The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-25

the Well-knoWn playwright, Steele MaeKaye, and was born near Paris. His earliest reeol1ections are connected with life in the household of peasant in the picturesque hills of Burgundy, and in Gilberte, the piquant maid in The Winged Helmet" he has crystal lized the types remembered from those days.
 Anna Chapin Ray has been assisted in writing her new South African TO- nance, "On the Firing Line," by Ham, ilton Brock Fuller, a Canadian who served in the Boer war. The hero is Canadian trooper who fought bravely in Lord Roberts army, while the hero- inc Is an English girl. Little, Brown & Go. will publish it this month.
 The definitive three-volume edition of, George Herbert's Works" an- nounced for spring publication by Houghton, Miffiin and Company has been, postponed until next autumn. Professor George H. Palmer has been engaged in the editing of this edition for many years Houghton, Mif1in and Company also report that the one-vol- ume Cambridge edition of Byron's works. edited by Mir. Paul E. More, will not be ready for publication until Sep ten1ber or October.
 Gardner W. Aliens new book on Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs" has at once been added by the Bureau of Equipment to the approved list of books for crews libraries in the United States navy. MT. Cyrus Townsend Brady says of this book: Tt fills a gap in our naval history which no one has taken the trouble to close before. The book should be in the hands of ev- cry patriotic American" P,
 pr. Moncure D. Conway has just re- turned to. New York after several months ip Paris and London. Before leaving London he was given recep, tion by his old friends of the South Place Ethical society, where he was pastor thirty years ago. Dr. Conway's recently published 'Autobiography" is already in it's third edition in America, and has been very favorably received III ELIlS Sletfiu dIlu iJtTIlldIlSs
 Houghton, Miff1in and Company re- port the following new printings: Fifth edition of "Bits of Gossip" by Rebecca Harding Davis; third edition of English and Scottish Popular Bal lads;" third edition Of When the King Came" by pr. George Hodges; and the second edition of Mine and Thine," by Florence Earle Coates.
 On March 18th Houghton, Miffiin and Company publish the following list of books: "A Madcap Cruise lively novel by oric Bates; "A Manual of the Trees of North America" by Professor Charles s. Sergeant, the greatest living authority on the subject; Essays in Puritanisnl," by Dr. Andrew Macphail of Montreal; tIrelands Story ia pop ular history by. Charles Johnston and Carito Spencer; "A Short History of England's $ Literature" by Eva March Tappan; and the 1905 edition of the well-known '.Satchel Guide" edited by Dr. W. J. Rolfe.
 Two books to be published by Tough ton, Miffiin and Company next month, .'The Far Eastern Tropics" by Alleyne Ireland, and "Wasps Social and Solita- ry,'' by George W. and Ellsworth C.. Peckharn. will be issued simultaneously in England through Messrs. Archibald Constable and Company, Limited,
 '.The Opal previously reviewed is reported to be one of the best selling books in Boston last week. Before the final title Of this anonymous novel was chosen, two others were considered. Merely Players" and '.rhe Fulfilling of the Law,h Price, SIPS.