The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-03
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
OF TIRE SEASON.

Mrs. Ella wheeler WIIcox's New Book,
'sThs Heart Of New Thoaght"-The
American Manual of VaIues-Esw
Vale Press Volume From John Lanes
The New Magazines.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in that
fluent prose style which has won her
the attention of the reading public, has
met with one of her greatest successes
in the production of The Heart of the
New Thought" This was issued in eX
PLANTATION of the periodical, The New
Thought" of which Mrs. Wilcox has
lately assumed the position of associate
editor. The Heart of the New
| Thought is published by the Psychic
Research company, of Chicago, and has
already reached ten thousandth
sale. Mrs. Wilcox has pictured the
sunny side of life in a most interesting.
entertaining and instructive manner,
and the picture is made all the bright
er by a sitting of the gloom, thereby
clearly drawing a contrast. Cheerful,
delightful and sensible is the philoso-
ply of the text and from cover to COW
er the book is replete with original
ideas, so expressed that the most NOR
bid nature cannot help but find help
and sympathy, while the cheerful and
sanguine reader finds in the book
mine of valuable treasure. The Heart
of the New Thought is one Of the most
II,a Of &c ind ho
I the season has produced.
]. L. Mclean & Co, New York, have
just issued a royal volume of nearly
one thousand pages handsomely bound
in blue and gilt cloth cover, giving
vast deal of information of great inter-
est to investors and all who deal in
stocks or bonds. 1t is entitled The
American Manual of Values and per-
tains to railroad and industrial securi
ties, commodities and finances. 1t
gives the reports of vast number of
corporations, including not only those
quoted daily on the New York Stock
Exchange, but host of others, includ
ing water. gas, electric, express and
iron and steel companies, brewing COM
panies, distilleries rope and Irvine COM
panies, prepared food companies, cop
per companies, rubber companies, shoe
machinery, tobacco and sugar compa-
MES, etc, etc. 1t gives also the range
of prices, dividends and interest on
stocks and bonds In connection with re-
ports of earnings of corporations; also
rules and complete information regard
ing speculation and investing in stocks,
bonds, cotton. provisions, grain, coffee,
etc. Much other informa ton is given,
together with fine illustrate tons showing
the New York Stock Exchange. Produce
Exchange. other noted buildings and
pictures of the men of great note in
Wall street from the days of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew down
to the present time. The work gives
also various views of J. l.. Mclean &
Co.'S offices and many other illustra-
tons. A number of railroad maps are
also given. The work is an encyclopae-
dia of information in its important field
and a great credit to the enterprise of
its publishers.
Captain A. r. Mahan has received
the unusual honor for a non-British Of
ficer Of life membership in the Royal
United Service Institution. Captain
Mahan's latest book, Retrospect and
Prospect" is a series Of essays in direct
sequence to those in his previous vol
umes, The Interest Of America in Sea
Power" and THE Problem of Asia"
which gave Captain Mahan his inter-
national reputation.
A new Vale Press volume is an
nounced for publication by John Lane.
It is of peculiar interest In this series.
being the biblical books "Ecclesiastes
and the Song of Solomon" in one VOL
ume, Svo The book is printed in the
fount of type known as the Kings
Fount designed by Charles Ricketts,.
under whose supervision one hundred
copies have been printed for America,
in red and black.
The Standard Library Edition of the
works of John Fiske, in tWenty-four
volumes, comprising his historical, phil
osophical scientific, religious and mis-
cellaneous writings, is fully described
in little pamphlet just issued by
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Here are re-
produced in miniature many of the full
page photographers of the edition. The
c-simile of the signatures to the Con-
stitution, portraits, maps, specimens of
continental currency, etc, make the
pamphlet itself of considerable interest
and value.
The January number Of Scribner's
Magazine, which marks the beginning
of it's thirty third volume, contains two
of the notable features of the coming
year 1t is seldom that the opportunity
is offered to present the brilliant letters
of woman who has filled the highest
social and official positions at the
courts of Europe. The letters of Mad
anne Waddington, wife of the eminent
French ambassador, NJ. William Wad-
dington, begin in this number, with en-
PERTAINING and witty accounts of the
English court in the eighties. Madame
Waddington's observations have the
greater value to American readers be-
cause she is an American, the daughter
of a president of Columbia college and
the granddaughter of Rufus King, who
was American minister to England.
These letters were written to her rela-
tives in this country at the very time
in which the events described were
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