The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-02

It has been frequently but erroneous ly reported that in her next Margaret Potter (who is really Mrs. Margaret Horton Potter Black) was to return to the field in which she won her initial triumph Chicago.
 As matter of fact, however, her new novel is placed in Russia, and is said to be told with breadth of view and wealth of detail which remind the reader of the great Russian novel, ists
 The book will be published by the early in March.
 It is pleasure to realize that the popularity of new writers does not mean that older favorites are forgotten. Thomas Hardy, for example-who lives in a charming home in Dorchester, and who is still on the hither side of the mark-still retains wide and not only do the Har- pers find new editions of his Tess of the D'Urbervilles from time to time ne- cessary toNmeet the demand, but they are just issuing new editions of his Far From the Madding Crowd, which was first published thirty-three years ago; of his A Laodicean, which appeared in the early eighties; and of Desperate Remedies, which was first published as far back as 1871.
 Ero,. e,o,yara1 x,aa ,.e CSipy, an5 f%ny,,,oo,,xr publishers, of Boston, Mass, have been preparing complete course of music which should satisfy the. requirements of ali the grades in the public schools. Neither pains nor money was spared to make this course as perfect as possible. The result is an unequalled collection of material for musical instruction. "The New Educational Music Course, :" as the series is called, was published. only last summer, but in the interval which has passed since that time It's superiority has been recognized all over the country, and it's success has been extraordinary.
 In the February number of "The Worlds Work" there is an article by Dr. Luther H. Gulick on Standing and Walking Erect" which ought to help much toward producing a ''self-respect- ing spinal column in the 'stoop shoui- dered, flabby' business man of our day.
 Dr. Gulick's discussion has all the charming directness and personal ap- peal which so fascinates children in the books of his Hygiene Series" The third book of this series, Town and City" by Frances Gulick Jewett, has just been published by Ginn & Conn pany.
 It is a matter of interest that the city of Trenton, New Jersey, after a close contest of nine months has adopted the Smith Arithmetics (Ginn & Company, publlshers) as the basal series in Arithmetic for the public schools Plumb's Types and Breeds of Farm Animals issued only last month by the same publishers, has already been adopted for use in the Kansas State Agricultural College and in the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Nebraska.
 Professor O. J. Kern, author of Amongst Country Schools published by Ginn & Co.,, is still lifting up his voice in behalf of the children of our agricultural districts. Consolidate your rural schools" he said recently to a large audience in Memphis, Tennessee.
 This will mean better administration of school interests better trained teachers with higher salaries, oppor- tunity for all the country children to obtain a higher school education, and enrichment of social life which shall prevent the drift of our young people to the cities"
 The following books are on the list of E. P Dutton and Company for imme- diate publications: "The Life of Isabel la Bird (Mrs Bishop).' "A Vision of India," by Sidney Low; "The Old Country" by Henry Newbolt; "The Return to the Land,' by Senator Jules Moline, with preface by Justin McCar- thy; studies in Seven Arts" by Ar thur Symons; Richard TIL; His Life and Character in the Light of Recent Research, by Sir Clements R. Mark ham; "The Rise and Decline of the Netherlands: A Political and Economic History and Study in Practical Statesmanship," by J. Ellis Barker; Heidelberg: Its Princes and it's Pal aces," by Elizabeth Godfrey.
 L. c. Page and Company announce the following books for this spring: "The Italian Lakes" by w. D. Me Cracl1an; "Prisoners of Fortune" by R. P. Smith; "The Rome Express" by Major Arthur Griffiths; "The Morning Glory Club" by G. A. Kylei Hunters of the Silences by C. G. D. Roberts; Mystery Island, by Harry Hurst; ''The Flying Cloud" by Morley Rob- erts; "rrhe Lady of the Blue Motor," by Sidney Paternoster, and Tenants of the Trees" by Clarence Hawkes..
 The recent sudden death of Josiah Flynt Willard lends peculiar interest to the March number of Success maga- zine, in which his autobiography, My Life-So Far is now running as a se- rial, over his pen name of Josiah F1ynt." Under the heading "Tht Third House." Gilson Gardner de. scribes the large and active body oi lobbyists in Washington. Beautiful Women in Portraiture," by Grace Whitworth, is a resume of the progres: of portrait painting in America. Fools and Their Money by Frank Fayant and "The Dreyfus Affair, by Vance Thompson, are continued. MT. Fayant discusses pil booms in California Hudson Maxim, the well known scien.