The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-03

account of the gold wealth of Siberia.
 Herr Laders makes an instructive analysis of American Machine Shop Practice from a German View-Point; P. R. Moses discusses the choice of an electric power distribution system for factories; A. Hamilton Church contin- ues his exposition of an accurate cost ] keeping system and John Platt presents a very suggestive study of the water tube boiler for marine work.
 l Among the fall announcements of Henry Holt & Co.,, New York, are the | following: Important studies in Eng- fish and in German literature by Amer ican professors are announced by Hen " Holt x Co.,, for early publication. l Professor Henry A. Beers Of Yale
 promises a volume on "The History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth l Century" supplementing his book (noW in it's third impression) on the same subject during the Eighteenth Century. The contribution to the study of Ger man literature comes from the German
 department at Columbia. Professor
 Calvin Thomas has written The Life and Works of Schiller" The only not
 able publications in English on the same subject is Carlyle's study" This, however is not so full as Professor | Thomas is to be. The fourth volume is to be added to the Young Folks | Cyclopaedia" by J. D. Champlin Lit | era ture and Art" are treated in the same simple and attractive way that | has delighted thousands of inqulring
 youngsters in the other volumes on l Common Things" Persons and
 Places and Games and Sports
 Some attractive feature is also an
 nounced by Holt & Go, A volume by a new and promising American author, Robert A. Bennett, is 'Thyra, Story of a Polar Pitt The book, it is stated,
 is based on a sound knowledge of pa leontology and archaeology, and is It will have five of MT. Blumencheins
 admirable illustrations.
 1 A second noticeable volume Is "The
 Key of the Fields" by Elizabeth God frey. The careful and artistic work manship show is Poor Human Nature
 and "The Harp of Life" previous
 works by the same author, has been
 emphasized in this new production
 Another woman writer, Mrs. Elmer Wood. appears upon the list Her book is Shoulder Straps and Sun Bonnets, a collection of fifteen of the bright
 naval stories which she has contribut-
 ed to the leading periodicals.
 In the historical line Henry Holt X
 Co announce "The Assassns' by H. M. Kackim, an Oxonion. He has made
 special study of the ever-absorbing period of Crusades and invested them in this work with exceptional interest. l Anthony Hope Hawkins has added four crisp new conversations to the vol ume of Dolly Dialogues" successfully issued a few years ago. thus creating a new edition of the book It will be uniform with the publishers editions of "The Prisoner of Zenda," Rupert of Hentzau" and Father Stafford" and will be illustrative with pen and ink drawings by Howard Chandler Christy. 1 The Worlds Week Doubleday, Me Clure & Co.,, New York) for September contains the strikingly interesting story of one of the most notable achlve- ments American industry has ever &C., complished. To lovers of country life and the growing of plants and fruits, two articles, one about the Arnold Ar boretum, by Sylvester Baxter, and the other concerning Luther Burbank and | his remarkably experiments, by Liber- ty H. Bailey, will appeal to lovers of outdoor work. William H. Hunt writes of the condition of the civil government | in Porto Rico. Two intimate charac- ter studies, one of Frederick D. Tap pen, by William Justus Boies, and an- other of Emerson McMillin, by Arthur Goodrich, give a view of the personal as well as the business side of the well l oo1y nd hp revolutionized the gas business, There are articles on Enhancing Trusts how the underwriting syndcates work l-by E. J. Edwards; on Saving Boys From Crime"-the successful parole system by Lillie Hamilton French on the new page printing telegraph, by Maxiian Foster, and about the Porto Rican seal, by Francis D. Leupp An anonymous writer has something to say about the treatment publishers ac- cord new writers, and M. B. Corse tells how to save magazine literature
 The cover page of the Ledger Month lily for September bears a reproduction of Eastman Johnson's picture, The New England Peddler," engraved by Henry Wolf Some "Glim7ses of the Isle of Wight" by Edward Frost Wa trous, are very interesting, both as to lpictures and text. Other noteworthy features are "A Paradise of Babies showing the games and sports of Jap lanese children, a page of views,
 '"Through the Thousand Islands" and "Concerning Celebrities of To-day, the illustrations of which include nine lportraits. The stories of the number
 are good and entertaining and the fashion. household and other depart
 ments are we'll filled with interesting and instructive matter.