The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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| Doubleday. Page and Company. Large 1 sales were promised by the heavy de- mand from the booksellers in advance, 1 and the promise has been fulfilled. Mir Barbour first published verse at the age of sixteen, and has contribut- ed verses, sketches or short stories to most of the best periodicals. Under the pseudonym of Richard Stillman Pow elF' he has written several books of college life for boys. He is thirty-twO O years old and lives in Cambridge. where he was born, though as news paper man and rancher he has been ill the west a number of years. ''The Land of Joy is largely college story. with the background of university in terest, but has to do partly with an inn poverished old Virginian estate, and above all is delightful and fascinating story of young lovers. The Margaret of the story is a southern girl of rare beauty and her personal charms are backed by a fine mind and beauty of character. MT. Barbour need not write deprecatingly as to his ability to give correct idea of. a woman's beauty of face and character. He has done so admirably and the two pair of lovers,- John the northerner and Margaret, on the one hand, and Phil (Margaret's brotheD and Betty, northern girl, on the other,-make a quartette that will satisfy the most critical. The chapters wherein Phil and Betty find that their hearts are in unison and where John, stalwart, rich. brave and true, wins the adorable Margaret, are charming and artistic Of ''The Land of Joy the New York Commercial Advertiser says in part: 'It is amusing, light-hearted, sound and sane, and the two love af- fairs that give it substance are as idyl- lie as they should be at the early age of their heroes and heroines."
 The Boston Transcript says in part MT. Barbour has reproduced the vigor and variety of college life with verity which is both realistic and imaginative. and he displays no little faculty at the opposing of diverse character one against the other, and at the writing of vivacious. sparkling and natural dia- logue."
 Price $15O; for sale by the Pease- Lewis Co.
 A book which every family should possess is How to Keep We'll" by Dr. Floyd M. Crandall, published by Dou- bleday, Page & Co.,, New York; price $1.5O; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Go. This is book of a trifle over five hum dred pages we'll printed in clear type. Tfc rl> fe %n >1o;y l,n methods of preventing disease. Dr. Crandall has written a collection of es- says covering almost every part of the subject. The modern discoveries and inventions for the prevention and re- lief of disease and what may be called the modern diseases are explained at considerable length. Anti-toXin is treated at considerable length and the nature of the many bacteria which were One of the most valuable features of the book consists in the excellent ad- vice given to business men concerning the evils of. overwork and the need for guarding against a breakdown in mid dle life. Parents will also find the vol ume of great use in the care of chil dren during the period when they are most apt to contract infectious illness. Those past middle life will find whole some sound advice as to avoiding the pits and quicksands which lie in the way of the feet of the unwary, short ening the lives of those who do not know how to take proper care of them selves as age advances, who have not learned the golden rule of abstinence and temperance in diet as we'll as drink. The author quotes some exceedingly excellent advice on this point from the book of Sir Henry Thompson, the fa- nous London physician over eighty and a fine example of health and activity in old age.
 Another jolly little book, handsomely gotten up in blue and white cloth cov- CTS by the Dickerman Publishing Co.,, Boston, is Reflections of Bridget Me- Nulty,' by Frank c. Voorhies, who has furnished amusement for quite a large number of people by his previous work. "The Love Letters of an Irish man. "The Story of Lizzie Mcclure" and Mrs. McPiggs of the Very Old Scratch His humor is keen and bright and his Irish characters are all clever people who "get there,' brogue and all. In the present book Bridget and her bo- som chum Ellen do about all the talk ing, and Bridget especially. Bridget's detailed explanations to Ellen of what a game of college football is like hits the mark: as do also her reflections on golf playing and ping pong. Bridget also frees her mind on phrenology, and love and lovers, the subway, the coal strike question and Christian Science Her book of reflections occupies only twenty eight pages. One can while away an hour with it most satisfacto- rily and will then vote Bridget to be a trump. The chapter on Christian Sci ence, it is said, caused quite commo- ton in Boston and ran the sale of the book up to a record of several thousand in one week in that city alone. For sale by all booksellers.
 GailIard Hunt, author of the Life of Madison Doubleday, Page) is now en- gagged in writing an account of the spells system from the time of Wash ington down to date. MT. Hunt is a son of the late William Henry Hunt, who was successively attorney general of 9,1Ir AE fI1 4o1