The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19
NEW BOOKS.


 MT. slnclair's closing chapter re- views the experiment of the ''co-op- erative home" recently carried on un- der his direction at the Inflated "Hel- con hall" in New Jersey.
 The Helicon Home colony, he still recl1ons among the seeds of the future even though accident brought the hall to disastrous close. He describes this colony as the first attempt to realize in practice the idea of cooper alton in domestic industry, which had already been we'll worked out in theory.
 To add weight to his arguments MT. Sinclair supplements his text with photographs that call attention to the difference in condition between rich and poor.
 "JoYzELLE AND MoNNA WANNA" by Maurice Mueterlinck; published by Dodd, Mead 6; Co.,, New York; $1.20; at Judd's.
 "Joyzelle" is a dreamy. mystical and delicate drama, typical of the work of it's gifted and famous author. It has been translated with rare skill and f. dellty by A. Teixiera De Mattos thus preserving in a high degree the full flavor and merit of this highly inter- esting production. Monna Wanna Is newly translated by Alfred Sutro who has admirably preserved the intense dramatic force in many of the scenes. The frequent reiteration in protracted monologues if not drawback, cer- tainly does not add to the forcefulness but the strength and beauty of the original is nevertheless maintained.
 Apropos to the appearance of this translation of Monna Wanna is the an- nouncement that in the course of some remarks oh the recent suppression of '"The Mikado" and the anticipated English system of censorship, a con- tributor to the Academy relates a pleasant ancedote touching the fate of "Monna Wanna" in the Lord Cham berlain's office. The rejection of this play has always been cause of won- der neither have the most earnest de- lenders of the system ever succeeded in accounting for it in a satisfactory manner. According to this writer, however, "the legend is that the Cen sor misread the stage direction which bids Monna Wanna enter 'nue sous un manteau' as 'nue sans un manteau and blushing, refused the license"
 It is a good story.
 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, the translator of Joyzelle also of "The Measure of the Hours" the new Mae terlinck volume, which Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.,, have published, is of Dutch percentage and birth, but has lived for the past thirty years in Eng land. He was educated in London, under Mgr. Capel. Before taking up the translation of MT. Maeterlinck's works Mir Teixeira had achieved some distinction as the author of the Eng fish version of the Memoirs of Chateaubriand, in six volumes, and of the Memoirs of President Kruger, and as author and translator of several novels by Emile Zola and other Con- tinental writers.
 THE MINISTRY OF BEAUTY" by Stanton Davis Kirkham. published by Paul Elder & O., San Francisco.
 The keynote of Mir Kirkhams essays is "the divine necessity of beauty. Life, Religion, Philosophy, Work, Health, Happiness, such are the subjects of some of MT Kirkham's essays. Out of the profuslon of quotable things is the closing passage of the final essay that on the Poet:
 70, master singer, you are kin to all men; they are the elements which have been poured into your bell metal! Dwellers on Himalayan slopes-there seeking peace or under the eryptom- erias of Japan embowered in wstaria; dwellers on the Arabian deserts or in the mystic Syrian land, in solitary Greek monasteries, or under soft skies by beloved Arno, or in Titian's coun- try among rose-tinted dolomites where life is yet placid and without pretence, or in the sunny fields of Normandy fields bright with the cornhowers and the poppy, and old-time Brittany; by the Golden Horn whirling your rhyth- mic, dreamy, dervish dance, rapt and obvious to all but the mystic idea, or clad in yellow robes and with brass bowl taking your peaceful way beneath the palms of Ceylon. Again, here in the great west whence freedom is to come-soaring upward on pinions of the young eagle; in the Sierra among the sugar pines and the silver fir, or in the north woods among the tamaraek and balsams; those in the open fields everywhere whe feel the stlrrings of beauty, those living in the rush and turmoil of great cities, who are yet se- rene amidst 1t all, their sympathies broadened, their love deepened--these make up the alloy that is poured into your bell metal; they it is who enter into the marvellous blend, Ring out then, to the master harmony, thou resonant one-sound that divine melody of the soul; to those everywhere who work for beauty, who are conseerated 1 to their work; to the bg-hearted and | the who1e-souled everywhere; to the | mothers, sisters. sweethearts-to the l divine feminine in them all; to all, l greeting in the name of love, in the name of beauty"
 Messrs.. Dodd, Mead & Go. announce that in the fall they will publish novels by George Barr McCutcheon, Bettna l von Hutten, Maurice Hewlett, Horace l Vachell, Amelia E, Barr, Flor | ence Morse Kinsley, Anna B. Dodd, l and Oswald Crawford and other works by Owen Mister, Jeffery Farnol, Esth- CT Singleton, Maurice Maeterlinck, Ar thur Ransome, and Josephine Tozier. Definite announcement is made of the | "A Guide to the West In