The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-26

fights of the Norsemen are told as q
 woman would tell them. Nevertheless,
 the plot carries the reader along. and
 with the love links the story is interest ling enough. The local coloring' and
 Atmosphere of the period are at
 tempted with some success"
 Atlanta University has just pub
 lished an extensive study of negro reli- zion in America. It is a volume of PIP
 pages and is divided into forty sections,
 the first twelve of which are historical
 Section thirteen gives in condensed
 form the statistics of negro churches as
 published by the census of 1890. This
 may be compared with section S1.
 where figures for 1903 are given. In
 1890 there were 23.462 negro church or
 ganizations, with a membership of D.
 67S,977. In 1903 there were about thirty
 thousand churches and membership
 of over 3.50O.00O
 Essays for the Day. (Houghton.
 Miffiin and Company contains six in- i teresting papers on religious and litera- " topics that the Rev Dr. Theodore, T.
 Munger has contributed to late num- bers of the Atlantic, the Outlook and the Century They are: The Church.: Some Immediate Questions; ''The In terplay of Christianity and Literature, .
 Notes on the Scarlet Letter. "The Se- cret of Horace Bushnell" "A Lay
 mans Reflections on Music" and "A
 Cock to Esculapius," the last named 1 title referring to the speech of Socrates
 to Crito a moment before he drank the
 hemlock: T owe cock to Eseula-
 plus; will you remember to pay the debt?''
 Country Life in America for June has among it's leading features an article
 on Indian woodcraft by Ernest Thomp- son Seton; also How to Sail Small
 Yacht" by c. G. Davis; "The Trans formation of the Bulldog" by James Watson; How to Make Living From the Land" fifth instalment by Pro- lessor L. H. Bailey, dealing with dali Try; Doors and Doorways," by E. c. Holtzoper, and How to Make Fruit Trees Bear," by S. w. Fletcher. "Gol- fling" is handled. and there are other larticles of interest besides, by Walter | J. Travis.
 Ginn and Company, Boston, have Ijust issued "A Manual of Pronuncia- tion," by Otis Ashmore, superintendent of schools, Savannah, Ga. This little manual has been specially prepared for practical use in the class room. Not only is it adapted to the upper grades of the grammar schools, to high schools and to colleges but it is also intended for use in homes and offices. It con- tains only those words most commonly
 mispronounced in our language, and the plan of the book, organizedand unique
 in itself, enables the student to see at a glance the weight of authority for ievery word given.
 Ten of the leading photographers and orthoepists of America and England have been selected and quoted on the words where authorities differ, so that the student may see not only the pre- ferred pronunciation but the secondary forms as well.
 The class drill, so necessary in all study of orthoepy. receives especial at tention. The drill column of unmarked words is given in c,nnection with the words diacritically marked, thus af- fording a practical means of recitation test and drill. Besides the common words usually mispronounced in our language the book contains well se- lected list of geographical biographical and classical names.
 The subject matter is limited to a lpractical working field. This and the
 fact that there are full explanations and directions, add mot a little to the utility of the book No pains have
 been spared to secure accuracy, and the whole work has been brought
 strictly down to date The typographi- cal arrangement and mechanical execu- tion combine to make the volume both convenient and attractive. List price lS0 cents; mailing price 35 cents; and for
 sale also by all booksellers.
 The following quotations appeared in l the April 15 issue of Science" in an ar ticle by Miss Ellen Hayes, professor of Iapplied mathematics and astronomy,
 Wellesley college:
 If the article entitled Woodcock Surgery were nothing worse than a tfrisky, good-natured breeze, every one would doubtless be willing to let it
 pass without notice, but it's temper l and twists are such as to require a word that may possibly seem unkind. ! Its author. says that MT. Long'virtually claims that woodcock not only has an understanding of the theory of casts as adapted to fractured limbs, but is able l to apply this knowledge in practice Instead of claiming anything of the | kind, Mir. Long tells us in simple lan- guage what he has seen, offering neith- I CT differences nor generalizations It is his critic, MT. Wheeler, who virtually affirrns that woodcock could not ap- lply mud to a broken leg without a
 knowledge of surgery; and it is much
 as if he should say that man who
 blows on his fingers to warm them or