The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-21
The new PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE NEW BOOKS OF
THE SEASON.


ToiIs''-"JOurney's End"-:'HOw 10
Make Money''-TiHon's son safan's
Spiritual EvOIrtfon"-"The
Sabbath Transferred'' - "ConkiIn's
Peerless Misunderstanding Book
Etc.
An extremely valuable new pub,ic2-
ton historically and Geographically is
1.-THE Life and Times of James Madi-
son." nv Gaillard Hunt, published by
Doubleday. Page & Co.. New York.
giving, as it does, an adequate and
generally speaking. unbiased story of
Madison's career, which covers the
real formative period of our nations
history, in which Madison as delegate
to the constitutional Invention as
congressman, as secrerlis' of stat" and
finally as president, took a leading and
always influential part Ills career was
so intimately associated with the lives
of other formers of the United States
that no book dealing as it should with
the early history of our country as
nation can omit copious mention of
Madison and the eminent part he took
in our national affairs. This perhaps
is the reason why so few biographies
of this great man have been written.
Mr.. Hunts volume on Madison lis adj
mirable. Naturally, as already pre-
missed, throughout this narrative of one
of our nations builders, the reader is
kept informed of the important events
and larger tendencies of political move
ments during the period covered by
Mr.. Madison's long activity as a legis-
lator, politician, patriot and statesman.
Thus the reader sees the man in his
true relation to the times in which he
moved so conspicuously and under
stands the times better for the personal
insight gained. Mr.. Hunts style is lu-
cid and the manner of treatment con-
vincing. Great painstaking and care
are evident throughout the work and
the details here and there given are ne
cessary as explaining and leading up to
situations both state and national with
which Madison had to deal and in
which his mastery work. hia acumen,
his foresight, told for the good of the
nation. AS has been admirably said:
.rThe chapters devoted to Madisons la
bors in the constitutional convention
are admirably clear and comprehen-
sive and afford for students of our con-
stitution substantial basis for re-
search. In no part of the work is the
method of the author seen to SO much
advantage. Especially full and salts
factory Is the account of his passages
with Randolph and Henry, after hear
ing one of which with the former, John
Marshall said: "If convincing is elo-
quence he (Madison) was the most elo-
quent man I ever heard" Madison's
opposition to Hamilton's banking meas
Mres and to Hamilton personally is de-
scribed with rare impartiality and can
dor, a decided novelty in most histo-
ries of the period"
OF Madison's policy in relation to the
bringing on of the war of 1912 there is
much os value narrat ted and much of
great interest. This subject the author
discusses. at length and his general
verdict, after reviewing the pros and
cons on the subject, is most favorable
to Madison and against the theory
maintained by some of his contempo-
raries that selfish political considera-
tions induced him to plunge the coun-
try into war.
Other portions of the volume are of
great interest, as for instance the light
thrown upon Madison's boyhood days,
his retiring temperament and bookish
tastes, his delicacy of constitution, his
unsatisfactory courtship, his literary
and legal achievements and battles pre-
vious to his becoming a national figure
and the like. This book makes g. very
fitting beginning to Doubleday, Page &
Co.'S big and highly commendable new
enterprise-the issuing of true histo-
ny of the United States as told through
the lives of it's greatest men.
When put in chronological order the
volumes will form consecutive history
of the country,-political, social, litera-
ry and Industrial. Price of Life of
James Madison $3.50 net; for sale by
the Pease- Lewis Co.
Mr.. Elkin Mathews of London. and
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., of New
York city, publish Jointly an anony-
NOUS little book of verse entitled Hand
In Hand. Verses by Mother and a
Daughter" Many of the verses are upon
Indian themes, which suggest that the
title page, a photogravure of relief
signed J. L. K, is by Mr.. J. Lockwood
Kipling, who illustrates his sons Jun
gle Books in similar fashion. The
quality of the verse may fairly be
Judged from this poem, which is by 1.-THE
daughter"
WHERE HUGLI FLOWS.
Where Hugh flows, her city's banks be-
side,
White domes and towers rise on gilt
tering plain;
The strong, bright sailing ships at an
Choir ride,
Waiting to float their cargoes to the
main,
Where Hugh flows.
Brown water treacherous currents
whirling by,
The painted fishing boats haste to and
fro.
Brown sails. brown sailors, crimsoned
curiously,
Under the administering sunset glow,
Where Hugh flows.
Where Hugh flows, our English eyes
are weary,
Our hearts are sometimes very far