The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-01

Ter. It is written in a lively, entertain- ing style, and is full of interest. The alley cat was Weeiums. a Waif and stray puss who foraged about for her i living, and with good success, escaping eleyerly the fury of savage dogs and the onsIaughts of unruly boys. When she became a fond mother she wisely, on mature reflection and in true moth- erly affection, decided that her kitty must not have a wild, uncertain Arab i style of living, and so she with great wisdom selected household with which to leave her pet. Her wisdom and sagacity were rewarded, for the household accepted the little stranger kitty left within their gates with open arms. But this isn't all of the story. Weejums has lots of adventures and so
 do other pets of the family, which are
 well told and highly interesting. The
 book will be fayorite with young readers and old readers, too. Price fif- ty cents; for sale at all bookstores. Henry Holt and Company announce for early publication new Psychology by James Rowland Angel, head of the
 department Q. experimental psychology
 in the University of Chicago.
 During the delay on account of man. ufacturing the colored pictures that Messrs. Henry Holt and Company are
 meeting with in the production of The
 Marathon Mystery" by Burton B. Ste
 venson, the author of their popular
 'Holladay Case they have been
 obliged to print three editions of the
 book before issuing 1t.
 Burton F. Stevenson, the author of ! 1.-The Holladay Case" and 'The Mara
 thon Mystery was fattered and a bit
 amused on receiving a request the oth- CT day from Russels and Son, the well
 known London photographers of royal i ty and actresses to sit for his picture, which they wish to add to their collec-
 tion of celebrities. Both of MT. Steven sons detective stories, which are pub
 lished here by Messrs Henry Holt and
 Company, have been undertaken in
 London by Messrs. Harper and Broth- ! CTS.
 l A sumptuous volume that has long l been delayed by difficulties of illustra- ton is Kellogg,s American Insects. {, which Messrs. Henry Holt and Compa- ny will publish this month. It will con- tain eight hundred and twelve figures and eleven colored plates, and cover
 the entire American insect world in a comprehensive way, thus rendering un- necessary separate volumes on such
 special subjects as Moths, Butterflies and Beetles. Although designed as an authoritative reference book for ma ture students. the style of the volume
 is also suitable to the general reader Particular attention is given to the
 habits and life history of insects. as l well as their relations to man. other
 animals and plants. There are special
 chapters on Insects and Disease. In
 sects and Flowers. the Color and Pat terms of Insects, and their Uses. The | volume contains much new matter, the
 result of observations in the middle and far west, and many original pic
 lures of species that have not before 1 figured in general insect books.
 Wilfrid Scarborough Jackson, author
 of Nine Points of the Law etc, has a new novel appearing with the imprint of John Lane. The title Is cleverly
 conceived Helen of Troy. N. r." I John Lane has just published a new romance entitled "The Manitoban," by
 Henry H. Bashsord who will be re- menlbered as the author of Tommy
 Wideawake." The story concerns it. l self with the Canadian pioneer life in Manitoba. The hero, Roddy, is car ried from his boyhood to his full man hood in the rough struggles of a new country.
 Probably no publisher in England is better fitted to speak on the market for poetry than MT John Lane. A portion
 of an interview with that gentleman reported in the London Daily News is as follows:
 Never in the course or my experi- ence Of publishing, said MT. John Lane, has the demand for poetry been so small as it is now: yet never, be- lieve has the general average of poetry been so high. I have seen no more striking change in the book world than that involved in the fading popularity of poetry. I would say that com pIete revolution has taken place in the last dozen years"
 And you think that ten or dozen years ago modern poetry was not f1out- ed as it is rlow?"
 Very much the contrary It had not then become fashionable to say that England was artistically dead, and it was possible to publish far more vol umes of poetry, each of which had a far better chance of being read And now poetry. poetry as well as minor poetry is at discount
 When asked to account for this sud- den change, MT. Lane attributed it to the series of wars which have occupied the public mind since Spain and Amer ica fought about Cuba.
 , Leslie's Monthly for December opens with a poem. 'The Star of the East" by Virginia Bloren Harrison, and gives the next place to a story by Margaret Burbee Shipp, under the title, with the Blessings of Bobby" Other arti- cles include an account by pr. Grenfell, the famous Labrador missionary, of his work along that coast and of the hero-