The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-11
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.


 pr. DoyIe's "The Return of Sherlock 1 HoImes"-"The OpaI,' Author Anon 1 ymous-BOOks for the Younger Peo- pIe-Forthcoming BOOks-Magazines' t'The Return of Sherlock Holmes" IS the title Mcclure, Phillips and Compa- ny give the volume of thirteen new sto- ries by A. Conan Doyle, and the DOCK has already gone into third edition. Hazardous as was the experiment oL resurrecting Sherlock, the result IS UT umphant. Dr. Doyle has accompllsleu the feat with brilliancy and success that more than justifies the eXperi ment. The new stories are like the ol9' which is saving that they are brllllaht There is no deterioration in the quallty of the work. Invention and lmaSila- tion again play their parts with super latiye success. The way in Whlch Holmes makes his reappearance' tne way in which he accounts for his ap- sence and his escape from death are G
 the noyelist's imagination has received warmer greeting from the general reading public, a public ever eager TOT good detective stories. Dr. Doyle hau fully intended to let Sherlock Holmes remain where he left him. However the offer of a vast sum of money TOT the serial rights to the thirteen stories now gathered into this volume was too great a temptation to be Wlthstood, and in consequence he set himself to work to account for Sherlock Holmes disappearance and to evolve new se- ries of complicated adventures. These stories, in the detached form of their publication in Golfers Weekly, have received a most satisfactory welcome from the reading world. In mechanism these tales are very simple; they begin either with murder mystery and the consequent search for the criminal, with mysterious adventures in which one of the characters is involved in a mesh of circumstances which finally lead up to murder, or else with the search for mysterious criminal or for some one who has suddenly disap- peared. In making his Investigations,
 
 which have made his fame, and in each case he is accompanied by the narrator of the story--the Dr. Watson who more than all else contributes to the air of unreality that surrounds every adven- ture The interest ill the stories cen ters as ever on the detectives skill and ingenuity: The reader is not appalled, or terrorized. The book is sure to meet with a great demand. Price $1.5O; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
 The new romance 'The Opal" is ex- citing much interest, and the more so as, the authors identity is not disclos- ed. When a novel is issued anony- rnousIy there is often an added charm in the thought that in this romance lies a hidden truth; and when it possesses the additional fascination of a frontis- piece portrait drawn from life, its hold upon the pubic interest and curiosity is doubly secure @ 4, ..z .e
 .sThe Opal" just published by Tough ton Miffiin & Go, represents a circle of Boston society, and tells of people and events in an amusing and winning fashion. The plot is unhackneyed and the dialogue leads the reader to feel himself a part of the story. There is q directness and frankness about the style which is bound to make "The Opal' a favorite novel during its sea son, The author is very young, and there has been some gossip at Radcliffe college and in Boston among persons who see in the frontispiece with which the volume is adorned face well known to them.
 The book is of unusual interest and originality. The "opal' was wonder fully beautiful girl, radiant in colorine and expression ?. who seemed to ra- diate light and give a dazzling expres sion of eternal youth and of the beauty that is in living" This rarely beautiful woman was Edith Dudley. Shewas very fickle, vacillating and uncertain, an6 was moved and swayed by whosoevel she was with. She had, in other words no mind of her own. Two men fall 1T love with her One who had domin ating will, noble fellow, she married only to desert and elope and go abroad with another man, polished scamp There was another woman-Mary FL ton,9 She was plain of face, but her! was beautiful and strong nature When expecting to die she called tt her bedside the man whom Edith mar ried and confessed her love for him She lived, however, and regretted After the "opar' disappeared, her hus band might have been happy if he hat married the other woman. Unfortun ately, however, the other woman refus ed him because she was the ''opal' dearest friend" and considered hersel bound by ties of loyalty to the dag zling creature, who hinted in not that some day she might possibly re turn. This is the only disappointing note in the story and in Mary.
 .'The Opal is very readable through out, a romance of much greater meri than many a more pretentions novel Price, $1.0G; for sale by all leading book sellers. r.,
 Little, Brown and Company, Boston will issue in day or two another nev edition of "The Man Without a Coun try which seems to be in as great de nland as ever.