The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-05
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

"Silas Strong" by Irving BacheIler-
 "Their Husbands Wives" Edited by
 Twain and HOwelIs -- "The Larky
 Furnace," by Hildegarde Brooks
 "rhe Green Flag" by Sir Conan
 Doyle.
 In the charming new book "Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods pub lished by Harper & Bros, Irving Bach eller has gone back to the scene of his early triumphs. The story is laid in the northwestern part of the Adlron- dacks, and is full of the spirit of the great forest. It is incidentally, also, a strong plea for the preservation of our forests from ruthless destruction. Silas Strong is a philosopher of the woods, man who thinks much but says little, and whose nearness to nature has en- doWed him with an original obserVa- tion, a strong sense of humor and an elemental simplicity that endear him to the reader. Though Uncle Sile" ex- presses himself always with laconic brevity, he is a genuine humorist with fountains of sly laughter inside of him. His shy silent courting of the patient woman who has waited long years for Eim to speak, is one of the most orig inal and amusing chapters in the fic- tion of wooing. Socky and Sue, two small children who are bereft of their mother, are brought into the woods by their neer-do-well father and left in. the guardianship of the woodsman.
 The cglildren regard Uncle Sile as a hero whose exploits with bears and the like form the topic of many childish flights of imagination in adventure and their desire to emulate him, as well as their irrepressible scent for mischief gets them into lots of trouble; but Sile is always quick to get them out and to forgive They play an inn portant part in tine unconventional love story between young Master, a visitor at Sile's camp, and the mys- terious maiden of the woods-love scenes that partaie of all the outdoor charm and unbounded passion of Ar cadia A stirring conflict springs up between these primitive backWoods people and the owners of a sawmill, who seek to clear the woods-a contest finally settled by great forest fire, which changes the face of the map for everybody It is In MT. Bachellers s best vein delightful idyllic. Price, $1'60; at the Pease-Lewis Co.'S.
 Conjugal affection is the link that joins together the half dozen snort stor- ies included in Their Husbands Wives (Iarpers), a volume of Harp er's Novelettes," edited by William Dean Howells, and Henry Mills Alden, The names of the editors are guaran- tee of good taste in the selection. Mark Twain's Ewes Dairy opens the vol- ume: the authors who follow are Eliz- a.betf5 Stuart Phelps, Abby Mcguire Roach, Grace Ellery Charming Emery Pottle and George Hubbard MT How els writes a little introduction, In his introduction Mir Howell's says;
 In certain sense all wives are their husbands wives but in naming their little collection of tales of varied inter est but of single purpose, the editors have had peculiarly in mind those wives who perpetuate in the latest woman the ideal of the earliest"
 What that earliest ideal was is set forth in the opening tale which Is Mark Twain's Eyes Diary
 Each of the succeeding tales in the book is an echo of that idea. The title and the authors are:
 Covered Embers" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; "Life's Accolade, by Abby Mcguire Roach; "The Bond" by Emery Pottle "The Eyes of Affection" |" by George Hubbard, and "The Marriage Question" by Grace Ellery Channing.
 They are utterly unlike-and yet it would be difficult to find anywhere six stories which go together better.
 The book is of about 180 pages, teste- fully printed, and bound and without illustrations. Price $1. For sale by The Pease-Lewis Go.
 A jolly book for young, and which old heads, too, will relish abounding in the playful dream fancies of a little girl, Sue Betty" which are told in very happy style. is "The Larky Furnace. by Hildegarde Brooks, and which is all the more attractive from the charming illustrations by Peter Newell. Of "The Larky Furnace" the New York Times reviewer has this to say:
 Do you remember the days when an Olympian's casual mention of an un- familiar word opened up a universe of hobgoblin, fairy and romance lands?
 If you do then you will want to ac- company Sue Betty a-hunting after Mousse or whisking over roofs in Plu- tarch's wake to a big tenement and the garret in it where people don't have to pay rent and where the poor Prince and Princess Carabas live.
 If you like Plutarch the best ever because he can take up one or other of the nine lives of the cat that he is at will, and when he is Fuss in Boots can talk English to a nicety; well, Sue Bet ty. too. is wonderfully capable when she is using that one of her two pre- cious little lives that is called the dream life.
 You must not show the least aston ishment at her bravery about that great hulking furnace that would go out nights on larks, nor at her cleverness