The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-02-11
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
THE SEASON


hshed by Little, Brown & Co., Boston,
mas Won immediate popularity, and has
already gone into its third edition.
Mr. Oppenheim knows how to write
entertainingly. and by many his new
DOCK IS accounted his best. 1t has plenty
OF mystery and keeps the interest of
the reader on the qui vive until the
end. Mr.. Sabin is a French duke with
hyeiy aspirations and a big political
project, which is nothing less than the
restoration of the Bourbons to the
French throne. Intrigue and plotting
abound, much as was the case in the
authors popular story, THE Betrayal"
APrincess Helene of Bourbon figures also
largely and effectively in the story.
The book can be heartily commended
as replete with interest. $1.50; for sale
by leading booksellers.
In My Appeal to America" by
Charles Wagner, being my first adj
dress to an American audience" Pas
tor Wagner embodies his plea for sim
pie living and the book has an admir-
able preface by Rev. DR.. Lyman Abb
bott Mr.. Wagner's appeal charms
the reader and at once engages his
Interest BY its directness, simplicity
and beauty, just as is seen in his
Simple Life"
Included is complete list of Mr..
Wagner's books, indicating those which
have been translated, and their au-
thorized publishers.
1t is matter of genuine regret that
there is no legal procedure to restrain
unauthorized editions of books. Espe-
cially is it deplorable in case like this
of NJ. Wagner, as, says the Brooklyn
Times, the profits from the sale of his
books are devoted to carrying out the
noble work he is doing for the work.
men of Paris. The profits from the sale
of My Appeal in America" are to be
contributed to fund now being raised
in America to furnish land in Paris
for church of which Mr., Wagner will
be the pastor. Included in the volume
is a letter addressed to the American
friends of the French pastor and his
work in Paris, signed by the Hon. Levi
p. Morton, Hamilton w. Mabie, DR..
Lyman Abbott, Albert Shaw, William
Jay Schieffelein and Robert c. Ogden,
of New York; Robert Treat Paine of
y Boston, Charles Miller of Franklin,
Pa; John Elkinton and John Wanna,
maker Of Philadelphia.
From this letter it appears that the
Partisan friends of Mr.. Wagner are
ready to give him a hall worthy of his
4 work, but, although they are people of
intelligence and learning, their re-
sources are modest The great obsta-
Gle is the cost Of land needed for the
n hall. a suitable site for building can
be acquired for sum between $4,000
and 100000. 1t is hoped this sum may
h be raised in America.
The duly accredited treasurer of this
voluntary committee is George Foster
Peabody, 81 William street, New York
city. Every sum, large or small, will
+ be welcomed. The treasurer will glad
~ receive and acknowledge all remit
tances. My Appeal to America" is
published by Mcclure, Phillips & Co.,
r New York Copies at the Pease,. Lewis
Co.'s.
Mcclure, Phillips and Co. are print
ing a third edition of Myra KeIly's
Little Citizens" second edition of
Professor Hugo Munsterberg's "The
American" E. P. Powell's Country
Home and of "Cabbages and Kings"
a fifth edition of Mary Stewart Cut
ting's LITTLE Stories OF Married Life
fourth edition Of Joseph Conrad's
Lord Jim and a nineteenth edition
of Stewart Edward Whites 1.-THE
Blazed Trail" The same house an
nounces that Charles Wagner's my
Appeal to America" went into a Sec
ond edition before the first was entire
~ off the press.
Charles Wagner, in his address "My
Appeal to America" which Mcclure.
l Phillips and Company are issuing,
asks Americans to help him spread the
doctrine of the Simple life," not only
in this country, but also in France,
where he preached it first to the labor
ers, and then to the fashionable people.
In the first part he gives personal
history of the simple life'' doctrine.
The proceeds from the sale of the book
are to be contributed to the fund
which has been started here for a
church for DR.. Wagner in Paris.
Mcclure, Phillips and Company will
bring out this spring a new volume by
Martin Hume, author of "The Love
Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots and
THE Courtships of Queen Elizabeth .
1t will bear the title: 1.-THE Wives of
Henry VIII 1t is announced that
the volume will contain much new
matter which the author, in his posi-,
tion in the British Public Record Office,
has been able to unearth.
Religion. A Criticism" is the title
of a volume by G.'Lewis Dickinson,
which Mcclure, Phillips and Company
will bring out in March. The book
deals with the religion of modern man,
making an investigation of the creeds
that are offered by established church.
\ es and discussing whether they can
be accepted by the educated people of
to-day.
Probably no publishers announce
nnent of the year will bring more wide
spread satisfaction than that of Nc
Clure-Phillips that they will bring out
! Conan Doyle's ''The Return of sher-
| lock Holmes" stories in the middle of
| February. Sherlock is more univer-
cal fav0rite without doubt than anv