The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-25

Dodd, Mead and Company are pre- pairing new edition of Lucy M. Mitch. ,ell's History of Ancient Sculpture" This will be a cheaper reprint. and the two volumes will be in one. It treats of the sculpture of Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome. Not only is a his tory Of the sculpture of these countries given, but also descriptions and criti- cisms of numerous pieces of statuary, including unknown and well known ones. It is profusely illustrated and has many valuable tables.
 The following fiction is announced for early publication by Dodd, Mead and Company: Pam by Bettina von Hutten; "Bandolero,'' story of Spanish life by Paul Gwynne, author of The Pagan at the Shrine,' and "The Verdict of the Gods,' by Sarath Ku- mar Ghosh, a high-caste East Indian who is probably the only Hindu writer who has attempted English fiction
 t'The Freedom of Life" by Annie Payson Call, author of Power Through Repose," to be published in March by Little, Brown and Company, may well be called "the gospel of or derly living" Miss Call attempts to show, in her new book, how in the main affairs of life we may be spared the pain and annoyance of doing right in the wrong way, avoid the distress ing waste of nervous force and gain new life and power for work.
 To-day Houghton, Mifflin and Compa- ny will issue an interesting budget of volumes, the first instalment of their announced list of spring publications. The titles are as follows: "The Opal" a short novel of modern society life, by an anonymous author; "Out of Bon dage,' stories of the Green Mountain country, by the late Rowland E. Rob inson: Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs, by pr. Gardner W. Allen, covering a neglected episode in Amer ian history; a full account of all the anniversary proceedings at 'sThe Flaw thorne Centenary at the Wayside, Con cord, Mass, July 4-7, 1904;" fifth edi- tion of Osar F. Adams 'Ditionary of American Authors" revised to date; an enlarged edition of J. P. Dunn's Indiana in the American Common Wealths Series: Book of Spencer's $
 "Faerie Queene," in the Riverside Lit erature Series, and the limited River side Press edition of Boccaccio's Life lof Dante, translated by Philip Wick steed.
 George Francis Atkinson, professor of botany at Cornell university, author I of the we'll known books, Mushrooms and Studies Of American Fungi" has l prepared a College Textbook of Bota- n.y. to be issued immediately by Hen " Holt and Company.
 A life of Gorky, in English, by Dr. Emile Joseph Dillon, the well known | traveller and correspondent of the I London Daily Telegraph" is pub. | lished here by Mcclure, Phillips and l Company. Dr. Dillon, who spends his time between Berlin and St. Peters
 burg, having an address in each city,
 and who is so familiar with Russian
 that many of his published works have
 been written in that language, has ] long known Gorky personally.
 Messrs Mcclure, Phillips and Com
 pany announce that they have sold to | William Heineman, for publication in 1 England, editions of Bret Harte" and 1 William Butler Yeats and the Irish l Literary Revival, In their Contempor
 ary Men of Letters series.
 l --- I The March number of the Smart Sci
 marks the beginning of the sixth year
 of it's existence. The compete novel is
 '"The Princess Elopes," by Harold
 MacGrath. Among the dozen short stories in this number about half are by authors who have been either en .tirely unknown hitherto to magazine Ireaders or are just coming into promi hence. One of the best stories in the magazine is "A Venial Offence" by NorVelI Harrison. In marked contrast
 to it's hunor is the powerful and dra
 matic motive of Beatrix Demares
 Llowd's ."A Man Unlearned." William
 Hamilton Osborne's i'The Transfer o T Thorneycroft" is a satirical story of z
 phase of smart society, and "The Tran T sit of a Soul" by Frances Aymar Ma thews, is strange and unusual. Othel T stories are by Kate Jordan, Van Tasse
 Sutphen, Clinton Dangerfield, Julia B
 Foster and Algernon Tassin.
 l The name of MT. Thomas Nelson
 Page appears in the table of contents
 of the March number of the Metropol
 itan Magazine MT. Page makes on,
 of his strongest recent contributions tt
 magazine literature in an article enti J tied President Roosevelt, from tn,
 Standpoint of Southern Democrat.
 This paper is marked by a judicial ant
 dispassionate determination to get a
 the 5gist, of why MT. Roosevelt, so en
 Enthusiastically acclaimed by the Soutl upon his assufption of presidential du ties four years ago, is now regarded
 with great disfavor in Dixieland. An
 other article of interest is MT. Jame
 Hunekers story, Richard wagner'
 Greatest Romance" MT. Huneker'
 frank manner of handling facts is vel
 known, and it is not improbable tha some of the followers of the great com poser will find this narrative of his TO
 mantle love an entirely new light upol
 his character MT. Burton J. Hen | T zl.- s { .....