The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-27
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
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 The announcement list of fiction for the spring of 1904. to re published by L. C. Page and Company, Boston, is as follows:
 ..rhe Bright Face of Danger" by Robert Nelson stephen. This story contains the adventures of the Sieur de la Tournoire. first narrated by Mir. Ste- phens in An Enemy to the King"
 The Watchers of the Trails" by Charles G. D. Roberts. With illustra- tlons by Charles Livingston Bull. An other collection of nature and animal life stories, forming companion vol ume to .'The Kindred of the Wild"
 ''Azalim: A Romance of Old Japan. p by Mark Ashton. author of She Stands Alone" This is the second of the au- thor's series of novels founded on Bibli- cal history. and has Judas for it's back ground. the infamous Jezebel for it's central figure, and her intrigues and ambitions for it's motif.
 'sDemming, the Adventurer." by Hhe- odore Roberts. The author of the novel is brother to Charles G. D. Roberts. The scenes are laid in London, South America, the West Indies and New York. The hero is typical English man, straightforward and manly.
 "An Evans of Suffolk" by Anna Far uuhar. A powerful story of modern life. The chief character is young woman, the daughter of a disreputable anar- chist. who marries into a conservative Boston family without explaining her antecedents.
 "rhe Sign of Triumph by Sheppard Stevens, author of q Am the King, " etc. This is romantic story dealing with the incidents of the Children S Crusade, and depicts the pathetic expe- rience of those infant martyrs to reli- zion and knighthood.
 Robert Shackleton, whose novel ''The Great Adventurer,' is to be published soon by Doubleday, Page and Company, has sailed for Italy, where he will spend the summer in villa overlooking the bay of Naples. His new book is a TO- nance of trust-making.
 Ezra s. Brudno. whose novel. 'The Fugitives," describing the sufferings of the Jews in Russia. was lately re- viewed is a native of Lithuania, where his grandfather had been chief rabbi of the province. His father mayor of Woloszin, incurred political suspicion and fled to America. He was first a rabbi at McKeesport, Pa, and later a manufacturer in Cleveland, where his son. Ezra joined him at the age of RFr -f,, foI To af mexItlbert and at Yale, and is now a law i ger in Cleveland. Tn his novel much fact is blended with the fiction. The identity of Sigma whose Per sonalia'' is causing so much comment, is being carefully guarded. It is an nounced that he is an Englishman of high connection and with exceptional opportunities for meeting people, but so much was tolerably evident from inter- nal evidence. His stories of English no- tables. Swinburne Rossetti, Burne- Jones, Lord Russell, Lord Brougham Bishop Wilberforce, Dean Farrar and HMakheTs, are both fresh and entertaining T His book shows both good memoray and a sense of humor, as we'll as dis tinguished circle of friends.
 Miss c. Bryson Taylor's story, 'The Dwellings of the Wilderness" which Henry Holt and Company announce, is a novelet which treats of a theme al- most similar to that Of d'Annanzie's s 'aThe Dead City,, but without any mor- bid taint. It is worth noting that these publishers have just sent to press for the forty-ninth time that excellent sto- < ry of New York politics, "The Honora- ble Peter Stirling" the demand fol which continues unabated. The Hol- laday Case,'' Burton E. Stevenson's de- tective story, has now gone into its fifth edition.
 The Vir Publishing Company, oi Philadelphia, announces a special prize offer of one thousand dollars for the 5 best manuscript of book addressed tc young women, to be a companion vol ume and of equal merit to their dollal book by Joseph Alfred Conwell, entitled ''Manhood's Morning." The manuscript must have sufficient merit to entitle the book to live for fifty or a hunrded years, and to mould the character and shape the destiny of oncoming genera tions. The contest is restricted to wo- men, the manuscript to be submitted by September 1, 1904 Full information can be secured by addressing the Vii Publishing, Company, 2.2S7 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
 Dwight Tiltons new novel My Lady Laughter" the latest announcement ot X the c. M. Clark Publishing Company z of Boston, will have as it's background a location and period which has beer hitherto practically neglected by novel ists,
 Mir. Lincoln Stiffens has written some Introductory pages to his articles or municipal corruption that have ap- peare din McClure's Magazine and col. leeted them in volume called s'The Shame of the Cities,'' which Mcclure Phillips and Company will issue in : few days. The same house is publish ing "Susannah and One Other,' by E Maria Albanesi. a novel that was 3 good deal discussed ill England last summer, where it was puvlished under the title, "Susannah and One Elder To quote from an English review Save for an irritating use of the solilo, quy in explanation, the tale is we'll told and if the end is not unexpected, we have striking and not very pleasant