The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09

the peculiar noise of these beasts) and bray you awake in the morning. Miss McManus is to visit Egypt also before her return to the little Norman town of Les Andelys. her headquarters for the past five or six years.
 T have just been reading with great pleasure Miss Helen Leah Reeds book .Napoleon's Young Neighbor,'" writes Thomas Wentworth Higginson. T think 1t should have very wide circu- lation, since it puts Napoleon, for the frst ame, before the minds of chill dren as a playmate and a friend. and they will 80 back to him in later read Ing as one whom they enjoyed in child hood, It should be in every nuhlin lie brary, without fail"
 By the publication of Frank Roy Fraprie's Castles and Keeps of Scot land, L. C. Page & Co, have comnlet- ca their list of fall books. Mir Franrie. who will be pleasantly refnenbered as the author of Among Bavarian Inns" IS an enthusiastic amateur photorranl,. CT, and has secured with his own camera all the illustrations for his new book.
 Two of Little, Brown &. Ca e a,+h- ors are in the hmelight just now in a literal sense. Roy Horniinan. whose latest story. Lord Cammarleigh.s se- cret," is winning high praise, is re- sponsible for a comedy, 'The Educa- ton of Elizabeth which is to be nro- duced at the Haymarket Theatre. Ton- don, shortly The other writer now be- ing represented on the stage is Anna Warner, whose The Rejuvenat,on of Aunt Nary Is being played at the Gar den Theatre, New York by May Rbb- son As is usually the case with a suc- cessful decentralization, the stage ver- sion of Miss Warmers novel has creat- ed demand for new edition. which with illustrations from the play. is now in preparation.
 Capt A. T. Mahan's new book Some Neglected. Aspects of War.a just issued by Little, Brown 6 Co.. is intended to demonstrate the necessary and righteous part played by war in modern civilization.
 The Mcclure company announces the following reprints: A second edi- ton immediately of the "Reminis- icences of Carl Schurz' sixth edition of Ida M Tarbell's little masterpiece, ''He Knew Lincoln"; a fourth edition of O. Henry's stories of metropolitan life, The Four Million: sixth edi-l ton of Helen R. Martins new Penn sylvahia Dutch story, His Courtship." 7.
 The Mcclure company has success-6 fully iraugurated new series of bookss at low prices. The aim of the series Illustrated Cameos Of Literature" is to present studies, in brief compass, of principal personalities and topics inz contemporary literature and art. Eachz volume is illustrated with reproduc.A tions of paintings and photbgraphsa The series will be edited by Georgd Brandes. Velnmes just Issued ard
 Richard Wagner as Poet" Maxim Gorki,p Aristotle Professor Charlton Minor Lewis o8 Yale, says in the preface of his "Thz3 Genesis of Hamlet" which Messrs7
 Henry Holt and Company ani6unce fol immediate publication, that he believes 1t differs from all previous trtatises it| including the first complete aAtcmpsz to solve the Hamlet problem by dis'3 criminating between Shakespeare
 original contributions to the story, an the legendary materials that he inher'
 ited," as previous commentators apH pear to have thought it Impossible distinguish these heterogeneous ele
 ments." pr. Lewis' striking little vo
 tune will also handle, among other toi ics, the Theories of Coleridge a1 Werder." "The First Quarto,p "Ky
 and Belleforest," 'The German Han
 let" and 'Ophelia.
 Convinced that the cause of peal %
 itself is jeopardized by the exagger tions and oversights of its noisfer fo1 lowers, I have thought it expsdient
 collect under one cover few arttclI
 in which the rationale and justiicatl{
 Of war and of it's procedure have Beg
 considered under different asDects
 says Capt Al T. Mahan in the prefa '
 to his new book, Some Neglect
 Aspects of War" which Little. BroT
 and company are publishing. Tc CsI 7
 Mahans articles on The Moral A pect of War" "The Practical Aspd of War" war From the Ctlristi| Standpoint" and The Hague Confd ence of 1907, and the question of munity for belligerent merchant sh
 ping" have been added a paper
 the topic, "The Power That Makes E
 Peace" by Henry s. Pritchett, formf ] ly president of tn Massachustts ina tut of technology, and a discprsior
 'orhe Capture of Private Property
 Sea-" by Julia Corbett, an English 8
 thority on naval subjects.
 The Daughter of Jorio," by Cab ellie DAnunaio published by Brewn| O., Boston; s1.b0 net.
 Moral Training in the Put Schools The California Prize Essay by Charles Edward Rugh, T. F. Stew son, Edwin Dillen Starbuck, Fra
 cfa1nef and George B. Myers (Ginn