The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-26

perienced relief, with complete and permanent abeyance of all symptoms. The writer is firmly of the opinion that ordinary gout and rheumatism are en- tirely preventable by reasonable care and judgment in the matter of diet"
 Professor Chittendenss concluding chapters on Economic and sociological importance of the results" and general conclusions" will be found full of inter- est and valuable suggestions. The price of the book is $S.00; for sale at all leading bookstores.
 MT. Bliss Carman's new and delight fpl book. The Friendship of Art, has a photogravure portrait of the author, bound in the same style as "The Kin ship of Nature" and it is whimsically dedicated to "Moonshine," a summer home at which he has found solace and refreshment. In accounting for this bit of whimsicality heA inquires why it may not be believed that every ! abode is pervaded by it's distinct and individual tutelary presence, as the Greeks believed was the case with eve ry shrine, and, truly, the picture which he makes of Moonshine as home with an atmosphere and distinction all it's own; the music and song and merry making which he describes as having filled 1t may well have given it a soul | The volume contains many little es- says, few of which have appeared in the Literary World. Two of them, one | Dnrcnn11 4 Tradition, are sure to provoke lively discussion, but the chief trait of all is the avoidance of the common phrase, making one always confidently expec- tant of the happy little shock on which one could safely rely in Arthur Sulli- vans musical phrases and sentences.
 Of the book the New York American says:
 | This is new volume of delightful essays, by Bliss Carman, which the more serious of the lovers of good lite- rature will read with pleasure and pro- fit. It would be well, indeed if every man and woman in the land could read some of these essays, and ponder and appreciate the thoughts 50 tersely ex- pressed, for the result would be dis tinct gain to the individual and the state, and an encouragement in the 1 better performance of one's duty to one's self and to ones fellow man. In whatever mood the reader may chance to pick up this book, he will find something applicable in the authors philosophy or in the theology, and an l incentive to the study of hinself-his physical self as well as his mental and moral self. It will inspire him to high ideals, while reminding him that sThe I proper study Of mankind is man.
 There are some thirty-seven essays < in all, and we quote from one of them some of the poets observations on the madnesses of the natter and the March hare.
 . Whether it is matters or March hares we know very little about the madness of either Each has become a by-word in proverbial speech, and ka make a simile of his cratic fortune without 3 second thought. How sad to l be a name and nothing more in the mouth of ones fellows. Yet I have no doubt the natter is as indifferent to, his repute as the hare, even perhaps lit tie proud Of his peculiarity. So frail is
 moral nature it is boastful even of it's blemishes when they lend it a little dis tinction and draw the eye of the crowd. One can well fancy the complacency of I the halter under his visitation, how he \ would turn 1t to good account and make a profitable investment of his af- i f1iction. He would be a sorry trades- man who could not manage to secure some slight advantage in dealing with destiny and come out at last on the right side of his reckoning with Provi- I dence. Was ever the madness of a natter so complete his commercial in stinct could not prevail against 1t? Is there not always a residuum of sanity at the bottom of his mania, a trace of shrewd calculation concealed under the l guise of his reckless innocence? The madness of the natter is the wisdom of l the serpent. seemingly guileless yet l profoundly subtle and sardonic.
 Now the March hare is very diff ferent case. His folly is the folly of a child, his madness the madness of ec- stacy, of elation, of transport. He is a .l visionary and partakes of the rapture of lovers and prophets and bards. He is possessed and carried out of himself. < The burden of joy laid upon his spirit Is excessive, and an unhinging of his balance has superyened. He is mad because he loves too greatly; whereas lI the natter is mad because he knows too much Saul and Hamlet were mad as matters through an excess of knowledge lvouchsafed to them. Blake and Shell I ley and many another mystic were mad