The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-12

or sale at Malley 5. Mrs. MacDonlad's verse is fresh and unhackneyed with charming turns of fancy and expressions full of grace and sweetness. There are seventy poems in this attractively printed booklet of one hundred and twenty-two pages. Take for instance the two following seec- tions:
 AVE.
 All the little birds are singing
 Just to greet so dear child,
 Tiny bells of Elfland ringing, Wind songs waking sweet and wild; Pale sweet blooms in shadowy places,
 Flags unfurled from every bough Baby ferns with crumpled faces,-
 None so sweet as thou
 THE SPELL OF THE FOREST. | Not like the calm of the broad and
 placid meadows,
 With their child-heart daisies laughing in the sun,
 Is the passionate peace of the dear mysterious forest Where life and dream are one. Hour after hour in it's depths we are
 fain to finger,
 Filled with its fullness, hushed in its
 ambe; gloom,
 Breathing the breath of the wind that
 among its branches Murmurs of bud and bloom
 Far from the haunts of man and the weary glamour Of folk that forever toll without con
 tent;
 There let us rest and rejoice in the fragrant shadow,
 Under the fir trees tent.
 "The Belle of the Bluegrass Coun- try" by H. D. Pittman (The c. M, Clark Company, Boston, price Sl50), is charming love story of four hundred and twenty-nine pages of the ever in- teresting blue grass state, abounding in clever descriptive passages and inbred 1 with a thorough and sympathetic un- derstanding of the mingled pathos and humor of negro life, of comedy and tragedy, and romance in varying social circles. It gives one a vivid idea of life and the people of the region. The narrative is in the first person, and the larrator is Anthony Conway civil engineer who has been sent from the north to supervise the building of a bridge across the Kentucky River. The usual obstacles are encountered by the ardent lover-sectional prejudice, rivals for the hand of Elizabeth Claiborne, and hn,, fohI ,,yo1 hY1t Ny overcomes them all
 There is an interesting chapter rela- ting to the treatment popularly awsl d. ed to the family of President Jackson's wife's first husband and another chap ter relative to Abraham LInao!n nnd his ancestry. That he WAS descended from the tribes of Israel is the very Gs- tonishing theory of the Maio.', ard 1t is supported by seemingly plausible nrgu- ments. The book is illustra ed by many excellent photographs If the scenes tf action.
 Keeping Tryst'' by Annie Fellows Johnston Published by L. C. Page x Co. For sale at Malley's. Keeping Tryst" is a delightful and valued gift book for both young and old. It is . tale of King Arthur's time, published 1 in neat little paper covere hcoK cf about sixty pages, with illustrated cov- CT and gold lettering. Mrs. Johnston is the widely known ! ithor of the im- mensely popular Little Coanel Series" published also by L. c, Page & Co.,. Keeping Tryst" has very beaatiful 1 frontispiece.
 Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips & Com pany announce the publication of a collection of essays under the general | title of The Religion of All Good Men" by H. w. Garrod, fellow and tutor of Merton College, Oxford. Several of these essays, all of which deal more or less specifically with questions in Christian Ethics have appeared in the Hibbert Journal and in the Independ ent Review, while others, notably the paper entitled "The Economies of Religion" are printed for the first time Tn spite of the seriousness of his subject matter, the appeal of the writer is to the literary or general reader no less than to the scholar and theologian.. Among the subjects on which he writes are Christian, Greek or Goth?" Hymns" and "Christ the Forerunner," in which text he at- tempts new and daring inter- pretation of Christian ethics in the light in which Christ probably viewed his own mission upon earth
 Miss Marjorie Bowen, the young writer of "The Viper of Milan" Me- Cure, Phillips & Co has never been in Italy but neither had George Eliot visited Spain when she wrote "The Spanish Gypsy" and Mir Shorthouse, though he spent many years in writ ing John Inglesant," had never cross ed the Alps when his book was pub lished. Marjorie Bowen is said to have pen name adopted by the author to avoid being identified with her mother who is a popular writer. Her knowl- edge of fourteenth century costumes and customs evidently has been ob- tained by much reading; the senti- ment and psychology of her story are of the present time. Her adventure in the domain of romance is marked with the audacity and brilliant imagination of youth.
 Miss Marie van Worst has returned to Europe after a few months visit to