The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-07

alone places Mr. Halls work beyond comparison, and as an example of tht practical nature of the book it can be said that what many a boy wants mot an expensive workshop, which is out of the question, but directions for building a shanty with what material he can pick up, and in the chapter "A Backyard Club House" just such treatE ment has been presented. The idea of economy is everywhere carried out teaching a valuable lesson and com mending the work to parents who vii more willingly buy boOh that does { not suggest constant future drain on the purse. The drawings are profuse and excellent, and every feature of the book is first class. Price $2.00. Pub lished by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co.,, Boston.
 Annie Hamilton Donnell has re- ceived a request for permission to translate into French her biography of ''Rebecca Mary" How the straitlaced little New England girl with her pa thetically conscientious scruples will be interpreted by the Gallic fiexibility of moral ideals is difficult to conjec- ture.
 The dramatic production of Mrs. Wards latest novel, "The Marriage of | William Ashe,'' with Grace George in the role of Lady Kitty, will focus fresh attention upon the novel, which 1 is said to have netted upon it's author already g. profit of one hundred and 1 fifty thousand dollars-the largest sum ever received by any living author for, one book, "Fenwick's Career" the new novel just completed by Mrs. Ward, will be published by Harper's at the expiration of its serial run in the i Century.
 l Ardmore, the quaint little village on the coast of Ireland, not far from Cork, which is the scene of Mrs. Thurstons new novel, "The Gambler" (Harper's) was the summer residence of the au- thors father, the late Alderman Paul Madden of Cork, and, it is reported, will be the future home of the writer | herself. Interesting literary associations i are connected with the Aidmore neigh borhood, for, it was in the little church [ Sllll SIduu4llS at 4OuSo IlSAAJ ISAt AlAAASS i from Ardmore, that Edmund Spencer was married, and in an old house near | by the poet read the first books of his great work '"'The Faerie Queene" in Sir Walter Raleigh, then residing at You l ghal, before the two journeyed to the English court to get the book pub lished It is the intimate knowledge of the essential traits of Irish character gained through actual experience in this romantic environment that forms | the distinctive feature of the new book. i Readers of Harpar's Magazine will be glad to know that the adventures of the amiable and singular child, Rebec- ca Mary, which have appeared in that periodical during the past year, have now been woven into a book, which will be issued this week by the Har- pers. The author Annie Hamilton Donnell, possesses a marvellous insight into child nature.
 Thompson Buchanan's sprightly TO- nance, '"The Castle Comedy" (Har- pers), which won conspicuous success last year as g, holiday gift book, will be produced on the stage this coming win ter. The role of the dashing young of ficer, half French half English, who, disguised as a dancing master, figures in a series of lively escapades befor, winning the heart of his beautiful English cousin, will be taken by Walk CT Whitesdes. It is expected that the opening performances will be given in St. Louis during Christmas week. MT. Buchanan, who has a. clever gift for dialogue, has himself prepared the stage version, which is reported to be exceedingly witty and full of action.
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 The publication of George Edward Woodbury's new book, "The Torch" is announced by Mcclure for the first week in October, The essays which compose the volume deal in the main with race power in literature. The un- derlying idea IS that as one race brings literature to perfection and transmits to it the most vital qualities of its civ ilization, that race may die, but it will find younger and a better equipped follower ready to take the torch of en- lightenment and to carry 1t on.
 1 MCSluLS, IiliIllpS anu SOIlpctily dI6 printing third edition of My Friend the Chaffeur.' Many of the incidents of this new motor novel are taken from
 the authors own experience, as for i1- stance the dropping of a gold bag into
 the Grand Canal in Venice. It was Mrs. Wi1liamson's bag and contained a lucky amulet. and purse. A young and
 handsome Venetian artist dived into the canal and rescued it as did Terry
 in the. book. Mrs. Williamson intro they thought might buy some of his
 pictures. The two young people fell in love at first sight, were married in a
 few weeks, and Mrs. Williamson gave
 the bride for wedding present a
 bracelet in which was set the lucky amulet her handsome husband had fshed out of the canal.
 William Allen White is busy upon
 another series of pen portraits of pub lie men along the line of those tren- chant character sketches of Platt,
 Croker, Cleveland and others in the
 public eye, which were looked for fea-
 lures of McClure's a few years ago,
 Governor Folk of Missouri is one of
 the men MT. White will write about and his study of tha strong man of the
 democrats is to appear in an early
 number of McClures. Who the others
 are to be Mir. White is not saying. A new kind of tribute to a book has