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

book of prose, ''The Kinship of Ma ture." which WNs published last year. Mr. Carman is Canadian by birth. but his long residence in this country entities him to rank among American men of letters.
 Mir. Henry T. Coates, of the we'll known firm, has sold to the John C.. Winston Company his entire wholesale publishing business, including plates and copyrights. MT. Coates, however. will become a stockholder of the Wins ton Company, and go upon its board of managers. His aim is to obtain more leisure in his later years. e- 1 A sumptuous book which John Lane will publish in time for the holidays is I'Imperial Vienna an account of its history, traditions and arts, by A. s. Levetus, with over one hundred and fifty illustrations by Erwin Puehinger, in charcoal, pencil and pen-and-ink. Another book from the same publisher is "The Log of the Griffin" the. story lof a cruise from Switzerland to the Thames, by Donald Maxwell. who built special craft capable of making the perilous descent of the upper Rhine, and seaworthy enough to cross over to England after reaching the ocean.
 The voyage may fairly be called unique. The book is illustrated by one hundred and ten illustrations, fifteen of
 them in color. from sketches by the au- thor, .@
 Little, Brown and Company have I just brought out a limited edition of
 .Rembrandts Etchings, with descrip- tive text by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, and a complete annotated catalogue, introduction and notes by Campbell Dodgson of the department of prints and drawings at the British Museum, illustrated with fifty full-page fac-sim- ile reproductions in photograyure of Rembrandt's most notable etehings, printed on Dutch handmade paper.
 The first formal biography of George Eliot to appear in separate volume after her death was that by Mathilde l Blind, a German woman whose family settled in London for political reasons after the instructions of 1S48. The book is still one of the authoritative sources for George Eliot's life, and has now been republished by Little, Brown and Company The editors of the work, Messrs. Frank Waldo and c. A. ITurkington, have undertaken to bring the book more strictly into accord with our present knowledge of the novelist by adding an Introduction and Appen- l dices giving a critical estimate of her work and more minute information in regard to her friends and home life. A full index is also added.
 There are stories plenty in MeClure's s for December, but there are also seve- ral articles of rather more than ordina- Try interest Ray Stannard Baker
 writes on "The Rise of the Tailors, T showing how the frightful evils of the old-time sweat-shops have been largely modified. s. $. Mcclure takes up sThe l Increase of Lawlessness in the United States" He first gives a number of extracts from editorials on the subject and then quotes the actual statistics compiled by the Chicago Tribune, to the effect that there are to-day four and a half times as many murders and l homicides for each million of people in 1.-the United States as there were in 1881. MT, McClure's remedy for the evil sounds a. bit sentimental. He says in conclusion:
 These and thousands of others are the pioneers of a new righteousness which shall become new passion-the love of country. We shall see that new passion develop in the American people until we have obedience to the law be- cause it is the law, and the will of the state will be sufficient. And the briber, and the grafter, and the traitor who steals from his neighbors and pollutes the law will be unable to endure the scorn of his fellows.
 The urr-McIntosh Monthly for De- cember, 1904, is a gem of pictorial beau ty. It is magazine of unique charae- ter always, but this months issue em- phasizes the peculiar points of it's ex- lcellence. Its many portraits are ad- mirable, it's color pictures artistic and attractive, and it's landscape produc- tions among the best we have ever seen ill any periodical publication. The cover has Christmas design in iIlunni- nation by Clark Hobert, and the from 1 tispiece, The Shepherds,n is in color from a painting by that artist.
 Among the contents of the Cosnnopol- itan for December are The present upheaval in France" by David Gra- ham Phillips; The Passing of the Home in Great American Cities, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Chase of the Wild Red Deer in Exmoor For lest" by Clifford Cordley; The Pass ing of the Steam Age" by Lewis Nix on; Some Churches and Their Pro- blems," by a Ministers Wife; .The Theatrical Syndicate, ' condemned and defended respectively by David Befas- co and Mare KlaW; Racial Types of Beauty by Gertrude Lynch; can ming and Preserving by Frederic Williams The fiction is contributed by Eliza Calvert Hall, A N. Williamson --co-author of The Lightning Conduc- tor, Herbert Sherman, Homer Bass ford, Jeanne Olive Loizeaux and John Brisben Walker. James Whitcomb Ri-l ley has two-page Christmas poem.
 The December Outing is, as usual, a most interesting number. The opening feature is David C,rav,s nnt t,,ih,,tt5,, ,.,,