The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-23
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

ers.---Mary c. Dickerson's "Moths and utterfiiesr-Professor MOore's Book on .BaeterioIogy"--A. F. BIais-
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 the Many forthcoming Books--Masa-
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 | The new hook. "The Slanderefs, py MT. Warwick Deeping, certainly makes very interesting reading. The story, though slightly encountered Wltn superabundance of luxurious language, has excellent. dramatic material III us make up, which is ably and even brll- Iiantly handled, and several of the | leading characters are drawn in mas terly style It surpasses in interest ms | previous successful books, "Uther ana Igraine" and Love Among the Ruins.'' which were of the Arthurian | type of romance The plot and scenes of .,The Slanderers'' are well conceived. There is good dramatic material in the situation. A sensitive young man, poet and a dreamer, son of a wealthy l retired tea merchant, is drawn into q marriage with the very materialistic, beautiful. and pleasure loving daughter of a nobIeman of Saltire. In a short time the charms of the lady pail, and the poet becomes insufferably dull in | the sight of his wife. At this point rare child of nature, the daughter or wine-bibbing, opium-taking old miser, appears to show the poet what sort of match he should have made. The | two meet often secretly, and hold high communication on spiritual things. But Saltire gosslps, led by two we'll drawn old scandal -mongers, interpret the meetings in the worst possible light. Meanwhile, the poets pleasure seeking wife has gone off in search of amusement and found a fascinating army captain.
 The climax of the story is strong and dramatic, and leaves the beautiful and | spiritual Joan and Gabriel to take the sweetness of an unmeasureable happi- ness arising from their affinity of souls. Gabriel with his poetic and lit erary tastes, had little in common with his first wife a wealthy society woman of ample physical charms, to build happy married life upon, and the lat ter both wearies of hint and is drawn into happy contemplation of the hypo- critical army officer, and is comprom- ised by him. The village gossips who malign the poet and help bring about 1.-the final tableaux are admirably por ltrayed Altogether the book is a very attractive story. $1.50; for sale by the Pease, Lewis Co. Published by liar per & Brothers
 Tn Memoriam," a book of poems of the late Rev Robert Clarkson Tongue, of Meriden, is beautiful little volume lof ninety-two pages, bound in white and gold, issued from the press of l the Meriden Journal a few days ago. All who knew MT. Tongue will doubly prize this little volume, and all will be I delighted with the genuine beauty of the poems. The book is published in MT. Tongues memory by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Wyatt Tongue. The late MT. Tongue was man whose charm of personality endeared him to thousands whom he met in the years of his minis try from June 96, to December of the year just closed, and even before that ltirne, when, as Rev. Dr. Hart quotes I his former teacher he became lead- CT among his schoolmates because of 1 his intellectual gifts, and still more be cause of his loyable comradeship. I The book contains a handsome full page frontispiece portrait of MT. Tongue done in photo-brown from his most recent photograph, and opens with a biographical sketch by Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart The tribute paid therein to MT. Tongues memory is most able and sincere from one high In church councils, and speaking for those who could best judge of his work for the church. Dr. Hart reviews MT. Tongues unique position in the com munity which had so learned to love him in the five years of his ministra- tions in Meriden, and adds: l
 "As a, memorial of the man and as a tribute to his genius, this collection of sonnets and other poems has been made and is now published. To his friends they carry their own common dations as they tell of the author; and the judgment of those who here read them without having the privilege of his acquaintance. leads us to believe they will be welcomed by others, both for their intrinsic excellence and for the thoughts which they express and inspire" ss
 Mrs. Tongue has done a service in compiling the volume, for which not only the friends of the man in whose memory it is issued will be grateful, but also the large circle of readers the real merit of MT. Tongues poems will Twin. The appreciation of their worth by one so eminent as Dr. Hart, shown in the quotation above, should be war rant enough for the seeker for that which is worth reading.
 | There are in the volume sixty-two po- ems from MT. Tongues pen. written, some of them, at wide intervals, and a number of them published heretofore in magazines. To attempt to select from them the best would be an appeal purely to personal taste, but there is a rhythm and jingle to the authors style that catches and holds the readers in- ! terest from the start, as in, for in- stance, the opening lines of the very | first poem:
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