The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-20
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

E. von Maeh's 'HandBOok of Greek and
 Roman seuIpture''--"AIaska and the
 KlondII<e" by John scudder MeLain-
 Frank Lewis NasOn's "The Vision of
 Elijah Berl''-EIIiott Flowers "sIaves <--of successs--EIIen N. Cyrs "Dramatie
 First Reader
 4 book of note has just been issued by the Bureau of University Travel, Boston, entitled "A andbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture" The author of this work is E. Won Mach. It is of great interest to all students and lovers of art Accompanying it is collection of i've hundred reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. The book has 419 pages, together with forty pages of appendices, forty-five text illustrations and three extensive plates with repro auctions of the Parthenon frieze entire. A summary of some of the features of this valuable production are as follows:
 1. The collection, the University Prints, edited by Dr. von Mach, is the most complete collection of reproduc, sions of Greek and Roman sculpture in Z existence. Its low price--$5.00 including the handbook-brings 1t within the reach of practically all students and lovers of art.
 2 The handbook accompanying the collection contains an exhaustive re- view of the important Greek and Ro- man monuments and is arranged to serve as:
 a. Guide to the study of ancient art.
 b. General reference book.
 B. The aim of the author throughout has been to direct attention to the art itself rather than to discussions about 1t, in order to secure direct individual Impressions puon which all true knowl- edge of art must ultimately depend.
 4. For the benefit of the advanced student and in order to make the book serviceable as convenient book of ref erence the author has added:
 a References to books and articles in learned jourunals They are prefixed to the discussions of the several monu- rnents and are printed in small type, in order that they may not interfere with the reading matter. .. ->*s
 b. A catalogue, the simple classified ton of which enables the student to find at once the desired statute or re- lief, or to add to it any photograph of his own which may not be contained in the series.
 c. A museographical catalogue, by means of which the studuent can quick ly identify any ctatute he may remem- Der having seen in museum, even if he has forgotten it's name. ,
 d. A chronological list of artists.
 e. A fairly complete bibliography, which contains not only the names of < the books, but also their prices and the names of their publishers, and brief critiques. E[+ ly c.eA. complete list of important arch Sociological publications.
 5. 4, unique feature of the book is found in the extension plates on which for the first time the Parthenon frieze may be studied in it's continuity.
 6. The relation of the handbook to the authors earlier work, Greek Sculp- pture, Its Spirit and Principles is that of a book following the inductive meth od to another following the deductive method. The two books supplement each other The handbook, however, covers wider field. It discusses also Roman art.
 An exceedingly interesting new book (published by Mcclure Phillips and Company is Alaska and the KIon- dike, by John Scudder McLain, editor of The Minneapolis Journal" Mir McLatn accompanies the committee of the United States senate on it's visit to Alaska and the British gold fields of the Klondike in 1903, and his account of the trip is not only exceedingly enter taining as a book of travel, but particll- 2 larly valuable in it's clear, temperate and just presentation of the conditions, possibilities and needs of the territory. 5 The committee entered the gold coun- < try at Skagway, going direct to Daw- son, thence down the Yukon to St. Mi- chael' where they boarded the United Estates revenue cutter McCulloch-skirt- ing the coast to Seattle, and touching at Nome, the Seal Islands, Unalaska, Kodiak and Valdez. Mere fortune seekers are given a timely word of warming. MT. McLain remarks on this subject, ''The far north does not, it seems to me, offer at the present time to the man equipped with only pair of strong hands the inducements which should attract him in large numbers. Labor is in moderate demand and com- E paratively we'll paid; but there are no X tdiggings' now like the beach sands at Nome, where, at one time, with only E shovel and pan, man could wash out moderate fortune in a few days. { Such remarkably rich deposits of gold capable of being worked in the same s Inexpensive way may be found again, Y but there are no such attractive chances for the poor man in sight now"
 As to the happy preservation of law and order in the Dawson territory edi- k tor McLain remarks: ..
 T any one" says
 brings to Dawson Il i d a that life and property are not safe X in this community, that desperate Characters throng the streets and that \ disorder prevails day and night, he will