The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

nIIIecste-sarah TuIdon, by Orme Az.
 nus-The Land of Joy, by Ralph
 Henry Barbour-HOw to Keep Well.
 by Dr. CrandaII-Ths Now Mr guzlnes,
 ''The Dominant Strain,' the new book by Anna Chapin Ray, handsomely published by Little, Brown & Co, Bos- ton, has already achieved distinct success, reflecting new literary honors on this gifted writer, success which her large circle of personal friends in New Haven and West Haven, her home, will take sincere pleasure. In this new achievement Miss Ray em- barks into larger field of fiction than she has hitherto essayed, making de- cidedly new departure. As is well said by the Boston Transcript: Hitherto Miss Ray has been known to the read ing world as an excellent story teller to young girls of sixteen. In this new story she has attempted, and with good success, the society novel, and iii it she deals with problem which noteuncona- monly presents itself. The heroine, Beatrix Dane, a young woman of beau- tiful presence, intellect and wealth, is offered marriage by man whose ac- quaintance she has not enjoyed long, but who commands her respect and love. Before the nuptials she discoT- CTS what her intimate friends have long known and regretted-that he is one of those men who put an enemy in his mouth to steal away his brains" :" Confident in her power over her lover, and. notwithstanding his weakness. she allows the betrothal to continue, and finally becomes the bride of the man who, in short time, brings disgrace upon himself and her.
 "It is the old story of marrying a man to reform him; and the result is that which commonly follows in real life. The dominant strain, inherent in his nature, asserts itself to his undoing. Very skilfully the author brings for ward the motif of the story, from the earliest suspicious to their culmination; but skilfully also she weaves into the warp and wool some brighter threads. The hero of the tale is one Cotton Ma ther Thayer, who, in his mingled Pur- | itan and Russian blood has developed dominant strain of musical talent, which serves to lift him to the highest ranks in the profession which he has adopted The skill with which the au- thor shows the development of heredfty, | in it's power both to debase and to ele- vate, marks her as an author from whom far greater things may fairly be ] expected in the future
 The New York Commercial Advertis- CT styles "A Dominant Strain" well told story, but thinks the author strains point in hurrying young L.orimer, the 1 husband of BeatrlS, to so early a grave, allowing him barely six months after his very happy marriage to loving wife to indulge in "the pace that kills and to drink himself to death. Proceeding the Advertiser adds: Tn life such a martyrdom is likely to drag on for weary months and years, with temporary oases of comparative tran quillity. And the fact that this partic- ular husband is made to drink himself 1 to death within a few months is appa- rently due less to the probabilities of the case than to the authors desire to leave the woman free to marry the oth- CT man. Music and the attitude of fashionable New Workers toward the musical lions of the hour form lighter strain that relieves. the general sonbre- ness of the volume, and there are sever- al genial examples of familiar metro- politan types that make the book worth reading if only for the sake of making their acquaintance"
 Price $1.50; for sale by the Pease- Lewis Co.
 Little, Brown and Company have just published highly interesting industri- al novel, "The Wars of Peace" by A. F. ! Wilson, and illustrated by H. c. Ire | land, in which the formation of a trust and it's consequences, financial and sen- timental, are set forth. This industrial combination separates father and son and it also causes a divided love inter- est The. novel is very skilfully con- structed Albion Harding, a successful and immensely ambitious financier, and leading man in a New England town is the organizer of the industrial combi- nation which alienates his only son
 Theodore, who, declining to enter the Trust" withdraws his capital from his fathers business, and buys small mil
 and attempts to manage it according tc his own ideas. Stirring events follow in rapid succession. Theodore, the son is a conscientious young man, but with a good head for business. He builds ur quite a successful business at his mil
 which, though small, becomes the only real competitor of the trust. Though oi diminutive size as compared with the big trust. it is lively opponent and 8 thorn in the side of the octopus corpo. ration. Excitement is added to the sit uation when Burnham, an unscrupu' lous tool of the elder Harding, ruins the business of Ordway, a competitor of the trust and then sets out to down Theo. dore's mill by the use of dynamite anc ucceeds,-bloWing up the mill Witf Theodore in it.. The employer of Theo' dore's father comes to the rescue anG extricates Theodore from the ruins which makes very effective climax A happily constructed romance runs
 through the story, adding much of in'
 terest and apparently conveying z warning against nasty marriages ant the dangers of trusts to domestic hap