The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-07

 ond edition,
 Marie of the Lower Ranch" the new book by Frances Parker, issued by the c. M. Clark Publishing Company, of Boston, is triumph for this young author. It is a breezy book presenting bright romance of Montana mountain and ranch life. The romance is that of Marjie and a refined outlaw upon whose head a price has been set in another state and whom Marjie meets in one of her mountain rides. The outlaw emerges from his difficulties when deftly wrought out and the finale leaves most pleasant impression despite the various types of life encountered in the 1; wild ranch region. The book is splen- didly adorned with seven full-page il- lustrations in beautiful colors. Miss Parker is described as jolly, romping, rosy-cheeked girl of twenty-two, who has grown up in the free air on the ranches of her father, uncle and broth CTS. Miss Parker is daughter of Dr. Dayton Parker, of Detroit Her earlier childhood was spent on an Indian res- ervation, in the widest part of Montana, with an uncle who was an In- dian agent She now lives on a twelve mile-square ranch among the Bears Paw Mountains. She could give Presi- dent Roosevelt points on how to shoot bears. She breaks her own broncos to saddle, and even as a youngster the Sioux Indians admiringly gave her the name of 'The- -Girl-Tha Rides Fast" " Marie of the Lower Ranch is for sale at all leading bookstores.
 The C. M. Clark Publishing Company of Boston have in press handsome il- lustrated catalogue of their fiction pub- lications. It is a noteworthy fact that the entire list contains no failure.
 So far as her publishers have been able to learn Miss Frances Parker, the author of the popular romance Marie of the Lower Ranch,'' enjoys the dis tinction of being the only Montana wo- man who has been honored by book covers in fiction of outdoor life. It is a curious fact that the authors whose homes are in the new and yet undevel- oped regions of the country usually write of life in the great cities.
 Doubleday, Page and Company will issue de luxe holiday edition of Thom- as Dixon's '"Fhe Leopards Spots." It will contain illustrations not included in the regular edition, and the binding will be in white and gold of special design Samuel Merwin, author of His Lit tie World" which tells of the life, the love and the sacrifice of a hero of Lake Michigan, about three years ago, &C., companied by Professor c. H. Zimmer- man, of the New Haven, Conn.,, high school, went over, La Salle's old water trail--fron Lake Michigan to the wa ters of the Mississippi-starting from St. Joseph Mich, and ending on the lower waters of the Kankakee river. The novelist planned this trip to add to his material regarding the Middle West, which he used in his new novel.
 Doubleday, Page and Company are
 Doubltday, Page and Company are about to add new volume to the New Nature Library entitled "The Moth Book" The author is Dr. w. J. Hol- land. There are fully fifteen hundred moths pictured in colors by photograph ic process, carrying out the ideas of the New Nature Library to be of the great est aid to those who wish to know and recognize the inhabitants of the out door world.
 The Century Company celebrates the sale of round half-million of the Mrs. Wiggs' books by the issue of holiday edition of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch and "Lovey Mary" in handsome form The illustrations are by Mrs. Florence Scovel Shinn. In each volume there are twelve pictures in black and white and twelve in color, the latter be-