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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
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March 21, 1908.

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15

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The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

In Lillian Writings new book, Par is. the Beautiful" she has devoted an interesting chapter to q study of modern scientific progress, as carried on in the laboratories of that city. AS is widely known, Dr, Gustav Le Son. one of the most eminent living sclent ists. hasa caused great sensation TO- gently by his theory of the disassJcia- ton of matter, and the relation of this world to the unseen one. The at tention of the scientific world Is turn cd toward the study of psychic phe- nomena more strongly than ever be- fore, and as this is a subject m which Miss Whiting is also peculiarly inter ested. she has written her account with unusual zest and briliancy.
 Miss Whiting has return T to Paris for another visit before coming 'o America. AS she writes to her pub- fishers, Mcssrs, Little. Brown X O., the city Is so beautiful. the life 70 gay. and she Is enjoying herself 70 thoroughly. that she cannot bear to leave 1t.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

On August Is. Doubleday, Page & company, New York, published a novel by a new writer, Henry L. Stuart, en- titled Weeping Cross" This Is story of Puritan New England, and 1t gives the first account in fiction of that place and period from the point Of view of devout adherent of the Cath oic church The narrauye Itself is fuil of movement and Illuminating situa, tions.
 On the same date this house pub fishes new novel by E. F, Benson "The Blotting Book This is aD lngen- ious detective story of the better sort There Is a startling climax when the criminal Is brought to time through his one oversight which is so slight and unique that 1t gives the tale a distinction of its own.
 My School and My Gospel" sched' ued for this month also, is Sir Huber yon Herkomers first account of hi' famous art school at Bushey which wal for so long considered radical axperi ment and over which considerable con troversy has waged, This Is hand some volume generously illustrated.
 Doubleday, Page & Company hav' recently added Departmental Ditties' to their Pocket Edition in leather 0 kipling's works
 Other books to appear toward tn end of August are.
 Round the Corner in Gay Street, I by Grace S Richmond.
 Studies in the American Race Prob len," by Alfred Holt Stone,
 "rhe Altar Stairs" by G, B, Lancas 4 ter.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07
Book Notes.

The Bobhs- Merrill company, Indian apois, publish novel by Mary Rob erts Rinehart entitled "The Circular Staircase" It is a detective story, a novel of mystery that is described as being worthy "a place beside Conan Doyle and Anna Katherine Green" Its author has been a regular contributor to the magazines, but this is her first venture as writer of long novel.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

SOWING SEEDS IN DANNY. By Mrs.
 Nellie L. McClung. Published by
 Doubleday Page & Co.,, New York.
 s1 at Judd's
 A captivating book abounding in cleverness, sprightiness and genuine humor. Both young folks and old folks the youngest of the Watson family. a numerous group and 1t frequently falls to Pearlie Danny's 12-year-od sister 10 keep house in the absence of their de- voted mother who Is obliged with such good sized family to supplement the meagre income of the head of the house by doing the washing at sl.25 t per day for various private families. Danny Is the pet of the household Yet 12-year-old Pearlie Is really the star performer. Presently Pearlie hies her. self to the Motherwell farm to work out debt of BIO and while thus en- gagged has some novel and exciting ad- ventures, She is bright, iovable child, blessed also with a lively imae nation, All this preliminary leads up to what Is being done in the seed sow- ing line tor little Danny by philan. throplc dreamer and humanitarian Mrs. J, Burton Francis. who, inspired by the conversation at ladies' teas and sunshine gatherings and what she has read as to social uplifting of the mass es, Is seized with the laudsble impulse of practlcing on Danny and incidental. ly other scions of the Watsons. She is kindly hearted woman, given over much to theorizing and noting dowr the thoughts that arise In her bus, campaign for Danny's culture. Camille who works for her aids her humani tarlan endeavors by supplying choco late cake. pie and other goodies [, Danny when he comes to the Francis house, all of which Is deeply appreci ated by Danny as veritable crumbs O comfort after having been dazed b, the high class musicale given by Mrs Francis at which he was an honoreC guest his principal enjoyment of tn.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

