The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-20

HOrner Louthan-The Jewellers Cir-
 cular Souvenir Issue-FOrtheoming
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 Ruel P. Smith, whose home is said to be in Brooklyn, N. Y, new writer, is the author of very interesting TO- nance of adventure published by L. c. Page and Company, Boston. The story deals with the early days of colo nial Massachusetts in the opening years of the eighteenth century, when pirates were abroad and ravaged the Atlantic coast from the Spanish main to the borders of New England. The hero of the story himself narrates the adventures which are stirring in the extreme and yividly told as well. The hero, Philip Coffin, tells the tale in his ripened years, when he has settled down as citizen of Boston, possessed of means and a hale old age. The sto- ry opens with lads playing as pirates fand runs into chapters that deal with the genuine article real saucy, villain ous pirates who Sail the seas" and bring many a merchantmen to grief. There is the hanging of Captain Quelch and six of his bloody sea-faring partners, and there are other pirates mighty in swagger and in deeds that figure in the tale and keep the readers interest alive The love story-yes, there Is good one, too-interwoven and pretty Miss Vane will capture the Id 4Ofa a e she did the heart of-Well, one of the chief characters of the story. There is a vivid frontispiece to the book by Frank T. Merrill, which illustrates one of the most exciting situations in the book. Price $1.50 at Judas.
 Hattie Horner Louthan has produced in her new novel This Was a Man a work of extraordinary interest, and though she handles varying problems of human life with much freedom, she displays genuine talent in the delinea- tion of human character and much skill in developing the complications of love and politics, preaching and labor troubles, and in presenting the many dramatic situations of the story To start with, there Is a nlix-up of babies, something in the Little Buttercup" order, The final solution is dramatic, The scene of the romance is the far west. The hero of the story is well drawn character, but perhaps that of the good rector is the best. It is cer- tainly the most artistic. The author displays genuine gift of expression She writes with freshness of style and draws strong situations with power, but there are some situations in hu- man life which may be better left to the imagination than described in full. $1.5O; for sale by all booksellers (The C. M. Clark Publishing company, Bos- ton)
 Worthy of very high praise is the souvenir issue of the Jewellers circular just out. It is a splendid triumph in trade journal publications and its man. agement Is receiving congratulations on all sides. This issue abounds with ar ticles of great value to jewellers and opticians, all specially prepared by ex- ports, and it has scores of beautiful H. 1ustratlons of foreign and home mas terpieces of the jewellers art, and of other subjects vital to the trade The ti- tie page is beauty in design, and rich coloring The Jewellers circular is a consolidation of the Astrological Re- view, the Jewellers Weekly and The Jewellers Review, and has had con- tinuous existence of thirty-seven years, a remarkable record for any periodical In this youthful nation. It is publish ed in magazine form on high quality paper and is thoroughly respected and endorsed by all the leading jewellers and manufacturers of jewelry and silver ware in the country.
 'The Siamese Cat" by Henry Miner Rideout, which Is now appearing seri- ally in the Saturday Evening Post, will shortly be brought out in book form by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. It is a very novel sort of adventure and mystery story. The scene is laid in the Tar East and principally in Siam, and every page is saturated with it's TO- rnance and mystery. The whole is a background for a very charming love story.
 Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips x Co.,, an- nounce the inauguration this spring, of a new series of little volumes which will be devoted to stories Illustrating the various sports and pastimes both past and present. The first in the se- ries will be Sir A. Conan Doyle's "The Croxley Master" one of the best stories Doyle has ever written. It is a veri- table classic of sporting life, famous as perhaps the best picture of a prize fight in fiction.
 Eleanor Gates, author of "The Flow Woman" (McCMre, Phillips & Co., and her husband, Richard Watson Fully the playwright, are wintering in Capri, where Mrs. Fully Is finishing her new book Cupid, the Cow Punch" which the same publishers will issue some time this year. The villa where they are resting belongs to Elihu Vedder, the artist, and was occupied last win- ter by the Booth Tarkingtons
 It is not generally known that Miss Lena Ashwell, the English emotional actress, who has been appearing on the American stage this season in "The Shulamite is a sister of Roger Po- cock, the well known writer, whose book "Following the Frontier" was published two years ago by Mcclure, Phillips & Go. Though this is Miss Ashwell's first visit to this country, Mir Pncnclx is thoroupblz ot l,or,o boro