The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-01
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

Potts UnderIedge"-George W. Ja-
 eobs & Co.'s "CrisIs Biographiess-
 BIT. Bergen,s 'eEIements of BOtany,-
 ''The Alley Cats Kittenn-Other
 Books.
 L. c. Page and Company, Boston, have added to the list of deliberately bound gift-books for which their house is justly renowned. Walter Taylor Fields Rome" one of the most im- portant of the new issues. It is in two beautifully illustrated and gilt-topped volumes, small duodecimo, in box, the first dealing with the Rome of the an clients, the second with the Rome of the Popes and the artists. The volumes deal with the Eternal City from his torical-picturesque point of view. Pro- lessor Fields volumes are written in a chatty style, and are designed to lead the traveller, in successive days trips, around the city and it's immediate en- virons, and then through some of it's more important churches and muse- ums. entertaining him with cheerful running comments.
 Mir. Field says: Tt would seem pre- sumptuous to write another book on the Eternal City when one thinks of the many volumes that already deal with that seven-hilled city. This the author admits, but still he has a distinct pur- pose which is not found in other vol umes-to tell the really important things to be seen during a brief visit. And with this object his book is not so "barren" as a guide book and yet not so tdiscursiye" as an essay, but intend- ed to show what deserves most atten- tion in the churches, in the galleries, and in the monuments of "the most in- teresting city in the world
 The first volume deals with the ap- proach to Rome, the Pincian Hill and Campus Martius, the Forum, along the River Tiber, and the baths of Caracal- la. Among it's illustrations in half-tone tint are the frontispiece. the Arch of Titus,' "The Mausoleum of Hadrian, 'sThe Column of Marcus .Aurelius," Santa Maria in Cosmedin, 2 'The Pyr- amid of Calus and the Ostian Gate, ," ''The Farnese Palace" and "The Pan theon." And the writer says in the preface: Tt is partly to assist the traveller in his sightseeing and partly to give to that greater company who may never see the Roman city a glimpse of its charm and its mystery, that these pages are written"
 The second volume is devoted to the Rome of the Popes and the Rome of the artists. Among it's illustrations are the frontispiece, The Transfiguration, '"The Chapel of St. Cecilia 2 "St. Sebas- tian" from Bernini "The Lateran Pal ace" "The Cloisters of St. Paul." St. Peters and the Vatican The Sistine Chapel" "view from the DomeNof St. Peters, 'The Last Judgment" .Christ Bestowing His Blessing and ..The Fire in the Borgo.
 MT. Taylor's Rome" will be in de- mand among holiday gift book buyers; price $40; for sale at Judas.
 4 very attractive new book issued by l.. c. Page and Company, Boston, is .@The College Girl of America, by Mary Caroline Crawford. Miss Craw- ford tells of the college girl as she is found everywhere in America, at Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Barnard, Wells, in the various colleges of the south, and in the co-educational insti- off fI,o f,ai5 fo,. Sine describes the work and the play of the college girl, tells something of the history Of the various institutions. and sometimes of the cost of their degrees. The whole is profusely illustrated with photographs of real college girls, their rooms, scenes from their theatrical per- formances, basket ball teams, festival processions and merry -makings. There are college girls in cap and gown and some athletic and other groups. Be- sides joyous accounts of college life and festivals there are serious views con- corning the mission and the fruits of the higher education for girls. It is not only particularly handsome book, il- lustrated freely and finely, but it is very emDhatically book of the times. The author believes in the college girl as "a force second to none in American life," and she has made her belief evil dent in all her pages. The book will. find a welcome everywhere. Price $15O; for sale at Judd's.
 William Potts has written another charming little book of essays on na- ture and life entitled More Notes From Underledge." It is issued by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. His previous book From a New Eng aand Hillside won many readers. and his new work has the same special charm reminding of K Marvel, and, like My Farm at Edgewood," this book has 8 local flavor which will espe- cially appeal to New England readers as tJJnderledge" is in our beautiful neighboring town of Pennington, a town which, if MT. Potts had his way, he would call Surcquasson, the name of the Indian village which Pennington superseded. Many spots in this beau tiful neighhorhood will be recognized by readers who are familiar with the scenery in and about this quiet New England settlement. Price $100; for sale at Judas.
 As is well said by the Boston Adver- tiser: '"The bucolic philosophers note h