The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
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SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
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 by A. Mosso, professor of physiology in the University of Turin. It is another issue in the valuable science series pub lished by G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York. The English translation was done by Margaret Drummond, M. A., and W. B. Drummond, NJ. B., c. M., F. R. C. P. E., extra physician of the Roy al Hospital for Sick Children, in Edin- burgh Though on a scientific topic, this little volume of 334 pages is ex- tremely interesting, and even enter taining, while it is very instructive. It is no dry treatise, but book which the general reader will enjoy. The general doctrine of Professor Mosso in the mat ter of fatigue is that it is due to the accumulation of poisons in the mus cles, brain and other working parts, poisons formed in the act of the func- tioning Of these parts. According to him and most other experts in his line at the present time, fatigued muscle, for instance, is physiologically and chemically a different thing from an unfatigued muscle. So, also, by infer ence of brain cells. The volume records many experiments in support of this theory, experiments upon men, birds, frogs. with certain curious parallel isins between tired muscles and dead muscles. The professor devotes special attention to intellectual phenomena in duced by mental effort.
 Among the many interesting disquisi- lions is one upon the effect of the long muscular exertion of birds in their mi grations, and the author, while on this subject, gives much of interest regard ing different species of birds and their habits. The distances they can and do fly and the choice of safe routes when migrating. Thus also the author inci- dentally digresses charmingly into tales about celebrated men, poets and scien- lists, and about his predecessors in his line of scientific Investigation. Profess sor Mosso's delightful way of making a dry subject entertaining is most credi- table to him and evidences his literary ns well as his scientific ability, The book is for sale by the E. P. Judd Co.
 A notable new book is that written by Forrest Crissey, the well-known west ern author. and published by Thompson & Thomas, of Chicago, called Tat tlings of a Retired Politician" The lit- erary form, which is a series of letters written by old Governor Bill Bradley, a retired politician to his young friend back in the old district, is merely a ve- hcle. for carrying an immense fund of political epigrams and wisdom and a succession of snappy and pointed po- litical stories which are running over with hunlor and realism. The best part of these stories is that they are true. The old governor, after serving in the legislature, in congress, as gov ernor and United States senator has retired to Brokenstraw Ranch. Tn these stories he "has taken the lid off, D and is telling things. That the book is well written was to be expected, judg- ing from MT. Crissey's previous work, although this book and "The Country Boy,' which appeared last year, are as far apart in style as the east is from the west. From the title to the last sentence of the nearly five hundred pages the reader can get both profit 2 and entertainment.
 Physically, the book is a gem, and the Aity-SiSAt luii pdSC liuStfdtiUifS uy John T. McCutcheon form no small part oe it's attractiveness. MT. Me Cutcheon is one of the most popular de- lneators of political life in America. His grasp of character is marvellous
 In commenting this book in a per- sonal letter to the author William Jen- nings Bryan naively says: Your pol itician retired too soon.'
 The book is certain to create more than 9 ripple among politicians and will be received with favor by readers It is entirely non-partisan.
 John Lane has added to his series of reprints Flowers of Parnassus," and William Watson's poem, ''The Tomb of Burns This eldgy is written in the six line stanza in which Wordsworth wrote At the Grave of Burns" and in which Burns himself wrote so many of his poems. It was included in the vol ume called sThe Father of the For est" which MT. Watson issued in 1885, The illustrations of the book are from pen drawings of Dumfries landmarks and Scotch scenes by D. Y. Cameron. Among the twenty volumes so far pub lished in this series are Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women,' Pope's Rape of the Lock-" illustrated by Au- brey Beardsley; Stephen Phillips "Marpessa," Gray's "Elegy" Hilton's "Lycidas,'' Blake's Poems of Inno- cence," Longfellow's Building of the Ship and Wordworth's "Tintern Ab- bey,"
 L. c. Page and Company, Boston an- nounce q new book by Stephen Con- rad, entitled "The Second Mrs. Jim. ; This book introduces a heroine new to the realms of humorous fiction-the stepmother. A shrewd, kind-hearted country woman marries a prosperous farmer with two boys, and proceeds to manage them and their affairs in a most original manner. The book is said to be full of quaint philos- ophy, and, it is claimed, will be read with many inward chuckles and hearty laughs of appreciation
 The publication of Charles c. D. Rob- ert's new book of animal life, 'The Watchers of the Trails" which was an nounced for May, had to be postponed to the pTts ent week, owing to unusual ly large advance orders, which neces- sitated the printing of second edition before publication. MT. Roberts pulp fishers, Messrs. l.. c. Page and Compa-