The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-23
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

General Charles Kings "A Soldiers
 Trials an Episode of the Canteen
 Crusade"-''TrRgedies of Childhood" !. by Burges Johnson and Fanny Y.
 Cory-Booth TarIington's "The Con- P quest of caanan"-~odes from the
 DiFan of Haaz," Translated by Rich
 ard Le GalIienne-.Back HOme,' by
 Eugene wOoa-Other New Books-
 Forthcoming Books-Magasines
 General Charles Kings entertaining army stories are not usually loaded to kin, but his latest novel, announced by the Hobart Company, is apparently a ball cartridge. It is a stirring story entitled "A Soldiers Trial; an Episode of the Canteen Crusade" and 1t is powerful argument in favor of the res- toration of the army canteen. (The Hobart Company, New YOrk.) When General King has anything to say on army matters he is well worth listen ing to. He is soldier first and al- ways and has at heart the welfare of the men as individuals as well as the institution.
 General Kings opinion of the canteen is emphaticaliy that of most army of- ficers-namely, that it is a necessary and proper institution. But he is too much the born story teller to preach in fiction. His readers will be glad to hear that he has not let the liquor pro- blem get on his imagination to the ex- tent of usurDing his latest romance. Love and jealousy of criminal type are the big motives of "A Soldiers Trial" There is a big mystery, too. not to be solved until the very last.
 General King on his title page quotes Brigadier~General Frederick D. Grant, U, s. A., who says: Tt is distressing that the prosperity of the keepers of vile resorts is due to the activity of good and worthy though misguided cit~s izens, who have succeeded in abolish ing the canteen in the army"
 This story of the Canteen crusade by so able writer and authority will un- doubtedly be widely read, not alone by the advocates of the Canteen, but those who are arrayed against it. and in depicting army life with vigor and animation he is unexcelled by any American writer. Price $1.50. For sale by the Pease-Lewis company.
 "A rare treat for young folks, delight ful indeed, is Tragedies of Childhood" Published by Harber & Bros. The text and illustrations vie with each other in affording merriment and joy. MT. Burges Johnson rhymes the tragedies of chiidhood-big folks making a fuss about a first tooth, and using the babys first Christmas as excuse for Behaving in most undignified and ri- otols nlanner-which Miss Cory real isticaIly illustrates.
 Of the book the New York Evening Sun says: 'We have found corner of our childhood's book shelf waiting for one more companion to the dream children of De Monvel and Phil May, Ben Woeh and Parrish, Jessie Smith and Peter Newell. Nobody knew there was a vacancy. But here has come the Tragedies of Childhood' (TTarpers), and presto! the old books all move up one. Why tell what is in the new book? It is a secret. It is an open secret, in fact, to those who have loved the coarse thumb sketches of kids" in Life, signed Cory-she is Fanny Y. Cory, by the way--or who have laughed with MT. Burges John son's sober infants poeticar' in the Harper's Drawer" The verses have d. 1. all, and the mock union sets you tear frl, smiling, like a Christmas masquer- ade. Price $1.5O. For sale by the Pease-LeWis company.
 Booth Tarkington never wrote a bet ter book among the many excellent ones from his pen than his new one just out, "The Conquest of Canaan" published by Harper & Brothers. He is at his best i'll this story. It is a simple story, prettily told and with considera- ble humor. The reader to know Ca- naan has only to turn to the opening chapter. Here he sees the national horse and the jabbering of the horse men, the great Judge Pike, and Gene Bantry, the college man." coming home with his long hair and banjo-a familiar scene and familiar figures Seeing Judge Pike one expects to find him living in a house with two iron deer on the lawn, As has been already well said: "The boy whom all the will lage puritans think a hopelessly bad case, who runs away and returns years afterward to become a hero by right of his real worth, is not a strilzingly original character. But MT. Parking ton makes Joe Louden lovable young man for all that, and we feel that all of our readers will agree with us in oul belief that he deserves all the good things coming to him in the end, in e1uding Ariel Tabor. For in Ariel more than the descriptions of the village folk and even that other Colonel Newcome old Askew, we found our chief delight Ariel is a girl of girls, a pearl of great price; a joy forever. She is the per feet flower of American womanhooG and never more so than in her ''great scene with Judge Pike In that pom. pous rogue, by the way, the author has drawn 8 wonderfully complete picture of type of man whom recent upheav. als in this country are fast sending tt the limbo of disgrace. If Indiana'S