The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-21

! moment when Mrs. Bang is called upor } to explain certain portraits and heir looms, but she carries off the little plot , successfully and sees her friends depart } with joy. But on the morrow the game is up; for hardly had she moved back to her fiat when her guests return C
 seek a missing ring-and then discover the fraud. The story will appeal to all readers, and one sympathizes with the
 ambitious Mrs. Bang. There are several other striking tales In the volume-tales
 so pithily told and of so absorbing a
 character that one will not willingly put
 down the book till the end is reached.
 The FredriclI A. Stokes company of
 New York are bringing out number
 of interesting books, among which may be mentioned Come With Me Into
 Babylon,' novel of which Prof. Sayce,
 the noted Assyriologist, writes this ap-
 proving word, Tt makes the old world
 alive" The book is written by Josiah
 M. Ward, a newspaper man of Denver
 Other books are Birds Nests" by
 Charles Dixon; Not on the Chart" q
 story of three castaways by Charles l..
 Marsh; The Red Anvil" romance of
 50 years ago in the days of the aboli-
 tionists; Love, Laurels and Laughter"
 containng 70 or more occasional poems
 by Beatrice Hanscom; "Sarita the
 Carlst," one of whose characters is the
 boy king of Spain, by A. w. March,
 mont; and a new edition of John Oliver
 Hobbes' Robert Orange,"t in which
 Beaconsfield (DIsraelD is one of the
 chief characters.
 Tons of Trasure." By William Henry Bishop, 12mo, 274 pages cloth;
 retail $1; Street & Smith, New York.
 For sale by the Pease-Lewis Go,
 In MT. Bishops book, Irons of Treas ure," he starts out to do battle with how
 far man should be influenced by the
 wrongdoings of his father Here we have Randolph Ridgefield, head of the
 Ridgefeld Savings Bank, speculating wildly with his depositors' money. One day the crash comes. the bank fails and Randolph Ridgetield flies to Mexico where he dies in poverty. His son Wal | ter--the hero of Tons of Treasure"- Is fired with zeal to repay every cent l laid to the charge of his father. He &C., | quires a large fortune and deVotes the whole of it to making good the banks | losses. It is fortunate that one of the depositors who thus benefits by Wal 1 ters genrosity has a very winsome daughter-Miss Amy Colebrook--who recognizes heroic characteristics when she sees them, and who insists upon the young man sharing her newly gotten wealth Walter, being a poor man. has some objections, but his hearts gets the better of his head and he leads the charming Amy to the altar. The book is brightly written and the story of how Walter amassed the necessary capital to clear the stain from his fathers name Is indeed a fascinating one.
 The thanks of all interested in local | history particularly of New Haven Col | ony are due the Journal Publishing | company of Merlden Francis Atwater president, for it's republication of that | excellent and standard work, History | of the Colony of New Haven to It's Ab | sorption Into Connecticut" published in E 1880 by our late and much lamented . townsman Rev. Edward F. Atwater. ! the first pastor and practically the | founder of our Davenport Congrega- !.
 
 "The History of New Haven" a work published a few years beforA lis dem g. By the republication of the work in question an opportunity is now af- forded. which no doubt many will quickly embrace. of securing a copy of the carefully prepared thorough and able history of our colony, and the more so as the new volume contains much ,ir 4 supplementary history and personnel of the towns of Branford, Guilford Mill ford. Stratford, Norwalk, Southold, etc. Compiled by Robert Atwater Smith, assisted by Bessie E. Beach and Lucy NJ Hewitt"
 This Is the second edition of the main portion of the volume, and the intro duction by Francis Atwater is inter- esting in itself It Is IS follows:
 "The first edition of the History of the Colony of New Haven" having been exhausted, and there still existing de- mand for additional copies, the entire book is hereby reproduced, with consid- , arable additional matter that has been :, aboriously compiled by three interested parties mentioned on the title page ' Their work is a matter of love- pos : lessing as they do the high ideal of q each contributing his or her share to- r wards perptuating the history of the 'orefathers of the towns comprising | New Haven colony. f The undersigned has undertaken the II agreeing that all moneys r beyond it's cost shall go to the widow of he author who first published the work, 2 md to whom the copyright was issued. i, We trust the subscriptions will be lib- c ral." a The first portion of the book, pub r ished in the fall of 1880, includes 21 c hapters covering the history of the D ,art of the state formerly included in he bounds of New Haven colony from T Is very earliest days. The conditions n f the mother country in the seven a eenth century as it affected Puritan n migration in general and the events which influenced the first planters of q he colony to leave their English homes n or the new world are graphically pie tired. The history of the colony, it's R radua1 growth in population. wealth fl nd influence, it's industrial pursuits h o FaiTe and dom octic |