The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-18
The NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
THE SEASON
EIinor Gyms tThe Vfcissitudes of
EvanReIine" - Morgan RobertsOn's
sDown to the sea"-FOrtheoming New
Books.

sDown to the notwithstanding New
Books.
The heroine of Elinor Glyn's new
novel, '"rhe Vicissitudes of Evange-
line" just published by Harper and
Bro, is a young English girl who,find-
ing herself comparatively poor and
possessed of the charm of fascination,
decides that there is only one career
open to her, that of an Adventures,
which role she adopts with glee and
in which she succeeds in becoming
very fascinating to the male sex, while
her adventures fascinate the reader.
She is, moreover, endowed with red
hair and green eyes with black lashes
and an aIluring audacity which gives
Mrs. Glyn plenty of opportunity to in
troduce the piquant situations and So
phisticated philosophy which make her
stories distinctive in the field of light
fiction, and allow her to create the
sort Of electric atmosphere for her
readers that the up to date literary
taste eagerly Graves. There is GER
tain motor car risque tendency In pop
ular fiction Just now that demands
swift movement, close running to the
conventional limit and beyond it, and
delicate manipulating of the steering
gear In dangerous places-all of which
Mrs. Glyn understands and displays
most satisfactorily. Evangeline de-
lightfully tells her own story with
many engaging airs Of frankness and
simplicity. Her mother she explains
was "a person of no family at all, for
the reason that her grandparents Zone
Of whom was an earD forgot to mar
ry.a She was brought up by a very
worldly and wealthy and high-plaeed
old lady, witty and selfish, who de-
signed the girl to be her heir. Only, at
the last moment, she said nothing
about it in her will, preferring to re-
quest the lawful heir, man somewhat
advanced in the diplomatic service of
his country and not sentimental, to
marry the girl. Thus (as she explains)
EvangeIine finds herself an adventur-
ess, a condition she defines, latter
reading in book all about it," as be-
ing NICE looking and having nothing to
live on, and getting a pleasant time
out Of life Previously to the cid
DANES demise she is not greatly ac-
quainted with the ways of men," As
she says in feminine fashion: 1--WE
have not had any that you could call
that here, much-only a lot of old
wicked sort of things in the autumn to
shoot the pheasants and to play bridge.
Some politicians and ambassadors and
creatures of that sort; and mostly as
wicked as could be. They used to come
trotting down the passage to the school
room and have tea with mademoiselle
and me on the slightest provocation,
and say such things! i am sure lots
of what they said meant something
else, mademoiselle used to giggle so.
She was rather a good looking one
I had the last four years, but I hated
her., .-
The story runs on charmingly with
happy surprises, amusing situations and
light talk galore. She had a-plenty Of
fers Of marriage. The heir wanted to
espouse her, a handsome guardsman
sought her hand, little chap of a
Scotsman was enamored with her be-
yond measure, and so on. The book is
in Mrs. Glyn's best vein, and is an ex-
ceedingly clever story, which will
amuse and entertain highly. $3.50; for
sale by the Pease, Lewis Co.
THE, Divine Fire" (EIenry Holt and
Company than which few if any nov
els within a year have received more
enthusiastic notice from high sources,
took the author something like seven
years to complete.
Many admirers of Miss Marion Ames
Taggart's Miss Lochinvar' will be
glad to learn that Messrs. Henry Holt
and Company will bring out this month
"a new book by her, entitled, Nut
Brown JOAN" which is the story of the
trials and triumphs of the tabled ugly
duckling' of a large family.
Messrs. Henry Holt and Company
will bring out at once a striking new
book by Frederick Lewis Pattee, the
scene of which is laid among the Penn
sylvania Dutch" Its title 1.-THE
rHousesof the Black Ring" refers to a
cabin, supposed to be haunted, in the
Seven Mountains. The action and
weirdness of. this story seem odd when
associated with the quiet Burghers of
the Keystone State.
Mr.. Arthur Cotton, who has been re-
cognized by leading literary authori-
ties as an author of somewhat unusual
insight and literary ability, branches
out into a new vein of almost bolster
Gus humor in his ''The Belted Seas"
which Messrs. Henry Holt and Compa-
ny will Issue early this month. This
story of the adventures of an early
American sea captain in southern seas
has many of the ludicrous situations
similar to those which had so much to
ido with the success Of Mr.. Davis farce,
1.-THE Dictator"
simultaneously with the publication
iof 1.-THE Princess Passes the new hui
.morous romances Of travel by the au-
\ tllors of the popular Lightning Con-
ductor," its publishers, Messrs. Henry
Holt and Company, will bring out a
new uniform illustrated edition of the
earlier book, which will make it's twen-
tieth printing. The pictures in this
edition will mostly be from photo