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STRIKES DELAY BOOKSDISAGREEMENTS REGARDING
WAGES CAUSING TROUBLE
M«ny Orders Not Likely to Be Filledfor Weeks—Kipling as an Artist—Two Types of American Fiction—Timely Volumes—A Writer's View ofHis Profession.
The book arid magazine publishersare likely to be seriously delayed withtheir output because of the strikesnow going- on among- their employes.With every printing plant runningthere is not sufHcient means of pro-duction for the extra l;irge numbersof books to be issued this fall. Almostevery publisher is far behind in his\u25a0work—some books are entirely out ofprint and orders for many of these arepiling up daily. Now conies a strikeamong the pressmen, and scores ofshops are closed. Even though thestrikers return to work in a few daysthe publishers will be delayed stillfurther, and it is not at all unlikelythat many orders for books will be un-filled for weeks to come.
In spite of minor difficulties, how-ever, the book trade has a most prom-ising outlook this fall. The heavy ad-vance sales of many new novels indi-cates a confident feeling on the partof the dealers. Booth Tarkington's"The Two Vanrevels" has sold to thenumber of 60,000 copies, and the storyhas just been published. "The Fortunesof Oliver Horn," by P. HopkinsonSmith, is near to 60,000 copies; GilbertParker's "Donovan Pasha" is being or-dered heavily, and the serial publica-tion of "The Little White Bird," Bar-ries new novel, has created a largeadvance demand for the book. Theseare but a few of the best books whosepopularity is already assured.
"Just So Stories."Kipling's "Just So Stories" are at-
tracting more attention than is usualeven with a Kipling book because theauthor has illustrated the stories him-self—and even the most severe criticmust acknowledge that the work is
\u25a0well done. M. Rudyard Kipling inherit-ed not only the ink fever from hisfather, but a keenly developed senseof the artistic in other expressionsthan that of letters. The elder Kiplingis well known as an artist, and but forhis more brilliant son he would prob-ably have made a world-wide reputa-tion as a man of gTeat learning. Hehas a marvelous memory; he knowsmore about India than any other Eng-lishman. The editor under whomRudyard Kipling worked in India oncedescribed the father as the most de-lightful companion he ever met.
The whole family seems to have thepassion for writing. It is said thatmore poems by Kipling's mother andsister are to be published this fall. Thesister, now Mrs. Fleming, has the rep-utation of being able to quote everyline in Shapespeare's plays.
In this season's output of Americanfiction two distinct types are to benoted—the psychological novel, suchas "The Wings of a Dove," by HenryJames; "Our Lady of the Beeches," byBaroness yon Hutten, and in the"Confessions of a Wife," and the real-istic novel which records contem-porary life and business, such as"Capt. Macklin," by Richard HardingDavis; "Donovan Pasha," by Sir Gil-bert Parker: "The Fortunes of OliverHorn," by F. Hopkinson Smith, and"The Blazed Trail," by Stewart Ed-ward White. The latter book is notexactly a fall book, having appearedIn the spring, but its growth In pop-ular esteem has been bo continuousthat it ranks now with the better classof fall books.
At the present time four Englishnovels. are running serially in Parisnewspapers. "St. Ives," in the Temps;"The Last Days of Pompeii," in theSoliel, doubtless because of France'sinterest in Mt. Pelee; "Dr. Nichola,*in the Vie Illustie, and "The Mysteryof a Hansom Cab," in the Matin. Inaddition to these, another leading pa-per there is anxious to increase thelist by publishing a translation of "TheHound of the Baskervilles."
"Those Black Diamond Men.""Those Black Diamond Men," a com-
bination of short stories and a novel,was fortunate in having made its ap-pearance just at a time when almosteveryone was beginning to discusscoal, coal strikes and coal operators.The book has enjoyed a good sale andprobably will continue to be called forall winter.
Of similar timeliness is a volumeJust published called "The AnthraciteCoal Industry," which purports to be astudy of the economic conditionswhich prevail and of the existing rela-tions between capital and labor in thePennsylvania coal fields.
Another book just published, whichIs to be recommended for the relief itstitle gives the reader, is "A CountryWithout Strikes." Such a country act-ually exists, but it is our antipodes—New Zealand.
As an echo of the Dumas centerarycelebration comes a now volume,"Alex-ander Dumas (Pere)," by ArthurDavldson, which gives an interestingaccount of the novelist's life and re-lates many stories of him. Accord-ing to one of these tales, Dumas hitupon the name of his most famousromance in the following manner:
He was out on a shooting expeditionWith young Prince Napoleon, son ofJerome Bonaparte, in 1842, and after aviolent storm reached Elba. Whileexploring they discerned a'lake, sugar-loaf shaped, standing out of the sea.
"Ah," said the boatman, "that'swhere you would have got good sport.Yonder island is full of wild goats."
"Tndeed! What may its name be?""They call it the island of Monte
Cristo."Dumas later persuaded his compan-
ion to row around the island in orderto know more about its possessions.
"What's the use of that?" said theprince.
"Because," was the reply, "I intend
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When Dumas made arrangementsfor his book, called "Impressions deVoyage Dans Paris," his publishersurged that his novel should be a sen-sational romance, and Dumas contrivedan intrigue involving a rich aristocratknown as Le Oonte de Monte Cristo.
F. M. Bird's Confessions.There is always a nominal interest
attached to the dissection' of authorsby the critics, but when a writercalmly dissects himself more than or-dinary interest is aroused. FrederickM. Bird seems to write not of a fulland bitter experience in a current mag-azine when he lays bare the secrets ofhis professions.
