The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11

! or Dwight TiltOn's new novel, an- nouneed for early publication by the C.
 M. Clark Publishing Company.
 l The Connecticut magazine. published at Hartford, is now well started in it's seventh volume. and the December
 number. which has just come from the
 press. is full of matter of both local and
 general interest-a brilliant number
 In Early Struggles in American Edu- cation Charles Fl. Smith, Larned pro ] lessor of American history at Yale uni versity, tells of the difficulties encoun- tered by the settlers in establishing a l desirable college system, and particular ly of Tales troubles with the legisla- i ture. In Clearing the trail for civili- zation'' W. 4. Warren recalls how the forests were first penetrated and then I felled, and how the first thoroughfares were laid out. Naturally in sequence comes When the bugle of the stage ] coach echoed through the village" in which Judge Martin 1T. Smith describes the route from Hartford across Windsor | plains to Suffield. and the famous tav- ern by the roadside. In his series of ar ticles on ''The governors of Connecticut" ] Frederick Calvin Norton contributes ] sketches of Charles Bartlett Andrews l QS79-1sS1). Hobart E. Bigelow (1SS1-S3), Thomas Mcdonald Waller uSs3-S5l,
 Henry Baldwin Harrison 1SS5-ST, Phineas c. Lounsbury GSS7-S9). and Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1SS9-99). II. Clay Trumbull pays a tribute to Litch- field county, and enumerates some of 1 its famous men. "Firelight reminis- cences from the burning log is the title 10 an article by F, G Markham, in which he recalls the life of an old-time Ischoolmaster. Country life in Con- necticut" is made up of photographs of attractive bits of landscape c. A. Quincy Norton describes ''The lights and lamps of early New England" l George V Smith is the author of ''The first theocratic government in the new world Duane Mowry of the New York bar writes memoir of the first Percival, and Arion Taylor Adams tells of the first written constitution known
 to history" showing how Connecticut
 was the foundation of the political struggles of the United States. "In the courts of the kings" by Ellen Bes- sic Atwater, tells of the intrigue in
 England to take away the charter of Connecticut In Loyal to the crown" Judge Epaphroditus Peck refutes the stories of inhuman treatment of the
 condemned tory, Moses Dunbar, by the civil authorities during the Revolution.
 Articles of literary and general interest
 are The dramaturgic craftsmanship of
 Shakespeare by Professor T. R.
 Lounsbury, of Yale, and The true po-
 etic instinct in art" with reproductions
 of miniatures of Hartford people. The
 subtle language of the brush Is a study of three Connecticut painters, Gene vieve, Maud and Alice Cowles, formerly of Pennington, and now of New Haven.
 Fannie l.. Olmstead describes in an H.
 lustrated article Elmwood in old Wind sor, for quarter of a century the home
 of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
 Judge Lyman E. Munson, of New Ha- lven, contributes comparative study of lJefferson and Lincoln. Joel N Enc tells of ''The nomenclature of Connect icut towns with the system of organi- Ization and derivation of names. Nal colm Day Rudd describes 'Lakeville in the American Switzerland" where can lnon were cast for the Revolution. This is long and elaborate "write-up,. with numerous scenes and portraits of prom linent citizens. In the series entitled
 Agriculture in Connecticut there is an Iarticle entitled Modern science of building as exemplified at Highland Jcourt,' modern apartment house in
 Hartford.