The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-14

many new publications this season have just issued a very useful work en- titled Botany Note Book" It is to accompany Bergen's Text Books on Botany, and is for general use in botan- ical laboratories or for secondary schools. It is by Joseph y. Bergen, for merly instructor in biology, English high school, Boston.
 Bergen's notebook was prepared with the particular view of minimizing the amount os routine dietation for both teacher and pupil without doing any of the latter's thinking for him. Not only will it save time and trouble. but it will also lead the pupils to perform neat and accurate work.
 The experiments with their compre- hensiye directions. the special direc- lions to the student for using the note book. the blanks for review summaries and for review sketches. together with the convenient ruled and blank sheets, provide adequately all that the modern teacher of botany will require in bot any notebook.
 The author has everywhere insisted on accurate and careful observations, and he has taken especial pains to pro vide for the needs of the beginner.
 The list price of the Botany notebook is 15 cents; mailing price 90 cents. For sale by all booksellers.
 In its review of William N. Arm strong's new book, Around the World With King published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, an ex- tended review of which was given in our columns recently, the New York Times says: By deferring the publica- tion of his book describing the trip around the world taken by King Kala- kaua l. of the Hawaiian Islands until after the death of that monarch, MT. William N. Armstrong has permitted himself greater freedom in painting the wrinkles on the royal character, and has succeeded in producing a very in teresting and amusing volume. The fact that MT. Armstrong is an Ameri- can, although born on the islands, may account for the levity with which he de- scribes the antics of his royal master.
 Throughout the narrative one has the impression of very chiid-like and bland sort of king. Mir Armstrong's personal observations on persons and things, his witty descriptions of their trials and their mishaps, the frank manner in which he pokes fun at his royal master and at royalty in general, all make excellent light reading. In deed, the further one goes into the book the more one agrees with that American paper which likened the party at the time of it's visit here to the royal family in an opera bouffe.
 Around the World With a King sells for S1.60 net at Judd's.
 Doubleday, Page and Company are about to publish Volume I. of The Poultry Book" containing the nine parts which have been issued consecu- lively, about one a month, for the last year. The colored illustrations are by Harrison Weir, who is said to portray poultry as Landseer did dogs and Rosa Bonheur horses, while there are many photographic reproductions.
 Helen Keller's book. The Story of My Life,' published by Doubleday Page and Company, is being translated into Bohemian. It is to be brought out in an edition cheap enough to be within reach of the poorest Bohemian peasant, the aim of translator and publisher be- ing to interest the poorer classes in the possibilities of education for the blind, deaf and dumb It is also announced that the autobiography is being put into Hindustan for the use of the pupils in the School for the Deaf at Bombay. It was recently referred to as "The Epic of the Blind"
 John Lane is publishing "Old Shrop- shire Life,' by Lady Catherine Mines Gaskell The volume is made up of eleven short stories, dealing principally with the life of the yeoman class of Shropshire in the eighteenth century. There are tales of quaint early customs, superstitions, the yearly observances of now forgotten festivals, the firm be- ] lief in witcheraft, the ceremonies of the Holy Wishing Well, Sc. The numerous | illustrations are briefly views and re- productions from photographs.
 l To obtain the illustrations for Mark 1 Ashton's new Biblical romance, Aga l linn: A Romance of Old Judea, which | l.. c, Page and Company will issue im-
 mediately, the publishers have
 searched the Scriptures" and the art stores. with the result that they have secured rare colored print of Jezebel,
 the chief character of the book, and ] several other reproductions from valu-
 able old plates, which not only repre- sent the period and place of the story, l but illustrate the text
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