The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-13

Brown and Company of the last two of the eighteen-voIume set of the National Edition of the Speeches and Writings Of Daniei Webster makes it possible to ob- tain, for the first time, the complete works of this great American states man. These eighteen octave volumes |eonsist of Webster's collected works. edited by Edward Everett. writings and speeches heretofore uncolleeted. and Webster's private correspondence
 Hon. W. A. Jones. commissioner of Indian affairs. after reading Indians of the Painted Desert Region" George Wharton James new book, wrote as follows: T had recently returned from an official visit to that part of the country and the particular Indians men toned by MT. James, which made the book to me peculiarly interesting. I
 must say that MT. James description of
 the country and also his accounts of the customs and manners as well as the pe- culiarities of the several Indian tribes mentioned is accurate and graphic. I
 
 quisitions to my collection of literature pertaining to Indian affairs
 Little, Brown and Company, Boston. announce that the publication of Fan nie Merritt Farmers new book on inva-
 lid cookery, entitled Food and Cookery
 for the Sick and Convalescent," has
 been delayed. This new book by the
 author of 'The Boston Cooking School
 Cook Book" etc, is designed to meet the needs of the trained nurse, the the sick. The work is the result of
 years of study along the lines of food and feeding. and contains much scienti- fic knowledge simply given. The book , will be fully illustrated. It will appear some time this month. Little, Brown
 and Company have also pleased many readers by bringing out new edition of
 that once popular story, ''The Coloneis Opera Cloak" which was published during the '70s in the well-known No
 Name" series of novels. and has been
 in steady demand ever since. It is now
 known that the author is Christine C.. Brush.
 Among the books which are coming into larger demand on account of the lively interest in the Russian-Japanese imbroglio is Mrs Ethel colquhorn's ac-
 count of journeyings in Japan, Corea
 and from Wladivostok over the trans
 Siberian railroad. The publishers, A. s.
 Barnes and Company, find an increas- ing appreciation of the authors timely 1 sketches of the east The same publish CTS will issue an important book by
 Professor N. s. Shaler, of Harvard,
 "The Citizen study of the individual and the government, with which the au-
 thor has for some time been engaged. It is announced that An American
 Cruiser in the East by John D. Ford,
 engineer in the navy, has been reconl-
 mended by the navy department for use in ships libraries,T he descriptions of
 Japan, Corea and China are of special
 interest just now ~.
 The visit to this country of the emi-
 nent London conductor, Henry J. Wood,
 gives timeliness to the life of this ster- ling English musician by Miss Rosa
 Newmarch, which is published by John Lane as the first volume in a new se- ries to be called Living Masters of
 Music" The same publisher issues ts'The Law of the Higher Life,' a new
 book made up of three lectures by An
 nie Besant, in which this well-knowfl 1 theosophist draws analogies between the laws of physical and those that gov
 ern the spiritual life. A twenty-second
 volume in the series of "Handbooks of
 Practical Gardening is 'The Book Of Garden Furniture by Charles Thorl- ger, in which the author insists on con-
 gruity, saying that to put Sheraton chair in Louis XVI drawing"room would be no worse than to use rustic bench in a formal terrace scheme. A lreverberation of the war over protection l in England is ''Sophisms of Free Trade and Popular Political Economy Exam I ined,'' by Sir John Burnard Byles, pulp lished in a new edition, with introduce tion and notes by w. s. Lilly and l Charles Stanton Devas.
 4 Jacob A. Riis, is to be an unconvention- al biography. As is well known, MT. Riis came into intimate relations with Mr Roosevelt when the latter was a police commissioner in New York city, and the two worked together with vigor
 and grit in fighting against graft and in behalf of decent living parks and schools for the children, safe and
 healthful tenements a clean and honest city. Since then the two have been warm personal friends. The book will be published this spring by the Outlook company, New York.
 | In connection with the Universal Li- ! brary recently announced by London firm, remarks the Evening Post, New York, we learn that Mcclure, Phillips and Company, of this city, have had such library in contemplation for the last three years. They propose to pub | fish in uniform style the classic litera- ture of England, America and other countries, and will include, among oth- CT things, the complete works of the standard novelists. The price of the volumes will not be high, but we are assured that they will be made with | the distinction that marks almost all 1 the publications of that house. Every volume will contain brief critical and biacr YlfaiooI i0fpodl1etinO and Sl1rl1