The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-25


 Dana Estes & COmpany's list of pub lications for the current year include the following titles Juveniles: 'The | Little Owls at Redgates,' new rebus book by Ella Farman Pratt; True | Blue,'' a story of luck and pluck, by ] Edward S. Ellis; Lord Dolphin" by i Harriet A. Cheever; Daddy Joe's Fid- dle,' by Faith Bickford; Six Girls (new edition). by Fanny Belle Irving; Little Dicks Christmas" by Ethel dred B. Barry; "Gipsy Jane." by Har- riet A. Cheever: "The Girl Rough Ri- ders," by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham; The Story-Boo House." by Honor Walsh; Chatterbox for 1903; More Five Minute Stories," by Laura E. Richards; two new volumes in the Famous Chil- dren of Literature Series; Little Da- vid Copperfield" and Little Tom and Maggie Tulliver," by F. l.. Knowles; Three Hundred Things Which 8 Bright Girl Can Do," by Lila Eliza beth Kelley: and the Boys Own Au- thors Series, eighteen volumes, Gift Books: Among the Great Masters of the Drama by Walter Rowlands; "The Years Festivals" by Helen Phil brook Patten; Some Famous Ameri- can Schools" by Oscar Fay Adams. Poetry: Poems and Verses" by Car ol Norton. Nature and Science: "A Hermits Wild Friends. or Eighteen Years in the Woods" by Mason A. Walton; "Hypnotism'' (new edition), by Carl Sextus; American Fishes (new edition), by c. Browne Goode; Key to North American Birds" (fifth revised edition), by Dr. Elliott Cones. Standard Sets; Balzacs Complete Works Cabinet edition, in thirty-slx volumes, and Sterling edition, in eigh- teen volumes. The Sterling sets will include the following authors: Scott, Dickens, George Eliot Thackery, Rus kin, Dumas, Schiller, Goethe, Irving, Bulwer-Lytton, Carlyle, Hugo, Guizot and Balzac These editions are in an entirely new style, being printed on handsome machine finish paper, artis- tically bound in English T cloth, with l full gilt back, and illustrated with photogravure and etching frontispieces and numerous half-tones.
 Dana Estes & Company have in press l a popular book on animal and forest lore. which promises to attract unusual attention. It is written by Mason A. ! Walton. the well-known hermit of Bond Hill, Gloucester, Mass, and will 1 give a graphic account of eighteen years solitary life in the woods. MT. Walton has for a long time contributed articles to Forest and Stream under the 4 l1tr+ the "Old Salem Road is as quaint and interesting as Thoreaus cabin at Wal den, and has been the object of pill grimases for some of the most eminent naturalists of America. The book will be illustrated with unique photographs of Walton's hut in the woods; also of l wild birds alighted on the hermit s hand, and of squirrels and other shy creatures whose confidence he has gained.
 A cousin of the poet Longfellow, who writes under the unusually poetic name of Carol Norton (and 1t is not a pen name either), has just published his first book of verse through Dana Estes X Company. Though reared in a Uni- tartan family, MT. Norton became an ardent advocate of Christian Science after his recovery fpom a severe illness under the treatment of one ofNits heal CTS. His Poems and Verses" are said to possess a unique spiritual quality MT. Norton is a member of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ Scientist, of Boston.
 | Anp1ofop will nublish about the end of May novel by Frank R. Stockton, which was written by the author during the year preceding his death and entitled "The Captains Toll gate" It is a love story ninety five thousand words in length, making four hundred pages of text, or the same as Kate Bonnet" and has for its scene that part of West Virginia in which Mir. Stockton made his home during the last years of his life. Mir. Stockton had this novel written at the time when he took up Kate Bonnet" but decided tc defer publication until Kate Bonnet, . had been issued in serial form and had afterward run it's course as bound volume. It will be remembered that MT. Stockton died only few weeks af- ter kate Bonner appeared. E1e ndu however, so far completed the work or ''The Captains Tollgate" as to make il ready for submission to his publishers The Messrs. Appleton will bring the book out with memoir of Mr Stock ton. It will also have a frontispiece oi the author and some views of MT Stockton's home in West Virginia Claymont is stately mansion of for. mer generation intimately associated with the Washington family, MT, Stock
 toms farm having been at one time the property of George Washington. Arthur Colton, whose "Tioba ant Other Tales Messrs. Henry Holt S Company recently published, is still { young man. having been born at Wash ington, Conn.,, in 1868. He was educa ted at The Gunnery in his native town
 1SS2-S6, and later at Yale, where h. graduated in 1890, and was an activ,
 contributor to the college magazine
 and an editor of the Lit" He hell the Foote Scholarship, 1S90.s3, took tn