The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-28

coming BOoks--sOme Popular Favor.
 ites--The August Magazines.
 The awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland is one of the leading novels of the year,-a book full of in- terest and that subtle charm sWhich characterizes all of Mrs. Deland' S work. With her remarkably fine and delicate touch she deals in this new volume (published by Harper & Bros. ) with that aspect of the social problem which relates to an unhappy marriage and it's consequences.
 It is story of Old Chester, the Penn sylvania village which Mrs. Deland's S readers know by heart, and which must always be the background of her stories if she is not to disappoint them. Mrs. Helena Ritchie comes to live at the Suffer Animal House-a widow. it is said. But she Is not widow. A man visits her now and then-her brother Old Chester understands. But he is not her brother. Old Chester would take Mrs. Ritchie to itself, but she will not have it, so the good folk try to let her have her way, though they wish they might brighten the life of this beautiful, innocent, and lonely woman.
 Helena believes herself good wom- an. The man she married at eighteen was brute, and she was right in leaving him, He was drinking himself to death, too; he would die in few months, and meanwhile what would be the wrong in giving herself to the man she loved, who would marry her as soon as the death notice came. We'll no death notice has come in thirteen years, and here she is in Old Chester.
 The New York Times says of the book: "The Old Chester theme is car ried on in it's own utterly delightful fashion. Dr. Lavender is dearer, wiser, more divinely chid-hearted than ever. Good Willy King and his Martha, high priestess of common sense, are more to the fore, No one so well as Mrs, De- land can tell a story by suggestion. There is a replica of the bitter little tripartite drama of the Carlyles and Lady Ashburton, and we perceive something that loyal Dr. King would not permit to his subliminal conscious ness. Perhaps, bye the bye, one secret of Mrs. Deland's magic Is that she presses the button, and we do the rest. We have from her no fine-drawn anal ysis, no instant explanations. Every one of her stories is psychological, but she does the delicious gossip and her readers do the psychology. We take it as something of an insult to our in- telligence when the author is always nudging our elbow telling us what to think. Mrs. Delands people simply re- veal themselves; deductions are left to us, and that makes us feel ourselves so immensely clever! She is an adept, too, giving her readers the point of view of each character. Ones sympa- thies are almost as much with the capable, unlovely Martha, who saw her husband fascinated by the very lack of .tira thrifty household virtues for which he had chosen her, as with the heauty-loving, soft-hearted doctor, whose happiness was sacrificed on the altar of his wifes excellences.'
 ''The book cannot fall to 'suprise the attention of the most casual reader with It's captivating charm, intense hu- man interest. But tosthe reader who re- turns to it again and again, it unfolds more and more the characteristics of true greatness; and bye and bye it dawns upon him that after its kind it is perfect book, in it's noble simplic- ity. It's delicate, selective art, It's won derful presentation of life, it's fine dis cipline of all standards save the high est.
 "Flawless in literary form. penetrat- cd through and through with an in ward spiritual grace, surely 1t must come to its own-permanent place among the books that abide"
 $l.50; for sale by the Pease, Lewis Co.
 Superseded" the earlier work by Miss May Sinclair, the author of "The Divine Fire" has been so favorably re- ceived. that her publishers, Messrs Hen fy Holt & Company are encouraged to issue another work, Audrey Cravan," which some of the most discriminating admirers of Miss Sinclair rank even higher than Superseded" The book will appear Immediately.
 4 sequel to "Isabe Carnaby,' by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, is to come from Dodd, Mead & Co. in Oct. It is entitled "The subjection of Isabel Carnaby" and is to have a colored frontispiece
 Dodd Mead & Co. have a new collec- tion of essays by Maurice Maeterlinck, author of "The life of the Bee" 6c., which they will publish in September with a title yet to be announced. Several of these essays have already appeared in periodicals, where the au- tilors philosophy has almost inspired a cult on the part of his readers, and where the dellcacy and charm of his style have attracted everybody.
 "Jane Cable" is the title of George Barr McCutcheon's new story, which will be brought out the middle of Sep tember by Dodd, Mead & Co. This is another romantic story by the author of "Graustark," with modern charac- ters and scenes. The heroine loves g. man who goes to the Philippines as soldier. She follows him as nurse. And their adventures furnish the mate rial for MT. McCutcheon's novel.
 The late Susan Coolidge, says the New York Times. although without the advantage of that strong abolitionist and left-wing Unitarian support which