Arizona republican., 1902-11-18


 the Country God Forgot has been the fourth most popular book among the subscribers of the largest circulating library in the country (the Booklov ersO two months in succession. Miss Charles is one of the most promising of western authors.
 The autumn announcements of Messrs. Little, Brown & Company, Bos- ton. contain 30 new titles and 9 new editions. The publication of one of the most important books "The Speeches and Other Writings of Daniel Webster, Hitherto Uncollected," has been de- Ilayed, but new 1S-volume subscription edition of Daniel Webster's works is about to be brought out by this firm. A new work on American Literature in Its Colonial and National Periods" by Prof. Lorenzo Sears of Brown uni versity, traces the growth of our liter aturc from the first letters and diaries of at Jamestown and Plymouth to the present day. Captain Mahan's new work, Retrospect and Prospect" con- sists of eight studies in international relations, naval and political. and in- cludes his consideration of the effect of the Boer war on the prestige of the British empire, his consideration of the Conditions determining the naval ex- pansion of the United States and his tribute to Admiral Sampson.
 "A Daughter of the Shows" is the first novel of a young American writer whose remarkable short stories within 1 the last two years have brought him into distinct notice. MT. London has had a most adventurous career. Be i sides shipping before the mast, tramp | ing with the rough characters of inland California, and working on the bay front in San Francisco, he has had ex- | perience in Alaska to which any less vigorous constitution would have sue cumbed. In an open boat he hoated nineteen hundred miles in nineteen days down to the Behring sea. He was one of d few who in 1897 packed his own thousand pounds over the ChiIcoot Pass. His novel is published by the Lippincott Co.,, of Philadelphia.
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 "The Power of Truth" by William George Jordan. is a series of bright, clever, vigorous studies of individual problems and possibilities. They are not theoretic distractions, but practi- cal, sane views of vital questions. showing keen analysis, humor, close observation, and insight into the fol- lies and weakness of humanity. With Individuality in thought and an original 1 telling way of putting truths, Mir. JOr- dan has packed a large amount of hopeful and helpful philosophy in terse epigrammatic sentences. The essays making up this new volume are: The l Power of Truth The Courage to Face Ingratitude," Swords and Scab- bards," The Conquest of the Prevent able" The Companionship of Toler- i ance,' The Things that Come too ! Late" People Who Live in Air Cas- ties" and The Way of the Reformer." Published by Brentano's, Union Square. New York.
 My Life in Many States and in For | eign Written in the Mills Ho- tel in my Seventy-fourth Year." by 1 George Francis Train, New York D. Appleton and Company. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, SIPS net; postage, r cents additional.
 This volume is certain to prove one of the most interesting autobiographies l published during the past quarter O. a century. The public which has 1 known Citizen Train only in late years. when he has been an aggressive and | picturesque reformer on socialistic ! lines, will be astonished at the range and importance of the enterprises in which as a business man he in early life was engaged.
 The volume will contain a sketch of | Citizen Trains entire career. His recol- | lections go back to his early childhood, | when he went to New Orleans with his l father and was the only one of the fam l fly that escaped death from the yellow l fever. There have been few great events in the history of the country since that time in which he has not had some active interest or personally taken some part.
 Mrs. Hattie Horner Louthan, who while she was Miss Horner and resi- l dent of Kansas was considered by Will liam Allen White "the best known wo- man writer of her state" can we think still claim a like honor, although she has changed her name to Louthan, and her residence to Colorado. Her first book of poems, Thoughts Adrift." is announced for immediate publication ! by Richard c. Badger of the Corham | Press, Boston. MT. Stanton H. Kings new book. "A Bunch of Rope Yarns r l Whlch VIII De published also by Rich ard c. Badger, contains among many other interesting things, the story of how he came to leave the sea to accept his present post of superintendent of the Sailors Haven Mission for Seamen of Charlestown, Mass. MT. King, who was for twelve years before the mast. six ip the merchant service and six in the navy, knows whereof he writes. and he tells his stories modas+Iv claar1,, and entertainingly, everywhere inn pressing the reader with their truthful ness.