The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-23

girlhood, strong, energetic, intelligent, and winsome. Her progress under diff faculties, and her unusual power to win and keep friends, as shown in preyi- ous books, have delighted a steadily in- creasing circle of readers, and last years book, Helen Grant in College" was remarkably popular, even for a Douglas book. Her junior and senior years bring her out in the full promise of earlier youth, and leave her, as Helen Grant" Senior" able to look back upon an enviable course. Incl dentally the picture of college life is the brightest and truest to life of any of the many attempts at depicting this golden age of young womanhood.
 BUBBLES" by Edward Mumford. The Penn Publishing Company of Phil adelphia.
 An amusing volume in which there is much fun, some of it particularly good. It will be found very enjoyable. Rhymes and pictures occupy alternate pages, with this capital parody on Kip ling as the Envy:
 When eartk's last auto is broken,
 And it's tubes arc twisted and dried When the slang's no longer spoken,
 And tho youngest scorcher has died We shall rest; and, faith, we shall need
 it.
 Lie down for an aeon or two, Till we learn to forget to speed it
 And live as we used to do.
 And those who are good shall be
 happy;
 They shall walk most anywhere With never lamp to blind them,
 Or a horn to rustic their hair; But until that time we must try to
 make
 The best of things as they are, And Ii any one wants to bestow it'll
 take
 His sccond-best touring-car,
 "HOYLE's GAMES" an autograph edition published by the Mcclure Com pany, New York; $l5O at Judds.
 Yes. it must not be forgotten that there was a Hoyle, and that although he lived a long while ago-from 1872 to 1769-his famous work on Games" is still a universal arbiter of unim- peaehable and recognized authority. The Mcclure Company has reissued his famous work in an Autograph edition, revised enlarged and brought up to date, bearing the trade mark of the famous old gentlemans profile and signature. There is all of the original Hoyle in this up-to-date book which can be referred to in the settlement of the incest points in dis ! putes and besides the book is written up to the present era of bridge whist and all the other new styles so popu- lar. As, says the New York Evening Post: Here's everything, for once, ir name. If you are going to play q game, you can take your pick of sev. erdl hundred, but it must be accord. { ing to Hoyle' Now this is a pleasant fiction, and nothing else, for it is { fair wager that this fine new edition in every part was written by mod. ern authority who knews the in: and outs of more games than the ven ! erable Edmond ever dreamed of Blu 4 Hoyle has got himself so embedded 1T 1 the language that you can speak O him as you would of a straw hat; O a lawn mower Thus the publishers O the latest 'Hoyle's Games, which is t, be kept always complete and up t date, talk about What is wanted in ; Hoyle are-namely, to look up for gotten rules of any parlor game what 1 soeyer (they are all there) and to set tie disputes at the card table"
 The games are for convenience ar ranged alphabetically and in so doin billiards are separated from pool fo instance The book treats of thes forms of sport and of chess, too, t some extent For the card games sim pie directions are given with laws an regulations interspersed where neces sary The book is invaluable not onl for experts but for beginners, It i also finely gotten up Typographical and in all respects is volume wort having.