Apart from egotistic imaginings, thetruth is that the literary life is as pooras any other vocation and probablyjraorer than most in "literarymaterial."Its details are not picturesque; theyare not romance; they are not even in-teresting, except to the "literary fel-
JULIAN RALPH.
low" himself, and not always especiallyso to him. There is next to nothing inthem to attract the curious whosework and play are on different lines;and other literary fellows do not careto hear about them, for they knowjust how it is. Bro\vn wrestles with asonnet; all that can be said about theprocess, the frowns and heavings andgurglings has been said a thousandtimes, chiefly in comic papers and par-agraphs. If he accomplishes his task,possibly he gets $5 or $10 for the re-sult. In one case out of a million ortwo it may be remembered for adecade. Smith sits down to cudgel anovel out of his inner consciousness:who wants to watch his throes andshare the joys or sorrows that precedeor attend creation? (People sometimesdo in the stories, I notice, but theseare high nights.) His wife may haveto see that he knocks off for dinner,and gets to bed for 2 a, m. She mayshare his anxiety as to tne concreteresult. His intimates, if he is impu-dent, may say, "Smith is trying towrite a novel," and go their way.
But suppose Smith scores, or Brownis acclaimed as a new Tennyson. Why,then, if notoriety or fame be won therewill be hard facts, statistics, biog-raphies and bibliographic data, arti-cles or items in books of reference. Weshall want to know what the greatman eats for breakfast ana where hebuys his trousers. But as for fiction,no. The professional life of the manof letters, however successful, can, asa rule, furnish nothing to romance;and as for realism, realism can findmore to interest and instruct in thedaily experiences of a plowman or so-ciety woman, not to say of a lawyeror engineer. Machinery is a morehopeful field for tales than lettei-s, andit is being worked now. Business hasinnumerable varieties and ramifica-tions, but what is there that is nothopelessly commonplace in a writer'swork, beyond the joy of discovery, assituations and characters evolve them-selves from his brain and take on asemblance of vitality? Stevensoncould put that in a few glowing lines,but not in his stories; he knew it wasnot a theme to dwell upon.
MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH.
Among the important leading1 articlesin the October Atlantic is Frank Fox-croffs "A Study of Local Option in LiquorSelling." Mr. Foxcroft has examinedthe workings of the Massachusetts localoption law very exhaustively. His clearand interesting account of the conditionsof its administration, its operation, and itseffect upon individual towns and cities•will be read with profit by everybody in-terested in this vitally important sub-ject.
Current History for October containsthe world's history during August—pre-sented In departments entitled '"Interna-tiona] Affairs," "Affairs in America,""Affairs in Europe," "Affairs in Asia andOceanica," "Affairs in Africa," "Scienceand Invention,"' "Education," "Religion,""Sociology," "Art. Music and the Drama,""Important Statistics," "A LiteraryChronicle," and "Necrology."
The November Century contains theclosing installment of "Confessions of aWife." The book was announced forpublication on the 15th of October, but thelarge demand has made it necessary to putoff the date of issue for one week sothat a sufficient number of copies maybe printed to fill the first orders. It wiilbe issued Oct. 22.
Col. Curtis Guild Jr.'s article entitled"The Spellbinder," In the NovemberScribner's, is a very practical humandocument on public speaking. There aremany amusing anecdotes of Incidents thatoccurred during recent campaigns, andmuch helpful information regarding thebest ways of attracting and retaining theattention of large audiences.
"David Harum" has reached its 100thedition, 666,000 copies of the book havingbeen sold.
The November Pearson's heralds theapproach of the Thanksgiving seasonwith a. bright cover on which bell ringersand proudly strutting turkey vie witheach other as harbingers of good cheer,while inside the covers is indeed a feastof "good things." The number openswith a cleverly written paper by EdwardN. Vallandigham on "The People vs.Politicians," giving the true story of thefutile opposition by his own party toCleveland's third nomination and his finaltriumph over his opponents at the mem-orable Syracuse convention of '92..
EXCUSED.
I've waited your coming long and late,And saved myself for our tete-a-tete —"Pis rudeness to let a lady wait,
O Mr. Affinity!
Mama is worried and heaves a sigh,And poor papa has an anxious eye.Where are you, I wonder? and why so
shy,O Mr. Affinity?
And—well last night, when the worldwent dim,
I found myself in the arms of Jim—And so I promised to marry him,
O Mr. Affinity!—Ethel M. Kelley in New York Press.
The Polite Tramp.Jogging Jake—Pard, yer lookin' rather
gay for a man that's just been fcJt ijabulldog.
Tired Tim—Well, the critter was a fe-male. I'm always satisfied to give meBeat up to a lady.—Philadelphia Rec-ord,
FOR THE WEAKER SEX.
Woman's Exposition.
The New Edition of Dickens.
GIVEN UP TO WOMENLAST NUMBER OF COLLIER'S IS
Contains Much Wisdom, Yet Most ofIt Would Apply Quite as Well toMen—Question of Whether or NotDavid Copper-field Was a Gentleman—Views of George Ade.
The last number of Collier's Weeklywas an unusually interesting one andcalled the woman's number, althoughone wonders why, as there is not muchin it to interest women especially.
