The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11

will give to the student a practical knowledge of the fnost important prop critics Of micro-organisms.
 The author of this valuable work is Professor Conn, professor of biology in Wesleyan university. Professor Conn has published nine books, the first hav- ing been written in 1886. The list in or der Of appearance is: Evolution of To-day" The Living World. The Method of Evolution. now being trans lated into Italian; The Story of Germ Life.' already published in three lan- guages; ''The Story of the Living Ma chine" printed in five countries and in four languages; Agricultural Bacteri- ology,'' Bacteria of Milk and it's Pro- ducts Elementary Physiology and Hygiene" adopted by the state of Geor- gia and the province of Manitoba; and Bacteria. Yeasts and Mods in the Home"
 .'The Robinson, Luce Company" is the style of new corporation just organ ized under the laws of Massachusetts to conduct a general book publishing business at so9 Washington street, Bos- ton. The officers are Henry G. Pagani, president; John ". Luce, vice-presi- dent: and George l. Robinson, Jr., sec retary. Mir. Pagani is well known to tn trade through his several years con- nection with L. C. Page and Company, and Small, Maynard and Company. both of Boston. Mr. Luce helped to or ganize the c. M. Clark Publishing Com pany. of the same city, five years ago, and remained with them until last spring. The new corporation has seve- ral books in hand for early issue.
 Anna Farquhar. author of Her Bos- ton Experiences" has written a novel of Boston society life, which L. c. Page and Company are publishing this month. The title. "An Evans of Suf- folk, suggests more than titles usually do. This house will bring out also in a few days first novel by Theodore Rob erts, brother of Charles c. D. Roberts, the well-known nature writer. The scenes of MT. Roberts story, which is entitled "Hemming the Advenurer, ," are laid in London, South America, the West Indies and New York-a good broad stage, certainly, for any adyen- turer.
 Major Martin Hume is revising his "Courtships of Queen Elizabeth com panion volume to ''The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots" (published last l fall by Mcclure. Phillips and Company. The new edition will have several added chapters.
 l The same publishers announce that owing to the great demand for advance copies, Henry Harland's new story, | My Friend Prospero," cannot be issued until January IS. Besides the regular edition an autograph edition of five ! hundred copies will be published This will have a binding in Japan vellum with gold decorative stamp, a frontis- piece in color by Louis Loeb. and a photogravure portrait of the author. John Forster's "The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith" will be the second volume in the Library of Standard Bl- ographies" (Stokes), following the con- venient abridgment of Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon" issued two months ago. Forster extended this work, it will be recalled, into The Life and Letters of, Oliver Goldsmith and in so doing spoiled it-in the opinion of Dickens and Carlyle, who thought well of the book in it's first form. The third volume in the library will be Southey's $ Life of John Wesley"
 l Dallas Lore Sharp, tho author of l Wild Life Near Home" has written a new book, Roof and Meadow" which the Century Company will issue in the spring. An edition of "Wild Life Near Home" has been prepared for use in schools under the title, "A Watcher in the Woods An edition of MT. James