The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-10

@SNiANA J IA HID SSaN4~ VI II ure was a somewhat daring undertak- | Ing, and requires "a tone of dignity | and of moral elevation, These essen- | tials are happily met by Mrs. Fraser | and her work is charming and ab- l sorbing as well as dignified from it's opening chapters to the end. The | beauty, grace and dignity of Mary Washington, her noble and lofty char acteristics, find a rare and fitting em- bodiment in this work and her early love story with which the book opens, is graceful and enthralling. Tn the Shadow of the Lore" is published by Henry Holt & Co.,, $1.5O. Of the book the New York Times review says in closing an extended tribute to the high quality of the work: "The quiet air of confidence that is granted alone to the writer who fears no contradiction runs through the pages And the theme is never subservient to the tale nor the tale to the theme. They travel a na- tural course together, from the throb- ping hours of Mary's first heart fancy for the wild Scot, Drumardlee, in the solemn house by the English Thames, through the greater love for and mar riage with purposeful Augustine Wash ington; on to the sweet home in Vir- ginia; passing through the hours of death and the first joys of George's birth and ending, after his interest ing boyhood has been depicted, at the edge of the conflict for which a great mother unconsciously fitted her son.
 Trail and Trading Post" is the sixth volume of Colonial Series" by Ed wand stratemeyer, finely Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy, and published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston. Here we again meet the Morris boys, San Barringford, the quaint frontiers man, White Buffalo, the friendly 1n- dian, and many other friends. The plot centers about the possession of a certain trading-post on the Ohio river at a time just previous to the Revolu- tion, and there are some encounters with the unfriendly Indians and with some Frenchmen who wished to claim the post as their own. Many hunting scenes are introduced; and the book carries with it an outdoor flavor of by gone days which is certain to appeal strongly to older folks as well as the young people.
 The mystery of the twin boys whom San Barringford discovered in pre- vious volume is now fully solved, and MT. Stratemeyer's army of enthusiastic boy readers will hope that he carries out his intention of allowing these boys to take part in the war for Amer ican independence when grown. "The Colonial Series has been great bene- fit to the patriotism and historical knowledge of our young people while contributing very much to their enter tainment. Price, $1.25.
 Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips & Co, New York, have just issued Fosters Seat Manual. Skat is the great German card game which has recently come into such prominence as to threaten in a measure to displace Bridge as a so- ciety pastime. Fosters Skat" Manual contains all the rules and directions for the game in the clear form that dis tinguishes all MT. Fosters books on
 cards. MT. Foster is an authority on all games, and the author of The Con- plete Bridge" which wals issued last spring by the same publishers. He is already organizing classes in Scat and is enthusiastic over the games future, In his Introduction he writes:
 Seat is unquesttonably one of the most fascinating of all card games, not only one account of it's infinite vari- ety, but because of its elasticity and it's adaptability to persons of varying abil- | ity."
 While Scat has many of the elements which make Bridge popular, 1t has several points in it's favor that no
 other game can boast of. It does not require the gambling element to make it interesting to the novice, and to in- sure a chance for the beginner,
 ''The game is full of the most de- lightful surprises, which are a refresh- l ing change from the deadly monotony of the invincible hand which one con- tinually sees at the Bridge table. The difference between the expression on the faces of a party of Scat players and that on those at a Bridge table is alone sufficient to convince any unprej- udiced spectator that Bridge is getting on the nerves of its devotees, while the Skat players are thoroughly enjoying themselves. It is a jolly game, with lots of life and excitement in 1t, and no one who ever has played it long enough to understand it thoroughly was ever known to give it up for any other game"
 Miss Mary Catherine Crowley's new book. 'In Treaty With Honor" is of the same sterling quality which marks her previous romances in which fact and fiction are deftly blended In Treaty With Honor" is romance of old Quebec abounding in human inter- est. Its events have to do with a stir ring and intensely dramatic episode | the Patriot War or Struggle of French | Canada for Independence in 1887 7-3S. One sees the French Canadians of 1887 unreconciled to English sway after eighty years, and finds long and in- | tensely interesting story of imprison- ment and escape. This rebellion is
 hardly remembered this side of the border. and Miss Crowley has made good use of the novel background
 which it gives to the love story of a French girl with two suitors, both sol- diers. one Polish. the other Irish. The