Chicago. Dramatic Publishing Company: Modern Monologues. By Marjorie Benton Cooke. These monologues have been given from time to time by Miss Cooke, a young lady well known in Chicago's society and university circles. The monologues are sufficiently varied in scope to be of use to the most versatile public reader. McClurg and Company: The Castle of Twilight. By Margaret Horton Potter. A novel which has an atmosphere of the cloister about it. In a foreword the author says: "Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of 'historical novel' will bring before you an image of dreary woodenness and increasing courage. Yet if you will have the graciousness but to unlock my castle door you will find within only two or three quiet folk who will distress you with no battles nor strange oaths." Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena. With General Baron Gourgaud. Together with the Journal Kept by Gourgaud on Their Journey from Waterloo to St. Helena. Translated, and with Notes, by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer. We refer our readers to the review of this book which is printed elsewhere in the present number of The Bookman. Marriage in Epigram. Compiled by Frederick W. Morton. A companion volume to "Love in Epigram," "Woman in Epigram," and "Men in Epigram." The present book contains "stings, flings, facts, and fancies from the 'Thought of Ages."" Famous Assassinations. By Francis Mr. Johnson gives the history of the thirty-one assassinations which have become famous in history, beginning with Philip of Macedon, 336 B.C., and concluding with Alexander of Servia, A.D., 1903. The story of these assassinations, we understand, has never before been told in a connected form. Songs from the Hearts of Women. By Nicholas Smith. One hundred famous hymns are reprinted in this book, and accompanying each hymn the author has something to say of the writer of it. "My design in compiling this volume," says Mr. Smith, "is to bring together in one small and attractive volume some of the finest hymns which have come from the hearts of women." The period covered by the hymn-writers is two hundred years, from Madame Guyon to Mary A. Lathbury. A Sequence in Hearts. By Mary Moss. The first novel of a writer whose contributions to these pages have been more or less frequent. Miss Moss has written a modern story which is clever, satirical, and full of humour. A further mention of the book will be found elsewhere, and Miss Moss's photograph may be found in the Chronicle and Comment of this issue. A Passage Perilous. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. Miss Carey can be depended on every year to turn out at least one good, healthy story of young womanhood. The present book tells of a young girl who left her husband at the church door and who finds out before very long that he carried her heart away with him. A Narrative of Medicine in America. By James Gregory Mumford, M.D. Dr. Mumford is assistant visiting_surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in surgery in the Harvard Medical School. "This book," he says, "is not a systematic history; it is a narrative of medicine and doctors. My object has been to take some of the conspicuous American physicians of each era in their proper sequence, to tell the story of their lives and their doings, and thus to illustrate the whole by a series of pictures, as it were." Jewish Publication Society of America: A new feature in the Jewish Year Book for 5664 is the series of biographical sketches of Rabbis and Cantors in the United States. This series was compiled, according to the preface, because of the interest attached to the education and literary activities of the spiritual guides of American Jewry. A dramatic novel with the scenes laid in San Francisco. Miss Bonner has spent much of her life in California, her first literary employment being in connection with the San Francisco "Argonaut." She That Hesitates. By Harris Dickson. In his dedication to "She That Hesitates" and what woman doesn't?-Mr. Dickson very prettily puts it thus:. "To Her-and to all women who have wavered since time began; to those we praise for their fortitude and virtue, to those we love for their weakness and their hesitation." Mr. Dickson will be remembered especially as the author of "The Black Wolf's Breed." San Francisco. California Promotion Committee: California Addresses. By President Roosevelt. The California Promotion Committee have collected together the addresses which the President delivered during his tour of that State in May of this year. The book is illustrated. Elder and Company: Book of Nature. By Johnny Jones. Spelling by His Mother. The little verses in this pamphlet refer to the flea, the cow, the elephant, the mosquito, and about thirty other insects and animals. The drawings are in pen and ink, and the poems are somewhat as follows: "I'm very fond of little doves, It's such a peaceful kind of sound Mercury Press: The City of Is and Other Poems. By Frederick Milton Willis. A book of poems which the author dedicates to California, a State which he describes as the "Western Greece." Akron, Ohio. Saalfield Publishing Company: Character Reading. By Mrs. Symes. A small volume which tells how one can read character by the shape of the face and head, by the lines of the mouth, and by the nose. The Wonderful Electric Elephant. By Frances Trego Montgomery. A fantastic tale of a wonderful elephant, whose doings should interest the young reader. The illustrations are in keeping with the text. Dayton, Ohio. United Brethren Publishing House: The Criminal Classes. Causes and Cures. By D. R. Miller, D.D. |