The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-23

4 novel of old Chester, by Mrs. Mar garet Deland, will be published serial ly in "Harper's Magazine" during 1906, beginning in January. "The Awaken ing,'' as Mrs. Deland has called her new story, introduces many of the characters made known through her shorter tales, but the chief figure is a woman, stranger to old Chester, who comes to live at the Stuffed-Animal House.
 In the near future McClure-Phillips will publish an important book, Irish History and the Irish Question" by Professor Goodwin Smith, author of Irish Character and Irish History" In order properly to lay the ground for an understanding of present conditions, Professor Goldwin Smith gives clear account of the relations, since the car Hest epochs, politically and historically, of Ireland to England. The roots of the present difficulties thus clearly shown, the author devotes his closing chapters to an examination of the question of nome rule' as it exists to-day. Whether it could be or is ad- vantageous to the Irish he debates temperately and without bias; exhibi- ting the influences which have com bined to put Ireland in its present pre- dicament, and pointing out how cli- mate r-population and other natu- ral causes are quite as responsible for the poverty of the country as English oppression. He also considers the em- igratio to America and the Fenian movement and their relation to the problem.
 The Rev. Washington Gladden's book, 'HThe New Tdolatry," will be brought out by McClure-Phillips the latter part of this month. It is spir- tied protest against the commerciali- zing of government, of education and of religion; against the growing ten dency of church and state to worship power and forget the interests of jus 1 tice and freedom; against the de- 1 thronement of God and the enthrOne- ment of Mammon. Several of the pa pers were evoked in the recent contro
 versy respecting the relations of the church to ill-gotten wealth. The oth-
 CTS deal with the larger relations and obligations of citizenship. The titles 1 of the chapters are as follows: The
 New Idolatry,' Tainted Money ," standard Oil and Christian Missions, Shall Ill-Gotten Gains be Sought for Christian Purposes" ''The Ethics of
 Luxurious Expenditure,' ; "The Church
 and the Nation" Religion Vital to Democracy" Rights and Duties, y
 '"The New Century, and the New Na- tion,'' '"The Price of Life"
 ] Eugene Wood finds that authorship l brings material returns. In his book 1 of rural sketches, Back Home," he re- 1 fers to certain favorite apples of his 1 boyhood, and now a lumberman in Or l egon writes to say that if MT. Wood will "send his address to the one given above, the writer of this will send him a sample of the kind of apple that 1 makes him 'dribble' at the mouth. In other words, a sample of old fashioned
 Rambos and 1 am no autograph fiend, l either. Yours truly, -. F. s. l Native of Pennsylvania; age, sixty l one"
 The author of Among French Inns" 1 Mr. Charles Gibson, L. c. Page and 1 Company, Boston, is a Bostonian and 1 lives in Charles street, that thorough fare whence so many good books have come in the days when it was the
 home of the Autocrat and MT. Fields,
 and later of MT. Aldrich. The pictures and descriptions are nominally the im- l portant parts of Among French l Inns" but to them the author adds the history of the French pilgrimage of
 MT. and Mrs. James Blodgett Wilben 1 of Wisconsin, their daughter, and their friends, and among the friends is his Esxcellency Count Romeo di Pompeni, | Rome, and his conversation is as fun
 ny as the Portuguese English Cram mar" The book is perfectly good-hu-
 mored in it's fun, and is well hammered,
 as the preface recommends that the
 traveller in France shall be.
 l.. c. Page and Company announce
 the publication this week of Bliss Car mans third volume of prose essays,
 '"The Poetry of Life.' The book in-
 cludes sixteen essays on such subjects
 as "The Purpose of Poetry" How to Judge Poetry" 'Defense of Poetry
 (alas that this should be necessary!)
 Cheerful Pessimisn" etc. He has