The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON.


 ume of Poetry by Joaquin Miller GA Voyage With Captain Dynamite"
 by Charles E. RIch-"Letters of the
 Wordsworth Family"
 Robert J. Thompson, of Chicago, in grief because of the death of beloved brother, wrote to the foremost scien- lists and philosophers of the world, re- questing the favor of statement em- bodying their reasons for belief in the Immortality of the soul. MT. Thomp- son had found his own faith insufficient to overcome his great sorrow, and pas tor, family and friends could not con- sole him. But in the perusal of the calmly presented proofs and arguments of the great men to whom he appealed he found the comfort which he believed he needed.
 MT. Thompson has published this col lection of letters in a book under the title, Proofs of Life After Death. There is such a variety of opinion and argument that any reader who is at all interested in the subject must find the book profitable and entertaining. For tunately the correspondents of MT. Thompson all replied briefly and to the point. He has divided them into four classes, the scientists, the psychical re- searchers, the philosophers, and the spiritualists. (Boston, Herbert B. Tur- ner and Company)
 Anything really new in the line of European guide-book might well seem difficult of achievement, but the Practi- cal European Guide, announced for early publication by Messrs. Herbert B. Turner and Company, promises to be the most helpful book yet published upon the practical side of the subject, and contains much information which hasheretofore been, if not inaccessible, at least very difficult for the ordinary person contemplating travel to secure.
 The author of the Practical European Guide, published by Messrs, Herbert B. Turner and Company, is Mrs M. D. Frazar who is well known as a suc- cessful tourists agent During a score of years Mrs. Frazar has arranged or personally conducted the European trips of several thousand people, Her experiences have given her exceptional ability to prepare a book which will contain, in brief compass, just the in- formation most needed by the traveller preparing to visit Europe.
 The announcement by Messrs. Her bert Turner and Company of new vol tune of poetry by Joaquin Miller will awaken new interest in the Poet of the Sierras who for some years past has been living quietly on his ranch in the mountains at Dimond California, across the bay from San Francisco, and with the memory of the remarkable fame which was brought to him by the publication of his Songs of the sierras, a natural curiosity will be felt to com pare the work of his riper age with that of his earlier years, particularly since little of his poetry has been of- fered to the public in recent years. The new volume, which is entitled Light, consists of a long narrative poem in four books, and develops a love-story of much originality and striking power. The scenes are laid at the Golden Gate, in the Klondike, in Japan and in Hawaii, and the poet de- clares it's fundamental lesson to be that courtship should begin at the altar in- stead of ending there. It would be diff ficult to conceive of a wider range for a poets powers of description, and this fact alone should augur well for the volume, as in all of MT. Miller's works his richly sensuous descriptions of natural scenery have been chief beauty The volume will be illustrated by photo-gravures of appropriate scenes in the various countries de- scribed, these being printed as head pieces for the different books.
 The forthcoming edition of the Let ters of the Wordsworth Family" which Ginn and Company have in the press, is to be enriched by an appendix con- taining a remarkable series of letters just discovered. These letters were written by William and Dorothy Wordsworth to Samuel Taylor Cole ridge between Christmas, 1790, and May, 1907, and are said to contain some notable revelations of the unique friendship of the poets and striking interpretation by it's author of the meaning which underlies "The White Doe of Rylestone.' They also disclose, says Mr William Wright in "rhe Academy" many interesting things which occurred within the humble cot tage at Grasmere--that home of plain living and high thinking'-the refer to the people Of the district, to walks in the valley, and expenditions to more distant places in Westmoreland and Yorkshire, to such incidents as the fa- tality which befell the family of the Greens, to the work and the travels of Celeridge, to some of the verses written by each of the poets, to the pamphlet on The Convention of Cintra, etc."
 Charles Edward Rich is writing "A Voyage With Captain Dynamite" CA. S. Barnes & Co.,, New York;, on the plan of giving boys "a mental play time" MT Rich, when sixteen years of age, made two voyages across the Pacific before the mast. He later was educated as an architect in the Boston Institute of Technology, but entered Journalism from choice. He has been in active newspaper work in Boston and New York for many years and has written frequently for the magazines, He is a devotee of outdoor life and sports. He has given us story for boys in his Captain Dynamite" that fully illustrates his motto, and the book will afford the busy schoolboy of the twentieth century much needed relaxa- tion from study.