The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-11

BY, he is devoted to yachting.
 Herbert K. Job, the author Of Wild i Wings" is also a Harvard man and yachtsman, but he is a Congregational minister by profession and lives in Kent, Conn. He explored the New England coast with some thoroughness while living in Boston, but during the last eight years he has made an annual journey to some American region no- < ted for it's peculiar bird life, gathering notes to be elaborated and views to be developed at home. F. NJ. Buckles and Company have just issued ''The Crimson Crypto-
 gram" a detective story by Fergus
 Hume, full of adventure and surprises and details of police duties.
 Mrs. Wards brilliant novel, "The
 Marriage of William Ashe." will be, published in book form by the Hampers 1 on March g. The book will be issued 1 in two editions, the usual one-volume edition, which will be illustrated by
 Albert Sterner, and bound in red and
 gold, and a special edition, autographed ! by Mrs. Ward, numbered, and limited 1 to one thousand sets only. This limi- l ted edition will be issued in two crown
 octave volumes with sixteen illus trations by Albert Sterner, and bound | in blue and gold, with gilt tops and
 deckled edges, in box.
 The Hampers will publish March 16
 new romance called 1.-The Dryad," by Justin Huntly Mccarthy. The story is
 placed in a realm of fancy not too
 closely identified, where the heroine
 can be at once a wood nymph and a
 Britomart. She puts on armor and in
 mortal guise tilts with her lover, the
 Duke of Athens, and overcomes that
 mighty champion. The story tells, too.
 how the wood nymph won the price of
 the armor at the gipsy trade of telling
 great folks fortunes.
 I After a somewhat prolonged si- :I lence, says the New York Times, Anne
 lie Rives is about to appear as the au-
 thor of a longish poem of non-classic
 design, the title of which is "Selene."
 The poem tells a version of the story
 of Endymion and the moon goddess
 and is cast in the form of blank verse !
 ty of the verse people who, have seen
 the advance sheets speak with some en-
 thusiasm. The first lines certainly
 promise what indeed might be expected
 of the writer, something very far from
 the ordinary. The poem, which will
 make a fairly thick duodecimo volume,
 closes with a chorus in a metre still of
 blank verse, but with very short lines.
 The Harpers announce the book for
 publication on March 16.
 Lee and Shepard will issue among their forthcoming stories for children
 three by MT. Stratemeyer, 'The Fall of Port Arthur" already announced, and
 The Fort in the Wilderness" another
 Pontiac tale and Dave Porter at Oak
 Hall," a private school story of hazing fighting and baseball MT. A. T. Dud ley will continue his football serieswith :"In the Line" and Miss Edna A. Eos ter will follow her excellent "Hortense with "Cornelia's Pathway Out.'
 II Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Company ' announce four new novels to be pub 5 1ished during the month of February: Iq) .Pam,' by Bettina von Hutten, au :. thor of Our Lady of the Beeches;" @ "Bandolero,' story of Spanish life by Paul Gwynne; (S) Billy Duane," by Frances Aymar Mathews, author ot My Lady Peggy Goes to Town," and (D ''The Verdict of the Gods an Indi an novel written in English by a native of India.
 A timely monograph by L. H. Jones president of the Michigan State Nor maj college and author of the Jones Readers, has just been issued by Ginr and Company. It is entitled, What l Are Our Young People Reading?'
 President Jones' series of reading book: has made a deep impression on the ed - ucational thought of the country. Al 3 though it is less than two years since . these books were first published, the! ; are already in wide use. In New Eng 7 land, for example, they have been in l troduced in such schools as those O Providence, Pawtucket, Newport Worcester, Haverhill, Lawrence, Low ell, Fitchburg, Chelsea, Medford ant > Nashua.
 '- Of the many, excellent things Presi ;, dent Jones says in his monograph tn ; following is an example: "One seriou a mistake that has been made is the tax / ing for granted that the worlds bes /. literature is too good and too great fo children. While it is true that it some :. times presents difficulties, it also, as w
 have seen; offers incentives to over come them. Supplementary readers i therefore, which give to the pupil Eng = fish literature in ampler form than an. a single reading book can do, have be
 come a necessity in educationa :. methods. Further than this, such selec $ tions, suitably abridged and annotated e will be much more valuable in tn ,- child's own library than chance ed = tions of the same classics"
 g The Booklovers Magazine for Marcl
 runs largely in articles which deal wit T. strong personalities. Included witt 1t these by the publishers is an article b l. Hall Caine, Religion in the Novel. l- Joseph M. Rogers writes of Henr
 Watterson, and there is an interview
 with Dr.. Doyen, the cancer expert o |, Parts. Willard French's account 0