The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-01
NEW BOOKS.


ent-day booklovers "The Comedy of Life" will be found a handsome vol ume of hundred and a quarter pages of heavy paper on which are carefully printed the best of the full-page piet- ures that have appeared in Life re- gently They cover a variety of sub jects. ranging from number of com- paratively new and unhackneyed ex- amples of Gibson, through the dainty drawings of Hut, Bayard Jones, Read, Foster, Blashfield and Hanna, down to the outright fun of Kemble and Mont gomery Flagg. The book is of quarto size, handsomely bound in green cloth, with a special design by Blashfeld, and is companion volume to "The Social Comedy" which is now in it's fourth edition.
 ''The Comedy of Life" is a cheering and artistic volume to have lying about on the library table or as one of the attractive features of a guest room. It is issued by Life Publishing Company and the price is two dollars,
 TENANTS OF THE TREES" by Clarence Hawkes., author of Shaggy coat, The Little Foresters," etc; cloth decorative, illustrated by Louis Read; S150; published by L. c. Page Co.,, Bos- ton, Mass; for sale by Judd
 MT. Hawkes. writes delightfully."- and intimately of nature and animal life. He is acutely sensitive to all moods of the outdoors world, and has made a close study of animal and bird life since his childhood.
 His nature biographies are noted for their simplicity and truth; and his writings show the fullest appreciation of the beauties in woods and streams and skies. The reader gets a distinct note of Individuality In MT. Hawkes. work.
 Tenants of the Trees deals more particularly with birds and with the smaller woodland animals and there is also much charming and vital descrip- tion of still life
 The publishers are particularly gra- tif1ed to be able to announce MT Louis Rhead as the illustrator. His characteristic drawings are in com plete harmony with Mir. Hawkes. text
 There are four colored pictures by MT. Rhead which include one charm. ling little study of bluebirds and blue sky, and two others in wood browns and greens, one with wonderful rac. coon, the beast like a fox" of the ole explorers. as is admirably suggested by the New York Times, "why doe: not some one devise way by whicf pictures like these, like those whicl MT. Bull makes for MT. Roberts books like MT. Setons may be brought into the nursery. Surely they are better objects for childish contemplation thar Little Bo Peep. that maid of PippiT Hill, beloved of the Duke of Monag han. The book moreover, is not a se ries of set descriptions, but convey, it's story and its lesson in many ways The purple grackles hold a meeting tt discuss their conduct and policy, ant also their diseases, in which. llk their younger brother, man, they ar deeply interested. The young reade spends night, one long night, o feasting with the raccoon; he passes day of pain with poor Coek-robir blinded by the boy with his first sling he sees the same boy fishing withou permission, and loudly proclaiming hi own sin while under the excitement o catching his first trout, and with tha boy he makes the round of the seasoi from the first coming of the bluebird to the days when the frost hatl wrought a silence in the wood, and h cannot help enjoying it all Even tn warning not to use the sling Is mad to promise enjoyment for him, for is accompanied by instruction as t making a target on the side of tn barn and becoming a second David i marksmanship Altogether the book 1 a spirited and agreeable piece of work
 as original as MT. Rheads illustra : tions."
 "JENIFER," by Lucy Meachar
 Thrustoh Little, Brown & Co.,, Boston | $l50i at all book stores.
 Jenifer is strong novel of the Car olina mountains, dealing with the de velopment of a human soul. Jenlfe 5 beginning as a poor boy, depender : iupon himself, discovers kaolin, buy the land from one who Is unconsciou of It's value and selfshly makes hi own fortune. The awakening of hi . l conscience and +hn aro,,icitio,, op doav