The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-19

| expresses no bitterness or rancor, his 1 life Is simple, honest, dignlfied and pa | thetic. His story, with the comments ! left out, would appeal to every heart. | Tact he may have lacked, but there is | nothing to impugn the honesty and courage with which he followed his duty as he saw it. It is no small credit
 to the author that this character stands out so clearly and appeals 90 strongly
 to the sympathy of the reader. If for
 no other reason than this, it is pity
 that the story telling and the criticism of the church were not kept separate. As a victim of circumstance, even a Ynartyr to an idol George Benson com mands sympathy and admiration" Published by the Connecticut Magazine Company, Hartford, Conn.
 F. Hopkinson Smiths most ambi- tious story, "The Fortunes of Oliver Horn" begins in the November 'Scrib- ner's. SIt deals with the career of a young artist who comes to New York to seek fame in his profession. The au- thor has drawn upon his own intimate knowledge of the Literary and art life of the past thirty-five years, and gives vivid and attractive impression of the artistic atmosphere" in which his characters move and which often seems so full of glamour to the looker-on These early chapters are characterlzed by the rare sense of refined humor ana the passages of sentiment and pathos are handled with a certain vigor ana manliness that have already done so much to establish the authors ..popu- larity. Each instalment will have an illustration by Walter Appleton Clark.
 Theodore Roosevelt's second article, With the Cougar Hounds in the No vember Scribner's, contains some SUIT ring descriptions of Cougar hunting, as well as a great deal of valuable mat ter of special interest to the naturalist. It is illustrated with photographs taken by Philip K. Stewart, who accompanied the expedition
 Little, Brown & Go, of Boston, have just published this week up and Down the Sands of Gold" by Mary Devareux, author of From Kingdom to Colony;' a new volume of selections entitled 'Joy and Strength for the Pilgrims Day. by Mary w. Tlleston; also new red-line edition of Mrs. Tileston's pop ular Daily Strength for Daily Needs; a new series of eleven volumes of NOV els of Foreign Life" by Charles Lever, completing the new Library Edition Of Levers works; q new Illustrated edi- ton of Little Masterpieces by Al- phonse Daudet; a new edition of Philip Gilbert Hamerton's French Painters and Painting" 'The Story of Little Poet" by Sophie Cramp Taylor, illus trated: and Holly Berry and Mistle toe" by Mary Caroline Hyde, illustrat- ed by Birch.
 Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York, project a new series of Little Master pieces" small volumes of reprints of well known works The ones in sight include three essays of Bacon and se- lections from Swift Goldsmith, Milton and Emerson The series is edited by Bliss Perry, 4t
 President Roosevelt has written an { to A. G. Wallihans book Camera Shots at Wild Animals, forthcoming from the press of Double day, Page & Co.,, in which he lauds the shot above the rife shot He says
 More and more as it becomes neces- sary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely suppant lHt IillE. u lS dll SAtCllClil lA'iilS to have a. nation proficient in marksman- ship and it is highly undesirable that the rifle should be wholly laid by, But the shot is after all, only a small part of the free life of the wilderness. The chief attractions live in the physical for which the life calls the sense of limitless freedom which 1t brings. and the remoteness and wild charm and beauty of primitive nature. All this we get exactly as much in hunting with the camera as in hunting with the rifle, and of the two the form er is the kind of sport which calls for Ehe higher degree of skill, patience, res 1lution and knowledge of the life his -ory of the animal sought.
 MT. Wallihan's book will consist chief y of pictures, of which there will be twenty photogravure and many half one reproductions of his photographs.
 Two Boys in the Blue Ridge" w. Gordon Parker, whose Rival Boy 1 Sportsmen" made such decided suc- {
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