There is, however, an article by La-vinia Hart, called "Don'ts for Women,"which contains much wisdom whichwould be equally valuable for men.The writer says that it is necessarynot only to be good, but good for some-thing. To find what you can do thebest and do that one thing, if possibleto do it at all, as well as you can, andthat is genius. Persons can be divid-ed, according to the writer, into twoclasses, the leaders and the led. Theformer comprise those who have foundtheir work, taken advantage of theiropportunities, and made something ofthemselves, while those who are led arethe dwadlers, those who are alwaysgoing to do something wonderful theday after tomorrow or next week whenthey find time. The woman says truly
that the present is all we have; wetalk vagmely about the future and whatwe are going to do presently, while allthe time our lives are slipping by andthe golden hours when we might haveworked belong to the dead past. To-day is our only future, for it is yes-terday's future, and tomorrow it willbe gone beyond control. Miss Hartseems to think that women are great-er dwadlers and have more to answerfor in the way of wasted time thanmen. This she thinks is due to thefact that men expect an active careerand better appreciate that the daysof youth are the best they will everhave for work. This may be accountedfor in other ways also, as man goesdown to his office and works steadilyevery day with his mind fixed on thatone thing, while women's work is sodiversified that they are expected todo many things well. In the naturalorder of things women do not concen-trate their minds on one object jje menare more or less obliged to do unlegsthey take up a business career so com-mon today. Then frequently they makea great success of themselves andevince an astonishing aptitude forwork. A genius, says the writer, isan ordinary human being who has dis-covered his talent and made the most ofit; who has found his work, perseveredin It and loved it. She makes no al-lowance for those bom under a fortu-nate star, and though she does notsay so, evidently does not believe inluck. Is there, indeed, such a thingas luck? Ifone has not that somethingknown by the name persevering, hardwork is a good substitute for it.
In the same Collier's is a most en-tertaining account of the woman's ex-position which has been opened inMadison Square Garden, New York,under the auspices of the ProfessionalWoman's League. This is, indeed, anAdamless Eden, for not a sign of a manis there about the affair except thosecurious ones who come to view whatwomen have done. As the masculinevisitor drives up to the entrance hiscarriage door is thrown open by a six-foot negro women dressed in a royalpurple coat, with brass buttons, tighttrousers and shiny boots, and a highhat with a cockade upon it. He goes tothe box office to purchase his ticket andis greeted by a half dozen charmingyoung women who are extremely busi-ness-like; further on is a feminine tick-et-taker in gorgeous uniform of greenand gold. "Move on," says a soft voice,and he looks up in astonishment tofind himself confronted by a truly mag-nificent policeman, fully six feet high,who carries a formidable-looking "bil-ly" and regards him with an icy stare.After this he is prepared for anythingand nothing else makes the impressionthat has been made upon him by thedoorkeepers and the policeman. Onceinside, the most wonderful things greethim on every hand; indeed, it is theChicago world's fair on a small scale,even to the streets of Cairo. Here andthere are bands of. music, the playersall women and in uniform; then thevisitor goes to the industrial sectionand here he finds everything underthe sun which women have made andcan do, from a completely equippednewspaper office, making up and print-ing a daily paper right under your eyes,to a Red Cross hospital on the field ofbattle where everyone from syrgeonsdown to soldiers are women. Then thevisitor goes to the Midway, and herehe finds the most entrancing Japanese,Swedish, Dutch, Italian and Spanishgirls. Here are old Dutch kitchens,spotlessly clean; Viennese restaurants,sidewalk cafes and Cairo bazaars, end-ing up with the street of all nations.Another section represents Venice incarnival time, a facsimile of the gayscenes, with St. Mark's, the GrandCanal and the Palace of the Doges inthe background. The balconies arecrowded with pretty Italian girls whopelt the visitor with confetti, whilefakirs on every hand rob him of hislast penny.
This Immense and unique show takesthe place of the annual entertainmentor fair given by the league each year;those who arrange it and take partare almost all actresses, which ac-counts for their ability to carry outtheir various parts with such success.The proceeds of this affair go to thesupport of indigent and invalid act-ors and actresses, and the league thisyear hopes to make a much larger sumthan ever before.
A new edition of Dickens' works isbeing put out in London, and a cor-respondent in a weekly review speaksof the immense popularity of thesebooks after bo long a lapse of years,popularity far exceeding Thackery,Bulwer, or even George Eliot. PickwickPapers comes first in the hearts ofmost Dickens lovers, with David Cop-perfield a close second. Some one haswritten a letter to a literary paper ask-ing whether David Copperfield was agentleman, the question occuring to thewriter after a passage in the book inwhich Dora tells David that she shouldnot have married him as she was notfit to be a wife; and David replies:"Oh, Dora, love, as fit as I am to bea husband." From this the writer ar-gues that David was somewhat of acad, because he seemed to assent toDora's strictures upon herself. As anindividual he seems to think that Da-vid, our beloved David, was a snob,and he proceeds to say some very un-pleasant things of him. The writersays: "I know, of course, that thegreat majority who can never admitthe slightest fault in a favorite willdisagree with me; but I should bepleased to know If any agree." It Isnot likely that he will find many loversof Dickens who agree with him, notpossibly because he la not right—per-naps he is and perhaps that one re-mark and many others of David'smight have been more tactful—but be-cause the lovers of Dickens would findit difficult to describe just why they
cannot bear to Have their Dickensidols destroyed. Many of the storiesare absurd, the incidents quite improb-able, if, after 'all, 'anything is improb-able, but to those^who like them theyhave an indescribable charm which de-fies analysis a*d canot be explained byany particular^liturary taste. Dickenßis Dickens, an& there is only one, andDavid Copperfteld^vill be loved and hisshort married^life with Dora will bewept over long1 aft*/r his critic has goneto his last home. -This 13 what We London Academyhas to say about George Ade's "MoreFables in Slang,", which must indeedtry the souls the English to readand understand, if-indeed they accom-plish the latter process at all:
"In the reading oT'Mr. Ade's Fables, ev-erything "cTepenns upon mood. We canquite understand that s£>me people wouldfind them almost offensive; we foundthem extremely entertaining, but we areprepared to admit that at another timewe might have been less pleased. Yet inthat case we think the fault would lierather with ourselves that with Mr. Ade,for his work, triflingas it is, shows greatobservation, and here and there providesquite wise comments upon certain phasesof life."
