The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-20

grandfather was Chief Justice of Pan- anna. MT. Lefevre was educated to be a mining engineer. but found writing more ir accordance with his taste than science. He has served his apprentice ssip in journalism, as so many success fuI writers in America have done, serv- ing for soma years as sub-editOr on the Engineering and Mining Journal, and has been connected with the New YorK dailies in various capacities. Now he may be said to have won his spurs in the literary field with ons of the most widely read and fayorabiy criticized novels of the season. The unanimous verdict of ''T,ae Golden Flood" (Sic- Clure, Phillips and Company is that 1t
 is one of the bsst constructed mystery novels of the day, absolutely logical in conclusion and so cleverly managed as to prolong suspense and baffie curiosity to the finale which is so simple after all that every one wonders why no one thoug7at of that solution of the situa-
 tion.
 '.The Quakeress," by Max Adeler, the first of several novels to appear during the present season from the press of the
 John c. Winston Company, the Phila-
 delphia house which has lately taken over the business of Henry Coates and
 Company, is one of ths; most interest,"
 ing of the many romances that have ap- peared this season. Its price is $l.Oo, the uniform price of the Griffin series of novels published by this house. It is stated, by the way, that Max Adeler's , "Hurly Burly" and Captain Buitt'
 have sold to the extent of more than a million copies. Dorothea Gerard, Mre. ! Longard de, Longarde), W. E. Norris, a well established favorite, and Louis Pendleton are the other novelists rep resented on t:ie Winston company's list Many of the letters from the far east, ! that formed the special correspondence of MT. William Fiery Curtis to the New York Globe, will be contained in a volume, entitled Modern India," which l MT. Curtis has in the press of the Rev. 1 ell Company. Another book of travels forthcoming from these publishers is a revised and enlarged edition of MT. s. M. ZWemer's Arabia: The Cradle of l Islam"
 l Herbert E. Turner and Company of Boston announce for publication May I 10 a novel by E. Dicksbsrry, entitled | ''TIe Storm of London in which the author is said to picture London in a
 state of absolute nudity. The story is l reported to be causing much comment 1 on the other side, where it is becoming popular. Other books from that firm
 ars Science and Future Life," by Professor James H. Hyslop of Columbia l university, discussing the problem of l life after bodily death, from the data l accumulated by the Society of Psychi- cal Research, and 'The Ethics of Impe- rialism," by Albert R. Carnan, a we'll
 known Canadian writer, who has been
 connected editorially with several of the
 leading Dominion newspapers.
 l Pearson's Magazine for June present.
 led the first of a series of papers enti- I tied "The Profession of Getting Hurt.
 The author, Theodore Waters, spent five
 months visiting the various big cities, l where he unearthsd among public cor l porations and among the various mu- { nicipal heads a most amazing state of
 affairs, showing how annually millions
 of dollars are "grafted" by this brand-
 new class of fakirs. .t n. :. I A l "On the Newport Road is the attrac-
 tive title of tfrss novelette, which opens the June Smart Set. Sewell Ford, the i author, tells of Mrs. Billy" Redkirk's I social ambitions, her desire that her 1 daughter Barbara, may make a good
 marriage, the sudden loss of the Red kirk millions, and their ultimate recov
 cry. The tale is comedy from first tc last.
 l Dr. A. c. Seely has paper in Les lie's for June on "Tie Possibilities oi
 Modern Medicine" in which he shows
 what physicians have done toward bringing about artificial immunity since Pasteur, the French scientist, did his lepoch-making work and made the start. ling statement that 'it is in the power of man to make all infectious diseases to disappear from the world.'