The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-03

inely pretty picture or the reSolulS work of four small girls to keep house, to whom, for the purpose. a cottage sadly in need Of repairs is lent by a kind gentleman. They have all sorts of good times and enjoy themselves to the full for time, but, as in life gen. erally, fly appears in the ointment, and quarrelsome playmate of Meph- istopheiian disposition, belonging to the Milligans, dispossesses the happy little folks. accomplishing the dire work by persuading her parents to take lease of the house in order to expel them. But the kind man appears in time. and joy comes again. The book has many pretty episodes and is very pleasingly written, and there are attractive illus trations by Miss Florence Scovel Shinn and Miss Elizabeth Finley. One dollar and half; for sale by the Pease-Lewis company. ..as
 A book which must surely have a large sale is MT. Kris Kringle," by the noted author physician, Dr. Weir Mitchell. It is a delightful little book, handsomely gotten up, and MT. De Land has illustrated it no less delight fully with delicate colored plates and ornamental borders in green. Aside from its great merit as story, another reason for buying it is that the money goes to home for crippled children, as the author informs us in the preface. It Is not fairy tale, but story of ac- tual life. with touches of humor and pathos, and written in a lucid and charming style. Parents will be glad of this opportunity to make glad many children who will find it among their presents on Christmas morning. It is published by George W. Jacobs & Co, Philadelphia; price S1.00; for sale at all leading bookstores.
 A book for lads who have begun in earnest to do a little thinking for them- selves, and whose minds turn with keen delight to scenes of adventure, is Up the Forked River, by Seward D. Lesle, which is published by Henry T. Coates & Co, Philadelphia. Besides being a book teeming with adventures of kind that boys will like to read about, it has linterwoyen much that is interesting and instructive regarding South America and how things are done and people live down there. The hero and heroine go to the republic of Zalapata in their yacht, the Warrenia, and soon find trouble brewing, for they get right into the midst of one of those revolutions so frequent in South American countries. How they came out the boys will like to know. Price $1.50; for sale by all leading bookstores.
 Three Gifts" and other poems is the title of a new and attractively bound and printed book of forty-nine pages by a New Haven lady, Mrs. Katherine St. John (Noyes) Gufon, of St. Roman street, whose nom de plume is Keith St. John, and from whom many prose and poetic communications have ap- peared in the Journal and Courier and other city papers. The book is from the press of Futile, Warehouse & Fay lore
 The author in her introduction says: It is now ten years since this sigma ture (Keith St. John) first appeared in our local papers, and during that peril od has received cordial recognition. The contents of the book present a con- siderable diversity of subjects; the home people. the children, the flowers and trees, as well as the basic princi- pie of the divine and human nature are written up in style which is pleasing and gentle. Many of the poems have been already published; they have ap- pealed to wide circle of readers, and have given their quota of comfort and pleasure The kind interest evidenced in them by the friends of the author now prompts their compilation and presentation to the general public with the hope of a wider distribution and in f1uence''
 As the author has modestly said, these poems are indeed pleasing and gentle, and 1t may be added that their perusal cannot but afford pleasure, as- sist the weary and despairing in their burden bearing, and quicken the read er's interest in the woods, the skies, the winds, the sea and nature in all her various moods The true poetic inspi- ration is manifest in these beautiful little furtive poems. The cover design and the tone piece of the book are orig inal work by Franklin Sherwood Gui- on. Price of book $1,00; for sale at the stationery store of Futile, Warehouse & Taylor.
 70, Henry like Jack London and several other young men whose pens have made them famous, saw good deal of wild life before he began writ ing. He has been in his day cowboy, sheep herder and plain miner as well as salesman, small merchant and a number of other characters. Some of his toughest times he experienced in Mexico and Central America, where he has laid the scene of his new novel. "Cabbages and Kings" Mcclure, Phillips and Company.
 Messrs Dodd, Mead and Company publish to-day the first volume of The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 7 edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, ILL. D, and containing all the journals, note books, sketches, maps, etc, of Lewis and Clark, never before published. Other new books from this firm are ''Seroggins.'' story by John Uri Lloyd;; "The Age of In- noeence,'' by Walter Russell author of ''The Bending of the TWist.'' Raider