On the whole this is wonderfullyfair for an English paper, consideringthat there are not a few Americanswho find the fables rather difficultreading. Mr. Ade should give up thatnonsense and devote his time entirelyto the writing of comic opera, for hehas made an undoubted success of "TheSultan of Sulu," the only comic operawhich has had a glimmer of reasonin its lines or plot for several years.Mr. Ade himself is reported to detestslang and to be very tired of writingthe fables, so It is not unlikely thatthey will cease to be before long.
Takes Off Modern Writers.The art of parodying famous writ-
ers is becoming almost a profession inthis country, and much valuable timeand effort is put into caricature thatmight be turned to good account inoriginal work. The newest of theseparodists is Owen Seaman, who haswritten a little volume called "Borrow-ed Plumes," in which he takes offmodern writers very cleverly. Amongthose he parodies are Marie Corelli,Henry James, Mrs. Humphrey Ward,Hall Came and others. The followingimitations of Maeterlinck's style are es-pecially good:
"Where is my pet lamb? I do notsee it on the sofa as usual. Ah! ah!I smell mint-sauce. No, I willnot takeany luncheon today. I loved it so. Itwas not altogether like other lambs.It was more -ominous, and now it iscold. • \u2666 •'
"Hush! Not so loud. Sister Annmay overhear you. She is a hundredand twenty-five yards away under awillow; but you never can tell howfar her soul reaches. Perhaps it coversas much as three acres. * * *
"Sister Migraine, I have a headache.Have you a : headache, Sister Mi-graine? Ithfr.k lam going to be veryunhappy. • \u25a0*• *"Oh. Oh! t have a pain in my des-tiny. It is just here. It is not indi-gestion. Oh, no! It is certainly notindigestion. * * *The Booklovers Library is not onlyprosperous and flourishing but is pro-posing to branch out in various direc-tions and one can only hope that itsfinancial backing will be equal to theexpenditure involved. From the firstof October its rates have been raisedand a new feature added which makesit possible for the members to go tothe library, if there is one in the city,and exchange books as often as theyplease, as well as receiving books bywagon delivery. Added to the long listof popular and standard works, theyhave now a religious library, and li-braries of French and German litera-ture, and have perfected a system bywhich members can obtain books onall the leading railway trains fromBoston to San Francisco. Added tothis they have placed libraries on theAmerican line steamships and haveestablished themselves both in Londonand Paris. Also they have a chain oflibraries- across the Pacific and halfround the world. The way in whichthis library idea has grown and de-veloped is simply marvelous and wouldseem to indicate that these enterpris-ing Booklovers have filled a long feltwant. The monthly Literary Bulletinwhich has been issued for severalmonths, will in the near future beturned into a monthly magazine of thesame proportions as the leading mag-azines of the country, according to thelatc-st announcement of the Philadel-phia managers of the Library, and willbe sent free to all members. The chiefvalue of the books sent by the Book-lovers system over and above the pub-lic, library system, is that by the for-mer one is certain to receive new andclean books, which, of necessity, can-not always be the case with the muchhandled volumes of the public li-brary.
Martin Writes For Life.E. S. Martin, who is well known to
the public as the writer of paragraphstreating of the current news of the dayin Harper's Weekly, is also a poet andthe publisher of several volumes ofpoems. What is not generally knownin regard to him is his editorial con-nection with Life. His name is notused, but he has been writing for thatpaper for some years. His last book,which is now several weeks old, isculled "Poems and Verses." His firstbook of verse, published in 1882, andentitled "A Li'ftle Brother to theRich," it is reported has been sold tothe extent of twenty-five thousandcopies, which is rather remarkable fora volume o£ light verse. Mr. Martinhad rather a remarkable experiencewith this particular book, as it waspublished once in London with thetitle "Pirated Poems," and was the re-sult ol the browsing of one of a firm ofpixblishers in a bookstall, where hecame across the poems which werethen published anonymously. TheseLondon publishers reprinted themwith the following explanation: "Tothe author: The publishers of thisbook have produced this volume of anold copy found on a bookstall. Theyhave endeavored to trace the authorbut have failed, and they undertake topay the author (whoever he may be)his share of the profits—if any—aris-ing out of the sale of the same, fromthe date of this publication, and aslor.g as the book shall find favor withthe public. The author must prove hisidentity to the satisfaction of the pub-lishers, or to the satisfaction of sucharbitrators as they may appoint." Mr.Martin sometime afterwards learnedof this curious publication of his ownwork and when he went to London in-terviewed the firm that put it out. Itis not stated whether or no he re-ceived his share of the proceeds, butit is presumable that he did.
Mr. Martin is a brother of the wifeof Maj. W. F. Wilder, who is nowstationed in St. Paul.
