Estelle M. Hurle. press of L. c. Hurle & Co.,, Bos- ton, is handsome F mo. cloth bound volume, study of Madonna art as 2