The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-11

cal novels tha have ever been written, combining in rare degree two most | important features in the field of his-
 orical fiction-historical facts interwo- ven in story of absorbing interest" Others of their late issues are: The
 Sacrifice of the Shannon" a novel hav- ing to do with the ice crushers of Nor thumberland strait and the region near Prince Edward Island; ''The Garden of Lies.' with Parisian setting, by Jus tus Miles Forman; Love, Laurels and Laughter" volume of verse, by Bea-
 trice Hanscom; Felix" a new novel,
 by Robert S. Kitchens, based on mor- phinism; The Star Dreamer" a new novel, by Agnes and Egerton Castle, and Ordered to China,' by Wilbur J.
 Chamberlin, late a correspondent of
 the New York Sun. They are soon to
 publish Travels in Space" by H. G.
 Wells, discussing aerial navigation,
 with an introduction by Sir Hiram
 Maxim.
 The c. M. Clark Publishing Compa-
 ny, of Boston. have again been fortu-
 nate in the new book "Tito," just is- sued, which is a wholly interesting sto-
 ry, it's situations dramatic, it's charac~ ters life-like and realistic, and the de- nouement happy. In Tito William
 Henry Carson, author of Hester
 Blair and The Fool" has presented
 his best effort, and while the previous
 books were purely American, in Tito he starts the story in Italy and trans fers it to our shores, Italian love and
 hate figuring actively in the movement
 of the romance. There are plenty of spirited scenes and dramatic situations
 to closely hold the readers attention.
 Tito's mother is Bettina, beautiful Tuscan girl, who dies in giving him birth; his father is a rich young New
 Yorker, son of a banker, who acquires through his marriage not only the vim
 dictive hate of his wife's old aunt, but the bitter displeasure of his own father. Reaching the deathbed of his frail young wife just in time to receive her
 parting words, Horace Vanburg goes away in heavy grief, believing the old aunt"s story that the baby boy is also dead. But that is lie of hate invent
 ed by the stern, vindictive old aunt, the hag-like mother Melonotti and the brother, the repulsive Pietro. The boy lives and is carefully trained to the thought of vengeance upon one who is falsely represented as an unfaithful father. The boy comes to America to
 search for Vanburg and to make good his solemn pledge to his Italian rela- tives Tito is by nature an artist. youth of noble instincts, high spirited
 and proud. His father repulsed at
 home, plunges into rank dissipation. Schemes of low slum life, in which the
 disowned son mingles, are depicted and ere long there is an accidental meeting of the unhappy outcast with Tito, though they are unknown to each oth-
 CT. With vigorous touches and strik-
 ing adventures the story proceeds. It
 is a story pure and simple, and without
 doubt one of the most interesting of re- cent novels. The book is well illustra- ted by Charles H. Stephens. Price s1.50; for sale by all leading booksell- CTS.
 The Diary of John Quincy Adams. while a student in the office of Theo- philus Parsons, of Newburyport. Mass, has been edited by his grandson,
 Charles Francis Adams. and will be published by Little, Brown & O., Bos- ton, this spring, under the title Life in New England Town, 17S7-17SS." Although Sidney AfcCaii's Truth rN11h1iShaI
 and has ceased to appear in the list of six best selling novels, the first edition of the new cloth-bound popular edition, containing a frontispiece by Jessie Will
 cox Smith, just issued by Little, Brown l & Company, was ten thousand. There are many who yet believe that Sidney
 Mccall, the author of the book, is a
 pseudonym.
 Louise M. Alcott's Eight Cousins has been dramatized and the first pre-
 sentation recently took place in the Children's Theater, Boston, for the | benefit of the Dorothy Dix summer
 home. Plays had previously been adapted from Miss Alcott's Little
 Men" and Little Women"
 | A third edition of Miss Lillian
 Whiting's Boston Days is now on the
 press. Although not born in Boston,
 Miss Whiting Is descendant of Cot ton Mather, and she has made her home at the Hotel Brunswick for many
 years. Formerly Boston society itself was literary, and there was much of
 present and future interest when two
 or three were gathered together They ! made history fast-and fascinating-in l the days of Abolitionism, Transcenden- talism and Unitarianism. They were
 building far better than they knew.
 Miss Whiting has added materially to our fund of knowledge of the men and
 women who made New England fa- nous.
 1 Adelaide Keen, the author of the
 unique cook book entitled with a
 Saucepan Over the Sea- which Little,
 Brown & Company, Boston, recently
 published, is native of Philadelphia,
 coming from an old and epicurean
 family. She has written extensively for the New York daily papers. liar
 pers Bazaar, Vogue and some of the
 monthly magazines. She is an author ity on domestic topics, and a frequenter of foreign restaurants. Miss Keen l gathered her recipes from many l hy++ rls