The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-12

blank checks in those islands waiting to be drawn OH natures resourceful treas ury." Governor Taft has written the introduction to the book -OppOrtuni- ties in the Colonies and Cuba" which has just been issued by Lewis, Scrtbner & Co.,. of New York. He says: The book contains just the information eve dybOdy wants in regard to these new fields opened t0 American enterprise Among the other contributors to the book are General Leonard Wood, Charles H. Alien. ex-Goyernor of PoI- 10 Rico, Hon. Perfecto Lacoste. secreta- dy "f agriculture of Cuba. and Hon. NJ. E. Beall, of the division of insular af- fairs. Washington, D. C.
 MT. CutCliffe Hyne, the popular writer of sea yarns, whose new book. The De-
 relict," is among the summer offerings
 of Lewis, Scrfbner & Co.. of New York, is an indefatigable traveller. No man is
 more at home either ill fO'csle or cab
 in than the genial creator of Captain
 Kettle. Mir. Hyne estimates that in obtaining the incidents that figure in
 ''The Derelict" he travelled a distance
 sufficient to take him around the world.
 The quarterly magazine of fiction published by the Town Topics Publish
 ing company contains as it's leader in
 the current issue bright and readable
 novelette, by Justus Miles FOrman, enti-
 tied "Cupid's House Party" which tells how an early boy and girl love matured into passion when hero and heroine in after years met together again to find the latter engaged to the wrong man. The denOument is brought about skill fully and satisfactorily but you mustn't ask me to reveal it here. Read the sto- ry and find out for yourself. The usual miscellany of short stories. jokes and
 vers de societe make up the remainder of the volume. Among the short stories is particularly amusing one by Byron
 P. Stephenson, entitled The Duchess Dilemma"
 The complete novel in the July num- Der of Lippincotts Magazine q. B. Lip pincott & Co. Philadelphia is by Mabel Nelson Thurston and is entitled "On the Road to Already" There are also six short stories by Beulah Marie Dix. Francis Willing Wharton, Matt Grim, Caroline Ticknor, Ella Middleton Ty- bout and Amulet Andrews, making what is we'll termed by the publishers "A Summer Feast of Fiction" There are also poems. and t!e department of "Walnuts and Wine" is filled with good things of a humorous nature. Lippin- COtt's is always popular magazine with the summer tourist, and as the standard is high it well deserves the popularity it has pained.
 Country Life in America Doubleday, Page & Co., has an ingenious tree de- sign on the cover of it's July issue which makes a very attractive appear ance. The fourth of MT. Buckingham's papers on The Making of a Country Home" given in this number, treats of Some Architectural Details. as Illus trated by the Doorways of Old Salem" "A Plea for the Pony" by John Burns, tells good deal about miniature horses and their possibilities, and the pictures accompanying the article are plea in themselves. Another article treats of the beagle. and is from the pen os James Watson. "1he Japanese Garden in America" describes part of Golden Gate park, San Francisco and another very fine descriptive article Is that on the John Sloane estate at Lenox. "Wyndhurst The illustrations of this Jae If o1a aSnontulJty hpQ utifnl Neltje Blanchan's paper on ''The Buby- Throat and it's Flower FavOrites" dwells especially on the attractiveness of red and orange flowers for this gem of the bird family. There is a good deal more of of similar character in this and the illustrations alone are we'll worth the price of the number.
 The Woman's Companion for this month has a striking Fourth of July picture on the cover which every one will at once recognize as true to life The contents are equally timely, inclu- ding story of the war of 1912 entitled The Battle of Quahaug Neck" the sto- ries of the first Declaration of Indepen- dence and of Independence Hall as 1t s to-day, besides hot weather dishes, sea sonabe costumes. and everything else that is usually to be found in house. hold magazine at this season. The whole number is handsomely illuStra- ted. The biographical puzzles are prov ing a great attraction, and many find great amusement in solving them as they appear from month to month.
 The c. M. Clark company, Boston, report that they were selling thou- sand copies daily to the trade of Miss Petticoats' last week The book has caught on especially strong in Boston, and all the large dealers find it is taeir best selling book. At the two big rail- way terminals in Boston and on the hundreds of trains going out from them daily the book and news companies de- clare they have not seen a book in long time that equalled the popularity of Miss Petticoats' with the traveling public.
 The Frederick A. Stokes company, New York, announces new series that has the potency of great interest It l> IoI Tho