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

arranged for the needs and capacities of different ages-as, for children eight years old, for those nine years old, ten years old, and so on is a unique and valuable feature of the catalogue which Harper & Brothers have just published, of Books for Young People. The catalogue, which is very hand somely Illustrated, is sent free on re- quest.
 When Elizabeth Shippen Green made the drawings for that most charming book. An Old Country House, by Richard Le Gallienne, the fineness and adequateness of his descriptions were such that the artist drew her pictures with a fidelity which could scarcely have been surpassed had she actually seen the house and garden that Le Gallienne describes.
 Curiously enough, the Harpers, who published that book whose text and illustrations so vied with one another in charm, have now another associa- tion with that "Old Country House." which, by the way, is the Old Manor, at Chiddingfold in Surrey. For Julie Opp Faversham, the author of The Squaw-Man, which they are in q few days to publish, occupies that house every summer, she and her husband William Faversham, the actor, going there at the close of each theatrical season.
 Esperanto, "the universal language, is certain to make great strides in popular favor, and to be taken up by host of Europeans, now that 1t has been learned that some of the children of the royal family of England are re- ceiving instructions in it. Crown Prince Olaf of Norway is also to learn this remarkable new language, which is so simple, while at the same time so logical and comprehensive, as to appeal to the most critical student as well as to the tourist who wishes to learn a universal language instead or @ dozen limited ones,
 All this will add greatly to the in- terest felt in the broad campaign of instruction in Esperanto which The North American Review is about to enter upon.
 The curiously romantic episodes in the life of Count Cassini, ExAmbas,a- dor of Russia to Washington, and the mysteries that surrounded the young Countess Cassini, whom the sooiete de- plomatique accepted as his niece, are said to be inevitably suggested in one of the seasons new novels, The lm- personator' written by a Washington author, Mary Inlay Taylor, Little Brown Co.,, Boston The character of Count Portucarrero in the story is an eminently good character study of the late Ambassador with such differ ences as a discreet author would make for, while Miss Taylor deprecates any attempt to specifically depict Washington society-ife in The 1m- personator," she has yet presented a most vivid interpretation of 1t, full of local color.
 The Illustrating which Miss Gertrude Mcdaniel made for "The Dragon Painter" the new Japanese romance by Mary McNeil Fenollosa (Sldney McCall) have called forth much de- served praise. Of the Japanese char acter which she has drawn, one critic says: "The faces and figures are really exotic, instead of needing the label of clothing and head.dress to mark them as Japanese in intention"
 A handsomely Illustrated 4S-page catalogue has been issued by Little, Brown & Co.,, the Boston publishing house, for gratuitous circulation, to set forth the merits of this firms holi- day books. A copy will be sent on re- quest In addition to its Illustrated books of travel history, biography and popular fiction, Little, Brown & Co. have published an exceptionally we'll selected list of books for young people.
 A work likely to become practically national textbook on all matters relating to American flags is Peleg D. Harrison's 'The Stars and Stripes and Other American Flags" just pub
 ished by Little Brown & Co MT. liar rison has brought together in his large octave volume vast amount of yalu- able information.