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

should be done and how to get the most artistic results for the least outlay. MT. Price gives designs of homes with many explanations necessary, and many valuable suggestions. How to utilize space to the best advantage is one of the many points elaborated. The titles are self-explanatory, such as "A House for a Thirty -foot-front Lot" An S1, 800 City Brick House. "A g, 2,2O0 House for Small Square Lot" Frank s. Guild contributes the two conclu
 ding articles of Part "Remodellng the Front Door, and What Window Viii Do for a House." Part II. is made up of photographs of interiors of American homes, together with valua- ble suggestions and explanations. The book is published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York; $1.00; for sale by the E. P. Judd Company and the Pease-Lewis Company.
 A very useful book is Principles of Home Decoration" by Candace Wheel CT, published by Doubleday, Page &; Company, New York, which presents study of beauty in house interiors based upon artistic principles. In it the underlying laws of fitting and appro- priate decoration of the home are given and explained; and this is followed by examples of successful application. The philosophy of color is very fully set forth and while stress is laid upon the importance of personal taste, it is clearly shown that light and situation may either enhance or actually destroy the effect of any scheme of any color chosen without due reference to these essential factors. This will undoubted- ly be a helpful book to decorators,
 whose opportunity for study of decora- tien as an art and color as a science
 has been unnecessarily limited. but it's chief field will be among the thou sands of home seekers whose range of experiment has not been wide enough
 to warrant successful practice. The book deals with topics among others as follows: The bases of good decoration; floors and floor covering; libraries; col or;s draperies; bedrooms; walls; furni- ture; halls; ceiling and dining rooms. Some fifteen illustrations are given by way of object lessons. The frontfs- piece shows the dining room in Penny royal,-(Mrs. Boudinot Keith's cottage, Onteora.) Among other views shown
 are Sitting room in Wild Wood" Onteora, Belonging to Mrs. Luisita Le- land; large sitting room in Star Rock" County house of w. E. Connor, Onteora; colonial mantel and English hob-grate in sitting room in the house of the author, Mrs. Candace Wheeler; colonial chairs and sofa belonging to Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart, the gifted author and reader who appeared in our city recently at the Church of the Re deemer entertainment; sofa designed by Mrs. Candace Wheeler, for the New York Library in the "Woman's Build ing" Columbian Exposition; two illus trations of dining room in New York houses, and g. screen and glass win dows in house at Lakewood of Clarence Root. Price $1.S0; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Company.
 Responsibilities of the Novelist. and Other Literary Essays is to be the title of the new volume of Frank Norris
 writings announced for publication by Doubleday, Page & Company. A new portrait of the author will be included in the volume. The April number of the Worlds Work contains an appre- citation of Norris and The Pit, written by Dr. Rainsford in & letter to a friend
 and now published with his permission. Miss Louise Betts Edwards, Phila- delphian, Quaker and journalist, is the
 author of The Tu-Tze's Tower, the new
 tale of romance and adventure in Tibet and China concerning which Henry T. Coates & Company announce that
 "there is not in the book a historical
 character, an ethical problem, a mar
 ried person or any purpose, save that of being interesting"
 A new novel by Cuteliffe Hyne, au-
 thor of '"The Adventures of Captain
 Kettle, The Stronger Hand," etc., is in
 preparation at Macmillan's. Two other J novels nearly ready from the same house are George Grain Cooks 'Roder- ick Taliaferro" (pronounced "Tulli- ver,'') the tale of an ex-Confederate
 who has adventures in Mexico in the time of Maximilian, with a. brilliant, i passionate love story" included; and "Old Squire," the story of a faithful slave who sticks to his southern mas ter through thick and thin, by B. K. | Benson, author of "Bayard's Courier D 1 For some reason or other Stephen | Gwynn has been accredited on all sides with the authorship of The Pagn at the
 Shrine (Macmillan a decidedly in-
 teresting new novel just published, the
 scene of which is laid in, Andalusia,
 Spain. The real author of the book is
 Paul Gwynne, ,@whose only other novel,
 so far as we know, is Marta.
 Thomas Dixon, Jr., author of the
 Leopard's Spots Doubleday, Page &
 Company, has recently received the
 gift of a complete set of the colonial
 and state records of North Carolina,
 'as slight appreciation of the work
 which he is doing for that state. One
 Hundred and five thousand copies of
 the pessilnistic novel have been print
 ed in less than year.
 A Yale man, justly refusing to admit
 that all literary prestige belongs to
 Harvard, points out that from the class
 of '9S alone at Yale there have come
 three very promising young authors I Gouverneur Morris, Charles E. Merrill
 and Justus Miles Foraman. MT. For