The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-18
NEW EXAMINATIONS

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 complete review of the leading article in the January magazines. Each arti
 cle is so summarized that it's mai
 points are quickly attainable, althoug the general effect is to stimulate inter
 est in the articles as a whole. Anothe
 important feature of the issue is tn
 special article, An Explanation o
 Wireless Telegraphy," which treats 0
 the subject in broad terms and takes
 sanely conservative view of Signo
 Marconi's recent achievement in signal
 ling across the Atlantic. The regula
 departments are full and complete Il
 scope.
 Not since the period immediately fol
 lowing Louisa M. Alcott's death ha
 there been so great a demand for tn
 Alcott books as during the present sea
 son. The fact that a new illustrated
 edition of Little Men," with fifteel
 full-page pictures by Reginald B. Birch
 was issued and extensively advert iset
 undoubtedly stimulated the sale of tht
 Alcott books, although the demand k
 always large during the holidays. It i'
 interesting in this connection to nott
 that one of the last checks for royalties
 paid Miss Alcott by Roberts Brothers
 (Whose business was some time ago ac- Huired by Little, Brown & Co.) was
 twelve thousand dollars. This covered
 a period of one year.
 Of the twenty-nine different books
 which appeared in it's monthly lists of
 best-selling books during 1901. The
 Bookman says, "Twenty-one are the
 work of men and six of women, while
 the authors of An Englishman's Love- Letters and of Truth Dexter have never positively been identified Many think that Sidney Mccall is woman"
 The impassioned romance in the po- ems of Richard Henry and Elizabeth stoddard is thus alluded to by Lillian Whiting in "The World Beautiful in Books" ''The rose of morning gloWs from the pages of poetic creation. Richard Henry and Elizabeth Stoddard, the married poets, whose work has that quality that insures literary immortal ity, are both singularly rich in the mag ic of lyric art and in that subtlety that reveals the rose glow of life"
 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's Life of Mar garet Fuller has been published in Lit tie, Brown & Co.'S Famous Women Serles,' and this same house publishes Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century," Art, Literature and the Drama" life Without and Life Within" At Home and Abroad" and also Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli' by R. w. Emerson, w. H. Charming and J, F. Clarke.
 Little, Brown & Co. have just pub lished in this country Volume VI. of William Laird Cloves history of 'The Royal Navy" This volume, the last but one of the set, contains President Theodore Roosevelt's chapter of one hundred and eighty pages on "The War with the United States, 1s12-15." Royal Svo. $6,50 net.
 Of the new work, The Teaching of Jesus" by George Barker Stevens, Dwight professor of theology in Yale the New York Tribune says: Tt is an analytical text book most com prehensive in character and is. another indication of the fact that modern the ology concentrates it's attention more and more upon Jesus His lire, character and teaching. A series of volumes pre- senting briefly the results of the scien- tific study of the New Testament, edi- ted by Smaller Mathews, of the Univer- sity of Chicago, includes this work by Professor Stevens, which is the newest publication. The aim of the volume is to aid in clarifying the meaning of the life and work of Christ, An effort is made to translate the thought of the Divine Teacher into modern terms and to arrive at His meaning, by compari- son with the Jewish religious ideas of His age and to show the historical i on which His teaching was presented. Step by step the synoptic gospels are reviewed most closely, and | 'ach view shows deep study of the sub feet. As an interpreter of the gospels | Professor Stevens stands deservedly | igh, and this textbook, fo1' Bible class | IS and theological students, will prove 1 
 Few announcements of new books for his spring will be of greater interest to he reading public than that of the publication by Mir. John Lane, n March, of MT. Henry Harlands new lUftl lAe lduy ! dIAllpunl. SlHCe l he publication of the Cardinals snuff Box" MT. Harland has found hat public recognition of his admira- le talent which at least one of his ear fer books should have won for him onger ago, He stands now in popular as well as in that of the nore serious students of our current ction, among the best, the most artis- ic novelists of our day His new ook, about which no detailed informa- ion is available as yet, will be some that longer than the Cardinals huff Box" It is, we understand, in he same vein as that delectable story, romance pure and simple
 Two odd characters in Hester Blair"
 novel which will be issued next | lonth, are Slack Dorkins and "Millie," 'ho have courtship lasting twenty ears 'Mille' has been housekeeper l the Blair family that time, while Slacky" has been the accepted head the house since the death of Hes : IT. arsfather.The following lines from the uthor explain Millies feeling toward lack: Though Millie would not &C., : noWIedge it, the love of this man was | 5 necessary to her existence and hap- mess as the air she brea thed, But | le toyed with his heart and his love, ! ecause she knew they were hers, ithout stint or reservation. Were she IT the man who, for twenty years had