The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-22


 tinent of Ours" etc Cloth, 23S engrav- irgs. Lee X Shepard of Boston, pub fishers. For sale by E. P. Judd Go.
 In this beautifully illustrated volume the author gives an account of the travels of the Cartrlell family, con- sisting of MT. and Mrs, Cartmell their four children, and governess, through Great Britain, Norway, Swedeu, Dem mark and Russia. Great Britain, being so closely connected with our country by language, history and ancestry, possessed unusual attractions for them and they spent nearly "a year in visiting that country They are natur- al travellers in search of the beautiful, the interesting and the wonderful, their great object in journeying being pleasure and education, The work is written in the narrative form and no effort has been spared to have the in- formation given correct and up to date so that the book may be safe guide to travellers. The illustrations, of which there are two hundred and thir- ty-eight, are half tones reproduced from photographs. A list of the best books to be consulted, as we'll as list of poems connected with the places described, is given at the close of the volume. Price SIPS.
 The Adventures of Francois" by S. Weir Mitchell, M D., 12mo 321 pages, with 15 illustrations by Andre Castagne. New York The Century Co.,, New York. Price s1.5O. For sale by Judd. ~''
 "The Adventure of Francois, Found ling, Thief, Juggler anh Fencing-mas- ter during the French Revolution" is the first work that Dr. Mitchell has done since his wonderfully successful Hugh Wynne." It is crowded full of adventure and is a. vivid picture of life during one of the most thrilling episodes of modern times. he book has the same fidelity to the spirit of the times that marked Hugh Wynne." Undoubtedly pr. Mitchelrs first inten- tion was to paint the social develop ment of the French Revolution, by passing jaclS-at-all-trad like Fran cois through its striking scenes. The profesonal mind of the author howev- CT, determined the contrasts and play of character among his dramatis per- sonae. Four types of the human nature characteristic of the Revolutionary material are drawn with a firm and careful hand. Francois, in whom Dr. Mitchell see a nature, normal though gifted, and therefore able to rise out of vice and vicious surroundings, as chip floats on the surface of a gutter; his foil, Despard, who. weak and tainted in constitution and brain, gradually develops melancholia and insanity; Quatre Pattes, the criminal woman of Lombroso; and Ste. Luce, the aristocrat who is at once capable of chivalry, kindliness, vice-of a brav- cry that knows not fear ard a phloso- phy that knows not remorse. "A man does many things to amuse himself, and some one of them casts a length ening shadow as time goes on. We all have our shadows, and at sunset they lengthen,' he tells Francois in the prison. The fifth character in the book is Toto, a black poodle, who holds the key to many of the strongest situa- toins.
 The scenes in the puppet- booth, in the house of the choristers, where the lonely boy makes friends with a cir cle of roof cats, the fight with the peasants on the steps of the chateau and that in the Madelonnettes with the domed nobles, are full of anima- ton, movement and color The thief is particularly agreeable and eveu lova- ble. AS a. study in mental phenomena the fact that he died without shame or remorse for his profession" is a happy touch. MT. Castaigne. who was sent to Paris to make tile illustrations, shows in his drawngs close sympathy i with the purpose of the novelist.
 ] "The Twir, Sisters of Martigny," an Italian story of forty years ago, by the Rev. J F. Bingham, D. D., L, H. D., lecturer on Italian literature, Trinity college, Hartford, Conn. Author of Francesca da Rimini," "Canova's Bo- aza,'' etc., with IA landscape views and 19 vgnettes One volume 12m. Gilt top, cut edges. Price S1.75. Lee & Shepard of Boston, publishers. For sale by the E. F. Judd Co.
 Messrs. Lee & Shepard take unusual pleasure in inviting the attention of the lovers of pure and elegant litera- ture to this remarkably attractive and good book There is a sweet witchery in the story and the style itself is a delight to such as enjoy neat and sim ple English More than thirty beauti- ful and opposite illustrations complete the charm and make it an elegant and suitable gift for either sex. The book belongs to the class of permanent rather than ephemeral values, because it truthfully reflects a certain era in Italiap history and portrays with pathos those deep sentiments which are ubiquitous and eternal. The reader moves with the author (who is an old and frequent traveller there) among the lowly and the great. The date of the grandest scenes of nature and mingles with him in conversation with the story is at one of the important crises in the Italian struggle for free dom and has a substratum of the au- thor's own experience at the time. In a note to the publishers, he says:
 ''The writing of this story has also a history which, since it will go to- 1 ward an explanation at once of it's 1 own raison d'etre. and of the signifl- canoe of the plot. will briefly narrate: In my very early manhood it happened to me to be in Switzerland and Italy, and to cross the Alps by the pass of 4I 1noo+ CT Bernard while all E,,