The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29

The Black Wolf's Breed" will well
 come this new story by the same au- 1 thor. The siege of the very resolute heroine of this book was a protracted one, and most readers of the tale will | give St. Maurice of Chateaunoir credit
 for rare persistence in so long wooing
 the lady under so many and great diffi- l culties and so many rebuffs, all because
 of slight error under most trying cir cumstances. Lady Resolute is Julie, a.
 beautiful girl, and worth winning both 1 for her beauty and her high character i Her beauty attracted King Louis and 1 thereby aroused the resentment of his mistress, but Julie had narrow escape | from failing into his clutches. At all | times and on all occasions of danger to Julie the knightly St. Maurice promptly l appears to rescue her and to be terribly
 misunderstood as well by the woman he
 loved. The book, which is semi-his- torical novel, introduces the reader to
 many exciting situations and climaxes,
 plots and intrigues in those troublous times. St. Maurice is the hero of many knightly adventure and brave deed, but he plays in bad luck almost con-
 stantly, only to be rewarded at last by dame fortune in the restoration of his estates and the subjugation of the long
 intractable Julie. The story has a fine
 boise throughout, engaging and hold
 ing the rapt attention of the reader.
 The book is published by Harper & Brothers, New York for sale at Judas; price $1.50. Of the book the New York World remarks: Long before the Lady Resolute has surrendered, MT DickSons readers must fall into captiV- ity before the charm of his story-tell- ing"
 A remarkable book just published by Harper & Brothers, which has awak- l ened great interest and is receiving marked attention from the leading | journals. is "Anticipations" by H. G. | Wells the gifted author of When the 1 Sleeper Wakes The War of the 1 Worlds" "The Invisible Man" etc. | The high character of MT. Wells previ- | ous contributions created expectancy | which has not been disappointed The | title of his new book in full is "Antici- pations of the Reaction of Mechanical i and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought" The very able character of the book bespeaks for it q wide circulation among all interested in the future of the race. Many of the conclusions which he so vigorously and admirably sets forth are very plausible and not at all improbable, and some are visionary though interesting as theo- ries. He falls and fails when he ex- pounds as his view that the materialis tic will ultimately dominate mankind He overlooks the power of the spiritual element in humanity, which has ever existed since man appeared. Also hu- man nature will remain hnman nature in science, politics and society IS long as the world stands. MT. Wells is an , exceedingly clever writer and this with his apparent sincerity makes the book one of striking interest. In this work he leaves, let us hope, but temporarily ( he field of fiction and assumes the pro- I ohetic role. What he thinks is going : Q happen is well summarized by a con- { temporary as follows: ,
 'The solution of the perplexing loco notory question he conceives to be the . moving platform, exhibited in rough ' model at the Parisian exhibition, This z would be substituting for the IL" /
  ral sections, moving at varied speed. z Descent to them would be by slowly | 'otating staircase at the center of a pig rotating wheel-shaped platform, / against a portion of whose rim the |, jlowest platform would run in a curve. r n this way the author thinks urban | ranst could be safely and comfortably with an average speed not q ess than twenty miles an hour. Within a century, the author thinks n ountry and city will be so fused that l, he line of demarcation will be lost, :, ach taking features of the other. Tn ', ocial revolution he has housekeeping educed to an easy science which al- nost abolishes the maid and will tend, e opines, to promote matrimony. . are to issue not more than } ne edition daily and the average citi- t' en will have hot news shot into his s