MYRTLE BALDWIN. By Charles
 Clark Mum, author of Uncle Terry"
 etc. Illustrated by Frank T, Merrill,
 Published by Lothrop. Lee < Shep-
 ard C., Boston For sale everywhere,
 or sent postpaid for N.5o,
 This authors always successful sto- rics contain characters of real life and feeling He knows and makes you know the humor and the pathos of the business world, the crowded city, the small hamlet, the hotel. the coun- try store, and the solitude Of nature. Wherever those who make up the world at large live, love, laugh, or suffer, affords his material, and this same great public reads and enjoys the books of the man who has the genius to present the drama of com mon life In all It's intensity. The heroine, whose name Is given In the book, arouses first the pity and then the love of the hero. Pride and mis- takes lead to double quest, each for the other, and the tangled threads Of their lives continually fall of unwind | ing in unity until almost too late Meanwhile the problem of self-re- specting girl thrown upon the world, with her beauty constant source of menace. is presented with realism that will not be denied the hean of the reader. Both the baseness and the goodness of the world as 1t Is. with love triumphant over discourage ments, are brought out with the power of man who has something to tell. and the practiced skill of one who has reached the height Of success in his own field with which to tell It.
 Of this book the Rev George W. Hinckley, head of the Good wnl Farm association, says;
 This story Is full of intense human interest, carries strong moral lesson, and because of the light It throws upon imperled girlhood. and the warning, wholesome and strong. that it contains l wish It might so into every home in the land, In perusing it the reader will follow the brave her olne, Myrtle Baldwin. through scenes that cannot he misunderstood, and perils that few, If any. girls will care to face. 1 wish the book might he read by every village and country girl in New England, for better than |, has ever been done before the author shows the dangers which will inevita. bly beset any girl who goes alone tc a large city and the pitful chance she has of maintaining her purity. It. publication ought to result in the say.
 ing of a thousand girls who to-day arc as pure and innocent as Myrtle Bald. win from the awful fate to which sh, was so often exposed, Ii Is a book tt be read thoroughly."
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Two women tell what they think of George Bernard Shaw in the current agazines-Ellen Terry and Lady Randolph Churchill in the respective "reminiscences in McClure's and tho Century. Ellen Terry says that she looks upon Shaw "as a good, kind, gentle creature. whose 'brain-storms are due to the lrishmans love of a fight; they never spring from malice or anger. It doesn't answer to take | Bernard Shaw seriously He is not n man of convictions; that is one of the charms of his plays to me. at least One never knows how the cat is really Jumping. But 1t jumps. Bernard Shaw Is alive, with nine lives, like the i cat"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Henry Holt < Co cannot remember, in their experience time when the demand for an authors novel. kept as even as it does for those of William DeMorsan., Not long ago they an nounced that they were having to re- print his Joseph Vance" 'Alce-for- short" and Somehow Good" all on the same day. These novels still seem to run abreast like the three horses In the Russian trolka and tho Messfs. Holt are Just having to issue at the 'same time the ninth printing of Joseph Vance" and "Allce-for- short" and the thiil printing of somehow Good"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Miss Jessie B Rittenhouse, auth IT of The Younger American Poets " published by Little, Brown & Com pany. Boston, has received an ap- pointment to lecture upon Modern Poetry on the Extension work at co- lumba university, for the coming sea son. She will consider the most sig nlfcant work of the Celti'. English and American poets of ihe newer schools, field In which she has al- ready done much illuminl.ive triti- cism.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

