The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-05
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

ThurstOn-"The Trident and the Net"
 -aNorthern TraIIs," by William J. Long-"shipyyrecked in Greenland"
 by Arthur R. ThOmpsOn-'Views in IceIanda by Allen French-"Mrs
 Trees WHIP by Laura E. Richard stJohn Whopper' by the Late Bishop
 CIark-New Attractions in the "COzy
 Corner Serics' and the Little Cousin
 series"-When Grandma Was Four
 teen" by Marion HarIand-"Randy's
 Luck" by Amy BrOoks-"The Chill
 dren of Bedford Court"-Other Books -Mngazines.
 One of the leading orks of fiction for the season, work of rare power and absorbing interest, is '"The Gambler, by Katharine Cecil Thurston, published by Harper & Brothers. Mrs. Thurs toms 'tMasquerader which won such great popularity, is equalled if not sur passed in interest by ''The Gambler" which is novel of striking and oriSl- nal achievement. In '"The Gambler" Mrs. Thurston has portrayed a heroine as superbly fascinating as she is unusu- al in fiction. Clodagh Asshlin is a beautiful Irish girl-impetuous, eager for gayety, the soul of honor-but in- heriting from her father the taint of q. TV,Hn is a love-tale of breathless, absorbing interest. Mrs. Thursten possesses in 8 hign degree the gift of narrative and groups her people and marshals her in cidents with rare skill. The Interest of the story progresses in intensity until the climax, which is highly dramatic and also satisfactory. The chief char acter, Clodagh Asshlin, is a masterly portrait, most felicitously drawn. Good, too, and carefully wrought in its similarities and dissimilarity is the DOT trait of the father in whom she finds both her contrast and her likeness.
 To men of Asshlin's type," says the author, dissipation, excitement and &C., tion are potent stimulants, calling forth all the superauous nervous energy that
 
 of life runs high about such men, they are borne forward, buoyed up by their own capacity for living and enjoying. To them existence at high pressure is q glorious exalted state, exempt from satiety or fatigue; it is the quieteF phases of existence-the phases that to ordinary men mean rest, peace, domes- tic tranquility and domestic interests that these exuberant, ardent human be ings have cause to dread"
 Yet it is precisely this exuberance of vitality which eaptiyates the mind of his friend Milbanke, the sober, com monplace Englishman, whose own per- sonal ideals are all tranquil and domes- tic.
 "Asshlin had attracted him, ruled him, domineered over him by right of superiority-t hereditary half-bar- barrie Superiority of the natural aristo- crat; the man of ancient lineage in country where yesterday-and the glo- ries of yesterday-stand for everything, where to-day is unreckoned with and tomorrow does not exist
 So when Asshlin dies prematurely at fifty, a bankrupt in body, mind and for tune, it is Milbanke who steps up to pay his debts of honor and thus to capture the gratitude of the eighteen-year-ol Clodagh-a gratitude which she repays by marrying him.
 ''The Gambler is for sale by the Pease-Lewis Company; price $1.5O.
 Northern Trails,'' by William J. Long, published by Ginn and Company. Boston; should prove one of the most popular and salable books of the year, and in demand as a gift book. It pre- sents "some studies of animal life in the far North,' and is lavfshly and beautifully illustrated. MT. Long writes delightfully."- of the animal crea- tion and the work has frontispiece in colors and gold, twelve full page and two hundred smaller illustrations by Charles Copeland, gold top and four hundred pages. Price $1.5O net MT, Long says in the preface: "The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country-a land of space and silence where it is good to be
 away up among the mountains and woods and salmon rivers and messy barren grounds of Labrador and New foundland. There he will find himself face to face with new animals-white wolf, fisher, salmon, wild goose, polar bear, and score of others big and lit tle--that stop their silent hunting to look at the intruder curiously and without fear. In his turn he will lay aside his gun and his thoughts of kill ing for moment, and watch these an- in1als with his heart as well as his eyes wide open, trying to see without prei- udice just what things they are doing. and then to understand if possible why and how they do them; why, for in stance, the big Arstic wolf spares the bull caribou that attacks him wanton- ly; why the wild goose has no fear at home; why the baby seals are white at birth; how the salmon climb the falls which they cannot jump and why they hasten back to the sea when they are hurt; how the whale speaks without a voice; and what makes the fisher con- fuse his trail or leave beside it a tempt ing bait for yo uwhen you are follow ing him,-all these and twenty more curious things are waiting to be seen and understood at the end of the trail !"
 Boys will be enthusiastic over