The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-07

country. The author mas woven ms story around this great event in White Mountain history, and one Of the most attractive features is his detailed de scripti0n of it. Solitaire" has moved a gentleman of Winchester. Mass. to no- tify Mir Wiley that he has been 50 pleased with this first adequate story ot The Wiley landslide that he is having exc cuted for him copy ot Thomas Hills famous painting of Crawford Notch. In this picture. at the ultimate point of the woods. where the sunlight falls softly. is the scene of the Wiley horror, where. in the midst of a terrible atmospheric convulsion. confined alone to the circle of the mountain region. a huge avalanche of rocks swept from the summit of tke mountain aid over whelmed the family of the Willeys The book is already in its fourth edi- tiOn.
 The Book of Old China. by Mrs. N Hudson Moore is promised for immedi- ate publication. Mrs. Moore is well known to collectors and lovers of old ! china through her numerous articles that have appeared in Leslie's Monthly and in the DeIineator. Mrs. Moore promises to treat the subject in an in- teresting and readable manner so as to attract those nor necessarily expert or collectors. The book is 10 be illustrated with about one hundred and fifty re- productions of famous examples of old china but, notwithstanding this, is to be brought out at moderate price (Fredericli A. Stokes company) A beautiful young widow, Fliinor Marvel. is the heroine of The Star Dreamer" the latest romance of Agnes and Egerton Castle, which has just been published. The Star Dreamer" is said to be the most romantic novel that has come from the pens of the Castles. (Frederick A. Stokes company.)
 Frederick A. Stokes Company has made venture of much importance. both because of its extent and cost and because Of it's interest to the legion of admirers of the worlds art. This is to be series entitled 'The Most Famous Pictures in the World" published at price within the reach of all, and is 10 comprise copies of the most renowned examples of the art of all periods and nations, with brief explanatory and critical notes by Augustus Van Cleef and others, and with biographies of the great painters.
 John F. Weir, who has for many years been the Leff1ngwell professor of painting and design at the Yale School of Fine Arts, has just published through Houghton. Miffiin & Company a new book entitled Human Destiny in the Light of Revelation"
 The importance of the part which has been played by the American represen- tatives in the Venezuelan affair makes all the more timely the new book on American Diplomacy in the Orient" by John W. Foster. former secretary of state. What our diplomacy has accom- plished in the east is largely responsi- ble for the respect in which it is now held by Europe.
 The Lieutenant Governor" novel dealing with strikes in the imaginary state of Alleghenia, by Guy Wetmore Carryl, will be published by Houghton, Miffiin X Company next month. MT. Carryl's other book, "Zut and Other Parisians." will not be ready for publi- cation until next autumn.
 Phillips Brooks" study by William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts. is announced for immediate publication by Houghton, Miffiin & Company. This address was delivered at Trinity church Boston, on January g. the tenth anniversary of Bishop Brooks death.
 Houghton, Miff1in x Company an- nounce the printing of new editions of the following: New France and New England" by John Fiske, "A Study of Prose Fiction" by Bliss Perry, and School, College and Character" by Professor Le Baron R. Briggs.
 Professor Josiah Royce, author of '"The Spirit of Modern Philosophy etc., has written an introduction to the new edition of the late John Fiske's "Cosmic Philosophy" which Houghton. Miff1in & Company have just published
 Dr. Lyman Abbott is now at work on biography of Henry Ward Beecher, which Houghton, Miff1in &t Company expect to publish next September.
 Dr. Washington Gladden's lectures. which he has just delivered at Harvard university under the William Belden Noble endowment, will be published la- ter by Houghton, Miffiin & Company under the title of Witnesses of the Light"
 Doubleday, Page X Company's spring announcements include ''The Life of James Madison" by Gaillard Hunt, the first volume in the Bio graphical History of the United States" 'The Story of My Life," by Helen Keller; Essays on Education" by President Eliot of Harvard "The Nature Study Idea," by Professor l.. H. Bailey; "The Moon," by Professor William H. Pickering; Macbeth" the first volume in Prof. Liddells "Elz- abethan Shakespeare; Principles of