The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27

new work. The book has fifty very fine illustrations and is another addition to Doubleday, Page & Co.'S "Geograph- ical Library Series"
 "DAvENANT, by Albert Kinross. Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, Sl.50; for sale at Judd's.
 In this biography within biography MT. Kinross displays again that fine literary quality which distinguishes his work. The book is made up of a series of the impressions of American life and character with which MT. Kinross has made himself acquainted during his ex perience as 6 London journalist. It is an unusually graceful story that MT. Kinross presents and 1t well exhibits the authors keen powers of observa- ton and is spiced by a subtle humor that lends a choice flavor to the work. The book has stirred up some ire iii Boston literary circles on the ground that personalities are apparent in the criticisms and the laws of hospitality have been been over-stepped. But Bos- ton is a sensitive spot,
 Davenant was of London, and was a gifted writer, a cripple whose life was beolouded for lack of success, for lack of recognition Of his ability He eked out a precarious existence by writing for London publications. A New York publisher found him out when he was pretty near the end of his days. For some time before, having been invited, he had written for "Bostonian guar terly.' The New York publisher. relates what this high connection and occupa- tion meant to Davenant. Says the publisher, with that keenness and charm in narrative which distinguishes all the book: Boston was with him a marked and learned city. He could un- fold himself to Boston as to no other spot in the whole world. No subject that he touched upon was too remote, his widest flights were open and &C., cessible to those aspiring souls. If he indulged taste for the mazes of a complex psychology, Boston could fol- low him; if he was after the dramatic and the significant, Boston was there. In all but fact he was a citizen of that enlightened township. He addressed it with a burning conviction and in his natural voice, sure of complete and perfect understanding. on one point only was he doubtful. He suspected an acute and essential antagonism be- tween his own mental processes and those of Boston. Both parties achiev- ed the same results; they reached them, however by different and di- vergent roads. Davenant would build up a character, point of view; where as, Boston would dissect it."
 There is keenness and force in MT. Kinross' dissection and analysis of character and the book will be relished for it's high literary quality of Daven- ant The New York Sun says: ''It is the publisher who tells all the stories in the book, except one, Davenant's own, written out for publication. But Davenant and succession of people | from America. There are surprises zot fancy and expression everywhere ir l tho text.
 | "Davenant's ideal was America. Il was curious, ardent, pathetic, lighted with high and strange colors, and the story tells all about it. An ingenious 1 idea establishes Davenant, and nice skill moves him through experiences o1 interest. The reader will be impress. ! ed and pleased by the book. It fs z l new vein, and it is refreshing and sat 1 isfactorv 2