The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-23
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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with several LNDuSc1LluS S~
 auction quotations of earller udte' The four volumes will include nearly one hundred thousand records on al most, twenty thousand different DOCKS and editions. The arrangement Will De in alphabetical order by authors ana under authors by titles, with a chrono- logical arrangement of the different editions of the same book, and or the sales. Although prices paid at auction are not an infaIlibIe guide to the value of out-of-print books, they certainly furnish the best general guide availa- ble, and this compilation aims to be as great an advance on the English and American Book Prices Current" as those annual volumes were over the old method of consulting the priced catalogues of sales. The edition will be limited to 750 copies.
 'sThe Boys of Bob's Hill,'' though rogues, were fundamentally good fel- lows. Their lively adventures in a for est fire, on the railroad and elsewhere, are described by Charles Pierce Bur ton in book which the Messrs. Holt will issue shortly. -- ~.
 Messrs. Henry Holt and Company will issue shortly "A Harvest of Chaff," !" by Owen Seaman, whose Borrowed Plumes'' and Battle of the Bays" have placed him in the front rank of living parodists. Kipling, Richard Wagner, Austin, Wordsworth, Brown ing, Byron and Morris are among his victims in this new book.
 Though it. has not yet been on the mal1et three months, Messrs. Henry Holt and Company have just had to send Burton E. Stevenson's Marathon Mystery" to press for the fifth time. This is not only a remarkably ingen- ious detective story. but the excellence of it's style has been praised in high quarters. j ...
 The Honorable Peter Stirling (HolD seems certainly to have luck in the way it is constantly being brought to notice. The other day Magistrate Ommen, of New York made list of ten books for a little girl who came be- fore him, to read, and the only book in the lot by a contemporary author was ''The Honorable Peter Stirling" Moreover, the magistrate placed this book ahead of the nine others. Like Lubbock, he counts k Shakespeare's s plays as one book. Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips and Com pany announce that among the books they will publish this spring season are: "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by A. Conan Doyle; "In the Arena by Booth Tarkington; "'The Troll Gar den. by Villa s. Gather: ''Pardners,' , by Rex E. Beach; Little Stories of Courtship,''' by Mary Stewart Cutting; "The Golden sFlood,' by. Edwin Lefe- vre;; "The Girl from Horne" by Isabel Strong; 'yrhe Wing of Love" by K. M.
 c. Meredith; Lady Noiggs- Peeress, by Edgar Jepson; lon Life's Thresh- old,'' by Charles Wagnerg "The Color Line" by Professor W. B., Smith of Tu- lane university; Alaska and the Klon-
 dike." by J. $. McLain; Orchard and
 Fruit Garden" (volume IT. in the Coun- try Home Library, by II. F. Powell;
 Russian Literature,'' by Prince Kro.
 patkin; Religion, a Criticism by c. F. Dickinson. They have. also in prep 'aration a novel by Mrs. H. A. Mitchell ISeays, author of "IIe That Eateth
 Bread With Me- ..s l.. c. Page and Company, of Boston,
 announce the following publications by well known authors for spring season: Return By Alice MaeGowan and
 Grace MacGowan Cooke, authors of
 '.The Last Word,'' etc. With six illus- trations by c. D. Williams.
 Castel del Monte-By Nathan Cali. zier. With six illustrations by H. c. | Edwards. @ F : l Lady Penelope-By Morley Roberts, author of Rachel Marr,'' ''Tyle Promo
 tion of the Admiral" etc. With nine
 illustrations by Arthur W. Brown
 The Winged Helmet-By Harold Steele MacKaye, author of t'The Pan
 chronicon," etc. With six illustrations l by H. c. Edwards.
 The Black Barque-By T. Jenkins
 Hains, author of "The Wind Jam,
 mers,'' etc. With five illustrations by w. Herbert Dunton. # | Slaves of Success-By Elliott Flower, author of "The Spoilsmen," etc. With twenty illustrations by different artists. l Silver Bells-By Colonel Andrew c,
 P. Haggard, author of ''Hannibals
 Daughter Louis XIV. in Court and Camp" etc.
 ! A Captain of Men-By F. Anson
 More. Illustrated. | The most important of the prelimi- nary spring announcements of Messrs. 1 Dodd, Mead and Company is a Life
 of Honore de Balzac," by Mary F. l Sandars. f
 l This firm has also in preparation a
 new story by Grace Barr McCutcheon, 'The Purple Parasol." The third vol
 tune of it's edition of "The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Ex-
 petition has just appeared. The work is to consist of seven richly illus, trated volumes and an atlas.
 Mrs. H. M. Lothrop (Margaret Sid ! ney), is engaged in completing the ! tenth of the famous Pepper books, ! Ben Pepper" which the Lothrop, Lee | and Shepard Company have in press
 for publication upon their Lothrop list
 during the present season. The popular demand for these remarkable books is continually increasing; the sales dur