The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-12
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON.

"BsIshazzar'' by ". s. DsvIs-"AmOBg
 the Water FewI," by II. K. JOb-''Ths
 Red Anvil," by sherIock-"AmOr
 victor," by Orr Kenyon-"Mousme''
 RspubIished-New Yale Book, Etc.
 One of the most vivid impressive and
 dramatic episodes of Bible history, that
 of Belshazzar's feast and the hand writing on the wall" is made the back ground of striking novel by William Stearns Davis, author of A Friend of Caesar" It is entitled "Belshazzar,"
 and is published by Doubleday, Page & Co, New York. The author has closely
 studied all available sources of infOr- nation in the preparation of the story
 and has woven into it vivid pictureof this bewildering Queen Of Ancient Cit- ies The Persian princess Atossa,
 married against her will to Belshazzar,
 the cruel monarch himself and his dark
 counsellor, the High Priest of Bel: im- petuous Darius, the future king of Per-
 sia, white haired Daniel and his beauti-
 ful daughter-alI of these chief figures stand out in bold relief amid the excit-
 ing course of the drama which reaches it's climax at the scene at Belshazzar's feast. The famed hanging gardens, the mighty walls, the cosmopolitan popu-
 lace and the great sacerdotal pageants are painted with rich color and accu-
 racy attesting careful study of Baby
 l-s- Fl oI
 hunts, the insidious battles of rival
 priesthoods and the creation of man.
 moth monuments, on which the op-
 pressed Jews painfully toiled, are bril-
 liantly sketched. It is a notable work,
 strong, vigorous and of intense interest.
 It is isfllustrated by Lee Woodward Zeig-
 Ter and decorated by J. E. Laub. Price
 $50: fol, sale by the E. P. Judd Go.
 Of the book the Boston Advertiser re-
 marks in the course of a uniformly
 highly commendatory review: 'Of an-
 other class is "Belshazzar." About one
 of the most dramatic figures in the Bi-
 ble narrative the author has written a
 story of intense, unsullied interest"
 The New York Commercial Adverti- ser says: "There can be no doubt that MT. Davis possesses to considerable degree the gift of conjuring up the van ished centuries, of making states and empires of the past live again-and he does it in a series of word pictures that give the effect of a great spectacular burst of prismatic colors. As a story we are not at all sure that BelshaZZar is an advance upon A Friend of Caesar As a panorama of one of the most gor- geous civilizations the world has seen 1t outshines it twice over"
 Among the Water Fowl, Observa- ton, Adventure, Photography" is the title of delightful book by Herbert K. | Job. It is profusely illustrated by pho- tographs from nature. mostly by the ! author, and is published by Doubleday.-t Page & Co., New York. It is, as is we'll | remarked of the book by a contempora- 1 ry, "a fresh example of the kind of na- ture study that the perfection of the apparatus and methods of photography | have made possible" The book is a popular narrative account of the water fowl found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. For years MT. Job has made a special study of gulls and water fowl, haunting their haunts and obtaining much new information. He records the results of his journeys and Investigations in vivacious and enjoy l able fashion and adds to the pleasure afforded by his narrative with many beautiful pictures from life. The rich colored plates of Audobon's great work were so expensive that only few could afford to possess it, but with works of the kind of MT. Jobs, all may possess beautiful pictures of feathered denizens of the wild woods. MT. Jobs love for his task and his zeal and artistic work are apparent in his book. He is true lover of nature, and with unwearying patience spent hours and days some- times in getting the desired snap shot of choice specimens of wary waterfowl in their secluded haunts. His narra- tions of his endeavors to get near enough to grebes and looms and their nests to photograph them and their eggs and of the glimpses he obtained of their habits and of their haunts in the wild and secluded spots where they dwell, are very interesting. Sometimes he took dangerous risks to secure suc- cess in his work, his enthusiasm almost overbalancing prudence Some of the pictures speak for themselves of the risks he undertook. The pictures are both numerous and exceptionally fine and will delight every true lover of na- ture. The study of natural history pursued in this way has rare charms for the patient, the painstaking and the . adventurous.
 There are five parts, some of them Mittily named. The first deals with .'The Submerged Tenth" the grebes and looms, many of them in the Dako- tas; the second, Modern Cliff-Dwell- l CTS" with puffins. auks and their rela- lives, in the St. Lawrence and off the coast of Maine; the third, Ocean Wan derers," with petrels, skuas and shear waters; the fourth, "The White Winged Fleet" with gulls and terns-ocean birds, though the lake gulls deserve a place; and the fifth, Wild Fowl of ; Wild Fowl" with ducks and geese in North Dakota and New England both. | Price of book $1.S5 net: for sale by the Pease-LeWis Co. . "The Red Anvil" by Charles Regi- nald Sherlock, author of Your Uncle
 Lew" Published by Frederick A. I Stokes Co.,. New York. Price $1.50; for l sale by Judd.
 This is romance concerning times of i fifty years ago. While touching Amer l