The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-05
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Continued from Sixth Page)
 Badminton Series of Sports and Pas
 times, which Little, Brown & Go. have
 just published in this country, is z
 450 page book written by Alfred c
 Harmsworth, with contributions by l other eminent Englishmen. The book
 describes fully the various kinds of au-
 tomoblles, is finely illustrated and con
 tains a glossary of terms
 Mary Devereaux has written what her
 publishers state is her best book in
 "Laftte of Louisiana" which will be
 brought out early in June. This au-
 thors reputation was made by From Kingdom to Colony" a romance of Marblehead (Mass) in the Revolution.
 Last year she wrote Up and Down the
 Sands of Gold" a present day novel, l but her new book is the romantic his-
 tory of Jean Lafitte who, after leaving 1 France for Louisiana, bore a prominent
 part in the history of that territory. Notwithstanding the large first print | ing, Mary Catherine Crowleys The ] Heroine of the Strait" is now in it's
 third edition.
 | The publication of "In the Eagles Talon" Sheppard Stevens romance of the Louisiana Purchase has been de- layed until the last part of May. Little, Brown X Go. are the publishers.
 Travellers whose memory runs some thine tnfa han vriI member quite clearly the rather sudden discovery of Nova Scotia as a summer tourists land which occurred about that time. Of course, occasional visi- tors had penetrated to Nova Scotia be- fore, but it was then that the poetic charm and beauty of the province be- came noised abroad and the great army of summer vacatonists went over and possessed her Of the literature of the period which served to make Nova Scotia so well known in the States book called over the Border" written and illustrated by Eliza B. Chase, of Philadelphia, easily took first place. Its breezy pen sketches and delft pencil strokes turned many a tourist to Aca dia-and served him as guide book af-
 
 Nova Scotia is now accounted some what passee by the progressive tourist who will be delighted to learn that Miss Chase has new book about to issue treating of a whole batch of new finds for the summer voyageur. "In Quest Of the Quaint" she calls her new volume of curious travel-lore. While still pie turing and treating of Canadian cor- ners, Miss Chase has pushed her dis coveries into hooks that the railroad and steamship guide book wots not of, and which are warranted not to have had their charm vulgarized as yet by the madding crowd of summer travel. | The up-to-date globe trotter can't do | better than follow her promptly while 1 the warranty holds. (Ferris X Leach, | publishers, Philadelphia.
 The table of contents of the June Era | (Henry T. Coates & Go, Philadelphia, i shows remarkable variety and should | extend the circle of regular readers of | this excellent magazine, The thrilling, | story of Marie Antoinette," by Henry Francis grows in intensity of human | interest Domestic and foreign matters are dealt with respectively in the de- partments of the Observer, Old World Themes and the London Literary Let ter. The other regular features are too well known to and appreciated by read CTS to call for anything more than q passing reference. Lovers of horse flesh will find much to interest them In The Modern Pony" by Theodore Guy ef Patterson: those fond of curious ore will welcome Henry Iliowizi's story if "The Beginnings of the Kabbalah" Like Snow Upon the Desert is the ti- le of dramatic story by Julia Helen rwels, Jr, who is well known as so- ,iety novelist. Under the title of "A Tale of Several Lions, Hercules D. Vil- oen, Boer envoy to the United States. contributes a stirring hunting yarn. which finds fit companion in Mary p. ;tickney's "A Day With the Round Tp." William J. Lampton's Harry 0obbins Courtship'' is a delicious bit f humor; while "A Converted Span ard" tale of the Santiago fight, by taptain Thomas H. Wilson, IT. $. A., ppeals to the patriotic. Scrihner's for June has a description | f the government experiment station, graphic presentation of the latest the- = ries and facts in meteorology and an / ttractive form of nature study is most , icturesquely shown in "The Camera in i,
 Country Lane" which is illustrated , cry beautifully in tints from photo raphs by Eickemeyer The last of IT.. Connolly's sketches of modern fish I rmen at work describes his experiences f On q Baltic Sea Sloop." Mrs. Whar- |, ,n (whose novel, "The Valley of Deci- z on," is the success of the season,) con- f 'ihutes a classical poem "Artemis to |,