The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-12


 travelling photographer: Win DisbrOw. his son, who is a newly ledged doctor: Abner Disbrow, Lyme's brother. the village preacher, and others, not forget ting the pretty girl necessary to Wins romance
 The quick contrast of pathos and hu- nor. Ihe lively description that cen tered attention on Your Uncle Lew" will be found in Mr SherIock's new work
 The New York World says MT. Sherlock. whose Your Uncle Lew is gratefully remembered by many read CTS, has multiplied lOvable characters in this new story of Central New York
 Amor Victor" by Orr Kenyon (pub- lished by the Frederick A. Stokes Co, New York; is q well written strong sto- ry of times of long centuries ago. In it the author has striven to bring before the modern mind the nearest possible approach to a genuine photograph of the life and environment of the Chris tians who lived at the close of the first century of our era." The hero is Arsa- ces, the Parthian, man of great frame and leonine strength, who as a rObber chief had inspired terror and won fame, and whose life was full of stir ring adventures, the most exciting be- ing an encounter with a Numidian lion in the arena at Rome. in which un- armed and by the exercise of his vast strength and undaunted courage he rent the lions jaws asunder. This Samson-like parsonage comes under Christian influences and turns from Pa ganism and embraces the teachings of Jesus. He falls away to the worship of heathen gods again, but under the in- fluences and teachings of the apostle John is won back to the Christian faith, is baptized in the Jordan by the venerable apostle and ends his life as the Bishop of Antioch, revered by the Christian church for his piety. The au- thor portrays in the development of the story scenes of torture and execution and massacre which pertain to the times of the Christian martyrs, so many of whom died fo" the faith. There is a beautiful heroine also in the story, whose refusal to yield her be- lief in the Christian faith results in her falling a victim to the heather perse- cutors. These and other scenes are de- picted all with skill and power, The book is of the Ben Hur and Quo Vadis type. It is richly illustrated by w. R. Gilbert, whose fine work adds much to the books attractiveness. Price $150 for sale by the E. P. Judd Co.
 Many admirers of "Mousme" will be glad to learn that My Japanese Wife" the earlier novel by Give Holland, by which he made his reputation, has been reprinted. My Japanese Wife" was issued several years ago and had re- markable success, over sixty thousand copies being sold, but it has been out of print some time It has been called "a prose poem tinctured with the glow of the Orient" and "a beautiful fragment of the unusual" There have been so many calls for this dainty idyl that Mir Hollands American publishers Bred erick A. Stokes Co.,, New York) have prepared this new edition. IL is issued in a most attractive manner from new plates and with new illustrations by a Japanese artist. Genjiro Veto. with beautiful frontispiece in colors. Price I.5O; for sale by the E. P. Judd Co.
 "A Lay Thesis on Bible Wines" by Edward R. Emerson, author of "The Story of the Vine" Published by Mer- Till & Baker, New York. This is a straightforward little work, which handles the two wine" theory vigor- ously, yet dispassionately and certain ly the arguments are logical and prac- tical. It illustrates the difficulties which confront those who seek to main- tain that the wine commended in the Bible was unfermented. The book is feelingly and earnestly written. The author understands the practical side of the matter as he is maker of wines and he advocates their use temperately and wisely. He is strongly opposed to prohibition, holding that the prnhbi- tionists view is impracticable, yet he fully recognizes the disastrous results which follow the abuse of the use of al- coholic beverages. He holds that there is no such thing as unfermented wine, and that there never was any such wine. He carefully supports each of his statements with competent authori- ty. His practical explanation of the quotation, No man puts new wine into old bottles," will surprise many, but it is quite convincing. Of course, the ba- sis of the argument against the two wine theory, which is carefully ex- plained by the author, is that it is inn possible tokeep grape juice which comes in contact with the atmosphere unfer- mented; that the winemakers of Bibli- cal times certainly had no facilities for overcoming natural fermentation, and that it was never intended that prohi- bitionist theories should interfere with the solemn partaking of communion. The book is well written and we'll worth reading.
 A new volume in the Yale Bi-centen- nial series is just issued by Charles Scribners Sons, New York. It is enti- tied "Cancioneiro Gallego-Castelhano and is by Henry R. Lang, Ph. D., pro- lessor of romance philology in Yale un- iversity. It embodes the study of the transtion-period lying between the early Galician Lyric school Q200-1350) which wrote after the manner of the Provencal Troubadours, and the second Portuguese Lyric school which compos- ed under Castillian and Italian inf1u- ence at the courts of the Portuguese Kings Alphonse ", John II. and Eman-