The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-13

Volume II in the Country Home Li- brary (AIcCIure, Phillips and Company is The Orchard and Fruit Garden, by E. P. Powell. This book deals in a popular way with the selection and
 cultivation of fruits, tells what are the favOrite varieties of each fruit, what varieties are likely to thrive best in any locality, and gives information on meth Ods of cultivation and ways of protec-
 ting each from pests and diseases like ly to attack it. The author is one of New York's prize fruit growers, and has
 made his own orchard model of cor
 rect cultivation and productiveness To all interested in the subject the
 book is a treasure house of information
 The book is finely Illustrated. Price
 $1; for sale by the Pease-Lsw:s Co.
 An eminently practical and useful
 book is "The First Book of Farming Doubleday, Page and Company, by Charles L. Goodrich, a farmer and for merly instructor in agriculture at the
 Hampton Normal and Agricultural In- stitute, Virginia. It presents in an in terssting and simple way the first prin-
 ciples of the art and shows wha science has done for the oldest of professions.
 MT. Goodrica's book is undoubtedly the | best and most helpful volume of the sort in print. It gives the beginner, old or young, a fundamcn al knowledge of i how to conduct farm with the least expense and largest return that condi- i tions of weather favor. It is a work suitable for text hook in class room' There are many helpful and very at traetive illustrations. The book will be invaluable to farmers, students and teachers and they will on perusal of the
 book and practical application of the instruction contained therein thank Mir. | Good rich for telling them and in such lucid and instructive manner what he
 knows about farming. Price $1.OO; for sale by all leading booksellers.
 Mother and Daughter" is by Gabri- elle E. Jackson, the well known writer
 for girls, author of ''The Three Graces, , Gaps and Capers," etc., and is pub lished by Harper & Brothers. In th.s
 work Mrs Jackson deals with the rela- tions of mother to daughter step by
 step from babyhood up. Such subjects l as table manners, pin money the "sto- ry-heuse" custom, children's questions, training in courtesy and usefulness, are taken up and discussed synpathetical- ly and practically. Mrs. Jackson has a mothers intuition and experience which make her message all the more
 practical and her book unfoids the un- limited possibilities for happiness that
 may grow out of the mutual obligation
 and dependence of mother and children.
 Price SIPS; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.,
 The current number of the Interna"
 tional Studio has an article by John Lane Of the Bodley Head on Sir Caspar
 Purdon Clarke, the new director of the
 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
 York, in which the writer laments the departure of the well-known English
 archaeologist as national loss" MT. Lane, who knows Sir Purdon, describes
 him as follows:
 Sir Purdon has the rare faculty of
 being an expert in antiquities, as well as of knowing all that is best about the
 modern arts. Indeed, can recall noth-
 ing more fascinating than to hear him
 describe the causes and effects of the
 various constituents employed in, say,
 producing piece of pottery, enamel or
 some Oriental fabric, be it ancient or modern. The fact is, he seems to know
 how everything is made. He appears
 to be chemist, scientist, artist, crafts
 man, antiquary, archaeologist and al-
 chemist combined. He also has the in stinct of at once recognizing the genu-
 ineness of an antique as well as it's
 beauty. These are too often diverse
 qualities It should be remembered
 that not all things which are old or
 even antique, are beautiful, or have any special educational or monetary value. It is this rare combination which has equipped him as one of the greatest experts in Europe.
 Mrs. Gabrielle E. Jackson, in Mother and Daughter, recently published by the Hampers, protests against some of the old costumes that we have grown to think indispensable factors in the bringing up of children, but of whose absurdity hardly serious second thought is needed to convince us. One thing against which objection is en- tered is the telling of Mother Goose stories to children. In chapter H., de- voted to the "story-hour custom" she says: Don't tell the terrifying glory tales in Mother Goose, where giants do impossible things, and utterly idiotic
 rhymes in atrocious English tell how
 the farmers wife cut off their tails
 with a carving knife or Moo Mulley' Cow, why do you low?' (marveous
 rhyming, forsooth, or Has the butcher taken your baby?' If Mother Goose
 must be read to children forever and a
 day, let us, for pity's sake, draw the line at some of the rubbish, and stick to Old King Cole was merry old
 souIn or one of the others with a hap py ending. have known more than one sensitive child to grieve bitterly be- cause the dear little 'mouses' lost their
 tails, or the poor dog had to go hun
 gry because the cupboard was bare. "
 Messrs Frederick A. Stokes Company
 lament the fact that there is one Bus ter Brown book that they do not puo- fish, reviews of which have recently ap- paared in the Enp1iSh nariOdica1s, This