The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-28

in so many words) that she is little, precise. quiet. young, restrained and observant. After you had talked to her for an hour you would say she was ''nice.' but you would know nothing about what she thought. She would probably know a good deal about you"
 ''The Lost Leader" MT oppenheirn's clever story, has had it's second print ing, and "Aunt Jane of Kentucky" is now in its sixth printing of 5000, and, by permission of the publishers, the Ladies' Home Journal will print it's first chapter in the October number, with the Presidents cornmendation of the story. "The New Chronicles of Re- becca" has also had a new printing. The late Jeremiah Curtin, the we'll known translator of Sienkiewiczs Pol ish works, one of the most remarkable linguists which the world has produc- ed, and deep student of eastern Ilis~ tory, gave the greater portion of the last years of his life to an historical study of the Mongols, and had just completed the work when, in the ripe ness of his power death cut short his career. In the first volume, entitled, "The Mongols, a History" to be pub lished by Little, Brown & Go. this fall, MT. Curtin has described the carn- paigns and conquests of Temudjln (Jinghls- -Khan), and his lieutenants and successors, in northeast Asia, | China, Russia, Arabia and Persia, the | narrative being brought down to the early part of the fifteenth century, when the Mongols. after reigning In Chira, were finally expelled from the country by the founders of the Ming dynasty. A second book, Russia Under ! the Mongols," will be published next year.
 In Anne Warmers new Susan Clegg''
 book, entitled, Susan Clegg and a Man in the House." the infmitable Susan Clegg is persuaded to take boarder, Elijah Doxey nephew of MT. Kimbali, the village grocer. Elijah, says Susan,
 Ifs so smart, that he'll be offered a place on one of the biggest city papers in little while, but in the meantime he's just lost the place that he did have on one of the smallest" Elijah having been paid off with an old print ing press, his mother sends him to the country to visit Mir. Kimball, who pro-
 poses to utilize Elijah and his printing press hy publishing a village newspa-
 per. Eijah Doxey's novel ideas as to the conduct of a newspaper, a visit by
 Susan C'egg to a woman's convention,
 her views on Democratic and Republi- can parties. the material experiences of Grandma Mullins son Hiram, a cele-
 bration of Independence Day, Mrs. | Macey's Trials, etc, are among the principal chapters of Anne Warner S
 new book. Susan Clegg and Man in the House will be published by Little,
 Brown & Go. in October.
 Messrs. Houghton, Miflin & Co. will
 issue in day or two the holiday
 Hanging of the Crane" with Mir. Ar thur T. Kellar's pictures and Miss Florence W. Swans decorations; Col. Higginson's Life and Times of Steph-
 en W. Higginson,n his grandfather,
 one of the founders of the American
 Navy. It contains chapters on the quarterback in politics, municipal life l in Boston between 1790 and 1894, and Salem families, all three promising pleasure to the New England reader. 1 Miss Abbie Farwell Browns Friends and Cousins" volume of sermons by the Rev. Paul Revere Frothing- ham, and Mother Goose in Silhou- ettes," cut by Miss Katharine c. G. I Buffurn, will appear at the same time. l Houghton, Miff1in & O. will publish I in October the Rotch Edition of Ehnan- l uel Swedenborg's Theological Works in thirty-two volumes. This is the first complete edition of Swedenborg's the- ological writings and the first trade
 edition of his works published in this l country,
 | General Morris Schaff, whose inter- esting "reminiscences of oThe Spirit of
 West Point" will be published in the
 middle of October in book form with l illustrations, additions, and revisions, has received many letters of commend
 alton from army men all over the coun- try One of them reads as follows:
 Your work will have heneflcent ef- feet on large number of readers who
 know little of the true spirits of west Point, which, is best Known by those
 who have been associated with it's
 graduates in active service and have
 come to know of its efficiency in teach
 ing patriotism, loyalty, devotion to
 duty courage, and manly fortitude.
 West Point is the nations most bene-
 ficial institution
 1 Among the many amusing anecdotes
 told by John Burroughs in his new
 book, Camping and Tramping With
 Roosevelt" is the following: "The
 rough riders, wherever they are, al-
 ways look to President Roosevelt when
 in trouble. One had come to grief in
 Arizona He was in jail So he wrote
 something like this; Dear Colonel, 1
 am in trouble. shot lady in the eye, | but I did not intend to hit the lady. I was shooting at my wife.
 Of the new book "Israers Laws and l Legal Preeedents," (Scribner's sons),
 by Prof Charles F. Kent of Yale, the
 Chicago Record Herald says: Ut will
 be welcomed as meeting very definite