The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-11
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

Bangs-fsThe Troll Garden" by Villa
 sibert Cather-sstOrIes of Little Fishes,s by Lenore E. sIuIets. '.The worsted Man. is a musical play for amateurs, by John Kendriek Bangs, published by Harper & Brothers, and the scene of this jolly eomedietta is a summer hotel in mid-August. A group of six summer girls longing for male companionship construct the figure of a man. The materials are an old afghan stuffed with cotton. All their ingenuity is exerted, and the result is a grotesque figure of man. I The other character in the play is Miss Patience Willoughby, 'an ingen- ious young woman known as Impa- tience for obvious reasons" She and the six Summer girls" are all willing to be courted, wooed and won--one of them, Miss Ethelinda Dewitt, aged thirty seven. but marked down to twenty five" The only male object beside the Worsted Man, is the elevator boy, and
 
 to life and proves an outrageous fiirt, and for his misdemeanors is rent in pieces by the group of indignant girls. In other words when his treachery is discovered the seven Eumenides in the shape of the seven maidens, fall upon the offender and ravel him to heap of soulless yarn and then sing tragic la If1ent over his woolsn remains.
 Upon every occasion, opportune or in- opportune, the actors in the play drop into song, the droll funny verses set to the music of various well-known comic operas. The play is humorous, in MT. Bangs peculiar vein, and will doubtless prove welcome for presentation by anna teurs or girls college clubs. Fifty cents; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
 'sThe Troll Garden by Villa Sibert Gather, published by Mcclure Phillips and Company, consists of seven bril- liant stories dealing with artistic life, and most of these having to do with music. The stories are characterized by a great deal of deep feeling and real ability, but tinged with a surplus of psychological tendencies. Of "The Troll Garden the Boston Advertiser well says:
 From many points of view, The Troll GardenS a collection of short sto- ries, is one Of the most noteworthy books that have been lately published Seven in all go to make up the number, seven tales of almost equal strength, sadness and ifnpulse; none of them tending to convince the reader that the world is tremendously good place, or to brace any one who is depressed, to the point of exhilaration. They are all tragedies, real or suggesteds in soms cases even more the result of a tragic motive. Yet with such power are they writtsn, so comprehendingly and with such understanding are they done that, despite the sadness, the reader lays the book down reluctantly. In four out of the seven stories the inter- est centres around a woman, each wo. man real, living personality. Flavia with ths s'icy fastnesses of her self esteem, Caroline who had served hel Apprenticeship to idsalism,' Katherine Gaylord and her magnificent love, and, last, poor Aunt Georgiana sitting ''si. lent upon peak in Darien," in othal words listening to a Symphony con. cert, and thinking of her spent years wasted without the music her sou loved. ..,ess4 <
 The other three natvrally concerr themselves with men. "The sculptors Funeral is the appreciation or rather the lack of appreciation given to an ar. tist successful in the way that the sor did, little western town that gave hin birth could never understand. 9Th Marriage of Phaedra' is a chasing oi character between husband and wife, 1; total misconception that leaves bitter ness even after the painters death, ant makes his wife part with his unfin ished masterpiece" For sale by tn, Pease-Lewis Go. >~
 Young folks will take genuine delight in "Stories of Little Fishes, which is another oe the charming books for lit. tie people in the Phyllis Field Friends Stories" by Lenore B. Mulets publish. ed by L. c. Page & Co, Boston. This { is the sixth volume in the series and reveals much that is worth knowine about the finny tribes, under various disguises as stories or through the per. sonal adventures of the youngsters There are several children whose ad, ventures are thus told about, chiefly Phyllis and Jack and what they set land do give great pleasure t young readers. The author has tht rare faculty of writing in a way tha young people will both understand ant appreciate. Some old legends from th' Indians about fishes and very apropo This Phyllis series has won renown or its merits. s1. for sale by the D. P Judd Co. -sas