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


 Ingersoll; profusely Illustrated; square octave, 279 pages New York: The Gen. tury Co.,; price, $l5O. For sale by tha E. F. Judd Co. A book about the ocean is particularly timely in America just now. American sailors and Amer lcan hattle-ships have been very much in evidence, and their achievements have forced the attention of the whole world. MT Ingersoll writes at length about naval battles and war-ships in the present volume, but he covers a far wider field than this He tells, in lan- guage that can readily be comprehend ed by young people, about the ocean ana it's origin, and about the phenome- na of waves tides and currents He describes the building of ships, from tne remotest times to the present, and he gives the romantic story of the ear ly voyages and explorations "The Se- crets Won from the Frozen North" is a chapter that is full of thrilling adven- lure and stirring heroism. The closing portion of the book is devoted to the merchants and the robbers of the sea, yachts and pleasure boating, the dan- gers of the deep, fishing and other ma rlne industry, and, finally, the natural history of the sea. There are several hundred fine illustrations Our lovers of interesting books will be especially gratified with this new work by our former townsman, who during his years of residence here found many friend ships.
 Six Young Hunters, or the Adven- lures of the Greyhound Club" by w. Gordon Parker, author of Grant Bur ton,' etc.. with illustrations by the au- thor; cloth; price, 51.25; Lee & Shepard, Boston, publishers For sale by the F. +. Judd Co. The scene of the story is laid in Indian territory, where a party Of boys from the east are spending the summer vacation at ledge owned by the uncle of one of them. Here the boys engage in various sports; hunting, fishing and coursing with hounds but their most thrilling adventures come from the proximity of body of out laws who were in hiding near the lodge. What the adventures were we leave to the readers to find out, but can assure them that the book abounds in lively descriptions of their fortunes and mis- fortunes, which will intensely interest any live boy. The book lis healthy in tone; the boys are manly honest and of good principles, and the scene is laid in comparatively new and interesting country
 Two Biddicut Boys," by J. T. Trow- bridge; F mo, 2S6 pages; New York; The Century Co.,; price 51.50. For sale by the E. P. Judd Go. This tale of two Biddicut boys, trick dog and swim dler is quite up to the well-known standard of the stories with which Mir Trowbridge delights the present gene ration of children, as he delighted their fathers and mothers before them. The dog which Cliff Chantry purchases of a stranger. partly with money lent him by Qunt Whistler, runs away. In their adventurous search for him the boys run the swindling dog-vender to earth recover the animal and prove them selves to be manly, quck-witted and brave, with no nonsense about them, just what American boys should be. There are surprise and a climax at the end of the search. The dialogue is bright and natural the action of the story rapid and exciting. Sixteen ,ex- cellent illustrations by w. A. Rogers add much to the pleasure of the book
 l Adventure at the Antipodes," by H. Phelps Whitmarsh 12 mo, 233 pages; New York: The Century Co.,; price s1.25. For sale by the E. P. Judd O. From time to time various stories and sketches of the sea have appeared in the magazines over the name of H. Phelps Whitmarsh. They gave indis- putable evidence that the author had followed the sea and borne it's buffets. The point of view was the forecastle, and Jack was portrayed in friendly comradeship. The reader of the pres ent volume, MT. Whitmarsh's first ex- tended work, will understand how the author was enabled to paint his ficti- tious scenes with so true a hand. He has here given a simple and unvar- nshed account of a portion of his eventfu and remarkable career. It reads like a romance, and yet it every where bears the marks of truth. MT. Whitmarsh is the son of an English clergyman, but there was implanted in his nature the spirit of adventure too strong to be resisted. The sea called him and he became a 'fore-mast hand. But he tired of the life at last and dreamed of fortunes to be won in Aus tralia So he shipped on vessel bound for the South Seas and left his ship mates at Port Adelaide. Then he be- came inarapid succession a "sun-down- CT" or tramp, a silver-miner, a sheep hertler, laborer, a beach-comber, a barber, clerk and a pearl-diver. His book is an absolutely frank account of all of these varied experiences. MT. Whitmarsh is keen observer, and he is graphic and dramatic in his descrip- tions One of the most notable features of the strange story is the authors in variable good-nature and cheerfulness, despite every hardship and reverse of fortune. Many men have lived such a life as is here detailed, but heretofore there has been lacking one with the ability and the frankness to set forth the record. We have known the pleas ures and pains of the wandering life through the novelist or the closet histo- rian MT. Whitmarsh has done for the modern adventurer what Dana did for the merchant sailor of a former gene ration: he has described him frst-hand
 Good Americans" by Mrs. Burton Harrison; frontispiece by c. Allan Gil- bert; 12 mo, 220 pages; New York: The