The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-29
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

~slnvery and the Race Problem in the
 south"--Eden PhiIIpOts Daniel
 SweetIand"-NOtes of Forthcoming
 Books and Other BoOles---The January
 Magazines.
 Dana Estes, the Boston publisher, firm of Dana Estes & Co.,, has added a valuable contribution to the literature in aid of the grand movement in favor of Peace on earth, and good will to men He has issued at his own expense the Hon. William H. Elem ing's oration, "Slayery and the Race Problem in the South," delivered at Athens, Ga, last June, before the Alumni of Georgia university. The quality of this speech produced an i'm mediate impression throughout the south, bringing the speaker an extra ordinary number of congratulatory and approving letters within a very few days after It's delivery, and later similar epistles from the north and west. A fortnight after the address was given, MT. Estes asked for the privilege of reprinting it and extending its circulation, and he now sends it forth in a numbered special large pa per edition, of which the profits are to be devoted to educational work in the south.
 Apparently the president read the address soon after it's delivery, for when MT. Estes wrote to him stating his intention of extending the benefits of the speech as widely as possible, 7" and frankly aked for a commendation that might be used as an introduction, his answer bore date but two days later. Admirable alike in it's fearless nes, It's sanity and the high purpose which it shows" he says and he adds: When a brave and honest man does good work in meeting the pecul- iar difficulties of his own region he not only does good work therein, but by example and influence he helps Ameri- cans in other parts of our great com lnonwealth manfully to grapple with the various conditions which they in their turn have to strive against" MT Estes own opinion of the value and importance of the address is based upon study of the negro in Africa, in which continent he spends his win ters, and on his observation of it's slaveholding races.
 Eden Phillpots' novel Daniel Sweet land" is a book that charms with the faithful and vivid descriptions of scenery for which this author is fam ous. It also has plenty of thrills for the reader with it's rapid succession of exciting adventures MT. Phillpots begins the novel with his beloved Dartmoor, every nook, field, brook and woodland of which the multitude of readers of his romances are familiar and then changes the scene to the West Indies, to which the hero of the story hies himself, something having happened to him in England in the line of poaching episode. MT. Phill- pots carries his runaway hero to the West Indies aboard the fated tramp steamer and turns him bose in that bourne of modern magic, to encounter as original and thrilling a set of ad- ventures as ever befell lucky mortal The author has evidently made a close personal study of the scenes he SC graphically depicts, for he transports the reader at once from the chilly airs of coming winter to the sun country with it's jungles of living green, its STONY shark-haunted beaches, and its azure seas and bluer skies And the transportation is so complete as tc bring every tropical scene before the eyes with vividness and actuality. Sel. dom has such convincing word paint ing been achieved in a novel.
 The novel is one to be greatly com. mended both for it's fine literary char acter and it's wealth of startling ad venture. Published by the Authors and Publishers association, New York a $15O book for fifty cents, and fol sale in this city only by The Pease Lew:a co.
 Mir. Prescott F. Hall certainly showed much ingenuity when he made