The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-14
THE aEW IBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

Rudyard KipIIng's "Five NatIoua"-
 Samuel hewiB's "yyhIp Hand''- John
 MiIcheiI's "orsanizsd LabOr"-Fran- chariss' "Awakenisg of 1he Ducbss"
 Lillian whitIng's "Fhs life Radi-
 astp-seamp Fidelity GIrIs'-Rsv.
 Lynch's S.w B9OAs-zF. McFaui's
 "Ike Giiddsrs"-New Books From
 Chm & Co.'s-Other 60oKs.
 Rudyard KipIing's last new effort, 'The Five Nations,'' published by Dou- bleday, Page & Co., New York, has been received joyously by his devoted admirers, doubtfully by those not his Worshippers and with varied emotions by other classes of readers. It was and is the literary sensation of the year, but barring few of the new selections, it will not add greatly to his fame as a poet, and will add to the growing opin- ion that this world-famous author is burdened with a deep conviction that he is responsible to considerable extent for shaping England's policy and desti- nies. Here and there, however. we catch the spirit of the true prophet. One thing is certain. The new book ap- peals to all-the cultured and the mass es. It sounds notes that thrill with the potency of their meaning and high pur- pose, and it abounds in passages that well nigh approach doggerel. A few se- lections from the critics are as follows:
 Boston Transcript: ''The volume gives evidence of Kipling's energy as well as of his skill and his genius. It opens with a Dedication and closes with the noble .Recessionai' unques- tionably the grandest poem he has writ ten, and the poem, indeed, by which he will be remembered when his lingo Tyr ics, his barrack-room ballads, and even his virile sea-songs have long been for gotten. Between these opening and closing poems there are fifty-three ti- ties, including The Bell Buoy The Feet of the Young Men,, "The Truce of the Bear, General Joubert,' The White Mans Burden Our Lady of the Shows, The Islanders,' and other less familiar poems. If the question has not already been settled for good and all, these verses prove that, in spite of his willingness to jump into the literary breach at all hazards, Rudyard Kip ling is a poet of whom the present epoch may well be proud. But it is un- deniable that he is still serving his ap- premiership"
 The New York Times: Upon the whole, the sensation upperrnost, or at least earliest, in the minds of the ad- mirers of The Seven Seas must be one of disappointment as to the strictly po- etical quality of the new songs. There is no extension of range, no higher point of view, no added mastery of ex- pression, or greater subtlety of music"
 New York Sun: Most of the spo- ems, so-called, are doggerel, clever doggerel, if you will, but still doggerel. Some of the pieces, like The Truce of the Bear Our Lady of the Shows and The Islanders belong already to the dark backward and abysm of time and call for annotation. The new pieces are occasional and deal with the Boer war. The verse is strenuous But 1t is only here and there that one comes on a few lines at time that by a great stretch of the imagination could be called poe try. You feel as you turn over these pages that the author of Kim and Soldiers Three is more taken up with problems that trouble British statesmen than with his own art.''
 New York Commercial Advertiser: s'He has produced two volumes which respectfully mark his high-water line in prose and in verse: and it seems not too much to prophecy that when future generations think and speak and write of MT. Kipling they will think and speak and write of him primarily as the author of Kim and of The Five Ma tions.''
 New York Tribune: ''The Recession al'' is here to show that he can, when he has the inspiration, make himself the voice of a nation, and speak with a fitting accent This is a poem that the people of any country might read and prize. But all the miscellaneous verses which the South African war and the 1ifIpCl lhlISIiC iiloVSlilciiI tloNS CduSSu NiEs Kipling to write, seem to us as though addressed to certain related comrnuni- ties rather than to the unbounded audi ence for which poetry should be writ ten.
 ''The Five Nations" is for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.,; price $1.40.
 The Whip Hand, Tale of the Pine Country" is another enjoyable and stirring romance by Samuel Merwin, author of 'The Road to Frontenac," and joint author of Calumet K.' It is published by Doubleday, Page and Company, New York. It tells of busi- ness fight in the pine lands of Michigan. While Jack Halloran in his college days was cutting grass for Mrs. Davies and shaking the furnace for G. Hyde Bige- low he fell in love with Margaret Da- wis. But several things intervene and the course of true love does not run smooth. Jacks college days over he tackles the wide world for fortunes smile, and Margaret, all through the events that follow, wields an uncon- scious influence on his fortunes. Jack struggles for supremacy as lumber man, and his fierce contest with Bige- low, the promoter of the new combine and the accompanying associations and events make very interesting reading The same felicity of description seen in The Road to Frontenac," and the same rtx,ey f.