The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-07
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.


 Foster-~The Boy Craftsman" by A.
 NeeIy HaIi-ForthcOming Books.
 "The Passport" the new novel by Richard Bagot. the well known Eng fish author, and published by Harper & Brothers, is a story of remarkable i1ferest. It is a romance of modern Italian 1ife-a love story pure and sim pie, treating of the difficulties. the re- suit of caste prejudice and tradition. which confront a nobly born young Italian girl and her lover, the son Of a Roman senator. The scene is Iald partly in Rome and partly in the mt diaeyal castle of the Acorari in the Sabine Hills, a setting that lends charming Old World touch to the TO- nance. The authors acquaintance with Italian society is at first hand. Excellent social position and long res- idenee in Rome combined to put him in touch with the old aristocracy and official classes of the church. The beautiful heroine of the story being ot high family and social position, the idea. of her becoming the bethrothed Of the hero, who is not of high degree, IS drowned upon, and exciting complica- tions ensue, showing the truth of the old adage concerning true love- etc. There Is a stepmother, not wicked, but determined; a pretty villain of an old step uncle who wants to marry the girl himself, and a crafty, scheming, selfish priest, who acts as adviser to the step- mother in the case of the young prin- cipessina's big Italian estates to his own enrichment. Youth and love, how ever, conquer, and the book ends with wedding bells and forecast of happi- ness ever afterward. MT. Bagot pre- sents a fine picture. of Italian life and scenes aside from the merits of his well-told love story. He is an excellent delineator of character, and all the per- sonages of the story are realistic and vividly drawn. His pictures of the Italian populace are distinctly strong and withdrawn from life. MT. Ba- got's book we'll merits the attention of, book lovers. $1.50; for salo by the Tease, LeWlS CO.
 MT. Bagot is an Englishman of good blood. His grandfather was Sir Charles Bagot, once ambassador to this country, and later governor gen eral of Canada; his father was Colonel Charles Bagot, assistant master of cer- emonies to Queen Victoria. MT. Bagot himself was for some years private secretary and aide de camp to the late Sir Frederick Browne, governor of western Australia.
 Ben Pepper" by Margaret Sidney, is the tenth volume of the famous Pepper Books" Six illustrations by Eugene M. Wireman; 12mo; cloth. Reading the Pepper Books is just iiiiiie iiisee-- -ha.Ying the fun yourself" is the unique expression of a girl of twelve after reading these famous books, and no one has ever better expressed the true secret of the charm and enormous popularity of this series, the tenth VOL tune of which, Ben Pepper" is now ready. Other members of the family had books named after them, and it was only fair that Ben, the 'quiet, steady boy" should have similar attention. Surely no one of the family was better worthy of a book to himself. Ben's resolute, unselfish char acter is finely brought out, and there are good times and good actions with out number. No one of the hosts of readers of the Pepper Books will long De willing to be without this ex~ cellent addition to their number Price $L50 Published by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co.,, Boston.
 "Cordelia's Pathway Out by Edna A. Foster, editor of "Childrens Page in the Youths Companion" and au- thor of "Hortense," a story for young girls. Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood. Miss Edna A. Foster, whose able edito- rial work in connection with the "Chil- dren's Page" of the Youths Compan- ion has long marked her as unusual ly well fitted to provide good reading for the young, will be remembered as the author of ftHortense" a story for young girls which showed such power as to raise it entirely above the level of ordinary books of that nature. Her new book, "Cordelia's Pathway Out, , is complete in itself and wholly inde- pendent of the former book, but in it Miss Foster has carried along the bril- liant little Hortense and many of the characters of that story, while bringing into prominence the quiet Cordelia whose admiration and love for Hor- tense act as an incentive to study and cultivate a desire for growth. Early in the story she is transplanted from the village in which we first find her, and comes into larger living and the be- stoWal of modest advantages" She is a shy, country-bred child, but she observes, initiates and applies the best to her own life, and the exercise of low ing and homely qualities brings her to desirable plane. The writer con- vincingly shows that earnestness, will power and tenacity of purpose may be as potent as briIliancy with its mani- fold temptations. Price $1.O0. Pub lished by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co, Boston.
 'sThe Boy Craftsman; Practical and Profitable Ideas for Boy's Leisure Hours by A. Nicely Hall, illustrated with many diagrams and working drawings; Svo; cloth. "The Boy Craftsman by A. Nicely Hall, is a very comprehensive guide to the exer- else of mechanical ingenuity and hand