The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-02
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.
sThe Boss of Little Already" by Harry Leon WiIsOn-"lfrs. Jim and Mrs. Forthcoming BOOks-1Iagazines

 Jimmie" by Stephen Conrad Forthcoming BoOks-MagazInes. Harry Leon Wilson, the gifted author Of "The Spenders," has another success in his new book, '"The Boss of Little Already" published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, Boston.
 In this book Mir. Wilson shows the power and charm which made "The spenders'' a permanent favorite beyond any other American novel of it's year, in even greater measure than in that striking book. And Mir. Wilson's friends who have examined this. his la test work, are delighted that he has gone back to the field of pure entertain ment and genuine American humor in which he made so distinct and lasting success.
 A leading critic said of MT. Wilson's first book that if there were such a thing as the American novel of new method "The Spenders" was the one and that 1t was absolutely to be en- joyed from the first page to the last The same can be said of this book.
 The scene of this new story is evil aently the home of MT. Wilson's child hood, a little village in Oregon, Hi nois, and 1t is also plain that the au- thor's memories of his youthful days are clear and vivid, as appears in the description of country life given which IS unusually fine and realistic. Very amusing too are the struggles of ''the boys to rid Little Already of the per son of Upright Potts" Little Area dy is a pastoral town, but in nearly everything initiating city life as far as possible. The boss is an editor who gets out the Weekly Argus. The town gets rid of Upright Potts" by the bringing of Mrs. Potts into town, a lady with a serious mission in life. Very amusing also is the narration of the experience of the good Methodist preacher with the mint julep. There is refined subtlety about MT. Wilson's humor that is spontaneous and deli cious and very entertaining. The story is full of comical sketches of village people and the book is charming throughout. It is illustrated by Mrs. Wilson, who is better known as Rose Cecil O'Neill. Price S1.50; for sale at all leading bookstores.
 Another book that will surely enter tain and delight the reader is Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie" by Stephen Conrad, author of that charming book ''The Second Mrs. Jim." All who read the latter book will welcome Mir. Con- rad's new story and will not be disap- pointed in their expectations. Mrs. Jim was that lovable good natured friend of everybody who says she is mot interfering, nor a hypocrite, nor a gossip, nor .busybody. 1T just want my friends to be happy" she remarks, and don't believe they'll get to being happy quite so soon, and may be not at all, if T don't help them. So am help img ffierr; that's all. The Lord helps them most that helps themselves; that know: but he helps them most that helps others most, just the same. And it isn't meddling for me to help them"
 The book abounds in bubbling good humor. The story of the Sunday school picnic is a delightful bit of humor with many original and startling features, and one cannot help being highly amused, even if he is bit shocked, by the adventures of the saloon-keeper's parrot at the children's day exercises, which are given under the management of Mary Jane Higgins, who is known as John Maree" after her college course.
 Mrs. Jinl's account of the "Children's Day'' at the Sunday school, and the in dignation of old MT. and Mrs. Martin when they arrived and found their pew taken out to make room for a tempo rary platform is amusing in the ex- trene. The Martins are down on all such 'tnew-fangled doin's' in the church, and Mrs. Martin says to Mrs. Jim:
 Here about every fifth Sunday or maybe oftener, they give up the church to some new-fangled doin's- Easter, and "children's days" and ssharvest homes" and that sort of thing. believe in havin' speakin', and all that, but believe in keepin' it to the schools, and not Iettin' the preach CT have so easy a time. Do you know counted up how much the preacher has to preach now, with this new half |. hour sermon business and all his hbti- days, and it's only about forty-eight hours, less than two days out of the three hundred and ,sixty-five. Now whats he paid for? We want a man that can preach more than little skimpin' fifteen-minutes sermons. And do somethin' besides raisin' young ones.
 There are several love affairs In all of which Mrs. Jim has hand, to the ad- vantage of all concerned. Life in a country town is humorously presented. As says the. New York Times: Mrs. Jim possesses what few of her fellow philosophers can be said to have-a touch of that human attractiveness which lends some degree of charm to the everyday incidents upon which she comments with not a little insight and llunor.
 Throughout variety of very real sit nations, she and Mrs. Jimmie exert an altogether felicitous influence on the community which they adorn. Mrs. Jim is rather garrulous, but combines with her attractive personality good sense and powers of observation excep- tionalIy keen. She exposes, with mild scorn and amusing satire, individual and social shams and follies, while Mrs. Jimmie fills in the stops and gaps of