The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-17

ldn RepuollcS, containing, as it does, accurate, typographical, historical, so- cial and political information about Co., lombia and Venezuela, with valuable notes on other parts of Central and South America, and with three colored maps and ten full-page illustrations, has long been regarded as an authority on these South American Republics.
 Susan kept me up till 1:3O," says R. B. Marston, the veteran English pub fisher, of the firm of Sampson Low, Marston and O., in a letter to the American publishers of Anne Warmers Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. La throp." Susan is royal,'' he adds. q have not laughed so much for long time as over her recitals and adven- tures.'' Gr-.- +Fs
 A popular cloth-bound edition of "A Rose of Normandy" by William R. A. Wilson, has just been added by Little Brown and Company to their popular fiction series. MT. Wilson has written another romance, entitled "A Knot of Blue," for spring publication. ...,.
 Another book by Annie Payson Call, the well-knoWn author of Power Through Repose," etc, is announced for spring by Little, Brown and Company, entitled .The Freedom of Life" Miss Calls first book brought rest and strength to hundreds of nervously ex- hausted men and women. In The Freedom of Life'' the gospel of relaxa- tion is preached with equal success.
 k Little, Brown and Company announce "a fifth printing of M. F. Walters New England novel, "The Wood Carver of 'Lympus;" second edition of Mary C. WadsWorth's translation of Fechner's
 Little Book of Life and Death;'' six teenth printing of Mary Devereux's Co., lonial story, From Kingdom to Colo ny" fifth printing of Mary Dever- eux's up and Down the Sands of Gold" a second printing of ''The Mon roe Doctrine," by T, B. Edgington, Esq; a sixth printing of the new illus trated edition of Miss Alcott's Little Women;'' a third printing of the new illustrated edition of Miss Alcott's "An Old-Fashioned Girl;' fourteenth printing of The Hidden Servants by Francesca Alexander: second printing of Harris Burland's romance of the Frozen North, "The Princess Thora;" a third printing of Indians of the Paint ed Desert Region" by George Wharton James; a second printing of Albert L.. Lawrence's romance of Early Michigan,
 
 ing of Truth Dexter by Sidney Me- Call; third printing of Mary W. Tiles toms Prayers, Ancient and Modern" third printing of Robin Hood: His Book" by Eva March Tappan; second printing of "Grandma's Girls" by Hell en Morris; a fourth edition of Boston Days,'' by Lillian Whiting; second printing of "The Alley Cats Kitten .'' by Caroline M. Fuller; and a second printing of 1.-The Child at Play" by Cla- ra Murray.
 Dodd, Mead and Company's first of- ferings will be "Pam," by the Baroness von Hutten, and Billy Duane," by Frances Aymar Mathews.
 Messrs. L. c. Page and Company, Boston, are publishing in observance of the Disraeli centenary a handsome set containing Disraeli's four most irnpor' tant novels-.Vivian Grey,''. 'Sybil," '"Tancred'' and "Coningsby.'
 Messrs. L. c. Page and Company have just sent word of four of their forthcoming novels. These are: Lady Penelope" by Morley Roberts; "The Black Barque,' by T. Jenkins Hains; "The Winged Helmet" by Harold Steele Mackaye, author of "The Pan- chronicon, and ''Castel Del Monte" a romance of the thirteenth century, by Nathan Gallizier. MT. Gallizier's is the new name of these four. MT. Hains will be recalled as the author of Wind Hammers, [" '"rhe Strife of the Sea- etc., fine sea tales, all of them, as ''The Black Barque" is said to be. MT. Rob- erts, of course, was already well known before he published his powerful novel, Rachel Marr,'' last fall. MT. Mackaye is the author of ''The. Panchronicon, <" one of the ingenious stories of 1904.
 The best selling book in Mcclure, Phillips and CompanN's list, it is safe to say, will be Conan Doyle's new col lection of Sherlock Holmes stories-in spite of the fact that there are thirteen of them. The best stories generally get into the magazines before they are put in book covers. "The Return of Sher- lock Holiness has been read in Collier and Booth Tarkington's "In the Arena in McClure's. These tales by MT. Tark- ington are the earliest fruits of his leg islative career, and it is commendable thing, too, for all author who is lucky enough to cut a figure in politics to let his original calling borrow from his new profession. Other volumes forthcoming from the Twenty-third street house are "The Girl From Home," a novel with a Hawaiian background, by Mrs. Isabel Strong; Little Stories of Courtship, by Mary Stewart Cutting, and one of Edwin Lefevre's cleverest Wall street stories, "The Golden Flood"
 Another work on Fiscal Policy and Problems is the Progress of the Ger man Working Glasses in the Last Quar- ter of a Century" soon to be published by Longnlans, Green and Company. The author is W. J. Ashley. now of England, formerly professor of econom- H;, i,;cfarx, ;y1 Tn rvo r5 ,,pi,yarci+x,