The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-20
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

THE SEASON ssrhs DslIversnce." by Niles Glasgow Li.ussnaat BiIss's "A LIsus Garrisoa'' New Books in Chm k cO.'s "stand- ard Classic ssriss,-Miss Farmers "Food asd Cookery for the Sick and convaIesesnt'' Forthcoming New Bosks-Ths Magazines.
 'The Deliverance." Miss Ellen Glas- gow's new book. published by Double day. Page and Company. New York. is of surpassing interest. It is notable book. One of the pioneer books of 1904, it is also without doubt one that will rank among the best works of fiction the year will bring. Its field is Virginia and the period the reconstruction peril cd; but it is not a political novel. For once it is a novel of the south without some athletic, brave northern lover cap turing, after a hard campaign, the heart of some proud. high spirited, beautiful southern girl. her prejudices overcome by, the work of Cupid. It is a thoughtful novel. Its leading char acters are strongly. vividly drawn. They are not superficial, intangible charac- ters, but characters alive with human sympathies, human frailties and pas sions. The women are not of the rose leaf variety, but women who have en- countered stern misfortunes and strug- gles, who have suffered and have grown stronger and nobler for the experience. Miss Glasgow's previous novels have shown befAstrength, but this last is riper, fullers deeper than the others. The story cehters around Blake Hall, in Virginia, a fine old estate, with fine old colonial days mansion, with rich to- bacco fields stretching around for miles. It was the abode for two hundred years < of Blake after Blake, all patterns of southern hospitality and chivalry. But reverses come and the fine property passes from the hands of the Blake who lived there in the civil war days into the hands of Fletcher, Bakers overseer, a sordid, base. money grabbing, crafty schooner, who had deceived and robbed his aged employer and thereby gained possession. Christopher Blake's son and heir together with his aged mother and \ his sisters spends years of his young manhood upon a small farm adjoining the former Blake domain, ekeing out a bare livelihood. A spirit of revenge dominates his life and through long breeding over wrongs he wreaks his vengeance upon Fletcher by causing the downfall of Fletcher's only son and heir, weak, shiftless, pitiable youngs- ter. whom he leads on to a life of dissi- patton. Fletcher's daughter, beauti- full and educated young widow, who had been the victim of brief but un- happy marriage, now enters upon the " scene and how, when she learns the true story of the Blakes' deorivation of their paternal home and acres, her heart is touched with sympathy for young Blake, how gradually Blakes desire for vengeance weakens and fades under the spell and influence of awak- ening love for the noble young woman,
 
 despoiler of his home, how the tide turns at last and wrongs are righted and expiated, and the deiverance comes all this is told by Miss Glasgow in a masterly fashion. As says the New York World: 'The inner struggles and the outward development of Christo- pher Blake are as real to the reader and as impressive as though the young gi- ant stood among us instead of looking at us merely from the pages of novel. The evolution of heroine and a beau- ty from the stock of the Fletchers pro- ceeds with convincing and not miracu- lous circumstance"
 ssThe most pathetic figure in The De- Iiverance' is the mother of Blake. Her portrait is finely drawn. A stately old lady, with white hair and sightless eyes, she sits erect in her old oak chair and knows nothing of what has changed about her. For twenty years her chil- dren have loyalty deceived her She be- 1ieves the Confederacy established, the Blakes still at the Hall, three hundred slaves still waiting her call. She has her black brocade, her flowers, her jew- elled rings, her bit of chicken served OH dainty china. She does not see the stain of toll in the tobacco fields on the hands of the big son who lifts her gent ly. Two sisters and war-maimed un- cle share with young Blake the long martyrdom through which the old lHdy's dream of peace is kept undis- turbed. There is something in the ser vice and sharing in the old house to soften the harshest judgment upon Miss Glasgow's hero.'
 ssThe Deliverance' is handsomely published; price $1.5O; for sale by the Pease-LeWis Company.
 No book has created a greater sensa- ton in Europe in many years, and espe- oially in Germany, than Lieutenant Bilse's "A Little Garrison,' (published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York;, and as it has been well said that it set Germany by the ears. That this story of the German army which is told in the form of realistic novel, went home to the soul of the German people, is attested by the fact that within a couple of weeks after it's publication more than one hundred thousand copies had been sold. The book caused Lieu tenant Bilse's imprisonment and has bean fhe fhernp of heated dehatae i,, +ba