The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-02
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

THE SE4 SON
 Barbara, a Woman of the West, by
 John II. Mathematician MIIecete's "A Detached PIrate"-Mnny Coming
 New Books-Nsv Magazines.
 The accuracy and the intense realism in the description Of places and scenes fin Barbara, a Woman of the West" by John H. Whitson. published by Lit tie, Brown & Company, is sufficiently accounted for by the fact that these inn pressions were not obtained by the au thor at second hand. He has lived on the plains, where his father is at pres ent engaged in the cattle business, and is as familiar with the mountains and the mining camps of Colorado as if he were native of that state, instead of Indiana. Few better descriptions of the Rocky Mountain country, as it is seen < in sunshine and in storm, can be found than those in this book. Barbara" as a, name for the heroine of a novel seems to have met with unusual favor lately, but few writers have better reason for so naming the chief character in their work than MT. Whitson. The name of his only sister was Barbara and she was western woman. It is under stood, however, that the novel is in no sense biographical, as has been alleged.
 The book has a rare interest and charm, with strong dramatic situations. The heroine is the charming wife of a somewhat self-centered man of literary tastes, Roger Kimberly, living on a ranch in Kansas. Out of gratitude 8 deed of a mine in Cripple Creep is giv- en to the young couple, and Roger, with his imagination fired, hastens to visit the mine, leaving his wife alone. Fail ing to write home, Barbara in despair, sets out to find him. Her long and pa tient quest for her husband, the means which she adopts to support herself, the ardor with which she is wooed by Gill bert Bream, and the complications which ensue are extremely interesting.
 Of the book the New York World says: "A story original in ideas, clever in construction and interesting to the last word" Price $150; for sale by all leading booksellers.
 One of the new spring novels said to contain unusual entertaining qualities is Helen Milecete's "A Detached Pi- rate" which Little, Brown 6 Company will publish early in May. The heroine of the story is Gay Vandeleur, the di- vorced wife of an English army officer, and after her arrival at Halifax from London she becomes great social fa- vorite. The heroine tells the story her. self in bright, frank manner, and as the military set in which she moves is lively one, the readers interest is never permitted to wane. Anticipating wide demand for this clever society novel, the publishers have illustrated ! it with five plates in color, by I. H. Cal iga, the frontispiece of the heroine be- ing particularly striking and artistic picture. The author of "A Detached ; Pirate" Helen Milecete, is the author of "A Girl of the North" She is a Cana dian by birth and a resident of Halifax She has written for Lippincott's, the Smart Set and other magazines, but this novel is said to mark a distinct ad- vance in comparison with her previous work
 That historical novels have not lost their vogue is apparent from an exami- nation of the spring list of fiction. Up- wards of forty titles fall under this 2 head, there being romances of the old world, stories of good old colonial days, Revolutionary war stories, novels which have the war of 1872 for histor- 3 ical background, and romances of the civil war. Some, like William R. A. Wilson's "A Rose of Normandy con- cern, both ispherees-France and Canada in the time of Louis XIV. The war of 1912, however, appears to be al- most slighted, but one romance repre- senting that important event-"Love Thriges in War;" by Mary Catherine Crowley, whose "A Daughter of New < France and "The Heroine of the Strait have made her name familiar one with readers of historical fiction.
 An attractive little catalogue descrip- tive of their Southern Novels and Se- rious Books has just been issued by Doubleday, Page & Company. Among them are: Before the Dawn," "Ve- ronica," "The. battle-ground" "On the Z Wing of Occasions, "The Hearts Highway "The Rebuilding of Old \ Commonwealths, Character Build- Aing." The authors mentioned are Jo- @seph A. Altsheler, Martha w. Austin, Thomas Dixon, Jr., Ellen Glasgow, Joel { Chandler Harris, Sara Beaumont Ken nedy, Mary E. Wilkins, Howard Wee den, Gaillard Hunt, William Byrd, whose memoirs are edited by John Spencer Bassett; Sidney Lanier, Walter H. Page, Booker T. Washington and Katherine Pearson Woods. Besides a description of the story the price and makeup of each book are also included.
 Rudyard Kipling has cabled his pub fishers, Doubleday, Page & Co.,, that the title for his new volume of poems twill be 1.-The Five Nations" and that E the volume will contain among the po- ems appearing in periodicals since the publication of '"Fhe Seven Seas" twen- ty-fve entirely new poems that have < not been published in any form. Many of these would have been cabled, word for word, to this country for publication in the newspapers and magazines but that MT Kipling is determined to re-