The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-12

"With Taylor on the Rio Grande," by
Capt Ralph Bonehill. This is a book
for boys of all ages 1t is exciting
without being sensational; It's tone Is
wholesome, manly and chlValrous.
There are some scenes Of adventure III
the tale that will recall the most
breathess episodes in Cooper Foke
Slower, the old frontiersman, is as loV-
able and convincing as Leatherstock-
ing, and what he doesn't know about
hunting and human nature isn't worth
knowing. Much information regarding
the Mexican war renders the book as
useful as it is entertaining. The Whole
course of this historic conflict. from
the causes which led to the declaration
of war to the battle of Buena VISTA IS
wildly set forth, and realistic pictures
are given of "Old Rough and Ready
and the other famous Figures OIL the
time While it Is complete story III
itself, it forms the second or series
of three volumes, known under the gen
eral title of the Mexican war series
Dan and Ralph Radbury, VINO won the
friendship of thousands of boys IN FOR
the Liberty of Texas" reappear IN THESE
pages. end form the center OF group
of sturdy, noble-hearted fellows, VINO
have enough things happen to them to
suit the most insatiate lover or adVen-
ture. If one is looking for an ideal
boys story, he will find 1T in with
Taylor on the Rio Grande Emo
cloth, eight full page half-tone illustra-
tions: handsome cover design, Sl.25
Dana Estes & Co.. publishers, Boston,
Mass.
'The Literary Diary Of Ezra stiles,
D, D.. LII D.. President of Yale Col
lege," is a title that describes a BOOK
to be published by the Scribners and
edited under the authority of the Cor
poration Of Yale University by Frank
lin Bowdltch, Dexter, M. A. 1t fills
three good sized volumes and has to do
with an interesting period in Yale's de-
velopment.
or Kim Doubleday, Page Coz,
the New York Herald says: THE chlld
| Kim is one OF the most fascinating, be-
wildering and amusing of all juvenile
creations in fiction, the final touch to
his charm being added by the Oriental
externals which hide yet reveal his ma
I tive Celtism. Contrasted with this
unique and tricksy imp is the exponent
of Indian fatalism and pious acquies-
cence and childlike unwordliness, the
| Tibetan Lama, between whom ana h1m
by the very force of contrast there
springs up a comradery and an affec-
ton provoking in the reader that deep-
| est sense Of humor which dug deep
enough reveals common origin with
| tears. The relations of these two OPP
posite yet kindred types, in short, con-
1 stitute the entire story. All the rest,
| the shifting panorama of alien scenes
and odd characters, each aptly sketch
ed in itself and lowered with extraor-
binary color and movement, form but
background to the pair
"Pebbles and Pearls" by Cleland
| Kernestaffe, 12mo, cloth S5O' the au-
| thor modestly calls his delightful verses
"A Collection of Poems In Patches.
We must assume that Pebbles Is to
| designate the measures that trip IN
lighter vein, gay of heart fancy free,
with mischievous twinkle in the eye,
! while under Pearls" we choose to class
/ the sweeter and more tender cadences
which the book so generously offers.
| Charmingly feminine is:
Puck knows the humor Of the sex, ana
too great prudence would but vex
I Those virgins-who themselves so shy
vet love Lotharios who defy
| Their ROSY wrath: Forget Loves woes,
and snatch kind kisses spite of moss;
! No lovers laid by-on the shelf-who
trusts to Puck-the woodland elf"
Naivete, righteousness, holiness ana
rare tenderness Of feeling alternate IN
these poems with saucy abandon and
| the freshest Of wit The spirit or
| modernity pervades these leaves that
TEEN with every emotion of the human
heart. For sale by I. Fl. Pease & Son,
or sent postpaid on receipt of price, f.
| Tennyson Nicely Company, ia Fifth
avenue, New York.
| "Peterson's Poems" by ]. j, Peterson,
| 12mo. cloth Sl50. 1t is seldom in this
prosaic age that we find soul so in
| tensely romantic, so deeply conscious
| of the purpose and possibilities Of life,
| its gladness and it's sorrow, its pain
and its power, as the remarkable young
4 poet who fashioned these verses, The
I literary style of the principal poem,
THE Rover" recalls with irresistible
force the poetic works of Walter Scott.
! Logical, StrOHS anu impressive 'aie tiiS
verses on the Judgment; the most
/ scornful cynic or the most blase egotist
could not read them without a shiver of
! dread and the keenest thrill of awe.
This little volume will find Its way
into the minds of those who know their
favorite poems by heart. For sale by
/ T.. H. Pease e. Son, or sent postpaid on
receipt of price, F. Tennyson Nicely
Company. ia Fifth avenhe, New York.
1.-THE Eoreshadowed Way" by Mrs.
Helen Aldrich DE Kroyft, author of "A
Place in Thy Memory" THE Story of
Little Jakey," "Mortara," IL mo, cloth