The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-23

also included his essay on the poetry of Mir. Swi0buEne which originally ap~ peaEed in q magazine several months asO. and apprrcialiye and sympathetic articles on the poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadswort3l Longfel- low and James Whitcomb Riley. 4 larger Dart of the book was prepared last winter while 3Ir. Carman was in California. and his dedication to two ge1tlemen 0f th2G state Is one of the
 most charming chapters in the book and delightful tribute to one of the finest of human relations, the true friendship of one man for another.
 Seldom has a first novel been So highly commended by the critics for it's fidelity 10 real life as in the case of The B4llingt0ns." by Frances Squire. 4 leading New York daily considers it "a wonderfully true presentation of marriage under certain conditions. and of the inevitable effect upon a woman's character" A second edition of ''The Ballingtons" was immediately de- manded. The author, whose real name is Frances B. Potter, member of the faculty Of the University oS Minnesota, is spending a year in Cambridge, Eng land.
 Mary E. Waller. the author of "The Wood Carver olympus" has tempo rarily forsaken her Vermont mountain home for Europe. Although issued in the spring of 1904, the publishers of ''The Wood Carver of 'Lympus' re- port that it is now selling better than ever before, having been printed nine
 times. A new edition of Miss Walters story for the young, "A Daughter of
 the Rich,' has been issued this Gall by Little, Brown and Company.
 The Breath of the Gods" the nota-
 ble novel with Japanese setting by
 Sidney Mccall, author Of Truth DeX-
 ter,' is attracting widespread attention
 in England. The London publishers have just cabled for another edition, and the critics are bestowing high praise on the book. Douglas Sladen, in lengthy review in The Queen says:
 ''The Breath of the Gods" is one of the most remarkable novels of the year.
 Tn the Shoe String Country a new book by Frederick Chamberlin, which
 the C. N. Clark Publishing Company is to bring out, is written around the present political situation in the so- called black belt' of Alabama, and the author claims that the story is founded on fact. If this be so, it will certainly prove a revelation to all who have not lived in this district. North ern politics are bad enough, but the southern brand, which endangers the life of the political nominee, because he happens to represent the black vote, surely goes the northern situation one better. Mir. Chamberlin claims that every statement made in his novel re- garding the election day incidents in the Eleventh Alabama district is based upon actual occurrences. the evidence of which has been filed at Washington. The John c. Winston Company, of l Philadelphia, will publish shortly a work by Colonel A. K. Mcclure, of im- portance to Pennsylvanians and of in- | terest to many who are not sons of the 1 Keystone State. Colonel Mcclure is
 one of the few conspicuous men living
 who took an active part in making the history of the last century. As editor
 of a great newspaper, his acquaintance 1 included every prominent man of his time, and no one else could write so
 intimately and well these "Old Time 1 Notes of Pennsylvania" The work i will ba icSIspd in twn largo SvO volumes tof six hundred pages each, Illustrated with rare portraits and pictures. A
 special limited edition signed by the | author will also be offered.
 Aesop, the fabulst, is to be honored h4,f