praise from the highest sources ches- Mariner; " Meredith, Deep with thought; deep with slgnlfcance," and Archer, Full of Magnificent things" Two of the principal poems In ihls volume, Apollo and the seaman" and Tho Shepherd" are becoming known throughout England by a unique device by which they are given as Illuminated symphonies In daiken- ed halls. In which that portion of the poem which the invisible orchestra Is Illustrating, Is thrown on screen where lt may be read by the nearer, and Is changed as the music changes. Probably many people who have made mad struggle to follow strauss "Xarathnsthra" and "SymphonIa Do- mes.lca" hy the aid ui program book would have heartily welcomed thls device. Also at once the Me-srs Holt will issue Prof. C. W. Colby's Canadian Types of the Old Regime" Rupert Sargent Hollands Builders Of United Italy;" Prof, Oscar Kuhn's Sense of the Inhnte;" Mrs. Carroll Watson Rankln's The Adopting Of Rosa Marie" Ca sequel to her we'll liked "Dandelon Cottage") and those two highly contrasted novels. "A Lord of Lands" and Angel Esquire" !" which have already been announced: though delays in their manufacture will unfortunately postpone Holder < Jordan's Fish Stories" Prof Martin Schutze's Hero and Leander," and Miss Mary Wright Plummer's Roy and Ray In Canada announced for that date, until September.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

"The Dukes Motto is the title of the new novel by Justin Huntly Mccarthy, which Harper & Brothers published Lovers of facile swords and devi-may- care hcroes will rejoice 10 know that Mir. McCarthys hero will be like that. The plot has It's setting in France un. dor Louis XIII, shifts also to Spain and Is described as sheer adventure completely under the spell of hero 50 audacious and resourceful that all of his exploits seem true.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07
"The Blue praron," by Kirk Mnnr

The Blue Dragon" by Kirk Mnnroe and Cast Up By the Sea, by Samuel White Baker. old-timc favorites with young people. have gone into reprint. Other Juvenile reprints noticed on the Harper list are Toby Tyler" by James Otis; Pony Tracks and Crooked Trails by Frederick Remington "Nan,9 by Lucy c. Lillie, and three books by Ellen Douglas Deland-"Oak- leigh, Josephine and Allan Rains ford /"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07
Lewis E. MacBrayn.'s art,cl. ,n th.

Lewis E. MacBrayne's article tn tho September "Harper's' describes a ship load of home bound Portuguese and Italians, illustrative sketches on ship board being shown in tint. Bostcn, ln England--the Lincolnshire Roaton-- provides travel sketch by Williau1 Dean Howells. The adventures in Tib- ct of Sven Hedin, the traveller and dis coverer, are continued with particular reference to the temples, some customs of their priests, and the TibetAn pil- grims. An uncommon paper describing the eyes of worms and animals, and progressing 10 the vision of the human eye, Is by Edward A. Ayers M. D. Pro- lessor Lounsbury of Yale. still oppos- Ing purists, argues for the superlative form of the adjective in such phrases as '".he worst of the two,' and Freder- ick Trevor Hill brings his story of Wall street down to the origin of the stock exchange Sergeant Kendall's study portraits of children, reproduced in duotone brown, are supplemented by a discussion of his art by Charles H. Caf- fin
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VIRGINIA.
 By GeortEe Cary ERgleston Illus.
 trated by Frank T. Merrill. s1.50.
 published by Lathrop, Lee & Shepard Co, Boston.
 No one but Nirglnian gentleman Is quite capable of depicting the ideal called to mind by that term, and no one lives better qualified to do so than George Cary Eggleston with his unfailing courtesy and scrupulously keen sense of humor. His graceful pen has proved worthy of the subjec, in his latest book, Two Gentlemen ot Virginia, and he writes with greai feeling and deep knowledge. The title of the book Is the expression used In number of instances betweer man and man to express sense ot honor so high as to be above the need of written agreement The autho, tells how young man who had wor prosperity in the west inherited run-down plantation with Its outfit Q negroes, In connection with whom the young master tried interesting SO cial experiments. The working out O tHe young planter problem enabled the author to make the most enter taining and valuable kind of hstor, of the story by plcturing condition of the utmost interest which actual, existed, but which are little under stood. very interesting characte Is, girl, whose history Is early re vealed to the reader, though not t the storys own public. There is
 picturesque plantation life, Ther are some complex life stories of in terest, and finally there is one of Mi Eggleston's best love stories, involv ing the Two Gentlemen of Virginia and some others. It Is the stronges and most entertaining work he ha done since his well remembered an still popular Dorothy South"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Six books are published this month by Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York They are: Weeping Cross" novel by new writer, Henry l., stewart which deals with the Puritan period of New England ''Blottlng Book" a detec- tive story involving mysterious crime. by F. F. Benson, My School and My Gospel" by Sir Hubert von Herkomer This Is the first account by sir Hubert Herkomer himself ol his famous school at Bushey, where he worked from 1888 to 1904. Round the Corner In Gay Street. by Grace S, Richmond: Studies In the American Altar Stairs" by G. R. Lancasta"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

