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

1881" by Frank T. Carlton; "The Slave Labor Problem in the Charleston Dis trict, by Ulrich B. Phillips and "The Treatment of Burgoyne's Troops Under the saragota Convention" by Charles R. Lingley, The number contains re- views of, or notes on, nearly one hun- dred American, English, German, French, and Italian publications.
 We have of late during the session of the Hague Congress heard a good deal about the blessings of peace, so the fol- lowing taken from the Preface to R. M. Johnston's Leading American sol- diers' certainly gives an interesting view of the other side of the question: After summing up the evils of war, MT. Johnson says: War does at times larry with it certain benefits, and bene- its not so much material as moral shakespeare, with his amazing instinct for the profounder realities, well put the case when he wrote of 'The cankers Iof calm world and long peace" The study of history leaves many students firmly persuaded that although war in excess, war as g. habit, is brutalzlng and degrading, the occasional war that has a right cause behind it, struggle for religion, for principle, for national existence, marks the healthy and vital stage in peoples development, while the long periods of peace are invariably attended by materialism and moral l0cs And ic mt ,,oo tarto oIia,, + 4la present day more closely associated with the outcry against war than is generally realized d?-materialism now busy constructing new civilization, but that will later turn to the mere en- joyment of 1t. There is doubtless an exaggeration in the indifference to death displayed by so many Asiatics: is 1t not possible, however, that there is some excess of materiahsm in our present extreme fear of 1t? The battle field takes life, 1t is true: but it does not take that which otherwise we would retain. The hour is advanced, and that-why hesitate to say it?--is often best. Would 1t not have been better to have stood among our soldiers on the banks of the Rappahannock fur iously cheering our great opponent stonewall Jackson as he inspected his pickets on the further side, than to have lived twenty years longer to min gle with football mobs hurrahing at the disablement of a successful adver- sary? Or to have followed sherman to the sea among waves of uplifted slave faces fondly dreaming liberty and righteousness had come, rather than spend a heightened life in the lucrative but dubious routine of mercantile af- fairs? Which is the better part? And if it is the case that there is much to urge for war on ethical grounds, as a tonic or stimulus for the moral fibre of nation, 1t is also true, as mat ter of historical deduction, that the best way to obtain peace is not that which is so widely popular at the present time under the alluring label of disarmament"
 This book has been delayed by troubles in its manufacture for some months, and now appears in the heat of summer even If not in the heat of battle. It may be remembered that it Is the opening volume of Messrs. Henry Holt and Companqs series of biographies of leading Americans, which are to be grouped according to occupations. Volumes on Poets, Historians, Scientists, Lawyers and Novelists are in active preparation. Frederic Mistral whose memoirs are to appear this fall from the house of the Baker & Taylor Co.,, has been a winner of the Nobel prize, which, wit. a singular devotion to the cause tc which he has given up his life, he be. lstowed on the foundation for a museum lin Aries, where are to be preserved the monuments, relies weapons, cos tunes, etc, of the Provence. It is in teresting to know that MT Roosevelt has been warm admlrer of Mistral and an agreeable correspondence has been exchanged between them His Memoirs are devoted to his early If, Ionly, and tell of the publication ol "Mireille." which Gounod adopted as tn, librettO for hiS opera of the same name There is q short summary of Monsieur Paul Marieton. which brings the history of Felibrige ID to the present day. Tht work Will contain many very interest. ing illustrations.
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 The Baker & Taylor Co.,, who are tho publishers of Dimbie and I. announces that Mabel Barnes-Grundy is working on her new book and for this purpost is living in retirement at Pro Tem. Marble, Cheshire, England. The secont edition of Dimbie Is now on the press.
 It Is interesting to note that Tn, Story of Joseph to be published thi fall by the Baker-Taylor Co.,, Georg Alfred Williams, the illustrator. sup plies a foreword on Egypt, giving, al it were, a background of the people ant the life of the various castes, describ ing the existence of a Pharoah. thu
 priests, the soldiers and the husband men, the last class being the one wit which Joseph had so much to.
 Tho September publications of tn Baker & Taylor Go. include the follow Miyakawa; "A Man of sark." by yohl OXenham; "The Story of My Child hood" by Clara Barton of Red Cros
 fame and Than Yoga," part two, by tn Swami Vivekananda.
 The following is but q partial Ifs of leading articles for October, 1907, i
 the "Technical World" (Chicagol: En gineres of Eminence: From Mountai
 Shows Come Valley Riches, Guy Mitchell; To. Cross Atlantic in Thirt
 Hours, William F. Fita- Gerald; Tn
 Mind of the Mechanic (poem), Emil
 Beatrice Gnagey; The Conjufer at Win dy Gulch, (story), Howard Dwight Smi ley; How a Big Balloon Is Sent Up, ( H. Claudy; Steel Direct from Iron Ore Harry H. Dunn; How Wastes and By
 Products Are Made Valuable, Williar R. Stewart; You Cannot Kill the Tallo1 Dip, William Hard; Irrigation Canal 0 Steel J. B. Van Brussel; Oyster Farm
 CTS in Japan. George Edward Martin Talking by Wireless, Dr. Alfred Grad enwltz. There are twenty other article and 30 illustrations,
 Among the books which Houghtor