Strange to relate American pub-lishers do not seem over-anxious toobtain the .right of printing the re-cently written Tjook of the erstwhilepr< sldent of the defunct Dutch repub-lic. This Volume of Oom Paul's is tobe published simultaneously In Hol-land, Germany and England. So far itis not reported' that any English edi-tion further! than the one to be put outin Lcnd'on by Mr. Fisher Unwin is toappear, although there is no doubtthat the work will have a large salein this country. The book is said tobe about one hundred thousand wordsin length, and was dictated to his sec-retaries. It tells the life story of Mr.Kruger from the time when as a boyhe trekked adross African prairieswith his father who was trying to getnway from English tyranny, to the daythat he fled from his own country forthe same reason. All the problemswhich stared his people in the faceare treated vigorously, the Jamesonraid is given an airing which maymake some persons a little uncomfort-able, and Mr. Chamberlain, it is be-lieved, has been estimated at hisproper value. It is a matter of regret
that Mr. Cecil Rhodes was not spared
to peruse this volume. Mr. Kruger
was never given to wasting words inidle compliment' or of polishing the
truth to make it more agreeable tothe ear, so his book will certainly bedirect enough to suit even the lasmi
"Got" and "Gotten."
THE ST. PAUL GLOBS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1902,
ardent pro-Boer. It Is scarcely pos-sible that no publisher will buy therights of this book for this country,where the heroic struggle of the bur-ghers was watched with much sym-pathy. The advance orders In Ger-many and Holland for the work arevery large, and in the former countrythe mere fact that It contains an "ap-preciation" of Mr. Chamberlain Is suf-ficient to make a large advance sale.The same reason might sell largenumbers of the book over here.
Janet Ward —By Margaret E. Sangster.Published by Fleming- H. Revell com-pany, New York, Chicago and Toronto.Margaret E. Sangster, already well
known to the reading public as the au-thor of "Winsome Womanhood" and '"Ly-rics of Love," has written a charmingstory in "Janet Ward," a girl of sensewho confronted life much as most of usfind it, in the end discovering, in the lan-guage of Miss Sangater, that "those youngwomen are happiest who find their careerending In a good man's love and theirworld bounded by the four walla of love."
Aunt Abby's Neighbors—By Annie Trum-bull Slosson. Published by Fleming 11.Revell company, New York, Chicago andToronto."Aunt Abby's Neighbors," first pub-
lished last June, has proved so popularwith the reading publio that it is now outin a second edition.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes —By WilliamPerry Brown, illustrated by W. H. Fry.Published by the Saalfleld Publishingcompany, Akron. Ohio."Ralph Granger's Fortunes," the story
of a young man's contests and conquestssea and land, is one of those common-
place books which is neither very goodnor very bad. It isn't bad enough to putone into a helpless series of yawns or goodenough to keep one reading it into thewee sma' hours. Sooner or later, prob-ably sooner, William Perry Brown willreach the conclusion that he ought notto have written It.
Daniel Boone —By Reuben Gold Thwaltes.Published by D. Appleton & Co., NewYork.Mr. Thwaites' "Daniel Boone" is the
latest of the Appleton's life histories. Aft-er giving Boone a number of left-handedcompliments, such as, "He was not reallythe founder of Kentucky" and "His serv-ices in defense of the West during nearlya half century of border warfare werenot comparable to those of George RogersClark or Benjamin Logan," Mr. Thwaitesays: "Boone's picturesque career pos-sesses a romantic and even pathetic in-terest that can never fail to charm thestudent of history." He testifies thatBoone was great as a hunter, explorer,surveyor, land pilot and rifleman.
Mr. Thwaites' book is a brief but thrill-ing story of the life of a pioneer of theWest. He acknowledges that most of theinformation published therein comes fromthe manuscript of the late Dr. LymanCopeland Draper.
Eagle 8100d—By James Creelman, il-lustrated by Rose Cecil O'Neill. Pub-lished by the Lothrop Publishing com-pany, Boston.In "Eagle Blood" James Creelman. long
known as one of the most incisive ofnewspaper writers, has made an excep-tionally strong novel. In his war descrip-tions and diplomatic interviews he ishappy to a degree. His story introducesan Englishman of noble family, who comesto America for the purpose of making hisway, not by a marriage for money, butby his own ability. Eagle Wood—theAmerican spirt—conquers lion blood —theblood of old England. He is American-ized through the strong influence of aYankee girl who is depicted as the idealtype of American woman. The work Isone of the great psychological intensity,tender in its love motif, quick and variedin. action.
The Millionairess—By Julian Ralph, il-lustrated by C. F. Nudemord. Publish-ed by the Lolhrop Publishing company,Boston.Julian Ralph throws out a strong hint
in his "The Millionairess" that the womenof the "400" of New York drink wine,smoke cigarette and swear. At any rate,he describes such characters.
He credits these women with mockingthe laws which uphold civilization, withmaking light of wedlock in speech and inthe conduct of their lives. He reportsconversations in which they and the menof their degenerate circle practically de-clare that our rich fashionables make theirown rules of conduct for themselves.
By the persons who know New Yorkbest, Mr. Ralph has been praised for hisfaithful picturing of the ways of its plaincitizens, as shown in his "People WePass" stories. In his latest and mostmature work, "The Millionairess," heconducts us into the company of "the bestfamilies," and leads us to startling dis-coveries of lawlessness and downrightvulgarity, where we looked only for ex-emplary living. Mr. Ralph is a born NewYorker, and has seen the fashionable setat home and abroad. His work has al-ways been trustworthy. The weight oiprobability, therefore, all favors his livelypicturing of the set called "The Catamar-ans" on the edge of New York's famous"four hundred.
