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

Bob. Son of Battle" hy Alfred Olli
 want. Doubleday & Mcclure Co.,, pub 1 Pease & Son; price s1.5p net. This tale
 is as full of novelty as it is of merit
 and to be both new and true is a rare
 distinction for any story. That it dis
 covers new and admirable material 1T
 shepherds and shepherd dogs and theil
 thrilling rivalries and contests dhe
 scene is laid in the north of England)
 is really one of it's minor merits. Its
 great claim is in adding another to the 1 living unforgettable characters of Eng
 fish fiction. Meet Adam McAdam and
 you may hate him or you may love him
 or you may try to hate him and love 1 him in spite of yourself but one thing l is certain, you will never forget him
 The publishers sent MT A. Radclyffe Dugmore across the Atlantic for two
 successive summers, in order to secure
 the best possible photographs of the scenes and events of this charming
 story. MT. Dugmore Is the only person who has been allowed to obtain photo l graphs of the actual trials for the Shep- herds Trophy Twenty-four of these pictures have been selected to illustrate
 this volume, and add greatly to the in terest and appreciation of the text,
 Princess Puck" by Una L. Silberrad, the author of that very strong and
 successful book, The Lady of Dreams '' Doubleday Page & Co, publishers, New l,
 price $1.50. Princess Puck" is a love story, and a rarely good one. The scene
 is laid in the atmosphere of the small
 English country town which the author
 knows so well, and it is full of the keen
 feeling for nature and the simpler
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 young girl whose nickname forms the
 title is a genuine creation full of char
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 more wholesome, clean, pleasing, at
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 The Making of Country Home, by ]. P. Mowbray. Polished by Dou- bleday, Page & Co, N Y. For sale by T. H. Pease & Son; price sl.50 net. The Making of a Country Home" af- ter a tremendously successful serial run, now appears for the first time in book form from the press of Doubleday, Page 6 Go. It is made in uniform at tractive binding and decoration with
 "A Journey to Nature by the same author, one of the most widely read of recent nature books in this country, and in England as well,
 Besides it's practical attraction for the thousands of city dwellers who have always dreamed of having a home in the country, this story is one of such reality. humor and sustained interest as to ensure it the widest appreciation MT. Mowbray's work is so new and rare in it's quality that he has become al- most at a bound one of the most en- gazing and significant figures in con temporary American literature The book is ella borately decorated Chapter heads: l. Castles in the Air; II, The Search; IT, The Householder ", On Her Own Threshold; V, The Incipient Garden; VI, The Day of Small Things; VII, In Which John Entertains an An gel Unawares; VIII, In Which the Tempter Enters; TX, The Raising of the Roof; X, Recompense XI, Winters Warnings and Discomforts; XII, Con- cluson
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 Essays in Historical Criticism" by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of history in Yale university; published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; 1 price S2.00 net; for sale at Judd's. This S another in the series of volumes pre- pared by number of the professors md instructors at Yale, and issued in connection with the university's bi-cen- ennial anniversary, as partial indi- 1 'ation of the character of the studies | n which the university teachers are | The author in his preface l ,ays: ''The first essay in this colec 1 ion, ''The Legend of Marcus Whitman | bearing the same title as | he article which I published in the | American Historical Review last Jan lary is substantially a new piece of | york. In part second the material | in that article is reproduced | md in addition the testimony of the of the story and of their sup ,orters has been subjected to rigorous and the origin of some of It's I, eculiar elements has been brought to ight The distinguishing feature, l owever, of the essay as published ere is the full presentation of the lite ary history of it's legend. It is my l ope that this account of the genesis, | illusion and wise acceptance in the alter part of the nineteenth century a narrative about moment0us event l I American history that is as unhis- orical as the legend of the Donation of will prove to be a' service b,a contribution to the literature of istorical criticism.
 The space devoted to the discussion of he Whitman controversy upon which Bourne has shed important CIV light, occupies about one-third of le volume. The other articles in the ook are "The Authorship of the Fed ralist'' "Mr. Paul Leicester Ford on ! le Authorship of the Federalist," |" ''rhe ederalist Abroad" "Madison's Studies the History of Federal Government" Prince Henry, the Navigator" "The u Line of Pope Alexander