The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-11

fishing Company, Boston, have brought out a book which bids fair to rival in great popularity their "Quin- cy Adams Sawyer" which was drama tized and has had a fine run as sue eessful play. Like ths other, this new book is a story Of village life in New England and the author has caught the spirit of the days and the people and their environment of which he writes, Jay Gould Harmon strikes the Maine village of Falling Waters at once upon his arrival as a person of resources who does things. Mistaken for tramp, he, when i'll and suffering and helpless, comes near being done 10 death by savage dog let loose upon him by an irate and savage old cur mudgeon of a farmer who, rich and miserly, has a special spite against tramps, his barns having been burned by tramp whom he had shamefully abused. Jay Gould Harmon's fine face and shoulders and pitable weakness appeal to lovely girl, the niece of the VillainOus old farmer, and when in an almost dying condition he is removed by the girls father, fine educated gentleman in much reduced circum- stances to his abode to be nursed back to health and vigor. Harmon proves a wonder and surprise in the brave things which he accomplishes in deftly fighting wrongs and creating new hope and joy for wronged ones, and his achievements come thick and fast. The book has no dull pages and is full of life and dramatic situations, and the love story is fascinating, and { Lois Crosby, tall and divinely fair, is the heroine. The book is richly bound and has fine cOlored picture of the hero on the title cover.
 MT. Kimball, author of the book, was born and brought up in a little Maine village, and he has had the rare train ing in Wood-craft that only country boys are able to get Most of his bus mess life was spent as a travelling salesman, and being very successful in all his ventures, he was able to re- tire from active business comparatively early. He was always a close student and his ability to write came very naturally. As ever an ardent lover of nature, he spends the summer months at his log cabin in the heart of the Maine woods.
 timely book, which is heartily commended to the public from its re- liable, careful and thorough treatment of subject of national importance, is Trade Unionism and Labor Pro- blems' ($2.5O), issued by Ginn and Company, Boston. This volume of 62S pages is edited with an introduction by John R. Commons, professor of polit- ical economy, University of Wiscon- sin This work does for the problems of labor what Ripley's Trusts, Pools and Corporations" has done for the problems of capital. The same general plan has been followed, and so the en- tire field of labor is covered by a se- ries of actual cases with the attendant circumstances, It is from such a book as this, rather than from newspaper comments or articles in popular mag azines, that one can get an intelligent and accurate explanation of contempo- rary problems as we'll as a progressive history of the whole subject.
 A glance at the table of contents will show the wide scope of the book and its complete survey of the field in question: Trade Agreements, by J. R. Commons; The Miners Union Its Bus mess management, by Frank Julian Warne; The Teamsters of Chicago, by J. R. Commons; The New York Build ing Trades. by J. R. Commons; The Chicago Building Trades Dispute, by Ernest L. Bogart; The Incorporation of Trade Unions, Symposium; Deci- sions of Courts in Labor Disputes; State Arbitration and the Minimum Wage in Australasia; H. W. Macrosty; Labor Conditions in Strengthening and Meat Packing, by J, R. Commons; The Introduction of the Linotype, by George D. Barnett; The Premium Plan of Pay ing for Labor by F. s. Halsey and James Rowan; The Printing Trades and the Crisis in British Industry (Re- striction of Outpu) by G. Binney Dib- blee; The System of Apprenticeship at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, by s. M. Vauclain; The Sweating System in
 the Clothing Trade, by J. R. Com mons; Slavs in Coal Mining, Frank J.
 Warne and J. R. Commons; The Ne gro Artisan. Symposium; Women in the Clothing Trade, by Mabel Hurd
 Willett; Women's Wages in Manual