The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24

"The Poat in Politics" may be Tom Masson's next book of genial verse. His first attempt was entitled, Tn Merry Measure" but it was written before he was elected a school trustee in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
 The many readers and admirers of John 4. MitcheIrs Amos Judd" Pines of Lory'' and "The Villa Clau- dia.'' will be glad to know that anoth- CT story from his pen will be issued by Life Publishing Company some time during the coming autumn.
 James NJ. Flagg, whose book Of verse and illustration entitled. ''Tomfool- cry" was one of last years laughing successes, is about to publish through Life Publishing company, another, said to be an even funnier volume, called, If; Guide to Bad Manners"
 Messrs. L. c. Page and Company, Boston, will publish in June two more of Charles G. D. Roberts animal sto- ries, which originally appeared in the collection entitled "The Watchers of the Trails ''The Little People of the Sycamore" and '"The Return to the Trails" are the stories, which have been revised and heightened by Profes- sor Roberts for this edition. The illus trations are by Charles Livingston the legislature the investigatin of the Bull. MT. Roberts first long animal story, "The Romance of Red Fox" will 1,n syN TSlK Bull will again be the illustrator.
 Compared with Quincy Adams Saw yer" MT. Charles Felton Pidgin's Stephen Holton'' might be said to have had no advertising, but preach er-hero and temperance as a subject are always attractive to readers who prefer sober fiction, and the seventh printing is announced by Messrs. L. c. Page and Company. Meanwhile the authors name is almost unanimously mispronounced by his fellow towns men, who persist on styling it Pigeon, as if it were the Anglicized form of the Irish CoIuman instead of being allied to Pitkin.
 Messrs. Page and Company will issue a book especially interesting to boys. MT. Burton E. Stevenson's "The Young Section Hand" the story of youngs- ter who dares to take the place of g. discharged man, and suffers as might be expected, but emerges triumphant from all his troubles and quarrels'
 While Anne Warner is Il Europe Messrs. Little, Brown and Company, BostcIl, are preparing her "The Reiu- vpnation. It has undergone a nracGss too often omitted in sto ':a5 originally has been rewritten, but Aunt Mary and her student frie lds remain the same as ever, and her nephew Jack still rightly appreci Les his good for tune in introducing her tc New York.
 The July Smart Set is q timely and entertaining number md will b: mn il appreciated during the warm days. The novelette, this month is the work of Gertrude Atherton and is entitled The Travelling Thirds" Other stories include Mrs. Rawlings Subterfugc,' by Frederic Taber Cooper; "The Craft CTS" by Ellis Parker Butler: 'Tryst," by Emma Wolf; My Kind of a Man." by Eleanor H. Abbott, and several oth- CTS, The number is also rich in verse, including poems by Arthur Stringer, John O'Ksefe, Theodosia Garrison, Virginia Woodward Cloud, Carolyn Wells and Gelett Burgess. :
 
 MeCall's Magazine for July is an un- usually attractive number throughout. The fashions shown are of the very latest, including gowns for brides and their bridesmaids, pretty styles for children, and number of attractive bathing costumes. In addition to the above features there is much of partic- ular value in the different depart mentS.
 In the July Delineator the summer fashions are exquisitely pictured and described by fashion authorities Pe- ter Freneau has a sketch of Longfel- lows iboyhood and the curious customs and costumes of Holland are described by T. Cromwell Lawrence Something of the story and influence of the fa- nous Christian hymn Rock of Ages' is given in a paper by Allan Suther-