The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-13


 and more the attention of the outside world. particularly of the United States with which country it's relations are continually becoming more intimate commercially.
 To his rambling Mrs. croffut adds an amusing chapter on ''The Secret of Pe- rennial Youth and several pages of re- csnt poems which display his we'll known ability in that line to marked advantage. The book is handsomely gotten up and the illustrations as be- fore remarked, are splendid feature of this charming volume. Folks Next
 Door" is published by the Eastside Pub- fishing Company. Washington, D. c.
 Price s2.00, and is for sale by all lead ing booksellers. ,
 .'The Bank and the Treasury" by
 Frederick A. Cleveland, Ph. D., is a
 work of much interest to the banking
 fraternity and to all who have to do with questions of finance, while Wall
 street habitues and devotees will also
 find it useful and valuable. It presents
 a thoughtful, discriminating discussion | VI lilC pIUUlCHt OL pioNluAis q HUI v
 ''sound" and elastic" system of cur I rent credit-funds, a subject which fre- quently looms up into prominence in
 our national affairs. The author is a
 professor of finance in the School of
 Commerce, Accounts and Finance iii
 New York university. The book has
 three hundred and forty pages, with
 thirteen charts and tables. Its scope
 may be seen from it's table of contents, l which is as follows: Commercial Bank < ing and Speculation, A Financial Retro spect-Ths Use of Commercial Bank
 Credit in Lieu of Industrial Capitaliza-
 tion-The American System. of Curren-
 cy and Banking; National Credit Mon
 ey and the National Bank The De-
 mand for 8 Sound and Elastic"
 System of Bank Credit; The Relation of
 Bank Capitalization to the Problem of
 Elasticity: The Public Control of Com < mercial Banks; A Point of Control Not
 Adequately Covered by the National ! Bank Act; Character of Assets to be Held by Banks as Invested Reserves" I Public Dangers in the Present Equip ment of National Banks; Why the "Un-
 encountered Securities of National
 Banks are Not Readily Convertible into
 Cash; Dangerous Assumptions Made by l the Government with Respect to Cur ] rency and Banking; Advantages of Ma \ tional Banks Under Present Practice lover State and Private Banks; The I Amount of Elasticity for which Provi- sion is to be Made; Possibilities of h.
 creasing Elasticity by Notifications of l the Present Law; Superiority of the Z American Funding System Over Those |, of Other Countries; Recent Efforts :, Made to Further Adapt our Funding -i System to the Nations Business Needs; l Appendix of Documents. The book is
 published by Longmans, Green. and
 Company, 91-93 Fifth avenue, New \ York. Price $1.s0; by mail $1.96. , s. J An American romance of rare interest ,I and power is Curly "a tale of the Arizona Desert by Roger Pocock, pub ,j lished by Little, Brown and Company, , Boston. It has the additional attrac- ,3stion of eight striking full-page illustra- tions by Stanley IL. Wood. Price $1.50; 'I for sale at all leading bookstores. : Curly is a remarkable story of cattle ranges of Arizona, the great desert and the grand canon of the Colorado river. l The author has lived amid the scenes
 which he paints so wildly and has I written romance of adventure, of con 1, flict and of love,-a story of breathless 4 interest, remarkable situations, and great humor and pathos Chalkeye the cowboy who tells the story, Captain Nc I Calmont, the robber-chief, Lord Bal 4 shannon, the owner of a ranch, his son ;; "Jim,' and Curly" who gives the
 name to the story, are characters of ;. great strength. Curly is a book of I compelling interest.
 I Curly" has already captivated Great
 Britain. The London Daily Telegraph I says: "The book bristles with adven- l ture." The Birmingham Post says: y "A wonderfully stirring story.'' The Scotsman says: "The story and it's ; heroine fairly gallop off with the read Il CT" The Dundee Advertiser says: ! Packed with incidents, grim, moving l sentimental and humorous in the best ! of fashions. It reveals out-of- the-wa I human nature in a style that we fam l cied had perished with Bret Harte, and q it's realism is nothing short of magical ' I Roger Pococh, the author of Curly" 7 has had an eventfu1 life. MT. Pocoeh | was brought up on board the "Welles- I ley" an old British battleship, but his family moved to cottage in the Ca
 nadian woodlands, and at the age of if al teen he went west. He worked on a } fruit farm and at an agricultural col ;. lege, as an insurance clerk, survey I band on the Canadian Pacific censtruc ', tion, as a conveyancing clerk, book
 keeper, laborer in a backwoods clearing ; boots in a hotel, peddler, book agent , navvy and dairy hand. Serving in the | northwest mounted police, he was dis.
 abled by a frost-bite during the Rie
 rebellion. Convalescent, as clerk in a ; government department, MT. Pocock published and peddled his first book
 "Tales of Western Life" As soon as !, his strength permitted, he went to Brit. ' ish Columbia. where, as trader he was again disabled in an argument with f a horse.
 5 He left the hospital as a war cores. l pondent for the scene of the Skeena | blood .feuds, wintered as a missionary : at the scene of the trouble, then spent } a summer wandering among the Indian t tribes of British Columbia and Alaska