The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-15
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME or THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

eThe Loves of Miss Anne" by s. R.
 Crockett-Frank Moore CoIby's aIm-
 aEinary ObIisatiOnss = ssAIornIng
 Thoughts to Cheer the Day. by Ma
 ria H. Lee-AIIen Freneh's Story of
 @RoIf and the ViI1ingss-"susan
 CIegg and Her Friend, Mrs Lathrop,s
 by Anne Warner-Forthcomfn Books
 The Loves of Miss Anne" is one of the best stories by S. R. Crockett. This new book will receive hearty well come as 1t is a lively story, which con- cerns the adventures of Anne Kilpat- rick. Scots baronet's daughter. and her friend and companion, Clementina McTaggart. Miss Anne was lively woman with yellow hair and blue eyes, full of mischief and of an Investigating mind. Her Investigating spirit led her to determine to find out certain things, as for instance what men did under certain circumstances. Once launched upon this field of inquiry she pursued it with avidity and with a certain de- gree of remarkable success. Anne was an impulsive and thoroughly Iowa ble girl, and her career, in which she sought information, that of taking men captive by her charms and then leav- ing them in the lureh, victims to gloomy reflections, is spiritedly told by Mir Crockett Be it remembered that Miss Anne entered not upon this work in Ya1,ra ,.aaLrIae,ey1aee aY1d Ttyifl,ni,f a moral purpose She went forth to do and conquer helpless man in the spirit of female chevalier, self vowed to re- dress the wrongs of all womankind on all men she happens to meet. Her achievements cast spell over the read CT who follows the doings of this quix- otic and wilful heroine with keen and unfiagging interest, not overlooking a moiety of sympathy for her victims. The characterizations by the author are admirable, including especially the strong Scottish characters. such as Don MaeTaggart, Sir Tempest Kilpatrick's head forester, and Dan Weir, the shep-z herd lad, stern, unyielding but tender Scotch covenanter, whose love for Miss Anne is brave, tender and true, and at 1dSGI CEQWAlSd Ntl11 0hIlGSot5 LN1 girls, Anne and Clemnny, are capital portrayals of delightful femininity. There is a pathetic picture here and there in this story also well drawn. Although "The Loves of Miss Anne" will doubtless fall and by right. into the category of the best selling books of the season. The book has q handsome frontispiece in colors by Walter H. Everett. Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York; price $1.50; for sale at Judd's.
 No one who likes high thinking and words that burn but will warmly em- brace the opportunity to read and en- joy MT. Frank Morse Colby's "Tmagina- " Obligations, " published by Dodd, Mead and Company New York. MT. Colby's book can be read with comfort and satisfaction, a little at q time if you choose. All the papers by Mr. Colby entertaining whether he is dealing. with the crude, the bizarre or with the highest forms and flights of literature Mir. Colby frankly and good humoredly states his former standpoint as follows: eNow I, too, once Gas a private of course) fought on the side of the scorn- ful and harpooned the public with all my might, but somehow or other the old hippopotamus never felt 1t. I, too, not doubting that was first class passen- ger, stood proudly among the few and let drive at mechanical readers and wri- ters and critics and multitudes and blamed everybody for not beipg like
 
 like me, and thought mediocrfty would know itself from my description and feel ashamed and perhaps die, and was particularly devastating among fools and could have Wept when they did not know it and took me for one of then- selves But the pleasure of 1t passes, and there is never any profit in it to anybody But all this is changed Mr. Colby now writes in more tolerant vein, and finds that there is reason for it. With a review of the field born of experience he is less belligerent over me 7iocrity. As says the New York Sun: But Mir. Colby has grown more tolerant and is content to look upon popular idols and their worshipers with large and humorous good nature, which does HIS GEiLlGdR lllC ICctots He is not one of those who would rise up and instigate a wholesale massacre of the Hall Gaines and Marie Corellfs of the world of letters, even if he be firmly convinced that such a massacre would not be wholly unpardonable. He is full ly as dissatisfied as other superior per- sons with the current state of the stage, but he wastes no breath in fruitless la mentations.,,,H will look at a trashy 1 play and an average audience with cu- riosity and wonder, but lit is absurd, < he argues, flor the superior person to l ask them if 1t is art He would not l take on like that about a ball game, or a merry go-round. Tn short, his con- cIusion is like that of George Moore, | who few years ago sadly and solemnly ! announced his discovery that people go to the theater to be amused, Mir. Col I by is quite convinced of this fact and | finds comfort in the assurance that 1 modern playgoing is after all a superb | or form of amusement to the sounding i of tom-toms and the human sacrifices ! of other ages or degrees of barbarism. | His criticism throughout is entertain ings'' @u |
 MT. Colby's very clever work consists | of a number of magazine and newspaper | articles about the length each of an ed !