The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-06

THE MESSAGE, by A. j. Dawson,
author of African Nights Entertain
ments,' etc; published by Dana Estes
& Co., Boston; $3.50; at all book stores.
This Is a stirring realistic tale of
love, war, and politics, in which the
scene is laid in England at the lal.ter
end of the nineteenth century. The
underlying motive of the work is pre-
servation of wholesome patriotism and
the Encouragement of factious oppo-
lsition. The story relates the imagin-
airy conquest of England by Contin-
entail rival, who finds her inert and
unprepared, as result of long pc
Rod Of overconidence and neglect.
Later there is shown the salvation of
the country in her trying need by the
unexpected assistance of her colonies
and the resulting readjustment and
improvement of her relations with
those colonies, likewise the dawn Of a
new era Of sanity and patriotism.
Many striking characters are drawn
and thrilling love-story forms an
important part of the narrative. OF the
book the New York Times says: Here
British devotion to money -making to
the neglect of everything else except
lwasteful, ostentatious, actually wicked
money spending, is shown in the lat
est aspects which 1t has assumed in
the British Isles, and more particular
ly in London. The wanton sacrifice of
defensive measures-military, naval,
and fiscal-that peace may be secured
for money making; the callous in
difference to civic duty; the forgetful-
/ ness of human dust that builds on
dust. are shown as the traitorous
forces betraying England into the
hands of King Edwards royal and
| imperial nephew" when it suited him
to land his thoroughly appointed le-
gions in East Anglia, and to march
upon London after proclamation that
the penalty Of self-defense would be
death, But Mr.. Dawson has his re-
medy and it is the return to simple
duty, simple living, and to simple
faith, and in that sign he represents
the English as emerging from the val
| ley of humiliation The message of
redemption is brought to him by two
sons of England, to whom Canadian
| life has revealed it, and the story Of
their meetings and of the popular en-
thusiasm there displayed win bring
tears to the eyes of many reader,
so skillfully does the author manage
to touch the sentiment of patriotism
and of religion. The book has pri-
vate story, the development Of a
youth reared in fashion entirely
goddess and devoid of all unbending
principle, literally reared, to put it
tersely, and this is as salutary read
ing in this country as in England"
Mr.. Dawson who is about forty FIVE
years Of age, has lived in Canada,
Australia, the United States, New Zea-
land, and India, and devoutly believes
in Duty, Lord Roberts, Mr.. Kipling,
and his Bible and Prayer Book, and he
hopes that the colonies may yet save
the motherland. He is not to be con-
founded with the Rev. w. J. Dawson,
a Congregational minister, who also
writes fiction, and in 1903 published
THE Quest of the Simple Life"
1
During the month of August there
will appear simultaneously a historical
novel, and a magazine article in which
the same writer describes conditions of
Mexico past and present. Mr.. Eugene
p. Lyle, jr., is the author in question.
His book THE Lone Star will be
published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,
the first of August, In it Mr. Lyle
gives a dramatic picture Of Santa Ana
and his confreres, and of the men who
pinned the Stars and Stripes to Tex
as flag staff. The magazine article
will appear in The Worlds Work tol
that month and is called Mexico At
High Tide" The remarkable progress
| of a wonderfully rich country being
developed largely by American capital
! Is told by Mr., Lyle, and while not fic-
ton is no less interesting than his
story of Mexico as 1t was in the ear
ly thirties.
At this season when we are apt ia
feel that the proper time to quit work
Is all the time, DR.. Luther H. Gulick
article in the current number OF
Worlds Work is especially timely. DR.
Gulick has some very common sense
ideas about when not to work, and he
tells us in plain language what II
costs for man to hold on too long. AS
the author of THE Efficient Life, DR.
/ Gulick is recognized among the fore
most preachers Of the day on sane liv-
ing.
Doubleday, Page and Company have
issued their new fall catalogue which
includes not only old well-known fay.
orites, but new names and all of then
good ones,
"Mosses and Lichens' to be publish
ed by Doubleday, Page and Company
in the early fall will contain nearly l.,
500 illustrations, forty-eight Of which
are photographs in colors and blacl
and white. The author, Nina Marshal
is one of the best known teachers O
biology and botany in the United
States. This book will be bound uni
form with the Nature Library publish
ed by the same firm.
Among well-known artists who will
illustrate Doubleday, Page and Com
pany's 1908 publications are Anna
Whelen Belts, Walter little, SiguarC
Schou, Laurence Mazzanowich, Arthu