Show I LITERATURE I THE STOny OF NEW MEXICO By Horatio 1 0 Ladd Illustrated Boston D Lothrop Co Price S150 The author has traveled extensively in I New Mexico and thus gathered the material ma-terial for this book which is so thrillingly interesting as to red like a romanco It is a picturesque country of which ho writes and its history has been full of Interest In-terest and excitement from the times of the moundbuilders down to the present He aptly says The romance of a prehistoric pre-historic past broods over this wonderful country Nearer to us are the incursions of savage and marauding nations ravaging among the relics of semicultured peoples Even tho bpauish Conquest and rule over New Mexico and its quite nu merous population mako a strange story to our youth who associate only I Gosnold the Cartiers John Smith and the Pilgrims with dim ideas i f the Norseman in their impressions of the earliest Amen I j can history Professor Ladd has elaborated elabor-ated bio story from nccurate data as well as from material gathered during a wel years residence at Santa Fe and extensive I travel throughout the country His book will be read not only for its historic value but for the vivid pictures it presents of strange and remote civilization of splendid savagery and of gallant courage such as always thrills the heart and quickens the pulses I I THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE By Mrs Humphrey Ward Author of Robert Els mere New York MaoMulan Co Price II Robert Elamere is one of the strongest strong-est novels of the day Its appearance at once established Ma Wsr4 ai u writer of i genius and the public bavo been impatiently Impa-tiently awaiting the publication of The History of David Grieve the announcement announce-ment of which came a year ago There was eagerness to learn it she would sustain sus-tain her reputation aa an author Now that the story is out it will greatly add to the ladys fame Her delineation of the I development of David Grieves character Is unsurpassed for insight and delicacy ot handling by anything in her earlier book The repression of his childhood on the Derbyshire farm his ambitious struggles I for a footing along Manchester trades of his emo men and the sudden expansion tonal and artistic nature during the visit I to Paris are told with a wonderful power I of fascination Mrs Wards people are exceedingly human and compel a sympathy sym-pathy almost painful at times Although David is of course the central figure throughout there is interest and to spare for the secondary characters of whom the best drawn are the women wayward Louie his sister Else artistic and French and Dora Lomsr high church and devote THE GOLDEN IDOL A tale of adventure In Australia and New Zealand By M C Walsh Chicago Donohue Henneborry a Co Price 50 cents rce This is a wild weird tale of love and adventure ad-venture in the antipodes Some of the situations are improbable and the story Itself it-self is of the sensational order Nevertheless Neverthe-less the book is readable the romanco being be-ing cleverly woven and well told1 ROMANCE The March number of Romance offers the varied and attractive table of contents which tho reading public has come to expect ex-pect every month from this magazine There are no less than eighteen complete stories in the present issue and writers of half 1 dozen nationalities are represented Tho list is headed by Tourgueneff with one of those striking tales for which that great Russian is famous and there is another of the vigorous stories which aro winning a worldwide reputation for Moritz Jokai I the Hungarian author Those who relish humor will enjoy three very funny translations trans-lations from the French aud two which are almost as amusing from tie Italian while admirers of ingenious plots of romantic affection and of touching pathos will liud their preferences regarded in these carefully selected contents Romance Publishing company Clinton hall Astor place New York THE FORUM The number for March begins the seventh year of Tic Forum and for its seventh year several now I mternrises in periodical work are announced First and perodical announceL foromost the sliver question The discussion discus-sion of the silver question has reached its acute stage in Congress and is iu consequence conse-quence before public attention in I more serious form than ever before The num nor contains two papers on itono by Mr Bland who makes his best arguments for silver and the other by Mr Ltech director of the mint who writes to show that incase in-case of free coinage Europe would dump c its silver on us in tne uumoer are iwo noteworthy educational article ono by I Mr Clarence King on The Education of tie Future wherein he shows the narrow I limitations of our teaching and points out the yet undeveloped fields and methods and tbe other by Prof John Earle the greatest authority on his subject on The Study of English The Progress of the Most Important Arts and Sciences will make a continuous feature of the coming volumes of Tim Forum such as music sculpture painting architecture the practical prac-tical application of electricity the advance of preventive medicine the progress of astronomy as-tronomy Anothor group of subjectsold subjects that scienthlc progress makes of perpetual interest will be Good Country Roads and How Well They Pay Scientific Scien-tific Agriculture and its Possibilities What the Coming Man Will Eat aud How He Will Cook it and the like The Forum Union Square New York |