The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07


 York State Library said 1t "has to an unusual degree the qualities which de- light little girls and may be approved by older readers" has just returned from visit to Paris She has written another juvenile. "Theodora," for fall publication, in collaboration with Laura Spencer Portor of the Woman's Home Companion. Miss Pyle is the sister of Howard Pyle, the artist au- thor.
 Boys of the Border" the third vol ume of the "0ld Deerfield Series" of stories for young people, by Mary P. Wells Smith, will be published by Lit tie, Brown & Co. in the fall The pe- riod is that of the French and Indian war from 1748 to 1755, and the story relates leading events in the Deerfleld valley during those stirring times.
 Miss May Robson, who has been studying the part of Aunt. Mary for the past six months, opens in her dra- matizafion of Anne Warmers popular book The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" October Sth. The author has worked with the star, and the result should be perfect fit for Miss Rob- son. A special production is being made for the play which will have it's New York run in November. The au- thor, Anne Warner, has finished writ ing another of her infnftable Susan Clegg" books which will be published in the fall, by Little, Brown & Co.,, un- der the title of Susan Clegg and A Man in the House.
 Lothrop, Lee & Shepard company, Boston, have begun operations by publishing no fewer than IS volumes from their new list They include some notable contributions to the ju- venile volumes, in which the firm has long specialized with so much suc- cess.
 An important addition to the Travel Lovers Library, one of the most suc- cessful series of books published by l.. c. Page X Company, Boston, will be made shortly by the publication of work in two volumes on the "Umbri- an Cities of Italy" the joint work of J. w, and A, M. Cruickshank From an artistic and historic standpoint, Assissi, Orvieto and Perugia and the neighboring towns possess many claims on the attention of the travel CT and travel reader, while, as will be shown by the Illustrations, many of them from private photographs re- gently taken, the surrounding coun- try Is rich in natural beauty.
 Mrs. Annie Fellows Johnston has decided to call her 1907 story "The Little Coloners Knight Comes Rid ing" which title will be of small help to eager little girls curious to know which of her three lovers Lloyd chose. The orders for this book and the holi- day edition of Big Brother and "The Legend of the Bleeding Heart" continue to augment, and threaten to hinder the publication and shipment of books prepared for older readers.
 Among the autumn publications of F. A. Stokes Company, New York, there will be novels by Francis Hodg- son Burnett, Harold Bindloss, Eliza beth Robins. Weymer Jay Mills and Dufield Osborne. There will also be a special gift edition of "The Garden of Allah" by Robert Hlcheus. This edition will contain tllirty-two full page illustrations of unusual beauty from photographs of the scenes of the novel taken for this purpose. The book Is printed on special paper with wide margins and has a handsomely designed binding
 It Is the intention of r. A. Stokes Company to make "The Story of American Painting" by Charles Fl. Caffln, which they will publish in Oc- tober, the most finely Illustrated work upon this subject in the field. The book is to contain reproductions of one hundred and forty-three paint ings of American artists. These in- clude work by every American artist of note. Most of them are unfamiliar to those who have never seen the originals, and some of them have nev- CT before been reproduced. This is doing a service to American artists in the way of stimulating public interest | for which they should be grateful