The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-02
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON


 Captain Charles Kings " Captured; the
 Story of Sandy Hay"-Lydia Kigs-
 mill Commanders "The American
 Idea"--Notes of Forthcoming Books
 and other BoOks--The March Maga-
 zines.
 The thousands who enjoy General Charles Kings romances will seize the opportunity to read his new novel, handsomely published by R. F. Fenno & Co.,, New York entitled Captured; the Story of Lieutenant Sandy Ray" This is on par with his best work, and, as usual it deals with army life in General Kings inimitable style. It has an original setting and background, and incident and plot are new and striking. The scene is laid in the Phil ippines. There are things happening at Camp Boutelle, "an out-of-the-Way cantonment," and Sandy Ray, newly come from the states, is a live, wide awake officer, equal to the exciting sit- nations in which ne figures. There is a traitor and he has a fair daughter fair as she was misunderstood. There is a strange mission for the young lieu tenant, bitter plot of treachery, a capture and hairbreadth escape from the dreaded ladrones. There is a charming love story and various very dramatic situations, which General King knows well Glow to handle. It is a capital story. At all bookstores ($15O).
 A book entitled "The American Idea" which deals with vital social prob- lem of to-day, comes from A. s. Barnes X Co., It is full of timely interest, and the discussion is ably handled by it's gifted author, Lydia Kingsmill Com mander. She dedicates the book as fol- lows This book-a sincere study of a grave social problem-is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, who first aroused the nation to the danger of race sul- NlQCI anu hlO udS uCGil lllC Only [alilSL- ican president to recognize officially the supreme importance of those questions that directly concern the family and the home."
 The book, as the author explains in her preface, Is not intended as the elab- oration of any new theory, but is "an assembling of facts and opinions from widely-varylng sources. It is an att tempt to represent American opinion as whole, and to call attention to the large social causes which have created this opinion" She i1as presented the American idea on this subject, as she sees 1t, in a popular and readable way, and leaves with her readers for dis cussion the question: Does this de- termination of the American people to establish a small family ideal point to race suicide or race development? The headings of the eleven chapters which make up the book give a fair idea of its contents, and are as follows; Has the Small Family Become an American Ideal? Another Form of Race Suicide; Not Degeneracy; The New Power to Decide; American Self Preservation; The Larger Womanhood; The Price of Motherhood; The Nation and the Child; The Race Suicide of Immigra- tlon; Must Mothers Suffer? Social Motherhood.
 | "A story of Arizona life during the period of Apache troubles, without war-whoops, gunplays, picturesque 1 gamblers, theatrical cowboys, impossi- ble cavalrymen, and Frederick Re- mington Indians," is the way one west i ern critic describes Frances Charles new novel, "Pardner of Blossom Range" The title of this book, by the way, refers to a horse, "Pardner," the property of winsome Holly Blossom, who lived with her grandfather on Blossom Range.
 "One or two reviewers have ques- toned its morality" says the Chris tian Register (Boston) critic of "The Impersonator." Mary Inlay Taylors novel of social life in Washington in which Mary Lang passes herself off for | the real niece of Mrs. Whiting, a veal thy society leader at the national capi- tal But, if an impersonator ever seemed on the face of 1t, and in the beginning justifabe and harmless" continues this religious journal, this did, and It is like straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel to find review CTS cavilling here who accept without l question situations and plots which coneeivably might influence the read CTS impulses for wrong doing as this could not"
 Tn his new novel "The Castle of l Doubt" John H. Whitson, the author of the Rainbow Chasers" and Justin Wingate. Ranchman,' has forsaken the cowboy of the west for the so-called ef- fete east. It is the story of man who finds himself Identified as the husband of a beautiful woman whom he has never before seen. Social position, wealth and the woman he loves are three of the temptations which his ] strange predicament holds out to him. It is a fascinating tale in which ad- venture and romance crowd thickly.
 E. Phillips Oppenheim, whose latest story, "The Malefactor," has already outsold each of his twelve books previ- ously published in this country was re- gently asked to what he attributed the great popularity of his novels. He re- piled that he supposed it was due to the fact that he had always kept two ends in view. First, he had strenuous ly striven to make his novels as inter- esting and exciting as he had it in his mower to make them, Secondly, he had