The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS

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For the past month on sale in our
| book stores are two books which have a
| strong local interest and will make a
very appropriate Christmas gift. The
author is our townsman, Captain
Charles II. Townshend. One is THE
! Quinnipiack Indians and Their Reser-
vation," which gives an account of this
tribe and a fac smile of their treaty
with Governor Eaton and Momaugin
in 1858 and oC the deeds of sale to the
East Haven farmers between the years
1715 and 1725 when the last sale was
made Also fac smile is given of
sentences in their language which were
translated by the Rev. Abraham
! Pierson and are now in the British mu-
scum; and numerous prints are shown
of their implements of war and chase
found on the reservation.
The other copy is IA Pictorial His
tory Of Raynham' and it's vicinity,
which has been put in print to preserve
tradition and many interesting Incl
dents which have occurred in this sec
ton OF the town of New Haven since
the landing of the first settlers In the
autumn of 1857. This collection of local
historical and biographical matter with
the accompanying Illustrations is not
only the result Of much research but
of personal talks with men and women
who were gray-haired when the author
was boy, and who were eye-Wltnesses
of many of the scenes he has here at
IL - AI,A utI1
jects treated of here have never before
appeared in type, and being matters of
Renaissance would never be known to
the public unless they We're put in
printed form-this the author has at
tempted to do Interested as he has al
ways been in this part of the present
city of New Haven, which has been
much changed of late, and which has
lost many Of it's ancient landmarks, he
has attempted to preserve some of
them before they are entirely destroyed.
The table of contents of the latter book
is as follows: Raynham, view Of Rayn-
ham hill eastward, Colonel Edmund
Tanning, the engagement at Raynham,
General Tryon, town of Townsend
Joshua Chandler, the Morris mansion,
the ancient salt works at Morris Cove,
Morris cove and palisades, old New Ha-
ven lighthouse, the phantom ship of New
Haven, New Haven palisaded or forti-
fled, ruins of Fort Wooster and Beacon
Hill, General David Wooster, Hasslers
survey camp, the shell fish industry,
Fort Hale Captain Nathan Hale,
wreck of steamer Chief Justice Mar
shall. "reminiscences of Fort Hale, cap
ture of sloop Susan, view of site of
iron works and Bradley house, Com
modore Sir George Collier, the East
Haven militia, East Haven Green Ql-
lustration) signal mast on Beacon Hill
East Ravens stone meet |
New Haven harbor Qllustra-
tion), Governor Theophilus Eaton.
Myths and Fables of To-day" by |
Samuel Adams Drake, author of 'Our |
Colonial Homes Decisive Events in |
American History" series, etc. Attrac- |
lively illustrated by Frank r. Merrill. |
Gilt top; Lee & Shepard, Boston.
Price 1,50. For sale at Judds In |
this very interesting book Colonel |
Drake shows how our daily lives are
filled with sayings and doings that |
have their origin in superstition, al
though we may not realize 1t. These
origins he traces in a most scholarly |
giving many Illustrations of
the power Of superstition In common
life and drawing largely from history
The book, covering as 1t does the Folk
Lore of Childhood, Weather Lore
'gns OF all sorts. Charms to Good
Luck, Charms Against Disease Fate
n Jewels, Love and Marriage, Evil
Omens, Haunted Houses, Persons and
Places, Presentiments, the Divinlng
Rod, Fortune Telling, Astrology Pal
nistry, etc, can scarcely fail to attract
Zach one along the line of some pet
hobby. Even the most violent skep-
les too, will admit that Colonel
Drake has most ample reason for maxi
ng a book on this subject, and that he
laS made most readable one. 1t is
lot book, either, that will be laid
lside and forgotten after once reading
The skill of Frank r. Merrill helps to
ender this as pretty q book as If is n