The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-10
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS,
SOMETHING ABOUT THE LATEST
 BOOKS.


 Eleanor Hoyt's hisdemeanors of Nancy
 Mary MiIIer's Brook BOok-Com-
 First Novel, n Story of Arizona-Fran-
 ces HodgsOn Barnetts New Book
 Elliott Flowers Policeman Flynn
 and MT. Long's Naughty Nan, Etc.
 ''The Misdemeanors of Nancy,'' by Eleanor Hoyt. Doubleday, Page x Go,
 New York, $1.50, As is well said in "The
 Era" a more harmessly bewitching girl
 than Nancy has not emerged from book covers in years" The book ''is a series of charming and amusing sketches
 which introduce great variety of in teresting characters, among whom Nancy sparkles like a brilliant light in a swarm of moths." The Chicago Record Herald says of Nancy: "She is com prehensible to none but an American the fine flower of the flirting system all coyness when coyness is the cue, all dash and daring and mischef,as sl1iIful as an Indian in stalking her game, as willy as a lapwng in dissembing her real attitude, and taking refuge in her woman's prerogatives when in danger of defeat. And, as Balzac says wo- man is never so strong as when she arms herself with her weaknesses"
 Of this bewitching parsonage the New York Tribune says: Nancy, the happy young lady whose personality and do- ings are celebrated by Miss Hoyt in eleven brief chapters each one relating to distinct phase of her journey to- ward welded bliss, is an amazingly vi- vecious individual. She is pretty, she Sdresses bewitchingly and she is tre- nendous flirt. She does nischievous things with the gayest smile in the world, and nobody can be angry with her for two minutes together, Some times she strikes us as being more pert than clever. But we end by forgiving her. The stories are very briskly told, with a light touch, and a very lively scene of artistic proportion" The book is charming one, bright sparkling and witty and Nancy is most captivating parsonage. Her pranks are amusing, her exuberance delightful. Copies of | the book at the Pease-Lewis Co.'S. z The Brook Book, by Mary Rogers | Miller; Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New | York; $1.35 net; for sale by the Pease- | Lewis Co. This delightful work will | appeal potently to all who love the | woods, the birds, the brooks and out door life in the country generally. A years history of a brook is here charm- ingly told. Mrs. Miller follows a typical stream through the four seasons; the activity and hustle of it's waters and their inhabitants in the spring; the gradual warming of the water and awakening of the swarm of insect life; the hot days of summer when the fish go into deep holes for coolness; the coming of winter and the ice covering which sheets the edges of the stream and glasses the rocks. It is fascina- ting subject which the author (well- known as teacher, lecturer and writer with the nature study bu- beau at CornelD handles with marked ability The many beautiful full-page nalf-to illustrations by various skilled photographic artists and line 1T dWlilSS iiiOotly ildue uilctl iiolii id- .ure, add much to the attractiveness | md value of the work. Two chapters, | "A Winter Walk" and "A Home in a Willow Tree,'' are adaptations from ar , ,icles which have appeared in the New England Journal of Education Sister Ellen's Fish Story was written for the book by the authors sister, Miss Julia Ellen Rogers, and also appears in the Nay number of Country Life in Ameri- "a. The authors own description of in- ect and plant life and doings and fishes to brooks are simply charm ng. Comments of Countess; published " John Lane, New York; $1,00 net; for old by Pease-Lewis Co.