The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-18

to inspire one, he says, to think that II the backward race is let alone, 1t IS doomed. Tt is but a part of the in creasing purpose of the ages, a forward creeping of the eternal dawn" If only the Afro-American is let alone, in time he will die. He must, he shall die. eThis is Professor Smiths message.
 The book is sure to excite wide spread interest and awaken much discussion. It appeals to all interested in the ne- gro problem in America just as did President Roosevelt's recent speech treating in part of this national pro- blem. It may be taken as most intel ligent and able presentation of the case from the southern standpoint chiefly. For sale by the Pease-LeWis Co.
 ''The Bell in the Fog is the title of Gertrude Atherton's admirable new book just issued by Harper & Broth CTS. It is a volume of short emotional stories, taking it's title from the open ing tale. It may truly be said that the author of "The Conqueror" and Ruler of Kings has written nothing which so powerfully portrays her style and her genius as a story-teller as do these tales. Subtle in conception and execution, at times intensely dramatic, they recall the work of Maupassant. The stories cover wide variety or subjects and all are refreshingly orig inaI The volume is dedicated to ''The Master, Henry James," and the title Al,s fn ring to MT. James:
 His following was not a large one, but it was very distinguished. The aristocracies of the earth gave to it, and not to understand and admire Ralph Orth was deliberately to rele- gate oneself to the ranks. But the elect are few, and had not Mir. Orth inherit ed a suficiency of ancestral dollars to enable him to keep rooms in Jermyn street and the wardrobe of an English man of leisure, he might have been forced to consider the tastes of the mid dle class at a desk in Hampstead. But as it mercifully was, the fashionable and exclusive sets in London knew and sought hina. He was too wary to be- come fad, too sophisticated to grate or bore; consequently, his popularity continued evenly from year to year, and long since he had come to be re- garded as one of them. A group of young literary men-and one Of two women-put him on a pedestal and kissed the earth before it. Naturally, they initiated him; and as this fiatter- ed him, and he had a kindly heart deep among the cerecloths of his for1nalities, he sooner or latter wrote 'apprecia- tions' of them all, which nobody could understand, but which, owing to the subtitle and signature, answered every purpose"
 ''The Bell ill the Fog" is dainty and charming and at once enlists the read CTS best attention. As says the Brook 1yn Eagle, Mrs. Atherton has a swift and attractive sympathy for the sub tleties of sentiment, and she has etched the semi-paternal love of an elderly bachelor for a little girl in wonder ful way. She is enabled to suggest by imperceptible touches the eternal feminine" which makes even a six
 
 tyranny of a doting man. To such a man, such a child has all the witchery of a beautiful woman, only purified of the dross. There is no relation more tender, more pathetic, than the infat- uation of a man of fifty for a child of six. 2'
 The other stories have each their ,stra raa win straint and the volume will confirm the verdict that Mrs. Atherton's TO- mances have the hall mark of unique and fascinating personality" Price, $1.50; for sale by the Pease, Lewis Co.
 A third printing of Mysterious MT. sabin,'' by E. Phillips Oppenheim, is announced by Little, Brown and Com pany. A Chicago critic warns persons against reading this novel of love, in- trigue and adventure at night, saying, You can't sleep till you have read it all, and then, you are certain not to sleep at all." On the other anhd, a New York reviewer as- serts that Mysterious MT. Sabin" is the kind of book Ito make a man for get to grunlble over rapid transit that is not rapid and ferry connections that do not connect"
 Sir William Magnay has laid the scenes of his new romance of adven- ture, "A Prince of Lovers,'' in Walda- via and Beruldstein, names which hide the identity of two of the many inde- pendent German states which existed for the greater part of two centuries, after the close of the Thirty Years war. Sir William Magnay is favorably known as the author of "The Red and other novels. "A Prince of Lovers" will be published in March by Littley Brown and Company.
 "The Freedom of FLife," by Annie Payson Call,\ author of Power Repose," to be published in March by Little, Brown and Company, may we'll 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 lg waste of nervous force and gain new life and power for work.
 Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French, the author of Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop," after having left the manuscript of her new book with her publishers, Little. Brown and Company, has gone abroad for, rest Since shn oreatad tba ;,