The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-17
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THF SEASON

Al BpAMuGys As Us@$~~F' 1N"hAAS ~'S'
 ers' Treasury" by Mrs. LOwell--"A
 Wilderness Cry" by c. E. Day-"With
 John Paul Jones'" by J. T. Mcintyre
 Other New Books.
 Health Through self-Control in Thinking Breathing, Eating" by Will liam Anthony Spinney, A. M., BIO pages, published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company Boston, Mass. Will liam Anthony Spinney, who is very well known as an educator and teach CT of physical culture in and around Boston, and who has also had the ad- vantage of a thorough training in medicine and anatomy, has put the re- suits of years of thought and observa- and valuable book, entitled Health Through Self Control in Thinking, Breathing and Eating" He points the way to health and happiness in a thor oughly sane and scientific manner, which is all the more effective by be- ing written in a pleasing style and by the fact that the author assumes no position in the advance of his own dei- nite knowledge. He uses the following captions in treating his subject: Breathing, Diaphragmatlc Meathing, Various Facts on Breathing, The Sym pathetic and the CerebroISpinal Nerve System, The Subconscious and the the Body Healthfully; Inhibition; How the Body Healthfully, Inhibition, -How Habits Customs, Beliefs, Opinions, Acts may produce Health; Habit For nation; How to Eat Healthfully; Scriptural Health He emphasizes the importance of correct breathing, upon which he hats long been an authority, and discusses fully the nervous sys- tenn and how the mind may build the body healthfully Much space is also given to the science and art of habit formation and the effect upon health. The important matters of eating and dgesting are treated most ably, and in connection with each subject we are shown how we may make ourselves in everyway better and happier by the simple exercise of knowledge and self direction that can be at the command of each. The book will have a wide spread influence. Price $12O net, $1.30 post9aid.
 A delightful gift book, dressed ap- propriately in cream and gold color covers. is The Nature Lovers Treas ury,9 issued by Dana, Estes X Co.,, Boston, $120 It is a fine collection of prose and verse descriptions selected by Mrs. Carrie Thompson Lowell, Add ing greatly to the beauty of the book are thirty-six fine half tone illustra- tions of scenes in out door life. The selections are grouped under such heads as Natures Welcome" "Na- ture Recreations," "Intmacy of Ma ture," Grandeur and Beauty of Ma ture," and Mature Thoughts" Mrs. Thompson in making her selections has avoided the old, well worn field choosing mainly what is new, not well known; also avoiding what has been so well covered in other recent com pilations, her field being not that of the poet or that of the naturalist ex- clusively, but rather that which all lovers of nature yearn for and will en- joy. She well says Natures well come is always ready for her children. Her intimacy is a solace when human companonship is a weariness. Her music is filled with a gladness which | is part of herself
 The c. M Clark Publishing Co.,, Bos- ton, number among their output this season an expressing problem novel by J George Edward Day, entitled, "A Will derness Cry" which being translated is "the voice of one crying in the wilderness" The wilderness in this in- stance is the world of morals and the cry is in accord with the call of the white cross followers. The book re- lates to the living of a double life. The author makes his hero divorce his wife in order to marry the mother of his | two children, a former servant of his mother. The heroine Dycea is of a type | which yields to no compromise or shrinks from no sacrifice in matters of l conscience. From the time when she | discovers her husband to be man with past she sacrifices her affec- tion to her belief that he must make reparation to the woman he had wronged the first.
 | sI1I. af al t,, i,, session throughout the dialogues, in- deed in the whole book. Serious incon- veniences are sometimes more trying | than tragic occurrences; and MT. Ray punishes a double life with both trag- ic and mortifying troubles. He handles his subject firmly and from an elevat- ed standpoint.
 Happily for most readers a series of events is brought about by which hap piness if long delayed, Is reached in behalf of the chief players in this do- mestic drama. There is pretty love affair as a side issue. The problem is certainly well handled, and the book well worth reading, There are seven excellent illustrations by William Kirk patrick, including a fine frontispiece of Dyeea. For sale at all book storels.
 The Penn Publishing Co.,, of Phila- delphia, in its collection of publiea- tions for this season has, as usual, sev- eral very interesting volumes of stor- ies. attractively bound, all of which will no doubt prove winners. Among these is With John Paul Jones'" a