The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-24
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON.

SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON
 ~Old Washington" by Harriet Prescott
 spOfTord-"CaIled to the Field, Story
 of Virginia in the Civil War;" by
 Lucy Meecham Thruston - "sarah
 Berhardt Brown" by Charles FeIton
 Pidgin-Forthcoming Books.
 A delightful volume is "Old Wash ington." by Harriet Prescott Spofford, the gifted author of "The Amber Gods," In Titian's Garden etc It is published in handsome style by Little, Brown and Company Boston, with an artistic frontispieee by George Alfred Williams. In this volume Mrs. Spof- ford describes most delightfully."- the city of Washington as it was in the days just after the close of the civil War,-a city very different in it's houses, streets and characters from the Wash ington of to-day. There is a quaint charm about the southern men and women, the old mammies, the polttl- clans and other character studies of the book, which Is imbued throughout with humor, tenderness and pathos, and with admirable character drawing.
 The five stories of the book-"A Thanksgiving Breakfast, "A Guardian Angel" Tn a Conspiracy" "A Little Old Woman" and 'The Colonel's Christmas" s"-are akin In interest and theme, and some of the principal per- sonages figure throughout, making the volume in measure connected naa- rative of "Old Washington"
 Price $150; for sale by all leading booksellers.
 Called to the Field" is a beautiful story of Virginia in the civil war, by Lucy Meacham Thruston, author of "A Girl of Virginia" Mistress Brent, and other books which won instant fla vor
 Called to the Field" is written with great emotional intensity and imbued with pathos and poetic feeling, and is the best story yet written by the au- thor of "A Girl of Virginia" It has great charm of atmosphere, and is so realistic that 1t reads like a personal record of real experience. The heroine, Who tells the story Is young Virginia girl just married, dwelling at her cotn- try home, rich and happy in the love of her husband, when the civil war bursts upon her and changes the current of her life. The negro sketches are spec ially well done, sympathetic and yet discriminating. The whole book is graceful and artistic, stirring and con- vincing, and there are dramatic scenes artistically portrayed. The book IS at- tractively gotten up; price $l.50; at all booksellers.
 Another novel of the Quincy Adams Sawyer" variety is issued by the J. K. Waters Company 14-2o Beach street, Boston, and is entitled Sarah Bern hardt Brown The author, Charles Pel- ton Pidgin, has another popular suc- cess in this new book Like his "Quin- cy Adams Sawyer" 1t deals with quaint and original studies of back country character and its various types. The story is expressing and ex- ceedingly clever throughout. It tells of the stranding of travelling burlesque troop in a country town and what came of the event; also of the achieve- ments of Miss Brown under her stage name of "Winifred Winton." The book is packed full of characters and incl dents and is well illustrated. For sale by all booksellers.
 Prof. Philip Van Ness Myers, the author of the well known series of Myers Histories, has just returned from an extended trip to the Levant, which he made preparatory to the final revision of his General History (to be published by Ginn & Co.,, Boston, in April, 1906), He travelled the entire length of the old Roman empire from the province of Britain to the province of Arabia, and took his camera with him in order uo secure adequate illus trations for the new book. He was i'm terested to find that his histories were in use at Constantinople, Smyrna Bel rut, and Damascus.
 The last issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economies contains a timely article on the Trunk Line Rate system by Prof William 2. Ripley of Harvard university. Prof, Ripleys Trusts, Pools and Corporations" re- gently published by Glnn & Go. is all ready generally regarded as one of the standard reference books on the sub ject
 Dr. Edmund von Mach, the author of Greek Sculpture, it's Spirits and Principles" (Ginn & Co) has recently been elected a member of the New York Authors club.
 Among recent school book adoptions the Allowing are noteworthy: Brig hams Geographic Influences in American History" (Ginn GS Co), has been adopted by the Illinois State Teachers Reading Circle as one of their two required books for the year 19O6-7; Smiths Arithmetics have been adopted for exclusive use in the city of Asheville, N. C.; Myers Revised i Ancient History" has been adopted | for the Girls High school at Louisville, | XIV: Smiths Arithmetics have been adopted by the Potsdam, N. Y, Nor mal school. sedbergh school one of the larger | public schools in England has lately I adopted Montgomery Leading Facts | of English History Ginn & Co., pub, fishers.