The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-21


 | tions as to livery, treats of the proper l care of horses; furnishes estimates or
 expenses; describes saddles, bits car
 riage, stalls-in short proves itself al-
 most an encyclopedia of everything per
 taining to it's subject. The illustrations,
 which are over three hundred in num- Der, and include some half-tones of l prize winning turnouts, show the oe- | tails of stable as thoroughly as MT 1 Garland's text describes them.
 | "The Literary Era" for September
 published by Henry T. Coates dS Co.,
 Philadelphia, is of great interest. The
 table of contents is as follows:
 The Observer, George Moore's "Esth-
 CT Waters" and Confessions or ] Young Man; Vaughan Kester's "The | Manager of the B. & Az; South Atrl- | can Words in the Standard D1ct1on-
 ary"; Earnings of Novelists in Eng
 land"; "The Craze for Romance-t1c- | tion" "Revivals of Balzac George Sand, Harrison Ainsworth and Croly. i "Of Authors and Publishers" by Wll- | liam S. Walsh; "Old World Themes,
 by Henry l.. Herman; "Appreciations'
 Defines Criticism; Jean Francois
 Millst's Letters" Huysman's "sainte Lydwine of Schiedam"; Twenty-hfth
 Anniversary of Gaston Paris Entry
 Into the Institute of France; Dr.
 Cabanes' Les Morts Mysterieuse de | lHistoire.''
 English Literary News Letter oy
 James Walter Smith; '"The Situation,
 "Caine Puzzles People" All Ca1ne in 1 the London Bookman," "The Dead Re-
 turned to Life Sherlock Holmes, Some
 French Fiction" 'Bourget on Hugo, l "A Caxton on Sale" Classics for a 1 Song Max Adeler."
 "Literature in Music" by Lawrence
 Gilman; Queer Titles and Forgotten
 Plays" by Rowland Grey; New
 Books" illustrated Notices) For the | Young People, illustrated Notices);
 Alexander Wilson,, by William Shep- pard "A Poet Who Deserves to Live
 in Heart and Mind" by l.. De " Mat | thewman "The Old Corner Bookstore | by Lillian Waiting; How Andrew
 Jackson Forced OfTice-holders to Pay Their Debts''; Beginnings and End-
 ings," by Will M. Clemens; Boston
 Notes" by John Livington Wright;
 with the New York Publishers" by
 Harold c. Hansen; "The Autumn
 Books; sir Oracle-Notes and Quer- ies'; wit and Wisdom From New
 Books; 'Historical and Genealogical
 Department by Thomas Allen Glenn;
 ''Historical and Genealogical Notes and | Queries; Replies to Queries; Book
 Notices, From Foreign Sources" (Se-
 lected Revews)); Books of the
 Month";
 | Among their books for young people | the Scribners will this year include new editions of three famous illustrated l books by James Baldwin. They are i "The Story of the Golden Age and | "The Story of Siegfried," each illus | trated with series of full page draw | ings by Howard Pyle, and The Story
 of Roland" with a series of full page
 illustrations by R. B. Birch. In these
 books, which have proved exceedingly steady sellers, MT. Baldwin presents , respectively the legends relating to | the Trojan war, the great Siegfrled myth of northern Europe, and the me | diaeval romance of Roland and Charle-
 magne. bringing before the reader, With 1 great spirit, scholarly accuracy ana 1 unfailing taste these heroic figures and | the times In which their adventures
 are supposed to have occurred.
 | A consideration of the more familiar | phenomena of optics, by Charles S. ! Hastings. Professor of Physics at Yale | university. is brought out among the | Yale Bi-Centennial publications under 1 the title of Light" The book aims to | describe and explain the very large i number of phenomena in the domain Of 1 optics which may be regarded as famil- | far. in q sense that all of them may be l observed without the accesspries which [ are found enly in the collections of ap- i paratus characteristic of physical labo- 1 ratories. The phenomena of color sem sations are dealt with briefly, and what
 may be called atmospheric optics is given very full treatment.
 Thomas Dwight Goodell professor of 1 Greek at Yale, has just published a
 book entitled Chapters on Greek Me
 tric," (Scribners.) It is scholarly
 examination of the foundations of this
 department in Greek study Tie basis of discussion is our ancient authorities, i both Greek and Latin, who are quoted
 at some length. First by more careful l comparison of these sources with one
 another, and secondly by bringing to l bear on them accurate observation of | the facts of rhythm in modern life and speech, the author endeavors to reach more correct interpretations on some
 points and so a better understanding | of Greek verse-forms. The results are
 applied to current controversies but | the controversial tone is avoided. | Some of the fundamentals of English metric are included in the discussion.
 "A Most Lamentable Comedy" is the | title of a powerful novelette, by MT.
 William Allen White, which begins in i the September 21 issue of the Saturday
 Evening Post, of Philadelphia. This
 absorbing serial is study of political l hysterlcs---the story of a state gone mad. The scene of the novelette, Is
 western state laboring under the bur
 dens of a panic year. The central fig
 ure is a grocery store demagogue,
 whose harebrained oratory captures the state convention. The story rises to
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