The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-06
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THF SEASON

'0The Fairy Ring0 by Kate Douglas
 Wiggin and Miss Nora A. smith
 Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's "ResanOv" Poems of the Late Genevieve Hale
 WhitIock.
 A most welcome gift for children is the new collection of fairy tales pre- pared by Kate Douglas Wiggin in col- laboration with her sister, Miss Nora Archibald Smith, entitled "The Fairy Ring just issued in attractive style by Mcclure, Philips & Co.,, New York. These gifted women have had the whole field of fairy-tale literature under con- tribution in making the selections for this work and their task has been ad- nirably done The book is feast for the young folks and grown-ups who still feel young will also take delight in It's pages It was because the two anthologies of poetry for children, "GoIden Numbers" and "The Rosy Ring met with such success that Mrs. Wiggin and her sister undertook this new piece of editorial work.
 They are singularly one in heart and mind and ideals, these sisters; Mrs. Wiggin, the elder, being as yet better known than the younger because of the enormous circulation of '"The Birds Christmas Caror' and "Rebec- ca" From the beginning the two wo- men have been closely united in voca- tion, first as girls of IS and 21 in their beloved work among poor children in California. After that came collabor'a- ton on educational books. The three volumes of Kindergarten essays are called "The Republic of Childhood" " then "Chidldren's Rights, and "The Story Hour"
 Next, in response to Mrs Wiggin's first story having been enthusiastic, she drifted into fiction, while Miss Smith kept on in her chosen field; but never widely separate in thought or distance they united now and then in editorial laJbors like that of collecting the stories for "The Fairy Ring
 Ther are 63 charming stories in "The Fairy Ring" Don't miss it in mak- ing your Christmas gift selections; Price $1.50, at Judas.
 A book full of genuine heart inter est is Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's Rez- anov" published by the Authors and Newspapers Association, New York. at the low price of 50 cents, though bound in cloth and in all respects equal in style to most of the $1.50 books of the day. Of "Rezanov" the New York Tribune says:
 "In the year 1906 a distinguished Russian visited San Francisco, and, in the midst of practical preoccupa- tions, fell in love with the daughter of the Spanish commandant This man, Nil1olai Petrovtch Rezanov, is the herJ of Mrs. Athertons new novel. Perhaps 1t would be more accurate to say that she has made him the hero of a brief romantic study, a kind of free sketch based on history. There is little here of the usual machinery of novel. There is, for example, next to no plot Instead, there is the portrait of an interesting character, set in the framework of a peculiarly attractive love affair. Rezanov comes sailing into the bay, beset with anxie- ties and nourishing large ambitions. Hehas failed in one mission command ed by the Czar, and he seeks Eome means of rehabilitation to his prestige al home May he not find the secret of success in California? May he not establish his masters power there, and, incidently, develop along splendid lines the commercial interests with which he is also charged? He goes ashore, and almost before he knows it he has begun to surrender to the witehery of Concha Argilello Politics and business hold him fast yet with amazing rapidity love takes the first place in his thoughts. The story of his experience, considered merely as a story is charmingly told. Mrs. Ather- ton shows just the right restraint in that part of her narrative which separ- ates the lovers and carries Rezanov to die amid Siberian wastes. She does not overdo the dramatic note where the temptation must have been strong. But the merit of. the book lies even more in the sympathetic and vivid portrayal of the principal characters Rezancy and his Concha are made genuinely appealing figurea, whose TO- Iaance touches the heart"
 "Rezanov'' is for sale in New Haven only by The Pease, Lewis CD,
 It will afford sincere pleasure to the many who were aware of and appre- ctated the poetic gifts of the late Gene vieve Hale Whitlock and her rare beauty of character to know that her poems have been collected and are now published in an attractive volume of 126 pages and the book is now of- fered to the public at the various book stores. Many will take with great pleasure the opportunity to possess this nnement5 of one whose short but busy and useful life was full of high aspi- rationis and Christian ideals.
 The poems embrace many subjects and are beautiful in their message of hopefulness, their tenderness and high Christian spirit. There is an in troductory sketch of the deceased by the Rev Alexander Irvine which will