The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-13
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

sThe BeIted Seas" by Arthur COItOn- "The auakeress. by Charles Heber CIark-"Psyche, a Romance of the Reign of TiBerius" by Walter s. Cramp-"The Orchard and Fruit Gar den, by F. P. PoweII-"The First Book of Farming by Charles L. Goodrich-"MOther and Daughter" by Gabrielle E. JacksOn-NOtes.
 "The BeIted Seas is another charm ing book by Arthur Colton, (published by Henry Holt and Company, and good as are his previous books, this one will be considered by many as his best. Never before has this author shown such humor, high spirits and imasina- ton as in this story of Captain Thomas Buckingham and his adventures. In ''the Belted Seas" the author takes the reader from the East River docks, the West Indies, to the coast of Peru, to
 
 South Pacific. Captain Tom, at fifty, stranded at Pemberton's hotel on the shore of Long Island, explained about Tommie Buckingham at eighteen:
 was a wild one, though not large, but Timber and clipper-built, and hap py, any side up, and my notion of hu- man life was that it was something like a cake-wallS and something like a Bartlett pear, as being juicy anywhere you bit in.
 Of the book the New York Evening Post says: What Jacobs has done for the British seaman Cotton has done here for the Yankee sailor. Characters like Stevie Todd, "Kid" Sadler, Irish" and J. R. Craney-distorted for empha- sis as they are-bear out Tommie Buck ingham's theory that life is something like a notwithstanding to laugh about"
 Price of '"rhe Belted Seas," $1.50; for sale by the E. P. Judd Co.
 Discriminating readers of current fic ton know that for individuality and humor and imaginative power, Cotton stands well to the fore among our younger writers. MT. Colton was born
 
 educated at the Gunnery in his native town. 1S82-SS. and later at Yale, where he graduated. in 1890, and was an active contributor to the college magazines, and an editor of the Lit" He held the Foote scholarship, 1s9O-93, took the de- gree of Ph. D. at Yale in 1893, and was an instructor there in English litera ture until 1895. His books not already mentioned are "Bennie Ben Cree" (l000) and "Debatable Land," (190D. He is also contributor to our best magazines. He at present is devoting himself to writing and roaming about the Pacific coast, having for awhile left his lime in Washington, Conn.
 ''The Quakeress," just issued by the John c. Winston Company, is delight full new novel by Charles Hebsr Clark, = who as Max -zkdelers@h delighted more than million readers during the past thirty years with his Out of the Hurly Burly,'' Captain, Bluitt," and other books.
 .'The Quakeress'' is the tale of an at- tractive young Quaker girl brought up in the strictest characteristics of her
 
 all indications of custom, intimacy and friendship, she would be expected to marry sturdy young neighbor who has the wealth gathered by forefathers not entirely indifferent to material matters, while holding firmly to the re- quirements of righteousness; but flashing young southerner enters the story. The girls vivacious and aes- thetic nature finds him too fascinating to be resisted, and the romance centers itself in the lives of these three people. Not without some small twinges of con- science, the Quakeress experiences the new intoxication of worldly ways when she leaves her quiet home to accept the hospitality of southern manor, and the narrative becomes more exciting. After her home e-coming to the peaceful SchuykilI valley, which for beauty is unsurpassed on the Atlantic seaboard, the plot moves rapidly to a dramatic conclusion, when the battle of Antie- tam plays part in the heroine's for tunes.
 One of the interesting features of the book is its accurate description of the quaint and little known customs of the SQCl6Ly OI El6liuS, WLOuL Iltc author has evidently spent much of his time. Among passages in the humor ist's well-known vein are furnished by neighbors of the girl and by her south ern lovers coquettish sister, who sets herself to turn the head of the sturdy young Quaker farmer.
 George Gibbs has drawn four illustra- tions which are reproduced by the three-color process, and other half-tone engravings portray the actual scenes where the story takes place. The book is bound in Quaker-gray cloth, and sold under the. usual restrictions at $1.50.
 Walter $. Cramp, the author of Psyche, a Romance of the Reign of Ti- berius,' was born in Philadelphia, graduated from the higher schools and studied ship building in the yards which his father and uncle had so sue cessfully established. Some years ago, when the great shipyards passed into the ownership of a stock company, MT. Cramp found himself in a condition to gratify his greatest desire-the study of