The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-25

able reviews ali around. The New York World says:
 "Ackroyd is a manly man, In whom the helpful interest of Dr. Everest, head of the faculty, has been well placed. The interest of Connie Everest, the doctors exceedingly pretty and some times perverse daughter, is a very diff ferent matter. It grows slowly, spring ing from indifference and revealing finally a full strength obtained almost unawares.
 Tn Illuminating contrast to Ackroyd, Dr. Roger Padden, not of the faculty, figures largely in the book. There is a group of other skilfully contrasted characters, Ackroyd's plain old mother, Comics too acquiescent young broth- CT, and gossipy, but good hearted Maud Wyatt among them.
 Miss Ray exhibits all her looked for skill in fictional conversation"
 The New York Sun Says; "The people have character and the story is read- able
 Aunt Jane of Kentucky" is the title of capital new story of rural Ken lucky life with homespun philosophy issued for spring publication by Little, Brown & Co.,, Boston. The author, Eliza Calvert Hall, has done in this enter taining bunch of stories of the Blue Grass country, work which brings to ,l Brown and Mary E. Wilkins have done for similar phases of New England life.
 There is considerable wit and wisdom in the conversation reported, as, for instance, lngthe chapter entitled Sally Ann's Experience,' which first appeared in popular magazine. "A church so- ciety is divided on the question of get ting new carpet, some of the congre- gation being in 1avor of sending the money to the heathen Sally Ann was the one that settled 1t. She says at last Sally Ann was in favor of the cyarpet she says, Well, if any of the heather fails to hear the gospel on account of our gettin' this cyarpet, they'll be saved anyhow so Parson Page says. And if we send them the money and they do hear the gospel, like as not they won't repent, and then they're certain to be damned And 1t seems to be as long as we ain't sure what they'll do, We might as well keep the money and git the cyarpet. never did see much sense anyhow says she, in givin' people 8 +a Jo al, al 5t bo trei- tune has a colored frontispiece and black and white vignettes by Beulah Strang.
 The New York Times says of Aunt Jane of Kentucky" Aunt Jane is not false, nor cheap, nor shallow, and the stories that are put in her mouth ex hale the very breath of old gardens and country roads and fields, and plain old churches in groves by the wayside- reflect the very faces, figures, voices, gestures, sentiment of two generations ago among the plain and solid folks of Kentucky. Where so many have made caricatures of old-time country folk, Eliza Calvert Hall has caught at once the real charm, the real spirit, the real people, and the real joy of living which was theirs" $1.50; at all book stores.
 Ginn & Co.,, Boston, have just issued translation by MT. H. W. Morse, of Cambridge, of Professor w. ostwalds s Letters to Painter on the Theory and Practice of Painting" which ap- peared in 19O3-4 in the columns of the Munich Allgemeine Zeitung. They have had the advantage of careful revision, and are clear application of chemical and chromatic science to the art of painting. Professor Ostwald considers pastels the most satisfactory and dur able of all forms of painting, and he dispraises frescoes calling them as archaic as horse cars. His final rule in the seventeenth letter is this: Let every artist be conscious of his work. Let him be absolutely clear about the aim he wishes to attain, and about the means he must use to attain It."
 In his Introductory note MT. Ostwald says: "Of course I know perfectly well that my criticism of views which have become venerable by age cannot fail to bring out objections to this book; but am not alone in my dissatisfaction with the present antiquarian and "phllosoph- ical' methods which are applied to the scientific side of art. Nor am I alone in my desire to see these methods re- placed by the only one which has ever yielded permanent results-the empiri- cal-eXperlmental method. If this can, for the time being, merely aid in free- ing us from a narrow overestimatlon of the achievements of certain art periods, the advance which will be made to- wards true and genuine development in art will be incalculable.'
 The present edition contains many additions to the German edition of 1904; s1.0O at all bookstores. .7.
 Priscilla of the Doll Shop" by Nina Rhoades, author of The Little Girl Next Door," etc.; illustrated by Bertha G. Davidson; published by Lothrop, Lee & shepard company, Boston.
 The Brick House Books" as they are called from their well known cover designs, are eagerly sought by children all over the country, and 1t will be a much appreciated novelty to offer them now one in the spring. There are three good stories in this book, instead of one, and it is hard to say which lit tie girls, and boys, too, for that matter, will like the best. In each is to be found that complete naturalness and excellent taste which have won for the