The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10

 and the French in snow-storm is es- pecially realistic. and the entire book carries with 1t the atmosphere of Colo nial times. A book for young men as well as for boys. A volume that IS worth while, and which should be in every library. Price SIPS. For sale at all bookstores.
 4 beautifully written story, indeed, is Tn the Closed Room" by that gift ed and delightful writer, Frances Hodgson Burnett, with choice illustra- tions in color by Jesse Wilcox Smith. It is one of the most delicately written and Wierdly pathetic stories that has appeared in many years. It is an ethe- real story which cannot be retold here without marring it's gossamer texture and prevailing charm. It is the story of delicate child whose parents re- move from their humble abode to be- come care-takers of a big mansion near Central Park, New York. In this mansion is the closed room" and it is here that the little child Judith finds the realization of her dreams and fan eies in her fellowship with an imagina- ny child companion. In Judith Mrs. Barnett has drawn an exquisite type of an imaginative, sensitive child of es- thetic, dreamy nature. It is vague, mysterious story, gem of its kind, a triumph of literary art. It is very at tractively bound and illustrated also and will make ono of the most charm ing and acceptable gift books of the season. Price SIPS; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
 "Balthazar the Magus," by A. Van Der Naillen, published by R. r. Fenno, New York, is an entertaining, well written story, which all who like the mystical and marvellous will fully en- joy. As says the Boston Advertiser:
 Those who were In the Sanctuary with A. Van Der Naillen. Chevalier of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, will remember that one Marius was select ed, of all Americans, as the most wor- thy TO receive first honors Of the order of the Magi, and was conseerated Ma gus under the name of Balthazar. Now the author goes on with him. He went in person, 2 he says, Ito all places where the pernicious influence of dls- eordant vibrations prevented him from projecting the representative waves of his higher consciousness" experienced "tha dense and sombre odic atmos- phere that enveloped every large city, :" and found in America a psychic cloud emitting golden radiations slowly nov ing from east to west. Also he found a novice named Albert, whom he pro- nounced man of rare parts and unu- sual attainments, and a young and ar dent lady named Ethel Mcdonald. With most stories this might well be the end. Otherwise here, for Albert and Ethel, being endowed with highly developed souls, were able to trans form terrestrial love into celestial ae- lection, and they went about canvass ing. for the Order of the Magi. Through their affairs we are introduced to a sort of philosophy which seems to have much in common with Rosicruianisnl.
 Price $1.50; for sale at Judas.
 Much literary interest centefs in the publication by Henry Holt and Compa- nu, New York, of MT Waddy's Re turn" owing 10 the fact that 1t was written by Theodore Winthrop, the gifted author of "Cecil Dreeme,' and John Brent a Yale man who fell in the Gf | liissss manhood, in one .of the early battles of the civil war The work has been edited by Burton E. Stevenson, and this account of the book is given by the publishers:
 The return of the title is from India to the Boston and Newport Of ante bellum days. MT. Waddy was 2 DOT, emptory man-the author explains how Whitgift Waddy, cook of the Mayfiow- CT, one day forgot to pepper Captain Miles Standish's porridge; the captain had MT. Waddy's ancestor summoned and compelled him to swallow much pepper The cover design is therefore symbolic. One may well ask how 1t is that this book should now first appear when a generation has passed since the death of this brilliant author, and the whole cultivated world was reading his other works. Major Winthrop fell ill battle after he had completed only the first draft of his MT. Waddy's Re- turn" It was unrevised, and that cir constance would indicate it to have been his last work. It was, moreover, a very long book, with all the nasty fancies that he was in the habit of all lowing himseR to express freely with a view to future revision. The family were unwilling to have it published in that shape, but they were never quite satisfied with the suppression. and less than year ago the authors sister brought the manuscript to the Messrs. Holt, who by a happy coincidence then happened to have MT. Stevenson abridging Tom Jones" for them. The quality of his work there suggested that he might successfully revise the Winthrop novel. In doing so he has tried to put himself in the authors place, and to make only such cuts and changes as 1t can reasonably be as- sumed that the author himself would have made.
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