The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-30
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

THE SEASON.
 Kent Fort Manor, by William Henry Babeoek-HeIen KsIIer's BOok-CarOI
 Norton's Poems aud Versss-N.w
 Book by w. R. IF. Trowbridgs, of
 London, Formerly of New Haven Forthcoming BOoks-Neyv Magazines.
 Kent Fort Manor" by William Henry Babcock, author of The Tower of Wye" etc., published in attractive style by H. T. Coates & Company, Phil
 adelphia. is a novel pertaining to our ! books strongest points. The local col or pertains to Maryland chiefly and mostly to Kent Fort Manor and its vi- cinity. Mir. Babcock explains that Kent Fort Manor is real tract, easily 1 reached by boat from Baltimore and a l long drive to the island itself The plots thread is somewhat involved, but the authors style is clear and smooth and he has made very readable sto- ". He has made the characters seem real and undoubtedly a strong and
 striging one is that of "Marse'' Roder- ick Claiborne, while that of the Iowa ble Miss Margaret is a good second best effort. Captain Ithaca and Walter Claiborne and the faithful slave are good specimens of excellent character drawin. Around Miss Margaret and Walter Claiborne, the lovers, the chief interest centers Of course. Walter in his role of a Confederate message car rier, whom the Union authorities want to capture, has some exciting adven- lures and perilous moments, and some exceedingly clever and spirited doub- ling and lodging goes on. MT. Bab-
 cock Is evidently familiar with the ground and localities he so faithfully pictures. The New York World says of the book: Kent Fort Manor" is. in deed, more than good story It is a valuable contribution to the new litera- ture which makes for a country unified in mutual appreciation as in political fact. For sale by the Pease-Lewis Company. .*>r.
 Miss Helen Keiler's 'story of My Life" published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, is an intensely interesting book, finely illustrated, of which previous mention has been made. The Boston Transcript says of it: 'The absolute raritys of so genuine a human document as Helen Keller's sto- ry of her life. makes it one of the im- portant books of the year. It speaks wholly for itself, and amplified by her letters and the documentary accounts of her mental growth and development, Fi it bears eloquent testimony to the tri- umphs of modern education and to the adaptibility of the human mind. It is difficult to say which of the three parts Of the story are the most impor- tant. The first is the autobiography proper, in which the wonderful girl looks back over her short life and surveys it in retrospect; the second is made up of her letters, in which is re- yealed the unfolding of her mind step by step; the third contains the evi- dence of others, and naturally gives many facts which Helen Keller herself is incapable of setting forth or of ana lyzing. Thus the book forms a com plete whole, wherein is told a story which has all the accuracy of biogra- phy, and all the romance and grace of fiction. Miss Keller writes as if she were laboring under no physical 1isad- vantages whatever, and her impress sionss of herself, of nature and of the life about her reveal the great feat ae- complished by her education and men, tai training"
 The New York Commercial Adverti- ser says: Helen Kellers autobiogra- phy would be necessarily of great in- terest, if for no other reason than that it is the personal narrative of the only well-edueated deaf and blind person in the world. But, aside. from this quali- ty of uniqueness, it is worthy of pres ervatfon as the picture of a beautiful character, marked in places by an ex- altation of spirit rarely found in lite rature. Not, of course, in expression or power, but in feeling, it almost recalls the sublime sonnet of Milton on his own blindness
 Price of book $1.50 net; for sale by the E. P. Judd Company. .'.. MT. Carol Norton, the author of "Po- ems and Verses" which Is published by Dana Estes & Co.,, Boston, is still in the early thirties, but he is already known as one of the leading opponents of the Christian Science faith in the United States. He is member of the board of lecttreship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, and is an intimate friend of Mrs. Eddy, whom he characterizes as 'the greatest woman leader in the history of religion" MT. Norton resides in New York city, but is at present on a lecture tour through the west, which has extended over twenty states, and during which he has addressed more than sixty thousand persons, and, received news paper reports of his lectures, which have reached, it is estimated, two mil- lion readers. His mother, Mary Wads- worth, was cousin of the poet, Long, fellow Mr. Norton is the author of "Woman's Cause" and '"rhe New World" His Poems and Verses' are characterized and distinguished by their exalted spiritual tone. They are unpretentious and appeal not only to