The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

the story. Special efforts will be made
 to have the panic realistically depicted.
 4 limitless edition, in seven volumes, of the complete works of Frank Norris, has just been published by Doubleday, Page and Company. The edition is re- stricted to one hundred and fifty sets.
 Thomas Dixon's "The Leopard's Spots" seems to hold all its popularity and has now considerably Overrun two hundred thousand.
 The third series of MT. William H. Fleming's lessons, How to Study Shake speare, deals with Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, King John. the Winters Tale and Loves La- bor's Lost. The skeleton of Mir. Flem- ing's system is as follows: Q) Source of the plot; @ explanatory notes; (S) tables of acts and scenes in which characters appear, also the num- Der of lines spoken by each character; (D questions; (5) collateral reading; (6) pronunciation of names-a useful fea- ture much insisted upon, since it is not included in the numerous editions of Shakespeare. The method of study pursued in this book has received the indorsement of such experienced educa- tors as Professor Price, of Columbia university; Professor Raymond, of Princeton; Professor Hoffman, of Mum, who have all testified with en- thusiasm to it's value.
 Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, publishers; price $1.O0 net; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Go.
 Ginn and Company, Boston, publish series of ''Medial" writing-boolks for school use, in which, as the title implies, an effort is made to compromise be- tween the old-fashioned Italian sloping script and the modern vertical hand, which has been very extensively intro duced into the schools, but is not re- garded with universal favor. The Me diaP system aims to secure the speed of the sloping hand without sacrificing the legibility of the upright style, and the specimens given in the copy-books are pleasing and seem thoroughly prac- tical. There is enough slope to secure fiuency. The Medial writing books are by H. W. Shaylor and G. H. Shattuck, and are endorsed by J. E. Wooster, su- perintendent of schools in Carlinville, H.; Joseph K. Mowry, of the Federal street school, Providence, R. l.; R. K. Buehrle, city superintendent of schools in Lancaster, Pa.; F. w. Lord, recently superintendent of schools in Bellows Falls, Vt; W. J. Whet8el, county super intendent, Woodford county, Ill.,; H. G. Healy, editor of the Penman's Art
 Journal, and many other educational ists.
 H. s. Stone and Company of Chicago will publish in the course of the fall "A
 History of the Worlds Great Paint
 ers," by James William Pattison. A
 new book of fiction from the same pub fishers is "The Strange Adventures of MT. Middleton" by Wardon Allan Cur tis, which seems to be an imitation of
 'The New Arabian Nights The ac- tion takes place in Chicago, and the
 hero is very modern and very Ameri-
 can philistine. who appreciates the gifts
 that are showered upon him only in terms of dollars and cents. His chival- ry is awakened, however. in the last chapter. in which the emir presents him with an odalisque. His acquaint- ance with the dictionary not being par
 ticularly extensive, he takes this to be
 something in the nature of monkey or
 a tame bear, and when the gift is deliv-
 cred at his shabby little clearinghouse
 room in Chicago he is as much embar- rassed as MT. Austey's hero in "The 1a .s oI.
 publisher of My Friend, Annabel Lee"
 the latest book by Mary Maclane. Mcclure, Philips and Company pub- fish Kings and Queens" volume of children's verses by Florence Will1in- son; "The Merrylinks," by Alice Brown, a book of humorous zoology H. frustrated by Louise Clarke, and Sally of Missouri" a novel by R. E. Young, in which she Is said to have found a quite unworked literary mine. The publishers send out a story in regard to one of their leading authors, Stewart Edward White. His old instructor In athletics. Mike" Dwyer, visited Grand Rapids and met the novelist's brother on the street:
 Whats Stewart doing now?" asked Mike
 "Oh, he's making books" said Gill bert.
 That's fine" returned the gentleman of the sporting world, "he's gettin' on, ain't he? Maxim books is he? On what circuit?"
 The November Century begins publication of some new Thackeray let ters, relating the story of "Thackeray's Friendship with an American Family" For years the existence f1as been known of this series of jealously guarded and entirely unpublished letters by Thacke- ray. written to various members of the family of the late MT. George Baxter, of New York city. Permission to pub fish these letters in the Century has finally been obtained from Miss Lucy W. Baxter, who contributes introduce tion and notes: from Mrs. Ritchie, the
 great writer's accomplished daughter;
 and from Smith, Elder and Company, the London publishers of Thackerays works. The letters, it is promised will
 have well-nigh the interest and com-
 pleteness of new story from the mag ic pen which wrote "Pendennis" and
 "The Newcomes." The November Smart Set is full of smart things and of things that are
 better than merely smart. The leading fEYrtf--