The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-15

universal providence Of God, to make felt that our new knowledge does not eliminate the father to comfort hearts that mourn, to help the young soul on it's upward way"
 There are eight hundred and forty well-chOseu and inspiring selections in the book, carefully arranged for daily reading. The writings of a remarkably wide range Of the best authors have been drawn on for quotations of vary ing length, from a single sentence to a complete poem. The volume makes a most appropriate gift book of three hun dred and thirty-nine pages. Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Price. bound in cloth, eighty cents; white and gold gilt top, in box, $.0O net: in limp leather, gilt top, in box, sl.15; padded cloth or morocco, gilt top, in box, sS.OO net.
 Allen French, author of The Story of Rolf and the Vikings Bow" an ab- sorbing story for boys. was born tnRos- ton in 1870. He was educated at the Boston public schools and at the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating from the latter institution in 1892. After a year at the University of Berlin, he studied at. Harvard, re- eeiving a degree there in 1894. After four years of travel, on account of ill., ness, he married and settled in Concord, Mass, where he at present resides, MT. French has been frequent contributor of short stories to the leading maga- zines. His books are as follows: The Junior Cup" juvenile; "The Colonials," an historical novel; "Sir Marrok," a juvenile; "The Barrier" a novel of modern life, published last spring; and ''The Story of Rolf, which is story for boys. ..... .
 "The story of Rolf and the Viking Bow'' gives faithful and vivid DOT trayal of Iceland in it's heroic age, the eleventh century This graphic story has for it's hero a sturdy young lad, Rolf, whose father. Hierandi, after having been outlawed, is enticed beyond a certain oak tree and killed. Rolf sets out to find a man who can shoot as far as the spot where his father met his death, and thus save his fathers prop erty from conffscation. Not succeeding, he is banished. and on the way to the Orkney Islands he is captured. On ar- irving at the islands, Rolf is made the thralI of Grani. the adopted son of the lord of the isles. Tn the course of his many adventures Rolf breaks into the grave of an old Viking, where he finds a bow of wonderful power The account of Rolf's return to Iceland, his test of the Vikings bow, and the down fall of his enemies, brings to close a capital story for boys, The author, Allen French, writes in direct, forceful style. The setting of this story is practically a new one, and the many exciting incl dents lead up to a dramatic climap.
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 Susan Clegg and Her Friend, Mrs. Lathrop. by Anne Warner. author of "A Woman's Will, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Price $1. For sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
 Anne Warner, the creator of the inin- itable Susan CIegg,n is in private life I Minn The Marrying of Susan Clegg, : which appeared in the Century Maga- zine last November, was her first short story to attract attention. Tn the spring her first novel, an international love comedy entitled, "A Woman's Will, ]" was published by Little, Brown and Company, and was warmly commended. Her Susan Clegg' stories, including a revised version of those which have been appearing in the Century, togeth- CT with an entirely new one. appear in Her Friend, Mrs. Lathrop." Mrs. War ner cares less for theory than for fact. Her Donna Juniata falls in her pursuit, but merely because she lacks the ad- vantages of Mr. ShaW's young woman, trained in all the ways of the world. Susan Clegg has set her mind on mar riage, not on marriage with a certain man; therefore she scatters her forces. Moreover, being of a primitive mind and training, she knows nothing of strategy, and her conception of tactics is confined to a frontal attack, where fore, having once failed, she does not repeat it, turning to the next man in- stead. Then, when her father dies, and it is discovered that he has left her money, all the men who have scorned her propose in a hurry, but she re- solves to stay single.
 It Is the humor itself that has made the name and fortune of the author with the mass of her readers, hurnor robust and delicate in turns, a 11unor with an inner meaning below that on the surface.
 Anne Warner is one of the most suc- eessful of the newer American authors and her latest book promises to give her an international reputation.
 Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliot, who with Miss Maude Hosford, has written His Majesty's Servant which MT. Lewis Waller has just produced with such success in London theater is an American and some years ago made quite 8 reputation by her novel ttJerry." 3 story of a western mining town, which Messrs. Henry Holt and Company had to print several times. @
 Messrs. Henry Holt and Company having had to print their condensed version of "Clarissa Harlowe" some ten times, and their abridged -"Boswelps Johnson" some six, are now bringing put Tom Jones' condensed by Burton E. stevenson, and may follow this with other Condensed Classics" MT. ste- yenSon has expurgated little if any and