The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-11
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

The Blue Goose, by F. l.. Mason of
 West Hsven-TIoba aud Other Tales
 by Arthur ceIton, Yaie '9O-TIte by
 VII. CarsOn-COmlng BOoks-Memo , .
 rles of Yale Life and Men by Ex-Pres-
 ident Timothy Dwtght-other PubII-
 cations.
 The new novel "The Blue Goose" by our townsman, F. L. Mason, the expert mining engineer of the Colorado mining district, is well stated by the New York Commercial Advertiser to be "a novel as rugged and as full of real gold as any of the rich ore about which the drama of it's action turns" The Brook lyn Eagle says of it: Tt is a worthy companion to such books as "The Blazed Trail" as standing for the most representative inspiration in American fiction" Mir. Mason knows whereof he speaks in his vivid pictures of the min ing camps and mining regions of the west and southwest, and the miners themselves. As in his previous book, ".To the End of the Trail' the scenes of the story are laid in these wild, rugged. mountainous sections, and we dwell among them for time, delighting in the vigorous realistic pictures the au- thor presents of life as it actually is in ! 5le.ko T,a+1 nS was gro the End of the Trail" this is a much stronger story. AS, says the Commercial Advertiser, "The book is thoroughly sincere from start to finish. And it is not lacking either in dramatic incident Most mining towns have their Iair proportion of the dregs and scum of humanity, and the scene of the present story is no exception. Tfe Blue Goose takes it's name from a tavern and gambling hall kept by a villainous old Frenchman, who adds to his other accomplishments the art of refining ore stolen from the mines. The opening chapter is lurid with the glare of his midnight fires, gleaming through ehinks in his underground laboratory. The mines in question have almost ceased to pay expenses, through incompetence of the management and dishonesty of the miners; but when the new superin- tendent takes hold, with unexpected and unprecedented energy, the thieves find their revenue seriously threatened, and proceed to make things interesting for him.. The essential part of the sto- " Is the struggle of one man against serious odds, with his subordinates, his associates and even his employers, all against him. But he has one or two staunch friends-among them young western girl, bred in har-room. untu- tored and unframed, who nevertheless comes to his rescue at critical hour and affords a fitting climax to a story which would be strong enough even without her"
 The Blue Goose" which is already in its second edition, is published by Mcclure, Phillips & Company, New York; $1.50; for sale by the Pease-Lew- is Company.
 Tn 'Tioba and Other Tales'' pub- lished by Henry Holt & Company, New York, Arthur Colton, Yale go, has pre- scented a collection of stories of marked literary merit, attractive and artistic, and if keeping with Mir Coiton's previ- ous successful work There are eleven short tales each possessing real strength and they are diversified in character. No one will go astray in se- < lecting 'Tioba and Other Tales" for 8 leisure hour. Tioba, the story which gives it's name to the volume, is one of the strongest of the tales, but by many The Spiral Stone' will be adjudged the place of highest honor. Tioba, old man Fargus asserted, was the messiest mountain in the state. From it's feet upward half mile it was one raw wound, in which shivered roots and tree-trunks mingled with crushed boulders. Fargus said the gap came when Tioba "drawed'' off to hit Jim Hawks. but only succeeded in burylng a cemetery ten rods underground. Jim was in Tioba Valley year, and he blazed his way through the Merimy family, the Petersons and the Storrs family, in a reckless way Fargus de- scrihes with rustic finesse. He kept his luck and Tioba "throwed" herself SdWdy. IS IlU TOT GILeCE In these tales; all are told simply and naturally, and yet with real power. The people are realistic, the character drawing completely consistent. Of t'Tioba and Other Tales" the New York Tribune remarks: "The eleven stories brought together by MT. Colton in '"Ti- oba' are varied and interesting. Each one is written around rather original motive, and each is artistic in form The author is not afraid to strike hard and his humor, if sometimes genial, is sometimes decidedly sardonic. The story that gives the book it's title though set forth with curious light ness of touch by the suppositious nar- rator, has a grimness that is almost painful. Yet there is nothing forced ir these tales of MT. Colton's. Even "The Enemies" is thoroughly plausible, de. spite the fact that it has aspects very nearly fantastic. There is serious thought as we'll as good art in this book, there is individuality also, ant we gladly commend it to the reader"
 Price s1.50; for sale by all leading booksellers.
 MT Colton is favorably known to the discriminating through his books The Delectahle Mountains and The Debata. ble Land, and through his stories ir the Atlantic, the Century and other