The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-16

NEW HAVEN MORNING 10
quaint humor it is up to date and
practically unrivalled in its field by
any recent publication. Jimmy is not
only versatile but also tough, and
if not himself bad, his acquaintance
and associates include as widely as
sorted characters, good, doubtful or
bad, as those of any of Dickens stor-
les. There is a spice of fun running
throughout this lively tale and it
should prove very popular.
The Fall catalogue of Doubleday,
Page and company, just issued this
week, contains among other we'll
known names, that of Booth Tarking-
ton, whose novel, Ellis Own People, Z"
describes the intensely interesting and
conflicting experiences of a young man
from Indiana who finds himself under
the spell and glamor of Paris, the gay
French capitol.
Miss Ellen Glasgow has returned to
Virginia for the inspiration of her new
work, THE Beaten Road" which will
be published by Doubleday, Page &
Company this coming Fall. Miss
Glasgow has chosen to depict the life
of a typical Virglnian, Richard Ord
way.
The new Kipling book in one vol
ume, From Sea to Sea-" will be pub
lished in the near future by Double
day, Page & Company will include
hitherto unpublished matter, as we'll
as an accurate text of the American
Notes" Letters of Marque,' City of
Dreadful Night, the Smith Admins
tration," etc, etc,
"A Wild Flower Horologue," by Ber-
nard B, Smyth Curator Of the Kansas
State Museum, is the subject of an ar
ticle in the current number Of Country
Life in America. 1t describes a sort
Of clock made of planted wild flowers
which open and close at different
times Of day.
The August number of the Garden
Magazine out this week, is one of the
most instructive issued in the history
of that publication. It marks a
change to a wider field than the mag
azine has heretofore covered, and one
which we feel sure will be Of unusual
interest to its many subscribers and
readers
The symposium on the August
planting Of evergreens gives opinions,
not all Of them alike by authorities on
that subject. The question Of home
celery growing is covered in a crisp
and clear way by e. P. Darlington, a
man who knows, as he tests more va
rieties each year probably than any
other grower in the country stone
Work Without a Mason" is an article
which contains information of practi-
cal value to every reader with a home
of his own or who contemplates hav-
ing a home Of his own
This same month which will witness
the issue in book form of Miss Sin
clairs new novel, "The Helpmate ]"
tHAltl also witnesses the flfteenth
printing of "The Divine Fire" wnlch
made her reputation here, and which
happens to also be the last novel she
wrcte before THE Helpmate."
1t is a pretty good indication of the
charm of Miss Mary Plummer's Roy
and Ray in Mexico that now when
the summer Is hotter than tamales, and
nobody thinks of going to Mexico, and
also when 1t is generally admitted to
be distinctly the off-season for juve-
niles, .Messrs Henry Holt and company
are already having to print another
edition of this book
With the August number of "the
most beautiful magazine in the wovld'
the Burr Mcintosh Monthly appears III
a new size The pages are a trlhe wid-
err than heretofore which enables The
publishers to present their wonderfully
attractive Photographic reproductions
in a more perfect form than was pos
sible in the former shape. The col3r
work in this August issue is very At
tractive and suitable to the season, In
the Department of Painting and Sculp-
ture the life and work of Auguste
Rodn, the celebrated French sculptor,
is presented in most interesting detail,
Among the people of the stage photo
graphed are Lillian RUSSELL Anna Hell
en- Ware, Florence Reed and Adele
Richie An exquisite portrait of the
young heir apparent to the throne Of
the Russlas in his first trousers is CIV
en-. 1t is a work Of art from one Of
the finest photographers in the world
located in st. Petersburg. The piano.
ramlc form contains many beautiful
pictures and altogether this mid-sum-
mer number will more than please the
exacting public. The first of number
Of covers by well-known painters is a
part of the August number, represent
ing an exquisite reproduction in colors
from a painting by the celebrated art
list, Albert Lynch.
1t Wasn't His Clothes.
In the early years of his ministry