The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-16

is enjoying in England, and the book has secured a wide public in Canada, Australia and South Africa. As might have been expected an Italian trans tion is being prepared.
 R. F. Foster, author of the new Fosters Sl1at Manual and the inter national authority on all card games, is responsible for the truth of the statement that the German game Skat, which has recently been introduced in to England and America, has won roy al recognition and approval. King Ed ward has pronounced Skat a better game than bridge, and no doubt soci- ety will take the hint and ,as if it were, follow suit.
 Mcclure, Phillips & Co.,, announce the following reprints from their list An eighth edition of Stewart Edward Whites story of a man-hunt 'The Silent Places" a second and revised edition of Dr. Howard A. Kellys wide ly discussed Walter Reed and Yel low Fever" a sixth edition of Ida Tar bells famous life of Lincoln, in two volumes; a third edition of G. Loves Dickinson's fine essay, "A Modern Symposium;' a second edition of Flea nor Gates story of the west, 'The Plow-W Woman" and a fifth edition of A. Conan Doyle's "Sir Nigel" the new companion story to "The White Com pany."
 Miss Mary Moss is among the very few American writers who have won distinction as a reviewer. She is the best known through her signed re- views in the literary Journals. Her new novel, "The Poet and the Parish (Hol) exemplifes what she says is her secret ambition, to foster an emotional expression in American fiction. Miss ,Moss's other books are: Fruit Out of Season." novelette,, which being the f1rst-on the principle alluded to in ''rhe Poet and the Parish" that tall fiction must be autobiographic-con vinced the neighbors that she had been having far pleasanter time lon the quiet than they had ever supposed. (Later they were disillusioned)
 "A Sequence in Hearts, novel.
 "Julan Meldohla," novel
 A number of short stories and crit ical writings, largely in the Atlantic.
 Messrs. Henry Holt and Company who expected to issue MT. Logan G.. McPherson's 'The Working of the Railroads" last year, have held back the general issuance of that book un- til the middle of the present month, so as to avoid the smother of holiday publications. About the same time Prof J. M. Hart's Development of Standard English Speech in Outline, 2 which was held over for the same req son by the same publishers, will be brought out.
 It is doubtful whether that brilliant German author, Paul Heyse, ever wrote a more picturesque novelette, than his smuggler story, "Das Madchen von Treppi." which is so very popular in the schoolroom that Messrs. Henry Holt and Company have had to print 1t ten times. They will celebrate their next printing of it by adding com plete vocabulary.
 1 The publication of Types and Breeds of Farm Animals" by Profes- sor Charles s. Plumb of Ohio State University, reminds us of the fact that not since 1888 has volume devoted to | the breeds of horses, cattle sheep, and swine been published in America, The present volume (the first in Country Life Education Series" to be publish ed by Ginn & Company is very com 1 prehensive and contains much new in- | formation which will prove of value to the agricultural student and to the stock breeder.
 Ripley's Railway Problems" which |