The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-08

church ceremony and the rehearsal:
home weddings; evening weddings;
wedding breakfast and supper; the
wedding guests; second marriages;
wedding anniversaries l year. paper;
I'd, colt ton: Sd, leather, (books, etc.);
4th, china; 9Th, wooden, etc. Many SUI
perior illustrations accompany the text,
and will be found pertinent object
lessons The book is published by Dou-
bleday, Page & Co, New York; price
$1.20 net; for sale by the Pease-Lewis
Co.
A capital book for the leisure hour,
handsomely printed and bound. is
'Cap'n Titus" by Clay Emery, pub
lished by Doubleday, Page & Co.. price
$1.OO; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
The book presents a group of stories of
New England country folk which CEN
ter around the personality of a grizzled,
weather-beaten old mariner whose
yarns have the salty flavor of the sea-
coast town whihc he honors with his
habitation. Some of the titles are:
Captain Titus Ride; a Remarkable
Shot; the Cap'n Sells Some Apples;
Uncle Silas on Baked Beans; a Stom-
ach Pump Story; An Eel Story;
Whaling Yarn; Deep Sea Yarn; a
Horse Trade; Cap'n Titus Bread Foot.
Owen Seaman's new collection of par
odies. Borrowed Plumes," published
by Henry Holt & Co.. New York, is
eliciting enthusiastic praise all along
the lines. 1t Is work of rare merit
of genius in it's field. His Battle of
the Bays" won fine success and is now
in its fourth edition, and critics in the
| main agree that he is the greatest liv-
ing parodTst. In Borrowed Plumes, -
in the opening burlesque, he carries out
the droll idea of having the Elizabeth of
the Letters visit the Elizabeth of the
German Garden. The parodies that
follow cover Mr.. Dooley. Hall Gaines
! Eternal City, Harlands Cardinals
Snuff Box, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler S
Double Thread, John Oliver Hobbies
Robert of Orange, Mrs. Wards Robert
Elsmere and works by Hewlett, Henry
| James, Sir John Lubbock, Maeterlinck,
Mrs. Meynell, etc. THE proof of the
pudding is in the eating" and it is only
by liberal quotations that the extreme
cleverness of these burlesques can be
| brought out. Specimens taken from
| anywhere in the book give the piquancy
| and cleverness of these burlesques upon
| noted writers. But those who wish an
| hour or two solid endowment should
| read the book itself. All Of the writer's
named above are most successfully par
| odied. Price of the book $1.25; for sale
| by the Pease-Lewts. Co.
| The Mail and Express says of Dor
rowed Plumes:" Mr.. Seaman's new
volume of parodies. this time in prose,
demonstrates that his hand has lost
none of it's cunning, his mind none of
| its humor and nimble wit. Compare
sons with Calverley have been made so
often in Mr.. SeamaIl's case that we re-
| frain from repetition, not FOR lack of
| conviction, but because our modern
| parodist no longer needs comparison.
Moreover, this is mostly prose, not
verse. His work is capital in itself,
hugely enjoyable, and ever strikingly
| faithful to its originals"
An interesting and entertaining soci-
ETY. novel is "rhe Councils of Croesus, "
by Mary knight Potter, author of
Love in Art" THE Art of the Vati-
can," etc, and published by l.. C. Page
& Co., Boston; $1.25 !; for sale by the E.
r. Judd Co. The scene of the book Is
New York of the present day. The sto-
ry has distinct and pervasive charm.
| The leading women of the story are
drawn with artistic hand and are re-
markably. realistic. A beautiful and
wealthy young widow with the bitter
memories Of a love'ess marriage is the
leading figure Of the story, yet with all
this unhappy past she would insist in
her worldliness that her charming
! daughter should wed an English lord
| considerably her senior In age, for
! wealth and position. trusting that love
would follow. The daughter a charm
ing girl, extremely lovable, but faint
hearted and timid, loves a handsome
| young architect. The mothers ambi-
ton and the mothers love are put to
the supreme test and in the end love
conquers The denouement is very sat
iafy ing to the reader, though tragic for
the beautiful widow, whose hopes of
winning the man she loved are shat
tered most unexpectedly. The widows
chief friend AMI critic, Miss Aspinwall
is another finely drawn character, AMI
the latter's lovers long courtship is at
last crowned with success by coup de
1hain which if made before would have
won the prize.
Among the Great Masters Of Wei
fare by Walter Rowlands: publishes
by Dana Estes & Co., Bost VI. Tnis
Look brings toget her thirty-two repro
duct.ons Of famous paintings, repre-
Serting scenes in the lives of celebrated
| rwarrinrs with exnIanntnru tnvt Ia,