The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-14


 nets" edited by Ferris Greenslet; "The Temple of Virtue" six sermons by the Rev Paul Revere Frothing- ham; Mornings in the College Chap el," Second Series, short addresses by Professor Francis c. Peabody; "Bibh- ography of Ralph Waldo Emerson" by George Willis Cooke; "A Theory of Motives, Ideals and Values in Educa- tion," by William E. Chancellor; and "Smokeless Sin," by Professor Edward Alsworth Ross.
 Dr. William G. Anderson, director of the gymnasium at Yale university has been so impressed by the results of the diet experiments conducted at Yale by Professors Chittenden, Irving Fisher and Lafayette Mendel, and by the radical conclusions which Pro- lessor Chittenden sets forth in his Nutrition of Man." that he has de- cided to give a course of lectures to the Yale freshmen on Practical Fly giene, in which he will emphasize the importance of the new dietary idea of increasing health and endurance by temperance in eating. Dr. Ander- sons son, w, l. Anderson, won both the Intercollegiate and Collegiate ath- letic championships of America when he was taking nutriment in quantity far less than that consumed by the ordinary sedentary person, Dr. An derson says that he has cured num- erous cases of indigestion, nervous ness, and neurasthenia among the col- lege students attending the gymnasi- um by' inducing them to follow the practice of masticating thoroughly and reducing their diet, and he de- clares that ten years hence, when he believes that the practice will be gen. erally followed by Yale athletes, Yale will be pre-eminent in athletics pr. Anderson will begin his course of lect- ures in october of this year.
 Robert Hichens, author of Barbars Sheep, (Harper & Bros) The Garden of Allah, The Call of the Blood, etc, loves to travel, and has visited many countries, but when he has planned a new book and is ready to begin writ ing, he settles down in some quiet and secluded place. and, giving up entirely all social engs.aments and responsi- bilities devotes himself unhaggingly to work,
 He is an early, riser; as Q general thing he is busy at his desk by seven In the morning. He works until called to luncheon. which he always eats leisurely, and after luncheon he takes up his work again, and keeps steadily at it until dinner-time. After dinner he will not work, but, going to bed early is ready for an early and viz orous start in the morning. The splendid effects in his stories are thus the result of genius and application combination that is rare indeed.
 His book completed, he rests and travels for time, sees his friends, enjoys himself, and is charming, cordial, agreeable companion. Then comes the idea of another book, and again there are seclusion and hard work He knows Intimately the re- gions in which he places his stories
 He has a middle name, "Smythe, " but he does not use it In his books preferring the simplicity of Robert FIichens,"
 The Harpers have issued new edi. tions of A Stumbling Block, by Justus Miles Forman, Bud, by Neil Munro and Needles and Pins, by Justin Hunt | ly Mccarthy.
 we feel that we cannot too warm. | ly recommend My People of tho Plains to our readers" are the words of unqualified praise with which the London Spectator concludes a . long review of this book of reminiscence: by Bishop Talbot the Cowboy Bishop"
 One who has recently met Mrs Katherine Cecil Thurston, author O | those remarkable books The Mystics The Masquerader, and The Gambler writes of her that "she is very small shy person, the last one in the world apparently, to have thought of sucl original and striking plots
 As "all the world loves a lover" al the world ought to love stories abou love;-and if so, all ought to low those two new books, Barbary Sheep a tale of love and passion set amit scenes of the Algerian Desert, and / Stumbling Block, story of love an, sacrifice set in present-day New York Superintendent o. J. Kern's "Amons l CnunHrv Schnnle,, 0ciinn & Cn- Rnetnn