The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-28

| White, with a chapter on What the
 Basket Means to the Indian," by Neltje
 Blanchan; Doubleday, Page &, Co., New
 York; price $1; for sale at Judas. The
 great interest in Indian baskets has
 drawn new attention to the art of bas-
 ket making. with the result that bas-
 ketry has found immediate favor, not
 only in schools and training classes,
 but as neat, attractive pastinle and
 means of occupation among grown
 people as well. This little manual is
 the only printed guide to the work.
 Miss White describes in detail the few
 necessary implements and materials,
 and then tells how to weave, first the
 simpler forms, next the more difficult
 patterns, and finally the complicated
 and beautiful work for which the In-
 dians were once famous, but which is
 now rapidly becoming a lost art. The
 author says in her preface: Genera tions of these weavers among the
 American Indians have produced mas ter-pieces, many of which are pre-
 served in our museums, and the young
 basket-maker need not go on long pill 1 grimages to study the old masters of
 the craft. Here at last, as in England,
 the value of manual training is being
 realized, and basketry is taking an inn
 portant place, following the Kindergar- ten and enabling the child to apply the 1 principles he has learned there. Bas- l ketry also fills the need for practical
 home industry for children; so not only
 in school, club and settlement, but on | home piazzas in summer young weav 1 tal ir,cr air i,ot Tho | book has large number of ilustrations of basket work of all degrees and some l fifty illustrative figures essential to l the learner.
 "A Passion Unveiled" by Lenore Poe. Paper covers. Publisher by the Town Topics Publishing company POS Fifth
 avenue, New York. Price, 50 cents. Gretchen, the heroine of Lenore Poe's story, "A Passion Unveiled" which leads the September issue of Tales from Town Topics, marries, then little more than a child, a man considerably her
 senior-a friend of her father whom
 fate has thrown much in her society
 Later she meets Stanley Gordon. The
 regulation complications follow. Just
 how happiness is finally attained it
 would be unfair to the author and the
 reader to divulge The workmanship
 of this novelette, Is clever, and the sto-
 ry Is never offensive. For sale by all
 booksellers
 Her Washington Experiences" by Anna Farquhar, author of "The Dev- il's Plough" etc. Published by L. c. Page & Co.,, Boston. For sale by Judd. There will be no cleverer book pub lished this season than Her Washing ton Experiences. The cabinet mem bers wife, through whose eyes we are given a glimpse into Washington soci ety, has vision delightfully."- true and clear; her impressions of the city as whole, compared in character with oth- CT places, are we'll worth reading for their epigrammatic briliancy and apt contrasts.
 In the July-August number of the Connecticut Magazine, which has just come to hand Waterbury plays a prominent part. IT. G. Church, of this city, writes a sketch of early Water bury, telling of it's beginning, the trea- ty with the Indians by which Matta tuck was conveyed to the white men, and many other interesting facts of it's early history. The paper Is embellshed | with photographs of old buildings and 1 documents and some of the present ! buildings of the city. Following this is | a paper on "Waterbury: It's Promf | nent Interests and People" by Florence l West illustrated with pictures of | prominent buildings, some residences and a few portraits. There is paper e., In1 hA Ann 1nJ Town Meeting of Election in Connecti- cut" by Edwin Stanley Wells, and an account of Noah Webster, nccompa nied by several pictures The second I of the biographies of the governors of l appears and there are sev eral short poems, besides the usual de- partments.
 The first number of Country Life in America" edited by Professor l.. H. Bailey and published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,, Is announced for Novem Der l. In the meantime preliminary has been issued, which is a number of the magazine Itself It is about fourteen by ten inches in size, and contains forty or more pages, printed on fine calendared paper, Wlln CoNel III WLith tNo charming photographs from nature form part of handsome decorative de- sign The text Is varied in theme, and $ in good hands. An essay on old gar lens, by M. J. P Mowbray, comes 1rst 1t is followed by an account of Ellerslie, ex-Vice- President Morton's estate, and after this comes q study of the ruby threaded humming ,ird and the flowers on which it feeds, with "The Life Story of a Frog a brief paper on "A Home Makers ' 4awn," description of La Belle Fa- neuse,''- the domestic apple of the Canadian French-and half dozen ,ther opposite items. The presence of poem by John Burroughs and re- jew of a recent book on Thoreau indi- ates that the literary interests of the nature lover are not to be neglected. )n it's illustrative side this magazine hows itself to be especially worthy of Countdy Life" the well known Eng ish publication from which the projec- ors have obviously taken their cue. :, Photographs are almost exclusively ighest quality. MT Dugmores illus rations for "The Life Story of Frog" [ re particularly to be commended | z Ve must protest, however, against the ', of some of the best illus . rations by glaring lines of typography l