Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-30
NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Exhaustive Work on Federal Power Over
Carriers and Corporations.
INTERESTING REVIEW or THE TOPIC

NNAaA u bhNENW ~
the Publishers, some of More
Than the Usual Amount
of Merit.
The Secret Of Toni" by Molly Elliott
Seawell, is a romance Of everyday life in
France. The. hero Is introduced as a boy
OF 10, who runs away with a circus. The
story follows his picturesque career TO man
hood and eliminates in a happy marriage,
d. Appleton & Co. is the publisher
The Turn of the BalanceN by Brand
whitloclS, is a plea for friendllet treatment
Of the criminal. who. as MIR. whitlock
points out, is a human being, after all.
Mr.. Whitlock aims to write about real
people and as mayor of Toledo the author
Of this unusual story has had opportunity
to put his theories in practice To give an
example Of the sort Of thing that he is
doing, here is one reform OF the many he
has carried through, and Of which he is
particularly proud In the workhouse he
has abolished the striped raiment. He has
introduced parole system and a parole
officer has been appointed. II is the officers
business to look up situations where he
who has been an inmate of the workhouse
conduct is satisfactory is given letter to
the would-be employer, He is sent forth
with the letter alone No guard goes with
him. None has ever run away; their honor
was enough to hold them. And this is only
one of The many things Of similar nature
that he has done. Published by the Bobbe-
! Merrill company.
1.-THE Maiefactor," by e. Phillips Open
helm, author of "A Maker Of History"
THE Master Mummer," Mysterious Mr..
sabin," etc, is an absorbing story which
| bids fair to be his greatest success. Sir
Wingrave Seton, re-entering the world
after an Imprisonment chivalrously faced
rather than defend himself at a woman's
expense, is involved in some strange events
and has a remarkable influence upon the
| people with whom he is brought in contact
Deceived, brooding on his wrongs, young,
wealthy and free, he begins new life,
| and the reader wonders what will happen.
illustrated by F. H. Townsend. Published
by Little. Brown & Co.
Federal Power over Carriers and Cor
| porations," by e. Parmelee Prentice, is an
] exhaustive study of the Sherman antitrust
act and of the federal powers upon which
| the act is based with references not only
to judicial decisions, but to the constitu-
! tIonal history of which the decisions are
but part State and federal statutes have
been carefully and fully examined. begin
! ming before the adoption Of the constitution
and coming down to the present time, while
the annals and debates OF congress, books
of travel, contemperaneous newspapers and
other original sources have also been
| searched; and in this way the meaning of
/ the constitutional provisions has been as
1 certained, the practice of the state and
federal governments has been determined,
and the field for the operation of the anti
trust act has been defined. with precision
and authority not otherwise obtainable.
The references to judicial decisions constru-
ing and applying the Sherman act are COM
\ plete; the rule Of the cases has been fol-
lowed so as to show the present position
of the courts upon the important questions
arising under the act, and citations are
also given to the debates of congress dis
GUESSING the statutes and to leading articles
in the magazines. Published by the Mac
milan company.
Among the books received from the press
t Of Richard @. Badger & Co. are numerous
: collections q poems, including: "City
Songs and Country Carols" by Thomas F.
Porter; THE Professional" poem by
George Gordon: "Adrienne land other
POEMS" by Mary Isabel wymore; THE
Master-A Rosary OF Christian Faith" by
Carroll Lund Bates; "The Dolorous Blade
a Brief Account of the Adventures of that
Good Knight Of the Round Table, Sir
Balm, Called lie Savage Done Into
Rhyme" by Donald Newton; Songs from
5 Capital" by Clara Ophelia Bland; THE
Jewels Of King Art" by James Connolly;
"The Dream of He'll" by Wilson Duleyi
Poems" by Allan Brant "The Cry OF
I Defeat" by Lisli de Cipriani; "Driftwood, y
by Russell whitoomb; Poems" by E. L.
Noble; Virginia Vaughn, a Romance in
Verse;" by Margaret A. Richard
Included In this collection are two books
: of prose: Personal Recollections OF
Johannes Brahms; Some of His Letters To
and Pages from a Journal Kept by George
Henschel," with portraits, and What
Next, or Shall a Man Live Again2"; "Thf
great question answered by 200 living
Americans Of prominence in politics. in
the army and navy. in science, art, music
and literature, in mercantile world, in the
professions and in the chairs of UNIVERSE
ties" Compiled by Clara Spaulding Ellis.
Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig Of Hohen-
lohe-schillingfuerst." edited by Prof. Fried
| rlch Curuus, Is one OF the most important
books OF the last year. The interest ex-
cited by them is indeed scarcely less in
England and America than In Germany.
Everywhere they have been looked on as
historical documents OF the first import
ance: while they have also been greeted as
a Eemarkable contribution to the literature
of intimate revelation, taking their place
with the diary OF Pepys well as with the
Greville memoirs. The late chancellor is
said to have revealed very frankly the in
side history OF the kaiser's dismissal Of Bis
marck, and other secrets of German diplo-
matte and political history. It was I'm con-
sequence of the publication OF this work
that the chancellor's son was compelled to
resign his post. The nearness of publica-
ton OF this work to the times OF which II