The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-14

published In the United States, and the number of pamphlets and tracts that he has written brings him close to the position occupied by Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, Thomas Paine and John E. Remsburg, in the anti Christian world. His last work in that direction is now in the printers hands. It is a critical inquiry into the evil dences of the historic existence or Jesus, .and his conclusions are given in the title "The One Who Was Not"
 However much one may disagree with pr. Croffut's views they cannot but admit his earnestness. for the work has probably never given him penny's return. In fact he is known to have been a heavy contributor to his cause on more than one occasion.
 Charles Clark Mum, we'll known in Middletown, has placed with his pup fishers, Lothrop Lee & Shepard Com pany of Boston, the manuscript of new book, "Boyhood Days on the Farm" which will be published No vember 1, with plentiful illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. This book Is not a juvenile, but rather for all ages and will be of particular inter- est to the many successful men who have passed similar hoyhood. Com mon sports and merrymakings, the pleasures of woods and waters, and the life of country boy, with it's tasks, enjoyments, and ambitions have never yet been so fully and impress sively told as they will be found to be by MT. Mum in his latest book.
 Three juvenile books will be pub lished by Dodd, Mead 6 Co, New York, in day or two. Two Teddy Bears in Toyland," consisting of se- ries of clever but simple jingles by Elizabeth M. Gordon, with illustra- tlons by Charles Wylie; Patty in Paris" by Carolyn Wells, and "A Lit tleS Girl in Old Baltimore" by Aman- da M. Douglas, author of "A Little Girl in old New York" etc. A special holiday edition at Ian Maclarens Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush" will also be published on this date.
 
 A new edition will be published by the Century Company on Sept. 25, of "Joan of Are" written and illustrat- ed in color by Bontet de Monvel. This book has been out of print for several years and this new edition will be issued to meet the demand. 
 A book that should be of rather ex- ceptional interest is Fiji and Its Pos sibllities," by Beatrice Grimshaw, which Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York, add to their Geographical Library" It is based on Miss Grimshaw's own ex- plorations and adventures. This will appear this month and also "The Up rising of the Many" by Charles lE Russell, study of socialism and kin dred movements in England, Australia and New Zealand.
 The Mcclure, Phillips Co., New York, will issue in few days thIfe volumes in series called Highways and Eng land" "Days in Cornwall" by c. Lew is Hind; Through East Anglia on Car" by j. B. Vincent, and Found About Wiltshire" by A. c. Bradley. The next volume to deal with York shire, will be by J. s. Fletcher.
 I In a unique series of travel books called Highways and Byways in Eng land" the Mcclure, Phillips Go. will. publish on Sept. 15 the three following volumes; "Days in Cornwall the nar- rative of many days afoot, interspeys- ed wittflegends gathered from the Cor nish1nen, by 0. Lewis Hind; Through East Anglia on Car" book which is at once entertaining and filled with Information for the motorist, by J E. Vincent, and Round About Wiltshire" the record of recent summers ram ble, by IA. c. Bradley A fourth volume in preparation for this series is book on Yorkshire, by J. S. Fletcher. One of the chief novels to be pub lished this fall by D. Appleton X Co.,, New York, Is The Radical" by J. K. Friedman, author of By Bread Alone" It deals with graft and the corruption of senators This will ap- pear September 27 with Lloyd Os- bournes romance, "The Adventurer," which has been running a series in Everybody's magazine.
 D. Appleton and Company will pub- | fish two books of biography" The Me- moirs of Antoinette Sterling" by her son, giving the life of an American singer who gained great popularity in England seme fifty years ago, and the
 aBiography of Robert Owen, by Frank IPodmore, one of the founders of the Fabian Society. Owen was we'll known socialist who founded the com lmunistic town of New Harmony, in In-
 diana. and MT, Podmore recently made
 discovery of nearly S,OOs letters writ
 ten to and by him which form an im-
 portant part of this forthcoming biog-
 raDhy
 The c. M. Clark Publishing company,
 Boston, is preparing four or five novels flor immediate publication and answer ling OrueIB LoE llS souNSi4AA SNieACA4 W. IMr. James Ball Naylor's '0ld Home
 Week." for which a demand has
 sprung up in the west. AZ it contains
 pictures of scenes in many cities be-
 sides Boston 1t answers very well to
 remind any New Englander of home
 Dress GA East Twenty-first street,
 New York, for September which has
 just appeared, maintains the high
 standard which the magazine has I At,n NffaIa1 nf tVnfoT.