But "The Millionariess" is not a ser-mon, neither is it all, or even largely, anexposure of our decadents. There isplenty in it that is as sweet as the breath-ings of field flowers. The novel is the lifestory of a lovely girl of great wealth, whois to all intents alone in the world.
Richard Gordon—By Alexander Black, il-lustrated by Ernest «Fuhr.* Published
;• by the ;Lothrop J Publishing.- company,'.Boston.
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-•: .'•-\u25a0..•\u25a0.-\u25a0- .\u25a0•.. '. .:\u25a0 \u25a0;•'\u25a0 In -Black's "Richard Gordon", is a pic-
ture 'of New York life,'in.which the hero,"a rising young lawyer and politician, seeksthe hand of a beautiful girl,who, althoughshe seems to care for -him and loyallyaids him -in his» career, -refuses 5to: showher real feeling:. The reason for this. re-fusal is the well sustained mystery of thisnovel, which has a dramatic and pleasingclimax. *' "\u25a0
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. The tale is full of incidents and clearlydrawn - characters..; It -is varied in : sceneand incisive in: style. It . furnishes a bril-liant , spectacle :of the life, social, politicaland : artistic, in : the \u25a0 metropolis. - Its- mo-tive, while bold and daring, is so handledthat the reader 13 given a piece of fictionnot only• interesting ; and \u25a0, satisfactory inthe reading, but ;:thoroughly wholesome :and ennobling in Influence. "5.; ' .Stage • Confidences—By Clara Morris;
S illustrated with many photographs por-traying her well known - characters.''
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Clara -. Morris,;, greatest of Americaemotional actresses, talks in "Stage Con-fidences" .with humor, - point -and • oharm >of the mysterious, valluring, exacting life ibehind the\u25a0- footlights. ? With : story, s epi-gram and Illustration ishe strips it of• itsfalse iKiltie* &nd ? nvei s valuable advice,In passing, : to ; stage -;aspirants, while in-
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The word "gotten" which is neverin very good odor, has been up fordiscussion recently and many personswho know what the best English Ishave filed their protests against thecommon use of it. A young womanwrote to a literary paper in criticismof the common use of the word, andshe was indorsed by no less an au-thority than Thomas Wentworth Hig-ginson, who goes into the family his-tory, as it were, of the objectionableword. He says it Is a Southern im-portation and he first heard It in 1841,when he was visiting cousins in Vir-ginia, and the common use of it allovpr the country he claims was oneof the results of the war. Unpleasantas thp word is, there are times whengot, which the critics say is almostalways sufficient in Its place, will notdo at all. And got Is almost as ob-jectionable as gotten; "I have got" isa form of expression painfully com-mon and one which custom has jus-tified, but "I have" will do just as wellin almost every case, and is infinitelymore euphonious. It will, however,take considerably more than pro-tests to literary papers to drive gotand gotten out of the ordinary talk ofthe time. —The Book Lover.
St. Paul, Oct. 18, 1902.
The Whirlwind—By Rupert Hughes.Published by Lothrop Publishing com-pany, Boston."The Whirlwind" is a story of the Civilwar. The tale is one of a striking por-
sonality, who Is boldly and strongly de-lineated, from his humble, country child-hood, with its environment of poverty andfamily degradation, through a brilliantpolitical and war record, up to a presiden-tial candidacy—all of it graphic, typicaland of compelling interest.
John Mead, a representative, self-madenative statesman, a man who sins, suf-fers, achieves and wins through to event-ful canonization as a historic character,is the center of a novel which depictsthe American life, political and social. Ina most memorable way. The book em-bodies the private life of a public man,and it is the author's gift to make usrealize in John Mead's career how home-ly and human, yet how splendid andtragic, that life may be. Fine portraitsof men, unforgettable women, mothers,sisters and wives, make "The Whirlwind"veritable and fascinating; and the strik-ing title is a good description of thesweeping career of the hero.
terestlng and amusing all readers by herpicturesque matter and brilliant style.Her manner Is peculiarly frank and inti-mate, and these reminiscences are well-named confidences, since she enters intoclose, friendly relations with her audi-ence. Miss Morris' reputation as awriter is already firmly established, and"Stage Confidences" will enhance It andbe generally recognized as a character-istically racy and enjoyable work.
In the opening chapter Miss Morrissays:
"Dear gifted woman, pause before youput your hand to the plough thai willturn your future into such strange fur-rows. Remember the life of the theateris a hard life, a homeless life; that it is awandering up and down the earth, a lifefilled full with partings, with sweet, lostfriendships; that its triumphs are bril-liant but brief. If you do truly loveacting 1, simply and solely for the sakeof acting, then all will be well with youand you will be content; but verily youwill be a marvel."John Gildart—By M. E. Henry Ruffln.
Published by William H. Young & Co.,New York.This is one of the saddest of stories, but
it is well told in blank verse, with snatchesof rhyme sandwiched in. It relates thefortunes of John Gildart, a young Con-federate soldier, who, while in the field,learned that his farm buildings had beenburned and his wife and baby boy weresuffering for the necessities of life. Gil-dart deserted and went home, but aftersupplying the needs of his family re-turned to his regiment. He was court-martialed and sentenced to be shot. Hiswife and child journeyed to the camp, totake Gildart by surprise, and reachedtheir destination just as the husband andfather was executed for desertion.An Old-Fashioned Girl—By Louisa M.
