The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-04
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

Professor Taylor of Yale Issues New
 Book, '"The Upper HandY-"Holy-
 land," an Interesting New story
 "TwO Cadets With Washington.y a
 Tale of the Siege of Boston--Literary
 Notes.
 Professor Emerson Clifford Taylor. of Yale, has in his new book "The unper Hand" published by A. S. Barnes and Company, New York, ($15O) given us a story of compelling interest through out, and it exceeds in interest his ore vfous romance, "A Daughter of DaIe1' (Yale). The mystery in "The Upper Hand is well handled and the chief characters, the Squire, the Pirate. the Squires beautiful ward Jean and her lover Grey are viyidly sketched. It is a highly interesting story throughout. The Squire's troubles begin inmediate- ly upon the aJdvent of the pirate who. pirate fashion, at once levied contribu tions from time to time upon the old villainous Squire, in other words com polling the Squire to fork over" soma of his ill-acquired wealth The old pi- rate was. indeed, a rolling, sWaggering Stormy old seafarer, with Q 4sHaouslv kind heart" as the New York Sun r,>.-.- marks in it's three quarters of a cole umn review of the book The old pi- rate had an efficacious and amusing way in compelling the Squire to this gorge. There is plenty of incident and life in this well-told story, and for the benefit of the ladies it may be said that two lovers are made happy.
 "FIolyland, by the gifted author, Gustav FTenssen, published by Dana Estes and Company of Boston, is an intensely interesting volume. Its scenes and characters are drawn from among the humble seafaring folk who live on the borders of the German ocean. Their life love and suffering are wonderfully shown and described. | The hero, Kai Jams, makes several long sea vayages, of which the descriptions
 "e wonderfully vivid and interesting
 is love-affairs are told with rare
 arm and pathos, and the struggles, fortunes and the final physical l lkdoWn which prepares his mind | soul for their real awakening are lh triumph of word pictlring. Reli- h s thought has large place in the Iv and the conception of divinity lV I out is bold, startling, original, y Nspiring in the highest degree. 1 I'll lase of the book does not inter- | Il, r>f ltifies it. and is as triumph and crown. 1 The stUIy is full of masterly descrip- tions, is full of pafhos, poetry, Joy aiiSat sorrow, love and passion; it's character painting is true to life; the personages, although all of them are peasants and sailors, live and excite the liveliest in- terest Mir. FTenssenhs previous books have won immense success, especially lhis "Jorn Uhl,'' issued about a year ago, of which two hundred thousand copies have been alreddy issued. Holy land" is translated from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. Price $1.5O The London publishers of the book are Archibald Constable and Company,
 Much interest and discussion have | remarkable book, "The Phantom of the Poles" published by Walter S. Rockey Company, New York. In this volqlmle MT. Reed contends with vigor and abil- ity that the long sought Poles do not exist, and that the earth is hollow. He holds that at the worlds northern and southern extremities there are openings, leading into this interior, in which are vast continents, oceans, mountains and rivers Mir Reed has obviously been a careful reader of the books of the great polar explorers, for their accounts of inexplicable phenorn- ena he finds answer i'm his theory
 Although purely speculative in char acter, the volume makes fascinating reading. Quotations from the jour- nals of Kane, Franklin, Hall, Peary, Greedy, Melville and Nansen are inclu- ded, supplemented by the authors comment and the application of his lviews. Upon these records MT. Reed bases his belief that not only is the earth hollow or double, but suitable in it's interior to sustain man, with as lit tie discomfort-afte getting acclirna- ted and accustomed to the different conditions-as on its exterior.
 Twenty illustrations after phioto- graphs are included, the striking fea- lures of them being used to re-enforce the authors belief.
 ''When I Was a Boy in Japan" sec- ond volume of Children of Other Lands Series," by savie Shloya; illus trated from photographs. Published by Lothrop Lee and Shepard Company, Boston.
 Many books aim to tell of child life in foreign lands, nearly all being pro- duced by those who industriously take material from encycopedias and books of travel and make 1t over for the use of children Such books serve a pur- loose, but they entirely lack the enter tatning and informing touch that can come only from one who has lived the life described. Furthermore, they all suffer from the effort to write down to children, and there is nothing inspiring in what they have to tell. All these de- feots are avoided in When Was a Boy in Japan" which, in telling the story of the authors life from infancy to the age of perhaps fourteen, conveys a charming picture of not only the cus-