The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-12
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SoME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

THE SEASON Thomas DaridsOn's aThe Education of
 the Wage Enrnery-The Adventures
 of PinOechiO,s Translated by NJ.
 Camp-"Under the AIfkadO's Flag
 Other Books-Magazines
 Thoughtful readers cannot fail to find interest and inspiration in Thomas Dayidson's last book, The Education of the Wage-Earners, published by Ginn & O., Boston. This volume records the authors successful labors in improving the condition of the struggling masses, and represents the ripest fruit of his lifelong devotion to social and educational questions. Afr ter an introductory chapter by the edi- tor giving an account of DaYidson's life and philosophy, there follow two re- markable essays in which Davidson gives vigorous analysis of the made Quacy of our present educational sys- tenn to meet the real needs of demoera- cy, and outlines plan which win help to prepare the great mass of our citi- zens, those who have to go to work early" for the better performance of their various personal, domestic, politi- cal and social duties. The fourth and sixth chapters tell vivid story of Pro- lessor Dayidson's own efforts to put his theories to the test of practice. Tn con nection with the Educational Alliance of New York he started an evening class for the working people of the East side of that city. From this class has developed a school of considerable magnitude which is now an important factor in the life of the East Side. Since the lamentable death of Profess sor Davidson in 1900 the work has been carried on and enlarged by his former pupils, who thus, by their practice, tes- tify to the soundness of his ideals and methods. The fifth chapter gives Da- wilson's letters to his class and shows the underlying spirit which moved him in his work and which has made it take root in the souls of the young laboring people with whom he worked. They are monument to the personality of one of the noblest men of modern times. The book will prove a notewor- thy contribution to the most vital pro blems which face the AmericaIa democ- racy of the twentieth century, 75 cents; for sale by all booksellers.
 No new juvenile is more worthy of consideration than "The Adventures of Pinocchio,n < translated from the Italian of c. Collodi by Walter Samuel Cramp, just issued by Ginn and Company Bos- ton. The story is one of the best known and best loved of all the wonder tales in Italian literature, and the translation is certain to find favor with American children who have long de- lighted in the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Sixty cents. For sale by all booksellers.
 Under the Mikado's Flag or young soldiers of fortune, being the second volume of Soldiers of Fortune Series, illustrated by A. B. shute, will be is- sued by the Lothrop, Lea & Shepard Company, Boston, this week. Under the Mikado,s Flag relates the adven- lures of two young Americans in Ko- req and Manchuria during the out break of the great war between Russia and Japan, the leading character being Gilbert Pennington, the hero of "On to Pekin," and the other Ben Russell, who with his brothers, Larry and Wal ter, is so we'll known to the thousands of readers of the famous aold Glory Series" It closes with the great bat tie of Liaoyang, and is as valuable for the information conveyed as 1t is inter- esting as a story. The boys of the whole country have been expecting MT. Stratemeyer to give them . book on the Japanese war, and he responded by one of his very best. It is a great book for boys and will sell with a rush.
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 X Some time ago Messrs. Henry Holt and Company of New York, and Mr. William Heinemann of London brought out together an Italian romance, which had great success, "The Gadtly." By an odd coincidence the same two pub- fishers have united on another one. The new one is "On Etna,'' by Norma Lorimer, which is just issued and is an uncommonly vivid and powerful love l story. The title refers not only to the scene, but to the emotional tumults of the characters.
 A book covering hitherto unoccu- pied field, entitled The Young Ameri- can Poets, is announced for publica- tion by Little, Brown and Company early in November. The author is Miss Jessie B, Rittenhouse, best known as the editor of the three-vers;on edi- tion of Omar Khayyatn, containing the rendering of Fitzgerald, Winfield and Mccarthy, which became a standard work, combining, as 1t did in the seve- ral translations and the introduction, all the data necessary to a study of the poem "'The Lounger American poets" is book of literary criticism pure and simple, without any attempt at person. al gossip, but it contains needful bio- graphical data supplied in brief notes at the end of the book. The writers treated of in the volume include Rich ard Hovey, Bliss Carman. Louise Imo- gen Quincy, Edith M. Thomas, George E. Woodberry, Frederic Lawrence Knowles, George b. Santayana, Alice Brown, Richard Burton, Clinton Scol-