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

out justice to the ne'er-dO-Well member
 of noted and noble family. After the
 wedding she disappeared and, after frenzied but futile chase of brief dUra-
 ton, the husband of a few hours gave
 up trying to find her. That was in Lon don. Tanger's story opens in Brivac, in
 France, and has the shadow of a Bona
 partist plot to lend background to the
 romantic events leading up to Madame
 Tanger's reappearance. The abandoned
 husband has in hand a commission
 and twenty thousand francs-to buy a
 distinguished French general into the
 service of the Imperialists. Dire disas-
 ter does not overtake him, although it
 hangs constantly near enough to keep
 the reader of his adventures interested
 and alert"
 Price s1.5O; for sale by the E. P. Judd Company.
 Lessons in Physics" by Lothrop D.
 Higgins, instructor in physics in the
 Morgan school, Clinton, Conn; 12mo.
 Cloth; 379 pages; illustrated; list price
 90 cents; published by Ginn 6 Company.
 Boston, Mass. This work provides a
 thorough course in physics for schools
 which offer little or no laboratory work.
 Principles are explained by references
 to common or familiar phenomena rath- CT than to set laboratory experiments. In fact, throughout the work the central
 aim is to give the student an intimate
 knowledge of the physical manifesto tions that are most commonly met in
 our daily experience. Commercial and industrial uses of the various princi- pies are mentioned and discussed in
 connection with the principles them selves. Great pains have been taken to
 secure simplicity and clearness of ex-
 pression; facts are explained so that the
 pupil Is led to think them through and thus to fix them in mind. In arranging the material, attention is paid to devel-
 oping logical succession of ideas, rath- CT than to collecting mass of facts and theories. Technical words are in most
 cases defined when they first appear. For words which are not thus explained
 glossary is appended to the text. As a whole, this is a textbook de- l signed to present without required lab oratory work comprehensive view of the subject of physics in a manner which will be interesting, and at the same time strictly accurate. It is in- I tended chiefly for those who believe that laboratory work in schools has
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 l MT. Frederic Courtland Penield, years
 ago city editor of the Hartford Courant, has revised and enlarged his excellent
 book on "Present-Day Egypt" in a new volume, finely illustrated from photo-
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 chiefly to the new Assouan Dam. This
 is one of the most readable and instruc- I tive books of travel that we know of. The Century company bring out
 among other books the Comtesse An
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 ] New books announced by Doubleday, Page & Company are a story for boys by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1.-Two Little ] Savages;" a novel of life in Michigan !, lumber town, "The Whip Hand," by
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