The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-07
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
OIE OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

Charles KennetI Burrows "Yeoman'
 -EIIios, Crayton Mccants' "rhe Red
 HnI.v-MIss MeredIth's "Hsart ofMy
 HeartD-Mr. stratsmsyer. "Young
 Explorers of the Amazsn"- Other
 New Books-com,ug RoOks-Ths Mag
 azimes.
 4 book of rare interest is ''The Yeo- man" by Charles Kennett Burrow, au- thor of Patricia of the Hills" and pub lished by MT. John Lane, New York None of the recent books of fiction pre- sents a mere vivid or striking picture of some phases of life in rural England, or so artisticzlly depicts a certain type of English farmer. It portrays for it's cen tIal figure a Dorset yeoman of long line of yeomen, a stalwart tiller of the soil. He is of type of men to whom the farm is of the first importance, matter of intense family pride. Rich ard Winstone. the yeoman of the story, takes it very hard because a Winstone cousin, growing weary of tilling the stubborn soil, weary of the slow, hard return, sells actually sells his farm, the farm of his father and grandfather before him,-and goes to Australia to seek his fortune. The wanderer comes back in after years a rich man and be- comes again an owner of the soil in the old town of his birth and early years. This arouses Richards prejudice afresh and his i'll will to his cousin grows apace, despite the cousins gracious and hearty attempts to win Richards friendly regard. Richard broods and broods over his cousins success until he really comes to entertain the hallucina- tion that his cousin and the latter's amiable wife and sons are seeking his overthrow Richard has a daughter, Dorcas, who blooms into one of the fairest young women in all the country around, and who is withal possessed of rare wisdom and judgment, as well as beauty. But her father in his unrea-. condolences and stubbornness and wrath, suspects her of being in league with the enemy, and the girl who is motherless, is no longer the light of her fathers eyes. Dorcas has various low CTS and is ardently wooed by a fine youth of wealthy family and high so- cial position. There is a tragic ending to this love episode and the story is otherwise touched with tragedy. Of the book the New York Tribune critic says: "The spirit of the book as a whole is idyllic the spirit of a picture in which rustic types are set against the peace full background of the Dorset downs Mir Burrows is a clever writer, and his book has an atmosphere" Price S1.50; for sale at all leading bookstores.
 A book quite remarkable for it's pa thos and power, and as fine picture of life in one of the regions of the south is ''In the Red Hills" by MT. Elliott Cray ton McCants, and published by Double day, Page and Company, New York It is a work of superior merit, and admir- able as is Miss Glasgows fine novel, "The Deliverance, this stands nearly, if not quite, in the same rank of TO- 1nances of the south. MT. McCants book deals with North Carolina life in remote community in the foothills of the Appalachian range, and though the story is in part the somewhat familiar one of how fine, high spirited, well bred southern gentleman, with a splen- did plantation, becomes financially em- barrassed and falls into the remorseless clutches of greedy and interruptions money lender who proves his ruin there is much more to the story than this. The author catches the spirit of the life he portrays and his picture of country life are artistic. As says the New York American: MT. McCants has really let us in to the social struc- ture of southern life, giving us not only the old-school southerners with their high breeding, their fine courtesy and their improvidence, and on the other side the negroes of all types, but also the poor whites, whose existence is real- ly most important factor in the pro- blem of southern life to-day, since they have come to the top politically, and since they both hate the aristocratic el- enent and despise the black. MT. Me Cants writes extremely we'll, and his book has a certain spaciousness about it which reveals to you not one little section or segment of southern society alone, but the whole of it as it actually exists. It is the south in transition with it's different elements, all seething as in great caldron, separating, uni ting and forming new combinations, out of which is to come the New South of the not far distant future The book is a remarkably good story, and it has been to us exceedingly instructive as social and semi-political study. We shall look with great interest for fur ther volumes from its authors pen.'
 'sIn the Red Hills has a very idyllc love story to add to it's charm, and one that ends happily and satisfactorily for the hero, Billy Mayson, the planters grandson and heir, and Annie Cham- bliss, fine type of womanhood. The time of the tale in the years just after the war. The book is well illustrated by H. H. Foley; price $1.5O; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Go.
 Heart of My Heart" by Ellis Meredith, published by Mcclure, Phil lips and Company, New York; is a deli cateiy written romance of expecta- tion," idyllic in it's charm. As has been said: Tt is singularly daring in theme, a book which only a high purpose and the subtlest tact could have made the success that it is. Tt may be defined as a prose poem of maternity, the day drea111 that a DrOSpectiye mother