The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-20


 great episode, from King Charles him self, and Cromwell, down in the very last line, to Pepys, the diarist Here for the first time, those who have pro- claimed Mir Dickinson as the greatest living master of English prose, may have an opportunity to test the quality of his poetic style.
 Edward Childs Carpenters playette Remembrance" was recently produc- ed at the Majestic Theater, Chicago, by Hubert Willze 6 Co.,, with pronounc- ed success and has started on a tour of the first class vaudeville houses, Mir. Carpenter is also the author of Captain Courtesy" a novel of old Cal lfornia, which is now in it's third edit ion.
 The biography of Frederick Doug lass, promised last year by George w. Jacobs & Co.,. for the American Crisis Biographies. but unavoidably delayed, is to be issued this month (February). Those who have read the advance stories of the book state that the story of this mans life possesses unusual in- terest, almost fascinating one with the variety and romance of his remarkable career. From a slave boy on Mary land plantation, he rose, through sheer strength of will and force of character to hold high government positions and to be leader among men, particularly of his own race at time when they greatly needed a representative to bring the wrongs of slavery before the American people. The story of his life is told by one well qualified to write such volume, Booker T. Washington.
 Upon the completion of the series of articles upon Jay Cooke, the Finan- cier of the Civil War, now running in the Century Magazine, full and au- thorized biography of this remarkable American will be published by George w. Jacobs & Co. This book (of which the serial articles form parD is by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph D., the author of a work on Robert Morris and the finances of the Revolution. He has had free access to all the Cooke papers which comprised many chests full of letters documents, maps and scrap books preserved in the most careful way by methodical business man. All this material has been utilized to the full with the approval of the family. The work will be amply Illustrated with portraits and fac-similes and will be valuable contribution to the history of the Civil War and the speculative era which preceded the panic of 1873. The book is a story of how Cooke sold more than two thousand millions of United States bonds and then set out to civilize the Northwest from Duluth to Tacoma, a region then inhabitated chiefly by hostile Indians and black herds of Buffalo.
 Miss M. B. synge, whose series of juvenile books have been very success ful in England, and who was intrusted with bringing up to date Little Ar thurs History of England" has writ ten "A Short History of Social Eng land" which might be called Manners anod Customs of Our English Fore fathers, from the Earliest Times Until To-day. The book will be published in March by A. s. Barnes and Company, New York.
 The new University Hymnal, ar arnged for male voices, for use in col- leges, university and Y M. c. A. ser vices, prepared by committee of the Yale University Corporation, assisted by Professor Horatio Parker, director of music, and Professor H. B. Jepson, organist and choir master of Yale uni- versity, containing three hundred and forty mine hymns with tunes, and for ty-seven chants, will be issued in Jan- uary by A, S. Barnes and Company, New York. It will present much of the best later music and most ap- proved hymns.
 Mary Hall Leonard, who was for many years teacher of English in the Normal school at Bridgewater, Mass, and later in the Winthrop Normal coll lege, North Carolina is writing a his- tory of English grammar in which she records the early and later uses of grammar in the educational scheme of English speaking schools
 Her work may be counted upon for | it's impartiality and comprehensive ness. It will be published by A. s. Barnes and Company in June. | Miss Jane Grosvenor Cooke, one of the editors of Our Times, has been writing story entitled the Ancient Miarcle, just issued from the press of A. S. Barnes and Company, of which the scene is laid in Brands Plateaux, Canada where the reader lives the se- rene though toilsome life of the hunt l ing. numbering, farming French-Cana- dian folk.
 1 Miss Cook is a charming story-tel- Ter and it would not be surprising if this first book of hers creates a genu- inc sensation in literary circles A. $. Barnes and Company announce that the recently published Church Hymns and Tunes, by Rev. H. B. Tur- ner, D. D., author of Carmina for Sun day schools, and William F. Riddle, of Philadelphia, is now in its fourth edi- ton. By. many it is regarded as the best of modern hymnals adapted to Presbyterian, Congregational and Bap- 1 tist churches
 
 BUILDING NOTES. The David H. Clark company has completed the exterior mason work on the Christ church On Church street,