The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-21
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

Anne Warner's "Susan Clegg and Her
 Neighbors"-"Thc New Far East" by
 Thomas F. Willard -- Forthcoming
 ROOk--NOtes.
 Anne Warmers further revelations of the speeches and doings of her famous old maid Susan Clegg, will be heartily welcomed by the thousands who have enjoyed her previous narrations in this amusing line The new book is entitled Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors," and Miss Clegg's friend, Mrs. Lathrop, is also present. Delightful summer read ing these stories make. The book is in four divisions and several parts. One learns the details of Mrs. Lathrop s Love Affair" and of "Old Man Ely's Proposal" also about "The Wolf at Susan's Door" and "A Very Superior man. The book is admirably illustrat- ed and presented in covers of brilliant design; published by Little, Brown & Co.,. Boston, $1. For sale at all book stores.
 Of the book the Brooklyn Eagle re- marks; Age cannot wither nor custom stale the infinite variety of Susan Clegg, She is just as inspiring, just as dominant, as fully equal to every occa- , sion and circumstance as she was the day that Anna Warner first discovered her. Whether she is notifying her friend, Mrs. Lathrop, or the desire of the deacon to make her his second, or recounting the disasters that overlook the community when the automobile roamed through the square, upsetting one citizen after another, without re- gard to age, sex or social position or whether she was narrating what hap pened at Polly Aliens wedding, when MT. Jill1ins dropped the silk hat in which the wasps had built their nest with results that were demoralizng-in any and all of these recitals she is simply Susan Clegg, and it is hardly necessary to enlarge further. Mrs. Warner has maintained the interest of heB principal chaacter with unusual skill; something that it is not easy to do When portraying a character of Su- sans type. It Is not So difficult to pre- serve the mere grotesquerie of the mar rative; the real quality lies in the fact that Susan never becomes simply bur lesque. It was stroke of genius to contrast her with the placid Mrs. Lath- rop, who never gets beyond a half-ut- tered sentence. The quaint conceits, the odd humor and the entire serious ness of Susan help to make the new volume fully as alluring as it's forerun- ilers that have chronicled the says and doings of Susan Clegg"
 The New Far East" by Thomas F. Willard; published by Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, New York.
 Persons who have endeavored to fol- low the tremendous questions involved in the Far Eastern situation will proba- ply recall the series of articles which appeared in Scribner's Magazine during and immediately after the Russo Jap anese war, and which were written by Thomas K. Willard, the special corres- pondent of that publication on the scene. At the time they appeared some of MT. Millard's articles were almost sensational, so widely did they oppose views then generally held regarding events and policies. However his views have already been justified to a re- 1narkable degree, and his new book, The New Far East" will command wide attention. Of national interest is the keynote of the work in the authors estimate of the true position of Japan. and the probable effects the Japanese nnI{PM if if ic cttn ,1 ryvtI Io, other foreign and particular American interests in that part of the world. Here Mr. Willard differs very widely from most writers on this subject. He holds the opinion that Japan has entered upon selfish policy of aggrandizement and that her success is more apt to prove detrimental than beneficial to the future of American commerce and oo- dltlcal influence in the farther Pacific.
 Mir. Willard supports his views not by argument, but by facts gleaned in his personal Investigations in the Far East. Ills comparison of what Japan is doing and what 1t professes is startling. The chapters devoted to a deineation of Japanese policy and administration in Korea and Manchuria reveal an extra ordinary state of affairs in those re- gions. In Korea, especially. MT. Willard shows how widely the actual operation of the Japanese administra- tion differs from the official statements given to the world by the Japanese. He contends that the independence of Ko- req is a perfectly transparent fiction, and that Japan has not the slightest in- tention of keeping her promises to re- saect the "Open Door, in Korea or in
 tt part of Manchuria which has now
 en under her control. In fact, MT,
 Hard holds the opinions that in di- somatic duplicity the Japanese can give the Russians and Chinese long odd and still best them. He gives many examples of the way Japanese methods are already undermining American trade in Korea and Manchuria, and in other parts of China; and expresses the opinion that when it comes to carrying out her promise to evacuate Manehuria, Japan will prove as evasive and dilato- ry as Russia has in the past But perhaps the most interesting and important part of the book is the chap ters devoted to 8 consideration of the condition of China and the true inward ness of the various foreign policies ex- erted there. His elucidation Of the new Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Russo- Japanese peace treaty is extremely in- farnstino and shoXuc the i'm Ynort ant