Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-20
BOOKS.

Messrs Dodd, Mead & Company will
publish on April ., '1ndscreet Letters
from Peking.P by b. J.. Putnam weale.
This Is the story of the siege OF the lc-
cations in PeSln. II is not a history,
but the story of the dramatic scenes
and events told by an eye witness.
Reading the hook one sees the worn
and harrassed defenders of the lega-
tons IN scene after scene of grim
fighting, beating back the hordes OF
Chinese soldiers. Mr., Weale Is also
the author of 'bIanchu and Muscovite,"
.The Re-shaping of the Far East"
which have gained for the author much
credit as an authority on eastern
questions.
The author himself has said concern
ing the book Everything j have
written has been close approximation
to the truth and has given people a
better insight into the real conditions
obtaining beyond Singapore than 9TH
er works"
"Indiscreet Letters from Picking tells
the story OF 1900, and is an explanation
OF much that is going to happen
Sitting In an executive position on a
great daily newspaper the trained
journalistic eye comes upon many
strange stories OF real life, which. with
a little establishment become the great
stories of fiction. Jacques Futrelle-
author OF Tho Thinking Machine ami
THE Chase of the Golden Plate has
crystallized in hctional form some of
these strange stories Of mystery, and in
the person OF The Thinking Machine, an
aged scientist has solved them Tho
newly published book. by Dodd, Mead
& Co., therefore Is more than fiction,
1t introduces a new type OF story and
q new character to solve them
Messrs. Herbert b. Turner & Com
pany announce that they viii be the
publishers of the Proceedings OF the
American Society for Psychica Re
search" the official reports Of the So
ciety which has recently been organ
feed to prosecute the work heretofore
carried on by the American branch Of
the English Society for Psychical Re-
search. These Proceedings will be
edited by DR., James II. HysIop, under
whose direction the work OF the new
society Is being carried on
The announcements OF Messrs. Her
bert II Turner & Company of their
present and forthcoming publications
In the field OF psychiCal research in
dlcate that they are undertaking to
cover the various phases OF this i'm
poTtant subject by a line OF books
WHICH sHilll DC IN every hVlls" SAdlu
ard and thoroughly scientific: not in
any way to be COMPOUNDED with So
called spirtuallstIc literature. The
leading American authority on the
mental phenomena involved In physcic-
al research is without question Dr.
James H. HysIop, formerly professor
OF ethics and logic In Columbia unyer-
sity, His three volumes Borderland
OF Psychical Research. Eniginas OF
Psy0hical Research" and Science ana
the Future Life have already
achieved large sales and are reeog-
nlzed as the standard works upon their
subject.
Mrs. Marion Foster Washburne's
Family Secrets which is published |
this week, is a book that ought TO ind
readers In every family that has had
to Teadjust It's methods Of living The |
story Ia supposed 10 be told by a wo-
man whose husband. having suffered |
financial reverseE, Is compelled 10 ind |
a new home IN somewhat poverty |
stricken surroundings in n suburban |
town The story Itself Is simple and |
its chief attraction is 10 |
be found IN tho wholesome reflections
OF the author on matters of universal /
interest ana Inc delightful spirit dis
played under adverse conditions,
"Dutton's Little Stories OF oerma- !
N.Y. 10y Maudo larrows Dutton, an-
dior Of Little Stories Of France"
Fishing and Hunting etc, Cloth,
Emo, 1872 pages, with Illustrations.
Price 40 cents, American Book com.
pany, New York, Cincinnati and chi.
cago,
The stories In this volume OF the
Eclectic Readings sive connected his
tory OF the German people. from the
c'inbrl and Tsutons down 10 the pres
ant Kaiser Wilhelm Each Of the great
events H. In proper succession pre-
sented IN the form OF a short sketch.
The subjects selected show the lnflu-
nnoe which the German people have
had on the culture and progress OF the
world, and include such topics as All
breehf Durer !" ''Gutenberg's Invention
n Printing" Frederick the Great"
SCHILLER" Wagner ana "Beetho.