The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-18

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Edward Day Collins has just been
elected principal of the State Normal
school at Johnson, VT. Mr.. Collins IS
graduate of Yale, class Of SO, and af-
ter receiving the degree of Phi. d. from
that university he acted as instructor
in history there. Recently he has writ
ten a school history of Vermont, pub
lished by CHM and Company.
Hodges Mature Study and Life"
(Ginn and Company, publishers) has
just been adopted by the Illinois State
| Teachers Reading Circle for the year
1905-1906.
Smiths Arithmetics have recently
been adopted in Keene, n. H., in Paw
tucket, R. l., and in the State Normal
school at Bridgewater, Mass.
| Owing to the lack of suitable editions
| many French plays of the seventeenth
| and eighteenth centuries are seldom
! read in American schools and colleges.
With the purpose of widening the
range of study in this field CHM and
| Company are planning to issue schol-
arly editions on a number of the best
plays of this period. The first of these
publications will include Rotrou's Saint
Genest and Venceslas, and will be edi-
ted by Professor 7. F. Crane of Cornell
| university.
/ Women in this country as well as
abroad will be gratified, to learn that
| Professor Otto Heller, who is an uncon-
verted skeptic as regards the artistic
| capacity of womankind, frankly admits
that one cannot name the foremost liv-
! ing writer's in Germany without includ-
ing several women.
| In his Studies in Modern German
Literature" (soon to be published by
CHM and Company Professor Heller
| devotes considerable space to the Wo-
| man Writer of the Nineteenth Century.
| He traces in the story of her increas-
4 ing influence and power the signs of a
wholesome and cheering advance.
| Lillian Writings new book, 1.-THE
/ Outlook II Beautiful" which Little,
Brown and Company will publish early
| in April, is to some degree the out
growth of thought suggested by hun
/ dreds of letters from strangers refer
ring to convictions expressed in seve-
/ raj of her preceding books-letters vi
tai in their intense regarding
the mystery Of death and the relations
between the life that now is and that
/ which is to come.
! Mysterious Mr.. Sabin,' E. Phillips
i Oppenheim'ss popular romance, is now
/ in its fourth edition in this country.
! Walter S. Cramp, member of the
well-known Philadelphia family that
! has been famous as builders, has
written novel entitled Psyche, a Ro-
nance of the Reign Of Tiberius," which
i Little, Brown and Company, Boston,
| will publish in April. Psyche" deals
! with ulle period when Tiberius went to
live In the island Of Capri and with the
i attempt of Sejanus, commander of the
Pretorian Guards to make himself
Emperor of Rome. The author is said
/ to have described the Rome of the time
/ with the utmost faithfulness, power
| and skill. Psyche, the heroine, is a
beautiful Greek dancer, betrothed to
! Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman cir
i Gus. &4>t.t 40 !:
Speaking of his famous story, THE
Man Without a Country new, pop
ular price national edition of which
Little, Brown and Company have just
/ published, DIR. Edward Everett Hale,
/ the venerable chaplain of the United
States senate; says: This story was
4 written in the summer of 1861 1t was
/ meant for the, Americans of that day.
i I wrote this book to show to boys and
girls, to men, and women, what it is to
/ have a country. For this purpose in
vented a history of the life of young
/ man who in frenzy of excitement ex-
pressed a wish to live without coun-
| try, and had that wish granted" More
/ than half million copies of the book
were printed In America and England
within a year after it appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly.
| Mogan Robertson's Down to the
Sea-" published by Harper & Bro, can
not fail to be one Of the most popular
| books of the year. 1t is a delicious
book of humor that can be commended
highly, for the idle hour. OF it the
New York Evening Sun says:
l ''There is a laugh on almost every
1 page of Down to the Sea-" Mr.. Nor
i gan Robertsons latest collection of sea
stories. He gives the place of honor
to "The Closing of the Circuit" NOV
ing story of the restoration of blind
boys sight, but the author is not at his
/ best in serious or imaginative fiction.
| He is in his element as funmaker and
/ when in the vein his inventions would
/ make craven image smile.
| We vote "a Comical Comedy" as the
i best story in the book. In this the fun
is fast and furious, and old Finnegan,
the hero or victim Of it, is a natural
j and picturesque character 1t cannot
be said that either the blind boy or
1 Mary in the opening story is natural,
and the pathos of it is certainly strain
| ed. ~ t>'': -,
"All of Mr.. Robertson's stories are
j not as side-splitting as "A Comical
4 Comedy" but most of them are care
killers and delightful old Finnegan fig
Isures in Others"
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