Alcott, with twelve full-page picturesby Jessie Willcox Smith. Published byLittle, Brown & Co.. Boston.Little, Brown & Co. have given the pub-
lic a new and attractive edition of LouisaM. Alcott's "An Old-Fashioned Girl.'' Itwill be remembered by scores of girls whohave grown up to womanhood that in thisbook Miss Alcott described "the good oldfashions which make women truly beauti-ful and honored, and render home whatit should be —a happy place where pa-rents and children, brothers and sisters,learn to love and know and help one an-other."
The Adventures of Torqua—By CharlesF. Holder, author of "The History andAntiquity of Catalina." Published byLittle. Brown & Co., Boston.Mr. Holder lays the scene of "The Ad-
ventures of Torqua" 200 years ago on isl-ands in the Pacific, not far from SanDiego, Cal. Two boys, natives of Spain,banished from the Castilian kingdom, es-cape from a Jesuit mission, and, guidedby Torqua, live a wild, free, out-of-doorlife among the Indians. The book aboundsin instruction as well as adventure, andhas striking illustrations.
Glimpses of Chinese and Chinese Homes —By Edward S. Morse, formerly profes-sor of zoology in the Imperial univer-sity, Tokyo. Published by Little, Brown& Co., Boston.Duiinsr a short visit to China, Prof.
Morse endeavored to study more partic-ularly the domestic ways of the people,and especially to sketch in rapid outlinetheir rooms, kitchens and the homely de-tails of domestic life. His description ofstreet scenes, a Manchu drill room, Chi-nese mob. street magicians, a potterytown, food, clothing and many other de-tails of Chinese life will surely be of in-terest to the general reader. His fouryears' residence in Japan, resulting in hiswell known book "Japanese Homes arilTheir Surroundings." and the superbquarto Catalogue of Japanese Pottery,published by the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, was a thorough training for thejournalist's work in China.
While his Chinese experiences were ofthe briefest nature, his methods ofobservation, coupled with an Jn-tlmate knowledge of a cognate nation,give an added value to the work. Thereader will find for the first time hastypen-and-ink sketches of matters aboutwhich he has read, and, despite theabounding literature on the subject, manyfeatures shown in a new light.
Hazel Pierce —By William A. 110. Pub-lished by A. Hograve & Co., NewYork.This book Is as queer as Is the author's
name. The whole story seems to be toldbackwards, the result being at least con-fusing. Hardly one chapter continueswithout going back from where the pre-ceding one leaves off. However, thetale is an interesting one and the authormay do better some day.
The heroine, Hazel Pierce, is one ofthose good young women who say "Yes,mamma." and go^to church every Sun-day. She falls m love, of course, withan equally good young man. This yountrman had never had a chance to be badand when it came he was very bad in-deed and deserted his poor fiancee, whofinally died of a broken heart. Her dearmother, her brother and her father pre-ceded her, and the villain of the bookturns good in his old age through loveof Hazel and daily mourns over hergrave.
Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe—By HelenLeah Reed. Published by Little, Brown& Co., Boston."Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe" is in-
tended to be a faithful picture of under-graduate life* of the young women whoattend Radcliffe college. The portrayalis no doubt accurate, as Miss Reed isherself a graduate of the college. Thebook, at any rate, is written in entertain-ing style and should be interesting to allgirls who have attended boarding school."Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe" is MissReed's third of the "Brenda" series.
The Law of the New Thought—By Wil-liam Walker Atkinson. Published bythe Research company, Chicago.Mr. Atkinson says of "The Lav/ of the
New Thought" it is written to answer thequestions: "What Is the New Thought?""What does It mean?" "What principlesdoes it stand for?" "How does NewThought differ from Old Thought?"
He says he feels that all these ques-tions and many more have been thorough-ly and satisfactorily covered in this work.
The Lost Wedding Ring—By CortlandMyers. Published by Funk & Wagnallscompany, New York and London.Cortland Myers, a Baptist minister of
Brooklyn, approaches his subject from thenegative side. He tells what marriage isnot, before he discusses it in its positiveaspects. The evils that beset the mstitu-tio'n command his first attention. "Thelost wedding ring" is to him "lost sanctity,security and saJvation." In the latter halfof the book, however, the lost is found,and the chapters "The Kingly Husband,""Queen of the Home," and "Strong asDeath," present with glowing fervor theChristian ideal of the life union of manand woman.
As Dr. Myers says in the preface, "Thehome is at the foundation of human so-ciety, and the marriage altar is at thecenter of the home." And so in nine help-ful talks he discusses the Institution ofmarriage from a religious standpoint.
Who Are We? or Moral Degeneracy andIts Attendant Evils—By M. E. Wood-ling, M. D. Published by the AbbeyPress, New Tork.Dr. Woodling's book is a brutally direct
"roast" of those men who, Insisting thattheir mothers and sisters shall be pure,themselves go on periodical debouches. Itis a chance, ifAnthony Comstock gets his
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eye on the work, he doesn't demand thatItbe excluded from the malla. Dr. Wood-ling evidently feels that he has at lenrVgone the limit in his methods of expres*aion, as he says on one of the closingpages: 'Some may say that the lan-guage used herein is too severe, toocaustic. Itwill only blister those who needblistering." The style of the book isrigorous and its contents instructive.
