The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-27

will be the early form of this book. which was praised so highly by Dick ems and Carlyle, who thought the au- thor spoiled the work when he extended it into what was called The Life and Letters of Oliver Goldsmith .
 The three most popular juvenile books. according to demands at the New York Public Library, are authori- tatively reported to be as follows: Little Women;' Wiggin's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Richards The Golden Windows"
 Lillian Whiting, whose new book. '.The Life Radiant" is one of this au- thor's most popular works, is at present in Colorado. where she has been ad- dressing several woman's clubs. An English edition of The Life Radiant has recently been brought out by Gay & Bird.
 "A Daughter of the Rich." NJ. E. Walters bright and breezy story of country and city life, has gone into a second edition, and many of the critics are comparing the story.favorably with Louisa M. Aleott's stories. One enthu- siastic reader writes the publishers, ] Little, Brown and Company, as follows: Since the days of Little Women,' I have not read a book which appealed to me so strongly for girls, old and young"
 John H. Whitson, author of Barbara. Woman of the West" who for many years lived on the plains and in the mining camps of Colorado, has written another western novel entitled The Rainbow Chasers.' which Little Brown and Company will publish in the spring. This new book, it is said, will give a vivid account of a Kansas land boom. MT. Whitson knows the west and he has endeayored in his Rainbow Chas- ers' to present the real scenery and at mosphere of the plains.
 P. Phillips Oppenheim, whose novel of English social and political life enti- tied "A Prince of Sinners attracted marked attention in this country last year, has written a new romance, l Anna, the Adventures, which Little.
 Brown and Company will publish in the spring.
 ] It will be an interesting item of news to many to hear that Dodd, Mead and Company are shortly to bring out an- 1 other volume of Maeterlinck's miscella- neous essays. Not only as a mystic. \ but as an essayist has Maeterlinck gained an extraordinary hold in this country during the last few years, and : in this new work we are promised es- 8 says similar in quality to his famous essays on the Deeper Life "The h. ' ner Beauty" ]" Silence and "The. Invis- 4 ible Goodness" The book will be uni form with Wisdom and Destiny" and l The Treasure of the Humble
 A rich mine of early Victorian anec- dote has been unearthed in England by the publication of the Memoirs of Anna
 Pickering, the editing of which memoirs
 was entrusted to her son.
 l The book is to be published soon in this country by Dodd, Mead and Com
 pany. It richly deserves an American edition, for it is one of the most delight 1 ful books of the kind (and of the epoch) in existence. Mrs. Pickering passed her I girlhood among clever and famous men. We meet in these pages distinguished
 people, and hear amusing stories. Not
 a page of the memoirs is dull, and not a subject hackneyed. For those interest ed in early Victorian traditions, facts, l gossip and "reminiscences the book will
 prove a welcome one.
 | authoritative article on Korea, Japan =I and Russia, which appears in the March number. It is by Robert E. | Speer, who was long resident of Ko- req. In What has followed the coal strike" Guy Warfeld shows that ope- rators are making enormous profits, and that the miners are again dissatis- l fled. The articles on the ineffieiency of I the post-office, by M. G. Cunniff, are continued, and the author holds that the railroads are receiving extravagant
 pay for carrying the mails. In "The lmodern industrial manager Hrolf de- scribes the work of the trained special ist in business America competing
 against herself' is by John Callan l IO'Laughlin, who went to Europe to
 study economic conditions. Miss Adele
 Marie Shaw explains the best system of schools in the world in ''The ideal
 schools of Menominie' Ezra S. Brud- Inc, the author of sThe Fugitive, , l shows in s'The Russian lew Anoerican
 ized" the progress of the immigrant to American citizenship. The story of 1 Ten Years advance in railroading, 7 with pictures, is told by Herbert Law renee Stone. Another illustrated arti- cle is Farming under glass; by Pro- lessor B. T. Galloway, showing how a lsquare foot indoors pays as much as an
 acre out of doors. Ballooning over the Alps, by James Iyor McCallum, de- scribes thrilling experience The ar l ticle is illustrated by photographs Ed-
 ward Box tells Why people disbelieve the newspapers Control of the ap-
 proach to the Panama canal'' affords William Thorp an opportunity for a timely article.
 Country Life in America makes it's
 March issue a double number for a Gardening Manual,s and there are practical articles on many aspects of horticulture. Among the principal ar ticles are: Flowers for every place and purpose .'The gladiolus and how
 to grow it. 'sThe worlds greatest tree garden ' describing the Boston arbore