The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-28

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 feeling that sway the heart of the gen.
 tie bred, refined and sensitive woman Veronica was one of those women who
 set an ideal of a lover very high. Of
 the book the Commercial Advertiser
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 Little, Brown & Company's spring announcements include ten works of fiction. "The Siege of Youth,'' by
 Frances Charles: Love Thrives in War; a romance of the frontier in 1872, by Mary Catherine Crowley; 'The Dominant Strain,' serni-musical nov el, by Anna Chapin Ray; "A Detached Pirate" a society novel. by Helen Mile cete. a Halifax (N. s.) author; Bar
 bara, Woman of the West" by John H. Whitson: "A Rose of Normandy"
 romance of France and Canada in the
 time of Louis XIV, by William R. A.
 Wilson; The Spells of Empire" TO-
 nance of Mexico in the time of Mon
 tezuma, by Francis Newton Thorpe;
 Sarah Tuldon,' the dramatic story of
 an English peasant girl, by Orme Az nus; The Wars of Peace" industrial
 novel, by A. F. Wilson, and a new edi- tion of Truth Dexter" by Sidney Mo
 Call.
 Funk & Wagnalls Company announce the following publications for the
 spring months. In March. ''The Kes-
 wick Movement" by Arthur T. Pierson,
 D. D.; in April, Blind Children" by
 Israel Zangwill, book of poems on variety of themes; "The Pulpit Bible"
 by Joseph Parker, D. D.; "On the Trail
 of Moses" by Louis Albert Banks, D. 1 D., being thirty-one revival sermons; volume four of ''The Jewish Encyclope- dia:" How Paris Amuses Itself," 1 companion volume to "The Real Latin i Quarter by the same author and il- lustrator, F. Berkeley Smith, and Washington. Its Sights and In sights" personally conducted" trip through the national capital by Mrs. Harriet E. Monroe.
 ] The following books not previously included in the spring announcements
 of Houghton, MifIiin & Company. will be published by them this season: 'Trent's Trust" by Bret Harte; Rus
 kin's Comments on Dante" with an in- troduction by Charles Eliot Norton;
 ''The Correspondence Between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Grimm" edited by Frederick w Holls; "The
 Confiscation of John Chandler's Els tate" by Andrew M. Davis; and "of
 Education" by R. R. Bowker.
 A novel by a journalist which con- tains not one word about newspaper life is a rarity. Miss Louise Betts Ed wards has been for years connected with prominent newspapers; but for the
 scene of her first novel, "The TuTze's Tower" shortly to be published by Henry T. Coates & Company, of Phila 1 delpl1ia, she has turned, not to the re- porters room, the news desk, or the eX elements of the special correspondents
 
 ma. The uprising of 1900 against the foreigners in the latter country forms vivid episode toward the end of the book.
 The New Metropolitan for April is
 the first number of the popular Metro politan Magazine under its changed m q ns1a 1a and tyninFs thn aHitorGbip of John Kendrick Bangs. It is a nota-
 ble and satisfactory issue in all re- spects. The contributors include Will liam Dean Howells, Mark Twain, w. J. Henderson, Onoto Watana, David Belasco, Edwin Lefevre, Postmaster
 Van Cott. Borough President Cantor, Clinton Scoilard, Albert Bigelow Paine
 and E. W. Townsend. The New Metro politan intends to devote itself chiefly to the interesting, the entertaining. and especially the human side of the great city's life. Its appeal will be not only to local pride, but to national pride in the metropolis. The brightness of it's April stories, poems and special papers
 is well matched by the cleverness dis played in it's many pictures.
 The April Century comes clad in special cover, designed by Jules Guerin, depicting the new east entrance to the White House, and in conformity with
 the patriotic tone of the cover the con tents show pronounced American fla
 vor The opening article is lengthy
 account, by Charles Moore, of the "Restoration of the White House." il- lustrated with numerous views of the presidential mansion, both exterior and | interior There is detailed account of | ''The Evolution of American Census 1 Taking" by the Hon. W. R. Merriam, director of the census. showing the l latest methods of tabulation. The se- ries of great American business combi- | nations is continued with a paper by Commander J. D. J.Kelley on "The So- | Called Steamship Trust" giving the | history of the International Mercantile
 Marine Company, the magnitude of which the author tries to suggest at the outset by the statement that it's | combined ocean-going tonnage surpass- es that of any maritime nation, with the exception of Great Britain and