The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-25
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

pr. McCOoE's Poetic Tribute to His Life Long Friend, the Late Marcus Hanna -aThe BIOckaders," by James Barnes Other New Books - Forthcoming Books-Magazines
 The first fruits of Dr. McCooks re tirement from active pastoral life come to Us in the form of a poem, memori- al to the late Senator Hanna. Born in the same Ohio town, Dr. McCook and MT. Hanna were playmates and close friends for the first fifteen years of their lives, and the tie then formed was never broken; so it was not strange that the doctor should wish to write something that may aid to set his friend in true light before his fellows and serve to keep his memory green. Now, on the first anniversary of Hannas death, he publishes Ghrough George W. Jacobs & Co) comemor- Native poem entitled "The Senator" With it's illustrations and notes the Dook gives a faithful picture of the circumstances under which a boy of Scotch-Irish percentage developed in the first half of the last century. The book is rich in poetic feeling and ex- pression. Dr. McCook gives this pie ture of the old school debating society, written with some of the vivid direct ness of Crabbe:
 Here at his desk the President is set Tn solitary dignity, as due;
 And Mr. Secretary, seated near,
 (Our future senator within that chairD Urges his wits, as many a scribe ere
 then, -:. .- .s To flow of words to write his minutes
 fair, .. ii. With frequent nibbies at his goose
 quill pen. ,- .. z-..-.. ... .. Here sit the jurors three-important
 rneni For on their judgment, rendered well
 and true. %..... sl Hang the momentous issues of the
 night, s..,. When foemen meet in dread forensic
 flight.
 Here sit debaters; the opposing sides Thanking the table that the rank di-
 vides,
 Discreetly parting thus the threatening
 tides
 Of surging eloquence and action
 dread. The restless limbs, the rowing anxious
 eye, And faces, pallid or a flaming red, According as the period may lie Before or after they have taken part, And easy index of their office made. Fen now I feel the throbbing of the
 head,
 And smothering pressure of the bound
 ing heart, And parching lips, and choking throat
 and dry,
 Those painful signs of an impending
 call To rise and face my face rhetorical. 'The Senator" is for sale by all leading book stores.
 Harper & Brothers have just publish ed book by James Barnes entitled .The Blockaders." It is book fol boys by a man who has excelled ir stories of adventure. A peculiarity ot Mir. Barnes work for boys, however, is that there is none of it that appeals tc boys alone. His "Son of Light Horse Harry found an equal welcome among young and old, because of its accurate account of Lee. Such of his writings as have been addressed to an older audience. as, for instance, "Naval ac tions of the War of 1872" have beer l;o, f,,fn s,,4n arf !, arose in boy readers. 'The Blockad ers' is composed of short stories oa adventure, all of which have snap ane go,s and excite and hold the readers attention and interest. It will un doubtedly be one of the popular books of the season. For sale by the Pease Lewis & Co. 1ty ...... The Harper's have in preparation ssThe vicissitudes of Evangeline,' { new novel by Elinor Glyn, author O seThe Visits of Elizabeth" and 9Th, Reflections of Ambrosine." Mrs Glyn,s latest heroine is promised to b, the most piquant in her unique garde1 of girls. Physically and mentally sh, is said to be distracting young per son of the latest advanced type. Tn, book, upon which Mrs. Glyn has beer engaged for some time past, will b published early this spring. .g The Hampers announce that thei limited edition of 'The Poems and Bal lads of Algernon Charles Swinburne, of which one hundred and forty-nin sets of six volumes each were pub lished during the last week in Decem ber has been exhausted, and that stur dy sets have already been resold at premium by the original purchasers The sets were bound in gray board and vellum, and printed upon fin white paper, with a rubricked til page and uncut edges. The lette press included MT. Swinburne's intro ductory epistle on the art of poetr, and all the other matter of the regula Harper edition. C., George Barr McCutcheons new ste ry, eThe Purple Parasol," is to be il lustrated in colors by Harrison Fishe 
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