The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-27
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

"The Breath of the GodS," by Sidney
 MccsII-"sInn LimItIess,' by Floyd
 R. WiIsOn-"The Girl From Home,"
 by IsobeI strOug-Forthcoming Books
 --June Magazines.
 Little, Brown and Company, Boston, take pleasure in announcing that the much looked for story, ''The Breath of the Gods" by the author of Truth Dexter" is now issued. It is now four years since the sweetness, freshness and tenderness of Truth Dexter" cap tivated and delighted the reading pub lie, and in this long period nothing from the same pen has bsen put forth. The gifted author has devoted these years to the unhurried, well studied and careful production of this second story, which is indesd a masterpiece. Lovers of McCalls Truth Dexter will find the new heroine to be an even more fascinating and subtle delineation than the former. The greatest value of this book, however. lies perhaps in its unu- sual power as a story, with strong, original and unexpected plot, closely knit and vividly unfolded, and replete with surprises and striking situations. Truly it is an intsrest-compellng TO- nance
 As might be expected, the authors eharacterizations are vital and full of charm; but here they take much wider range than in the former work, drawing well-eontrasted typss from three separate nationalities, French, American and Japanese.
 The setting of the background, too, partly in Washington and partly in Ja- pan, gives scope for the authors bril- liant pictures and sympathetic inter- pretations of nature.
 But it is in the power to handle such varied and unusual material that some readers will find the greatest novelty. There is no sacrificing of the dramatic story to an attempt at exposition; Ja- pan is not an aim, but an incident. The local Asiatic color is used as spon- taneously as was the southern color in Truth Dexter" And yet it is in the side-lights which the author throws upon the manners and customs of the Asiatic islanders, their intense patrio- tism, the strength of their love, the te- nacity of their social and religious ideals that a great service has been rendered It has been remarked of many books on Japan, even recent ones, that they give little to explain the extraordinary phenomenon, recent ly disclosed, of Japanese endurance, re sourcefuIness and heroism. In "The Breath of the Gods' these traits are the very terms in which the story is told.
 In brief it may be said of the book that it brings together adequately, in natural, dramatic unity, vital clements from that east and that west which, in the shrinking of the world, are so fast becoming one. Price S1.50; for sale at all bookstores
 Man Limitless' is a new volume just brought out by R. F. Fenno and Company, New York, written by Floyd B. Wilson, who though a busy lawyer, ' is well known both as an author and a lecturer on advanced metaphysics of the present age. He has also devoted much time and research to the mystic and brings from that field wealth of facts that admirably fit him as the au- thor of the present work. In concise way he gives the results of some of his Investigations, and opens the minds of the readers to a broad comprehension of man and his possibilities in this se- ries of papers the writer speaks large ly from his own experiences, which in- clude the broadest study of modern metaphysics, combined with deep re- search in psychic phenomena, and shows himself perfectly familiar with the latest Investigations of philoso- phers on these lines. We commend the book heartily to those interested in knowing what man may be.
 Floyd B. Wilson is known extensive ly throughout this country, London and Mexico as a corporation lawyer and one Interested in gold mines in several countries. MT. Wilson is a pioneer in the advanced thought of to-day, and his remarkable book Paths to Pow err is equalled if not surpassed by Man Limitless" The wide sale of Paths to Power" is likely to be more than equalled by the new book which really begins where that left off. Price SIPS; for sale by the E. P. Judd Co.
 Isobel Strong's novel, 1.-The Girl From Home" (McClure, Phillips & Col is 8 story of Hawaii, written in the days when Kalakaua was king-Kalakaua whose visit to New Haven and public reception at Congressman Sperry's s home was one of the events here of years ago. Mrs. Strong (who is step- daughter of the late Robert Louis Stew enson) spent seven years in the islands and was a prominent member of the court circle and an intimate friend of s the king. Among her most precious possessions is the Order of Oceania, conferred upon har by Kalakaua for a peculiar service rendered him. During political upheaval the king was sur rounded. separated from his counsellors and made a prisoner in his palace. It was of grave importance that a brief message be carried to the king and his answer returned Mrs. Strong was at that time making some drawings for a book on the fishes of Hawaii, written by the king. With Q portfolio of these sketches, Mrs. Strong managed to pass the guard to the king and returned