The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-28

sky and wave and flower. The poems seem to be of Dame Natures own weaving. In Night" "a spell IS weayed of shadows when
 Across the lonesome sea Hats
 The purple shadows crept;
 In thr border land of marshes
 the tapping waters wept;
 SCft. in the grasses nested,
 The weary sea-bird slept" And another mystic spell is cast by The Light-Ship'' from which is here given the second stanza:
 Tonight, as Ihe gray of the mist
 folds in,
 swathing the waters in cerements
 thin.
 While shrin down the wind, pipes the
 petreTs cry,
 I keep my post,
 For veal or for woe,
 Reef sentinel and the great ships
 know,
 In passing to and fro"
 In another vein is 'COntentment" from which follow three of the ten couplets:
 To the worlds great noisy highways. Here and there lead quiet by-ways, Often are these still roads fairest, Paths made fair by blossoms rarest. Many OCT the by-ways going, Heeding not, pass on unknOWing' Many of the poems are full of an old time grace, climaXed with a bit Of hu- man sentiment, like "A Puritan" Mistress Mary's Wedding Apron" "Old China" My Lady's Shoes" and A Minuet." Every page has charm of its own and is luminous with ten derness. or starlight, or quaint hu- nor. The poems take rank with the verse of Lanier Van Dyke and JO- sephine Dodge Daskam. The authors name is we'll known to the Connecticut Iiterati, and if the present volume is q forerunner of future work, there is much in store for the readers of the next decade It is dressed in keeping with the sea, in marsh -colored cloth, with green top and uncut edges, and seaweed design stamped on the cover. A most happy gift to all who love the waters, the fields and the romance of the olden days.
 A genuine book of humOr. with dash es of pathos and much understanding of human nature, is John T. McCutch- cons new volume, "The Mysterious 1 Stranger and Other Cartoons" which is just being brought out by Mcclure Phillips. This book contains about one hundred and fifty drawings, selected I from those contributed during the last 1 year or so by MT. McCutcheon to the Chicago Tribune. It furnishes a de- lightful pictorial panorama of recent 1 events, which MT. McCutcheon's ready l pencil illumines and tnliVens at the same time. There are series devoted to Teddy the b;ar-hunter, and to oth- 1 CT political lights of our day; to the St Louis Fair and it's hayseed visitors, to the Russian war, to child life, etc. Mir. i McCutcheon has been called the Doo- ley of the pencil and this volume jus titles his claim to such a title, The success of Elizabeth Cherry Waltz's last novel, "The Ancient Land. mark" Mcclure Phillips) has beer l immediate and widespread. An edi' tion is shortly to be brought out il l England, and a second edition has jus ! been issued in America. McClure-Phillips are announcing fol early publication a volume by Wash l ington Gladden. under the title of "Th' New Idolatry" The new idolatry i! the worship of money, which forms th' main theme of a series of disoourses In the first it is taken up specifically under the heading ''Tainted Money"
 "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, by Anne Warner, which Little, Brow and Company published on October ? has already gone into third edition The author in her latest book has writ ten a story excelling in interest botl Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs I.athrop," and "A Woman's Will" ac cording to the critics.
 Mrs, John Elliott (Maud Howe) wht is at Oak Glen, Newport, R. l., witt her mother, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been giving readings from he forthcoming volume of Italian studies