The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-05

also how frequently American visitors behaved rudely and disrespectfully in the churches, this conduct causing wor- thy and considerate Americans to blush for shame. The author gives her i'm pressiens of the lovely climate and the architecture and in general presents very readable book. Price sl.5o; for sale by all booksellers.
 Another charming and successful book by Miss Anna Chapin Ray, of our city. is By the Good saiHte Anne, which is handsomely published by Lit tie, Brown and Company, Boston, The story relates to young Englishnan. Cecil Earth, who is visiting Quebec on his way to a ranch; New York physi- clan and his daughter. Nancy; Cana dian of English descent, and young French Canadian studying law.whe are the chief characters of the story. The love affairs of the vivacious Nancy. the heroine. have for background the many places of real interest in and around Quebec, where Miss Ray spent some months last summer. The book is winning many favorable opinions, among which is the following from the Newark Advertiser: "A delightful book, filled with local color. is an epi- tome of By the Good Sainte Anne" It is a charming love story, told in simple way that will appeal to those who are looking for light summer read ing. The story is not burdened with a moral, but is just a series of interesting incidents and bright conversations. Its people are real and it's descriptions of Quebec and it's environments are de- cidediy well done.
 After giving the dramatis personae of the story the Advertiser adds The meeting of Nancy and Earth is very original. and the subsequent events that occur while she is nursing him are capitaIy handled by the author. Nan cy Howard is good character sketch of an American girl. Her conversatio is bright, witty and natural. The three young men who help her to pass away the time are capital delineations, especially Cecil Earth. It is in DOT traying the young Engiishman that the author has done her best work Taken as whole the book is one of the most interesting stories that have been pub lished this spring
 The New York Times says: Read CTS of The Dominant Strain will re- member it as story of unusual ciev- erness and strength. one which came near to having a staying power rare in the novel of the hour-or minute. By the Good Sainte Anne is of much lighter quality. It is a typical summer r1Nx bn a raha nous of literary productions But 1t is a graceful and pretty tale of Sainte Anne de Beaupre and of Quebec, with q nice American girl, an eminently Brit ish young Englishman, Canadian and a French student as the chief dramatis personae."
 Price $l.5O; for sale by the Pease- Lewis Go.
 Little, Brown and Company, of Bos- ton, announce that The Awakening of the Duchess" by Frances Charles, and "A Daughter of the Rich by Mary K. Waller, are about to be brought out in Lcndon by Ward. Locke and Company,
 The Frederick 4. Stokes Company, New York, will publish immediately The Woman Wins, the new book by Robert Barr, This is a collection of tales in each of which woman is the central figure and has her hearts de- sire" The stories. are said to be mod ern in treatment.
 Mcclure Phillips and Company, New York, will publish next week Joseph Conrad's buecaneering tale of the West Indies, entitled "Romanee;" Charlotte Perkins Gilmans consideration of man as a laborer, called Human Work and David" the new dramatic poem by Gale Young Rice, author of Charles di Tccca."
 Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1894. This year, therefore, marks the hundredth anniversaryof his birth. To commemorate this event of world wide importance, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, are to issue Hawthorne's best work--.'The Scarlet Letter'a-certainly the greatest novel written by an American-in an edition, limited to one hundred and twenty-five copies on Japan paper, and one copy on yellum. The letter-press will be an exact reimpression of the original edi- tion. There will be fifteen original col- ored illustrations, all full page. by A. Romandi and C. Graham. The volume will be in special binding.
 Altogether a most appropriate and worthy memorial of Americas repre- sentative man of letters.
 The first volume of The Students Old Testament. by Professor Charles Foster Kent of Yale University, con taining "The Narrative of the Begin nings of Hebrew History" is pub lished by Charles Seribner's Sons. The book contains the stories of the begin nings of the nations, including the sto- ries of the Tower of Babel and of the origin and relationships of the nations; the traditional ancestors of the He brews, and the Abraham stories and the beginnings of Hebrew racial life.
 MT. John Lane. New York, will soon issue Gilbert K. Chesterton's new TO- nance. The Napoleon of Noting hill" The illustrations are by W. Graham Robertson. The story is laid in Lon don a hundred years hence. It relates the rise of the borough of Notting-hill I owing to the military and administra- tive ability of it's provost.
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