The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-23

nlled With excitement, 1t is not Of tn
 brutal sort with which we are too ia
 miliar; and not even through it's ex
 citement does the story makes it
 strongest bid for popular favor. Tn
 best part of the story is it's charming
 naturalness, it's sweet simplicity, ant
 it's splendid delineation of noble char
 acter. The people in the story have al
 had breathed into them the breath O.
 life. Mark Everard and little Tob.
 have our admiration from the opening
 till the close; the heroine is a lady emi
 nently worthy of her part; and Cad
 waller Julius, Sir Alfred and the res
 stand out clearly as characters that arc
 consistent, distinct, human, 12 mo
 cloth, $1.50 R. F. Fenno & Co.,, New
 York.
 Gilbert Parker's latest novel, 'Tht
 Right of Way" has a smaller compan- ion in charming little book entitled
 "The March of the White Guard,
 which Fenno & Go. have only just pub
 lished. In this latter volume MT. Park CT has the "heart-touch' most decisive ly developed. His White Guard" be- longs with the class of his fresher work
 when his own human feeling was SC completely spontaneous. It will make him many friends and no library of Parker's works will be complete with out it. Price 50 cents.
 Gilbert Parker, author of "The Right of Way" is now in London. He ex- poets to visit this country early in De- cember. His book, published there by Heinemann, is selling vigorously In England, but not with the rush which characterizes the American market for this authors work. He has won a high place in the first rank of living au- thors.
 John Lane is publishing "Jane Aus ten: Her Homes and Her Friends" by Constance Hill, with illustrations by Ellen Hill Many fine ",d country house has been visited which was the scene of interesting or amusing inci- dents in Jane's life, and a forgotten country ball room where she danced and which she frequently mentions ill her letters, has been discovered, The process of following a favorite writer in this way into his or her home life in many cases brings about sad dis enchantment, but no such pain awaits
 
 steps.
 John Lane announces the publication of an entirely new work on Cardinal Wolsey from the pen of the Rev. Ethelred l.. Taunton, author of "The History of the Jesuits in England" etc. Hitherto no history of the great Car dinal as a churchman has been attempt ed. And Vet Wolsey was something more than a politician His ecclesias- tical work, had it been allowed to ripen, would have been of more lasting effect than his secular triumphs. It is not go- ing beyond the evidence to say that if time had been granted to Wolsey to car ry out his carefully devised remedies, the religious disputes would not have occurred in England. He was clear eyed and single minded, and was keenly alive both to the existence of abuses and to the best way of meeting them.
 Little. Brown & Co.,, Boston, call at- tention to the fact that the Western Library club has placed Maud Wilder Goodwins Sir Christo- pher'' on the list of the 100 best books of the year; also that a new edition of 5000 copies of Helen Jackson's "Ra- mona has been called for, making 155,- poo that have been sold of this ever popular book and that a third edition of Mary Devereux's Up and Down the Sands of Gold" Is already on the mark at. For young people this house makes specially fortunate selection. Among their newest holiday books is hand some new library edition of Louisa M. Jant fnr -fn v As the Goose Flies" with Katharine Pyle's clever illustrations, and 'The Captain of the School" by Edith Rob- nson.
 The new edition of Miss Alcotts fla nous story, Little Men, with 15 full lage pictures by Reginald B. Birch, il- of Little Lord Fauntleroy," s one of Little, Brown X Co.'s best holiday publications and a large sale is assured. Even adults will be interest d in Birch's representations of the fa- yorite characters in this universally popular story. A unique vignette adorns | he title page.
 Lafcadio Hearn, author of "A Japan SC Miscellany which Little, Brown & l 70. have just published, has had a most | uncommon and romantic experience. | lis ia ather was an Irish surgeon in the British Regiment, his mother Greek lady from Cerigo. He vas born at Leucadia, Santa Maura, onian Islands. He was sent to France t sixteen to be educated, came to .merica when nineteen, and found imself in New Orleans, where he did ditorial work for ten years In 1887 he isited the West Indies, with which he 5as charmed; went to Japan against is wish, but was quite reconciled to is fate, for he married a Japanese ldy, studied the Japanese people with larvellous success, and has produced ooks of rare charm and remarkable alue. He is now lecturer on English terature in the Imperial University of okyo
 Boy Donald and His Chum," by enn Shirley (Sophie Mays Sister, be- lg the second volume of the Boy Don- Id" series, 16mo, cloth, illustrated by ertha G. Davidson. Boy Donald with arrot monkey and other elements of lively story pleased large circle of eaders last year, and now Boy Donald ith his little friend whom he adopts 5 his twin cannot fail to enlarge the { rcle of acquaintance. The perfect nat ralness of comradeship Of the make elieve" twins, the funny acts and { right sayings, and the high tone of the
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