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

publication of a new work entitled
Great Epochs in Art History" by
Prof. j. M. Hoppin. The book treats of
the periods of Italian Religious Paint
ing, Greek Sculpture succeeding
Phidias' French Gothic Architecture,
and English Raphaelitism. For
sale at Judds book store.
In 1.-THE Great God Success" Freder-
lex A. Stokes Company, New YORK,
price $l.50, John Graham has set be-
fore us the story of man of high ideals
battling to sustain these against the
lust for wealth and the love of luxury,
which dominate the world. An unusual
and a striking character he had made
this hero, q man high pitched, OF end
less ambition, strong mind, great de-
termination and yet, human Withal.
He has launched him in the profession
of Journalism, and has carried him for
ward from a. beginner in the field OF re-
porting to be the editor and owner OF
the most powerful and most popular OF
the newspapers of New York.
Strange as it may seem, the author
has chosen the vehicle of love to be the
undoing of his hero--and there will be
readers who will feel that he has not
been quite fair to the woman, ana
that the unpleasant end was not neces-
sarily of her making, However, it Is
powerful story, one that maintains IT'S
interest from the first page to the last,
and leaves a sense of having been worth
while when it is read and done with.
Mr.. Howard is introduced to us when
he makes his application to the man
aging editor of the NewsReeord. He
is Just out of Yale, ambitious but pes
simistic. He gets a foothold after al
most losing his chance and then goes
ahead steadily. Two women come into
his life. One is beyond the pale and
the other has lived the conventional
life. His experience with the former is
handled deftly, and is indeed one of the
strongest situations in the book but it
is the other who is put forward as the
cause of his losing those beautiful
ideals with which he started on his
career.
We must confess that we do not see,
as the author does, that she is RESPONSE
BILE for the fact that Mr., Howard sinks
his ideals in the pursuit of the mate
rial. In fact, we are inclined to think
| that the love of good clothes and fine
| food and many servants, and the
| chance to rub shoulders with the rich
and be counted as their equal, was al
ways latent in this clever young man,
and that in his case, as in most others,
| regret 1t as we may, the ardor of self
sacrifice and devotion to the ideal was
powerful only so long as there was lit
| tie to lose.
There is no halt in the telling of the
story, and the author shows himself
to be a practiced hand at writing, clev-
err in the weaving of words, and thor
oughly acquainted with the making OF
a newspaper Without going into dis
cussion of his identity, for the name
John Graham is not familiar to us, we
can say confidently that he has been
familiar with metropolitan journalism
for many years.
Malcolm, Stone, King, Vroom, Bow
ring and Sewall have been all familiar
under other names to the newspaper
men Of the past twenty years. Some OF
| them have gone the way of all things,
while others continue to flourish in the
same positions in which Mr.. Graham
presents them Their identity is re-
yealed by incidents he discloses, but
there is practically no attempt at por-
| traiture
| The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser saws of the book: Here is
| story which is bound to set GOOD
many people asking who John era
ham" is; for we take it for granted
that this is merely pseudonym, since
| the author shows far too intimate a
| knowledge Of New York journalism to
be himself quite unknown. Taken al
| together this is a serious and thought
ful book and deserves careful reading
nv those who are seeking in a novel
something more than half hour s
amusement"
'"rhe Night Hawk" by Alix John Is
stirring romance of blockade running
| in our great civil war time, done by
Confederates who took their venture
some course between Halifax and ports
of the southern states. The heroine
of the story is q southern woman OF
wealth and good birth who acts as a
Confederate spy in Halifax and whose
caraer is to some extent based on that
of a charming southerner who actually
served the Confederacy as its secret
agent The author begs to state that
| 1.-THE sea adventures of Capt arthur
| are founded on those of an English
nayy officer who for several years ran
tbe blockade successfully under an as
sumed name, subsequently becoming
an admiral in the Turkish service. The
shipwreck of a southern hospital nurse
while running the blockade from Hall