The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-26
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON


 OF THE SEASON Ralph Connors' "The DOctor"-"A Boys
 Vacation Abroad" by c. F. King
 Notes of Forthcoming Books and
 Other Books.
 Ralph Connor's "The Doctor" (pub- lished by Fleming H. ReveH Co.,, New York; has had a phenomenal circula- tion in Canada, where. among the 8,OOO,OOO of English speaking Canadians more than S5,OO0 copies have been cir culated, an average exceeding one copy for every 100 persons. The book gives ample evidence that MT. Connor has not exhausted his fertile field for TO- nance. "The Doctor is accounted by many his masterpiece. It certainly rivals his Sky Pilot" and "The Man from Glengarry" It is on eof the stories that take a firm grip on the reader, and is in the same breezy, wig orous style as the previous books by this popular author.
 c. F. King, young man of seven- teen years, and student in St. Johns Military academy, is the author of a book with the title, "A Boys Vacation Abroad" just issued by the c. M. Clark Publishing company of Boston. Young Mir. King, has achieved nota- ble literary success, to be the author of book at seventeen, and his book is a very remarkable thing for any time or country.
 The youthful traveller has set down a delightful account of his experiences in Europe, written from journal of his daily visits to things and places of interest. Europe has had an endless amount written about 1t, but "A Boys ' oOttlAJl 5lN Co lO lLo ACelQClo HOW ways of seeing things from the stand point of an American boy, Naturally other American boys will be most in- terested In it.
 The book is gotten out in an attract i've style, and is profusely illustrated with pictures taken by the author. A pretty dedication in fac simile of the authors own hand writing dedicates the volume to his schoolmates at St. Johns.
 Mcclure, Phillips and Company an- nounce the following reprints from their list: An eighth edition of Stew art Edward Whites story of man. hunt, ''The Silent Places" a second and revised edition of pr. Howard IA. Kelly's widely discussed "Walter Reed and Yellow Fever" a sixth edition of Ida Tarbelrs famous Life of Lin- coln," in two volumes; a third edition of G. Loves Dickinson's fine essay, "A Modern symposium;" a second edition of Eleanor Gates story of the West "The Plow Woman" and fifth. edition of A, Conan Doyle'5s sir Mi gel, the new companion story to "The White Company"
 Messrs. Duff1eld and Company an nounce for publication in February a new novel by Charles Egbert Grad dock, entitled "The Windfall.' Other novels for early publication on the same publishers spring list are, "The Dover Woods" by Emma Brooke, au- thor of "The Engrafted Rose;" and "A Winged Victory" by Professor Robert Morse Lovett of the Universi- ty of Chicago, author of Richard Gre sham"
 Among new books just published by E. P. Dutton and Company are the following Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity and Evo- lution," by Robert Heath Luck, M, A., Fellow of Gonville and Gains college, Cambridge; Queen and Cardinal a Memoir of Anne of Austria and of Her Relation with Cardinal Mazarin, by Mrs Colquhon Grant; Studies in Bi- geography" by Sir Spencer Walpole, including Peel Cobden, Disreali. Bis marck, Napoleon III, etc.; 'The Chil- dren of the Nation; How Their Health and Vigor Should be Promoted by the State,' by the Right Honorable Sir John E. Gorst; and Infant Nor tality, a Social Problem" by George Newman, lecturer on public health at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; etc, etc.
 For the third time within five years special attention has been given to the publications of Messrs. Houghton, Mfr fin and Company, owing to centennial celebrations of the birth of famous au- sons centenary, their editions of his writings were naturally in great de- ! mand, owing to their being the com plete and authorized version. The same thing happened in the following year, which was characterized by an abnor- nal demand for the works of flaw thorne Now comes the centennial of Longfellows birth, which took place on February 27, 1907. This event will undoubtedly have the usual effect of creating large demand for the nu- merous editions of Longfellow's poems, which are the copyright of the firm in question:
 Doubleday, Page and Company have n n1 e