"Nancy Hart" which will he Issued soon hy the C. NJ Clark Publishing Co, Boston, bids fair to rank among the most dramatic books of the sea son. It is rsttlng good tale of Amer ican frontier life in revolutionary days, and has for its central figure of inter- est and action woman of remark able energy and resourcefulness-Nan cy Hart The author, Robert Louis Freear, gives his episodes In swift ac- tion-not lingering over detail to the extent of spelling the dramatic cll- maxes
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Tn "A Captain of Industry" crhe c. M. Clark Co. Boston) Enoch Johnson has treated of the labor question In a unique way He sends a son of cap ltalist into the rolling mill, which is the source of his parents money sup ply. to change places with a laborer and go get in harmonious touch and go with the workmen and their prob lems. A love story Is blended in the telling of strikes and dissensions which In itself makes the novel worth read ing.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Georse Dyre Eldright. author of Tn the potter's House Is also the author of that exciting mystery tale, The Milbank Case" which was pub lished here some years ago by Henry Holt & Co, and then republishcd in EnSland. Henry Holt & Co. have just disposed of the German rights of thls story which |, shortly Co be issued In Stuttgart.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Henry Holt X Co, New York. an nounce for publication in day or two Apollo and the Seaman and Other Poems" by the distinguished English poet. Herbert Trench This book is
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Novels and other volumes to come during the autumn season from the press of Harper & Bros, New York, will include work by Mrs, Humphrey Ward, Robert Hichens. William Dean Howells Hamlin Garland, George Har- vey. Augustus Thomas, Kirk Munroe, and Peter Newell
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

John n Champln's Young Folks Cyclopaedia of Games and Sports" seems to he steadily growing in favor, and the Messrs Holt are just printing it for the sixth time. while at the same time they are reprinting the author s Young Folks Cyclopaocdia of Nstur- al History
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

"The Yelled Mariposa,' telling novelette, by Mrs Wilson Woodrow, constitutes the opening feature of Ainslee's for September, E. Phillips Oppenheim follows With character istic story called Men Are Such Fools" Frank Danby, Mary Heaton Worse and May Sinclair are among the other contributors of fiction, the lat ter's serial, The Immortal Moment reaching crucial conclusion. The Cry" by Theodosia Garrison, is fine bit of poetic pathos and John Ken drick Bangs appears In new and nonhumorous light with his petty "Love Song It is to think--and possibly snle-to read Arthur Loring lSrucc's essay, Around the Bridge Ia be,' while all the additional literary tidbits are of delectable ,lavor and kind.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

The September Red Book will mark a new departure in the history of a magazine heretofore devoted almost exclusively to fiction and stage plc- lures. Charles Edward Russell, under title of "Billions for Bad Blue Blood, presents the first of three striking atid well illustrated articles on the mar riages of rich American girls to Euro peans of title. No true American should miss reading this series, James Huneker has some pertinent and daring things to say concerning "Attinities" In his brisk discussion If Rrhe Artist and His Wife, Sir GH- bert Parker, Mrs Jacques Futrelle Baroness von Hutten and Eleanor M Ingram contribute short stories, Her bert Kaufman has a telling editoria
 on The Great Lie of Civilization.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Prof, Robert William Wood of Johns Hopkins university has not been called 10 tho White House to explain in the presence of John Burroughs. Ernest Thompson Seton and William Long his lnfalllble method of dlstin- gushing birds from flowers. He has been too busy with still more Inn portant work on what might be term cd biological discrimination An nouncement fig now made that the re- suit of hls lshors is to be published in the near future by Paul Eller X Co. under the title of Animal Anal ogues"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

