The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-23

da as a tick. It relates in fresh and breezy style the authors experiences
 while hunting in Florida. If you want
 to hear the swish of the tail of the
 shot chazed alligator as he charges I upon the hunters boat just read this ] book. Mr. Swift has written about a part of Florida which is rarely touched
 in so life-like and accurate descriptive style. The book is literally illustrated 1 by Albert E. Smith. There are also a
 number of rare half tones of alligator life from photographs made by Mir.
 Swift. The book is published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, \. T. The price is $1.5O.
 "A Prince of Sinners" by E. Phillips
 oppenheim. the English novelist. au- thor of The Traitors and "A Million
 aire of Yesterday." is announced for publication this month by Little,
 Brown & O.. of Boston. In this story
 "A Prince of Sinners" is the title ap- piled to Lord Arranmore, who, on re- 1 turning to England after an absence of twenty misspent years, finds his manly
 son. Kingston Brooks, unforgiving, and ! retermined to work out his own career 1 instead of assuming his title and talk 1 ing his seat in the House of Lords.
 The difficulties with which Brooks
 meets in carrying out his purpose. the
 attempts of Lord Arranmore to assist i him, together with the divided love in- terest. make up an ingenious present. day romance.
 Messrs. Doubleday, Page X Go. an- nounce that the complete edition of
 Frank Norris works will contain two entirely new books. Besides "The Re l responsibilities of the Novelist and 9th CT Literary Essays" the publication of which has been delayed till early
 fall, there will be "A Deal in Wheat
 and Other Stories of the New and Old l West" to appear about the time the l complete edition is ready, probably in October. "The Pit" continues foremost f in the list of best selling books, and a 1 large demand for the complete works of the author is expected.
 This firm has also ready "A Few Re-
 marks" by MT. Simeon Ford, who has
 won fame this past winter as an after dinner speaker.
 l There have been in the past, both in :; life and in fiction, cases of mysterious disappearances, which baffied the po-
 lice and the reader, but for sheer, una
 dulterated mystery nothing can sur
 pass The Mystery of Murray Daven-
 port" the new novel by Robert Nelson
 Stephens, just published by L. c. Page 1 & Company, Boston.
 1 President Eliot's address, More
 Money for the Public Schools Because
 of the Failures and Shortcomings in
 American Education" provoked much
 discussion when it was delivered last
 October before the Connecticut State Teachers association, because it came 1 to a general criticism of our methods
 It is now published, together with oth- CT addresses in continuation of the
 subject, in permanent form by Double | day, Page & Co, New York, and these publishers confer favor on the think | ing, intelligent public by doing so. It 1 is work that deserves to be read eve- rywhere in America by all interested
 in our public schools. It sums up in a large way the results of public educa-
 tion,--its benefits and it's shortcomings. i He makes a definitely constructive 1 plan for producing better results; he explains in detail what most needs to | be done for the improvement of our schools; he urges a greatly increased expenditure, and he shows how it could 1 be most advantageously spent, The l book contains the matured conclusion of this eminent educational authority on the large practical needs of public
 school work
 1 Besides the address delivered before | the Connecticut Teachers association, the other addresses are: More Money 1 for the Public Schools, because of the gains made in Education" an address before the New Hampshire State Teachers association, on October IS. 1902; and ''rhe Needs of American Public Schools" an address before the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, on October g, 1902.
 There were many other things be- sides the schools that President Eliot talked about to the teachers, and these are by no means the least interesting | in his book. We will quote what he said to the men of Connecticut regard ing strikes: That labor strikes should l occur more and more frequently and be more and more widespread has been another serious disappointment in re- gard to the outcome of popular educa- tion. The whole eastern half of the United States has been forcihly remin- ded this summer of the stupidity, wastefulness and ineffectiveness of strikes, considered as remedies for so- cial or industrial wrongs. It should be observed, however concerning this dis appointment, that it results in large measure from a difficulty which ac- counts for good many troubles in the United States, namely, the difficulty of assimilating year after year large num- bers of foreigners The managers, leaders and promoters of strikes are frequently foreigners, or persons whose parents came to this country from Eu- rope, and large proportion of the men who engage in them are of foreign birth
 ''The labor union is itself secret or ganization which avoids responsibility