The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-07
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

 Forthcoming BoOks-AIore February Magazines.
 Logan G. NcPherson, author of ''The Workings of the Railroads" (HolD and lecturer on transportation" at Johns Hopkins university, was recently one of the guests of honor at the Transporta- tion clubs annual dinner in New York. His book is exciting much interest among others than railroad men by its discussion of the relation of the public to the railroads. Tn his speech he ad- vocated especially that railroads dispel suspicion by making clean, decisive statement of what they were doing, and how they did it.
 Henry Holt and Company who pub lished "The Memoirs of Arthur Hamil- ton" anonymously by arrangement with ths English publishers, over twenty years ago, now since Arthur Christo- pher Benson has contest it's authorship, announce a new lower-priced edition uniform in size and binding with the American edition of the Upton Letters and From College Window.
 E F. Dutton and Company announce the publication of the volume entitled "Race rejudice,' by Jean F'not. The work is divided into five ..arts. Tie in eGLi lity of hu ! ln beings, Towards tho unity of the human type; Anthropo- Psychology and Anthropo-S Sociology; the mysterious or uncertain origins of peoples and races; and Are there peo- pie condemned to remain eternally in- ferior to others?
 B. F. Dutton and Company open the years new books with the following among others: "The Historical Study of the Mother Tongue: An Introduc- tion to Pathological Methods" by Hen ry Cecil Wyld Baines, professor of the English language and philology in the University of Liverpool; "Six Lectures on Painting Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in Lon don," by George Clausen, A. R. A., R. w. S., professor of painting in the Roy al Academy; "Alms and Ideals in Art" eight lectures delivered to stu dents of the Royal Academy by George Clausen; "The Roman Capitol in An cient and Modern Times," the citadel, the temples, the senatorial palace, the palace of the conservators, the muse um, by E. Rodocanachi, translated from the French by Frederick Lawton, M. A., and new edition of "The Thread of Gold,'' with new introduc- tion by the author, Arthur c. Benson. And now some one will talk back to the Rev. Thomas Dixon and his "Leop- ards Spots" The c. M. Clark Pub fishing Company, of Boston, is to bring out a novel entitled "Yarb and Gre tine" by Dr. George B, H. swayze, who will write from a viewpoint dia- metrically opposite to that of the Leo pard's Spots" man.
 The Lieutenant, the Girl and the Viceroy," is the title of new romance of the South American revolutions, which has been written by Marshall Putnam Thompson, and which the c. M Clark Publishing Company of Bos- ton will bring out in the near future. The scene is laid in what was then New Granada. and while the author has disguised his American and Span ish characters under various names, the student of history may find sug- gestions of Simon Bolivar in Il Libe- rator; of General Rawlins of the Uni ted States Army in Lieutenant Tom Clayton; of William Henry Harrison, United States minister to New Grena- da about the time of the story in Un- cle Tom; of the Spanish Governor-Gen eral Seamanyfer in the viceroy and of the beautiful and plucky Apollinaria Syberetta in the heroine, Inez.
 The Life of James Harris Fairchild. D D., LL.D., has been prepared under the auspices of the faculty of Oberlin college, the work having been intrus- ted to Albert Temple Swing, professor of church history. and will appear about the first of March from Fleming H. Revell's.. Dr. Fairchild's life is in- terwoven with sixty years of the his tory of Oberlin college. The book re- ceives the supervision of President King and the prudential committee of the college. and will be received quite as much as a history of the institution as of the man.
 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, to whose effort the advancing condition of Labrador economic, social and religious, is so largely due, is now preparing a vol ume which he designs to be standard for information about that country. The chapters on economics and the coast and fjords, he will write himself. The chapters on history, flora, fauna. sports and Indians on the interior, etc., will be written by specialists, profess sors in leading universities and hold CTS of scientific positions under the Canadian government. Much of the work has already been done, and the rest will be completed so that Revells will probably be able to issue it, to- gether with all the illustrations and plates now being prepared, next fall.
 The Broadway Magazine for Febru- ary contains much interesting matter. Among the more important features are two articles by Franklin Matthews and Charles H. Cochrane. MT. Mat thews tells of "The Farce of Police Court Justice in New York" while MT, Cochrane asks and answers the ques- tion Should New York be Governed by a Commission?" Stuart Gould writes entertainingly under the cap