BOOK HINTS IN PARAGRAPHS.Ella Higginson. the poetess and novelist
has a story In press for publication thismonth by the Macmillan company. Itwill be called Mariella. of "Out West "The heroine is an intelligent daughterof crude, hard-handed parents, and theplot hangs on the conflict of ideals broughtabout by her culture in sordid surround-
fnfßn!lein,.G« er £2Oke> ?' no was Presidentof. the :Grafton Press, has recently with-draw .from that company and is nowpublishing under his own name at No. 79Fifth avenue, New, York. Mr. Cookaformerly held responsible positions withHarper & Brothers, Collier's Weekly andD. Appleton & Co., and his exceptionalexperience - then, and since, in the up-building of his own business, has givenhim a most favorable standing in thepublishing world.
The Methodist Publishing House, In To-&?;u "IaPa"- has ha<3 large portions of
What a loung Boy Ought to Know" and'What a Young Man Ought to Know"two of the purity b(jpks in the Self andSex series, translated and published InJapanese. The total absence of purewords in the Japanese language renderedthe work of the translators exceedinglydlcult. and the size of the Japanese char-acters rendered it impossible to puMi.sheither book entire, especially the bookto young men, as it would have made avolume as formidable as an encyclopedia
The Interest In Mrs. Carter Harrison'snew book of fairy tales, "Prince Bilver-w'i!l?Sl"Jllas bocn so Brent that a secondedition has been put to press before dateof publication.
In a brief book entitled "Jesus' Way"(Houghton, Mifflin& Co.) President Wil-liam DeWitt Hyde, of Bowdoin college,attempts to show what Christianity wasas Jesus taught it to his disciples, whenIt was known simply as "the way." be-fore it had been cast into a theology bytll6J?,ersonallty of Paul, or expanded intoa philosophy by the writer of the FourthGospel, or stereotyped into an institutionby Catholic symbols, or reduced to a sys-tem by protestant creeds.
Among the important books DoubledavPage & Co. publish during the fortnight isRudyard Kipling's new book, the "JustSo Stories." for which Mr. Kipling himselfhas made over forty illustrations; also thesecond volume of their Variorum editionof FitzGerald's works, and "The Memoirsof a Contemporary," an authentic workwith intimate accounts of great men ofNapoleonic times, by a woman who wentto war In men's clothing to follow Mar-shal Ney.
Little, Brown & Co.'s autumn announce-ments contain twelve new Juvenile titlesbesides new illustrated editions of two ofMisg Alcott's stories. Lily F. Wessel-hoeft has written a new animal story.entitled "Foxy the Faithful;" Anna < Vt-pin Ray. author of the well-known •Ted-dy" stories, has written "Nathalie'sChum," containing favorite characters;Helen Leah Reed, whose "Brenda" storiesfor older girls have been well received,has brought the. series to a close with"Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe;" JohnPreston True, who has been writing theStuart Schuyler series of Revolutionary'stories for boys, adds a third and nnalbook entitled "On Guard! Against Toryand Tarleton;" Lucy M. Thurston, theauthor of "A Girl of Virginia." Is rep-resented with "Jack and His Island,' astory of the war of 1812, for boys.
"The Doom of King Acrlsius." by Wil-liam Morris, is one of the very finest Inthe list of R. H. Russell's latest outputof choice books—choice both as regardsliterary quality and the essentials of ar-tistic bookmaking. The illustrations,which include twelve platinum full-pngoprints of the utmost delicacy and finish,are reproduced from the series of mar-velous paintings by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. In no other book that could bonamed have the genius of Morris and th«artif Burne-Jones found ;i more completoand harmonious expression. Fitz HayCarrington contributes an introduction otcritical value. The book is handsomelyprinted with decorative initials, and i.sexquisitely bound in white buckramstamped in gold.
George Acle's new book of "Fables" willbe Issued in a few days from the pub-lishing house of R. H. Russell, New \ork.It is entitled "The Girl Proposition; ABunch of He and She Fables," and It inpacked with the sort of entertainmentwhich Mr. Ade's numerous admirers havea )ight to expect. The book will be ap-propriately illustrated by Holme and Mc-Cutcheon.
The new Dooley book will be issued byR. H. Russell, Kew York, the latter partof this month. A glance at the advancesheets justifies the opinion that it will behailed as the richest Installment of Mr.Dooley's wisdom and wit with which thepublic has yet been regaled.
The many admirers of Nfxon Water-man's charming verse will be pleased toknow that he is about to put forth a newvolume entitled. "In Merry Mood; A Bookof Cheerful Rhymes." It will containover 100 poems, mostlyuhumorous and allIn the cheerful vein characteristic of Wa-terman.
Sing not. I pray, of the nightingale,Nor prate of the warbling wren.
Chant not in praise of the peacock's tail,Nor yet of the modest hen;
Boast not of the lark or the linnet's note,Their song is not worth a word
Compared with the chuckle that's in thethroat
Of the wonderful Coler bird.
And sing no song of the blithe cuckoo.Nor the toothsome canvasback.
Of the shifty loon or the ehy curlew,Or the bird that goes "quack! quack!"
Sing not of the bittern or gull or tern,By such is my soul unstirred,
But sing in words that sizz and burnOf the wonderful Coler bird.
The eagle soars on a widespread wing.And the clouds are its barbican.
Of the swift gray goose the poets sing.And eke of the pelican;
I care not for swan nor the smart blucblll,Nor the hawk by the blue sky blurred,
But I sing o? a nest at the foot of a hillWhere bideth the Coler bird.
—Rochester Post-Express.
Dolly—Please, Miss Sharp, mnmmasays, have you really left your songs athome?
Miss Sharp—Yes, dear. Why?Dolly—Well, papa says it sounds too
good to be true!
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