The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS..
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vantage of close personal association
| with Mr. Croker and the other leaders
of Tammany and writes as one having
| authority.
! The coming municipal campaign il
New York will be the fight of Richard
Croker's life, and Mr.. Lewis book viii
enable its reader to follow the contest
with full understanding.
Pussy Meow by Mrs. S. Louise
| Patterson, will shortly be published by
Messrs. George w. Jacobs & Co. OF
Philadelphia. 1t is the autobiography
| of one of Mrs. Patterson's own pussies
and besides affording extremely enter
| tanning reading for children and all
lovers of this household pet, it aims to
do for the cat what BLACK Beauty" and
Beautiful Joe" have done for the horse
and dog. Mrs. Sarah *. Bolton wrote
the introduction for the story, in which
she says:
The book abounds In practical sug-
gestions about the care, the food, the
comfort and the needs of the animal
world, blended SO pleasantly with the
story that young people and adults will
find it charming and helpful.
Messrs George w. Jacobs & Co., of
Philadelphia, announce, among their
new publications for the coming fall
season, Rocks Nest by lola L. For
roster, author of THE Girls of Bonnie
Castle" The latter book has already
made a warm place for itself in the
hearts of many readers and it IS inter-
esting to note that as a result of read
ing it several Bonnie Castle Circles
have been formed for good fellowship
among the boys and girls of some of
our smaller towns. 1t is hoped that
this new volume will equal its prede-
cessor in every way and that it may
bring as direct results for the benefit of
our young people.
Charles X. Lush's novel, THE Auto
Gratis" has excited attention wherever
corrupt city governments and street
railway franchises exist Already
Cleveland people say they see Cleve-
land men in it, in Chicago it Is Chica-
go people, and in Milwaukee and Indi-
annapolis citizens have made personal
matter of it. One western newspaper
was even so indignant as to refuse a
cash advertisement from the publish
ers 1t is not strange that THE Auto
Gratis has been very popular in Phila-
delphia since the, recent disclosure OF
franchise grabbing there.
"Mousme," a story of the west and
east, by Give Holland, published by
Frederick A. Stokes Co, New York;
price $1.50. For sale at Judd's. This is
Io1, ol,& III y,
out, and is the sequel to that charming
story "A japanese Wife, by the same
author, of which forty thousand copies
have been sold and eleven editions
printed. Mousme, so frail, SO pretty,
so winsome, is introduced to the shores
of England and to English society and
ways by her husband, Cyril Hardinge,
who has married the dainty little dar-
ling in her far off Japanese home and
brought her over the big seas to see his
people and how things are generally in
his country. She adores her brave and
devoted husband, but tremblesI at the
prospect of encountering new customs
and a strange people. Yet her loyalty
to her husband is most touching, and
she braves everything for his sake, and
she wins in spite of preconceived preiu-
1ices and rigid dictatorial fashionplate
Of a sister n-law, ever bent on mana
ging, who nevertheless becomes actu-
ally fond of her and finds in her really
,ne of the attractions of the season for
he swell London society in which the |
said sister in-law moves. One learns |
III sorts of nice things about the Jap
inese fashions and styles and ways, |
also about the English gowns and !
It yles which dear little Mousme has to |
ret acquainted with. Mousme wins a !
distinct social triumph, much to sister /
n-law LOUIS great qualification and
,ride, and seems all conquering in her
innocence and daintiness. But English |
ogs do not agree with the delicate
Iousme and one fears that the story,
% attractive and pretty throughout, is
o wind up tragically, but it does not.
'he delicate little japanese wife, whom
II have learned to love and who does
lot thrive in the English climate, is
aiken back to her pretty Japanese
ome and all ends happily, with a little
on and heir for the English husband
IRVING in Japan in due time after the
oyage. The curtain drops upon the
appiness of the little family and the
tory of Mousme closes all too soon,
ut not with raising the fear that
an, though of the pretty Mousme,
ever.