The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-27

hopeful message, or multitude of hopeful messages, there is much to commend. For each day in the year there is noble sentiment, followed by brief morning prayer. The se- lections are made larkely with refer ence to their optimistic quality. They breathe the spirit of hopefulness and courage. The prayers are rest pray CTS by the leading ministers of all de- nominations. It is neatly bound, with gilt top, and will make good gift book.
 Tt is a pleasure to think" says the New York Sun that Donald G. Mitch ell at patriarchal age is able to see the handsome definitive edition of his Works" and to write for it an intro- duction that shows all the charm of his earliest writings. In it he points out that the first preface to his Fresh Gleanings" was written sixty one years ago. What that means in American literature will be understood if we remember that when it was written the Scarlet Letter." the Big low Papers" "Hiawatha" and the 'Autocrat" were still in the mists of the future
 A very different America it was that Ik Marvel belonged to and that he has lived in throughout his eighty-fve years; the normally developed land of the days before tAe war, when hustle did not rule and healthy leisure was possible; when men had time to know each other and themselves and to feel attached to the soil they were born on. It still lives in the memory of old people and the memory has been kept alive in them by reading and re- reading their Tx Marvel. Time has changed New Haven from delightful country town to prosperous and commonplace manufacturing city; it has turned the Yale College of homely brick and elns into a treeless univer- sity of marble and brownstone, but it has passed Edgewood by and left it untouched in it's beauty
 This new "Edgewood" edition of "The Works of Donald c. Mitchell' will be in fifteen volumes, of which eight are now ready. The catalogue of the titles alone awakens pleasant recollections They are, Fresh Clean "Dheam Life" Wet Days at Edge wood" Bound Together" My Farm at Ddgewood," Out of Town Places" and "Dr Johns." The Seven Stories and an Attic" with the volumes of English Lands" and. American Lands," are to come. They are all full of Europe and an America un- spoiled by progress and of the de- lightful musings that touched young and old.
 It has been MT. Mitchelps fortune to become classic in his lifetime. Who has not read and loved the "Reveries ?" His old admirers will be glad to get his books in this handsome edition, and the younger generation brought up on present day fiction may discover through it something fully as Interesting and much more satisfying, at any rate the English that gentlefolk once used.
 Tom Gallon, the author of The Cruise of the Make-Believes," Little Brown & Co.,, started to earn his liv- ing at the age of fourteen in a ware house in poor quarter of London. He was in touch with the poor of the great city every day, and so came by hills wonderful knowledge of theil Sways, and his sympathy for those whose lot is cast in Hfe's rough places From city clerk he became an usher in private school, then private secretary to provincial mayor; and ultimately came illness and then ht wrote "Tatterley" which lifted hin from obscurity When he started or his literary career he had the greates
 struggle of his life Often he lived or
 bread and cheese, many a tin 3, too, ht slept under a hedge He began Se chase
 odd guineas up and down Fleet Street
 writing stories, articles, 1ckes, any thing that would bring him hs & few shillings, working far into the night
 often till daylight crept through tht
 window of his attic with only one ob
 iect in view, and that to make & namt
 as a story teller. In his latest story
 The Cruise of the Make-B Believes, just published Mir Gallon again goe
 to the poor quarter of London for hi
 heroine, although his hero is ; wealthy but philanthropic young Eng
 lishman.
 Temple Bailey. the author O inT,,5,r ap Ia AaV po the young on Little, Brown & Co.,
 fall list, is the daughter of Unioi soldier but educated in a privat,
 school in Richmond which emphasized
 old-South ideals. She has writer many short stories for magazines, win ming the second prize in the Ladies
 Home Journal love story contest fou lyears ago. Vivid rememhrances 0
 her happy girlhood days made pQssi ble many of the chapters of Judy, the longest story for girls she hal written Miss Bailey now makes he, Ihome in Washington, D. c.
 } Mary E. Waller, the author of "Th , Wood Carver of 'Lympus, "a bool
 that never appeared in the list of tn, ''six best sellers" but now in it's sev r ententh edition-has temporarily for , Isaken her home in the Green Noun f tains of Vermont for the month o f lSeptember in Canada. Many of tn f fine qualities of "The Wood-Carver o , | 'INmpus" are to be found in one o her two previously published books 1, "A Daughter of the Rich," whicl Margaret F. Sangster has just pro lnounced the most suggestive book fo z girls that has appeared since Miss Al colt published Little Women