Henry Holt & Co. are just having to reprint two books on cold coun- tries, namely. W. D. Mccracken's Rise of the Swiss Republic" for It's third time, and Sir Donald Mckenzie Wallaces monumental book on Rus sia for It's sixth time. At the same time they are printing Prof, W. A. scotts Money and Banking for the fourth time
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

The feature of the September Ms- Cures Is the beginning of General Kuropatkin's secret history of the Russian Japanese war, in which he names as the causes of the war the Russian occupation of Port Arthur and Mukden, and, more particularly, the Bezobrazoff timber enterprises In Corea, in which the czar and the em- press and all the grand dukes were financially interested.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

The August number of the North American Review opens with an article by the late Professor Henry Loomis Nelson on Grover Cleveland wlIch was revised by the late Daniel s La- mont, and which Is In effect a political history of the period during which Mir Cleveland was a conspicuous figure in the national life. Jean Jaures, leader Of the socialist party In the French chamber, describes the attitude of so- cialism toward international arbit.a- tion. Sir Martin Conway defines "The Ideal of Egyptian Art" as being monu. mental calm. Theodore Gilman exam ines the provisions of The Aldrlch- Nreeland Bill" which he believes will protect the country against monetary panlcs Elizabeth Bisland writes entsr- tainlngly of The Morals of the Modern Heroine" In an article on The North ern Question" "Britannicus" considers the agreements as to the Baltic and ths North seas recently entered into by tho powers whose territories adjoin these waters respectively. The postmaster general, George V. l.. Meyer, advocates Postal Savings Banks" w. D. How. els makes what he calls some unpal. atabe suggestions as to the treatment of criminals by the state, Sydney Brooks in the sixth article of his se- ries on The New Ireland.'' considevs the work of the Gaelic league. Profess or Francis M. Burdick of Columbia university, vindicates the couFse in their issuance of 'Iniunctionsf in Labor Disputes" Professor Otto Simon tells of the progress of Esperanto in Ger. i many"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

"The Ghost Kings" brand new ro- nance from the pen of Fl. Rider HaE- gard is making It's first American apA pearsnce in Gunter's Magazine for Sep. lion Minute" makes fitting running mate for Mir Haggard's story The se- ries, The Sword of Esme Dacres," con. tlnues to present dashing adventure in each issue. Besides, there is a de. partment of humor and big parcel cf short stories.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

B. w, Dodge X Co.,. New York, an nounce new story by Theodore Dreis- CT, author of Sister Carrie" an un- usual and by many regarded great story.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers" by Prof Robert William Wood was one of the most notable of the last holiday volumes. over twenty thousand copies being sold in Decem- her. Paul Elder X Co. state that the book is now on the press for a new printing of ten thousand copies.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07

with the Battle Fleet" by Frank lin Matthews, Is to he published In the early fall hy R. w. Huebsch, New York. It Is a picturesque record Of tho voyage of the Atlantic fleet from Hampton Roads to San Francisco, in- cluding accounts of the ships visits to various South American ports, Life on shipboard, the perilons trip through the Straits of Magellan; the memorable receptions to officers and men. are some of the features that make the volume noteworthy. Ap- propriate illustrations, and an attrac- tive cover design by Earl Stetson Crawford. will adorn the book whose value should be permanent because t will be the chronicle of q voyage unique in the history of our navy, Mr. Matthews Is one of the old guard of the New York Sun. to which newspa per the letters on which the book Is based were written, They appeared also in thirty of the largest daily pa pers in the land. and the demand for their publication In book form has been widespread. The naval authorl- ties who have been consulted are en- thusiastlc about the book and have cordially cooperated with MT. Mat thews