The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-30
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OI
 THE SEASON.

Thompson - "Midsummer Madness
 From the Spanish-Forthcomi
 Books.
 To the long list of successful books issued, all in the last few years, by the c. M. Clark Publishing Compa- ny, Boston, may be added without doubt this firms new issue, just out entitled "The Lieutenant, the Girl and the Viceroy." This is a strongly dra- matic story of adventure, the action oi which takes place in one of the Span ish vice royalties in South America Although not claiming to be historical, 1t is founded on fact and reveals under fictitious names the actors in a forgot ten and romantic chapter of American diplomatic history. There are no soul or social Problems" in Mir Thomp- sons book; 1t is just a clean, crisp, cleverly written story of love and ad- venture, with dramatic situations elev- erly told in abundance. It Is a relief to get story like this, alive with inter- est, just bright entertaining romance, without painful and psychological pro- blems or tiresome social problems. The reader gets aboard and finds him. self transported along with the story wrapped up in the tale until It's close. Such high class and critical authorities as the Boston Transcript and the New York Times book reviewers speak very favorably of this book, which by many will be regarded as the best piece of fiction that the Clark Company has ever put forth, and 1t has to it's credit Quincy Adams Sawyer, Blennerhassett, Miss Petticoats, Jay Gould Harmon, Maid of the Mohawk and other books that have proved highly popular with the reading public.
 Marshall Putnam Thompson, author 10 this brisk and breezy book, is one of Boston's rising young lawyers, a grad uate of Dartmouth college and Har- yard Law school. Although a lawyer by profession, he has decided literary ability, and on subjects historical he is regarded as an authority.
 The c, M Clark Publishing Co.,, of Boston, have just brought out Mid summer Madness translation from the Spanish of that popular writer and critic, Emilia Pardo Bazan. The book is by Back Bay society woman whose hobby is translating Spanish into Eng fish She writes under the non-de- plume of 'Amparo Lorlng," and has given to literature a very careful and at the same time easy, graceful trans lation of one of Sonora Pardo Bazan's most fascinating and absorbing roman ees
 The works of Dona Pardo Bazan have been translated into French, Russian and Swedish Her works are the most frequently quoted, applauded and re- cried of any in contemporary Spanish literature. An American critic com pares her Realism in depicting action to William Dean Howells, while the Portugese critic, Pinnheiro Chagas, calls her the most remarkable woman author in Europe since George Sand. This opportunity to become acquainted with the works of a very fascinating novelist cannot but be promptly and fully appreciated by the public.
 Two novels will be issued April 9th by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company. One, The Penalty" is by Harold Beg bic, author of "The Story of Baden Powell" "The Fall of the Curtain, etc. The other is called "Davenant, and Is by Albert Klnross, MT Kinross makes his hero dream of America. He lis an idealst and his ideal above all is America. The novel Is full of cpl sodes and romance AS this is the first novel by this author, 1t will be looked upon with unusual interest,
 lMessrs. Dodd, Mead & Company will publish on April 9th, 'Indlscreet Let ters from Peking," by B. l., Putnam Weale. It is not q history, but the story of the dramatic scenes and events told by an eyewitness. Reading the book one sees the worn and harassed defenders of the legations in scene after scene of grim fighting, beating back the hordes of Chinese soldiers MT. Weale Is also the author of Man chu and Musoovite," ''The Re-shaping of the Far East" which have gained for the author much credit as an auth ority on Eastern questions. The author himself has said concerning the boook; "EIverything I have written has beer a close appropriation to the truth and has given the people better insight into the real conditions obtaining be- yond Singapore than other works,
 "Indiscreet Letters from Picking tells the story of 1900 and is expla. nation of much that is going to hap. pen.
 On April 9th Messrs. Dodd & Com. pany will publish "The Whirlpool ot Europe--A -Austria-Hungary and the Eabsburgs" by Archibald R. and B M Colquhoun, author of "The Mastery of the Pacific" China in Transforma. tion," etc. The authors of this bool were first attracted toithe subject blythe difficulty in getting either in English French or German-indeed In any Ian guage-a succinct and comprehensive account of the Dual-Monarchy Unlike any other European country Austris is made up of races and territories witt distinct sense of national indepen dence. Hungary Is homogeneous anC ancient kingdom, but within 1t art alien races equally tenacious of nation al rights. The conflicting currents O racial politics see the round the cente formed by the Habsburg dynasty; tt trace these currents, even on sur face involved the study of the past ai well as the present. The result is a se ries of pictures, first of the historica evolution and then of modern conditions