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THE SUNNY SOUTH
APRIL 4, 1903
With Some Authors
You Have Known
The Ideal Novel
HOMAS DIXON, author of
“The leopard's Spots,”
when he was member of
the North Carolina legis
lature, announced himself
a candidate for speaker of
the 'house. He kicked up
such a rumpus through the
college students of the state
that some of the older pol
iticians became alarmed
and sent a messenger to
restrain him. They said
they discovered he was
not yet IT years cf age, and unless he
withdrew from the speakership race they
■would prevent his taking his seat )
raising the point. Young Dixon cam*
out in a card and withdrew from the
contest. Hi now admits with a smile
that he only knew one man who was
going to vote for him. and also that he
was a legislator before he could vote.
Clay Emery, author of “Cap’n Titus ’
(who is really Clayton Mayo, a leading
official in a wel-known shipbuilding con
cern in New York city), has a rather
novel scheme for decoying talent and
local color around him, as he describes
it. On the shore of a little bay on the
Massachusetts coast he has a boat house
■ equipped with comfortable chaiis and
settles, and when he is “receiving h£
hoists a large flag on a 60-foot flag pole,
which means that he is “at home. In
an old cupboard fastened to the wall ate
! a dozen or more pipes, each labeled with
the name of its user, and the closet is
filled with every kind of tobacco dear
: to the. sea-faring man. Needless to say
many a hair-raising tale is told over a
1 peaceful pipe of good tobacco by the
, many retired mariners who live in the
• little village nearby.
"A Daughter of the Pit.” just pub
lished, is the first novel by Mrs. Marga-
i ret. Doyle Jackson, whose father was an
English army officer. Her early life
i was spent in the north of England, where
ehe. saw a great deal of the colliery life
which her novel portrays. She now lives
. in New' York city.
Miss Ellenetta Harrison, of Somerset,
Ky„ has lost by fire in Cincinnati all
her plates and manuscript for a story
entitled “A Kentucky Romance,” the
dramatization of which has been sold to
E. H. Sothorn. Miss Harrison, though
only .4 yea ft; old. has written a number
of books, and Richard Mansfield has
bought the dramatization of one of them.
She has purchased a handsome home in
X^exington with the proceeds of her writ
ing and will bring her father and mother
there to reside in the future.
Mary Holland Kinkaid, whose novel.
“Walda.” has just been published by the
Harpers. was born and reared in Wilkes-
(barre. Pa. She was graduated from a
Philadelphia school, and shortly after
wards removed to Colorado. In 18SG Mrs.
Kinkaid entered the field of journalism
and underwent the training by which
the American press has developed so
many capita] novelists. Eater she be
came interested in the political move
ment of women in the west, and held
an important position for a year and
a half as assistant state superintendent
of public instruction in Colorado. But
she found the life of the officeholder
not so amusing as it was pictured, and
accordingly resigned. She then resumed
literary work with an enthusiasm en
riched by varied and exciting experiences
of western life. In “Walda” she has
dealt witli the life of a western cooper
ative religious community in a style,
which ’has been not inaptly compared to
that of Hawthorne. Mrs. Kinkaid re-
I esides in Milwaukee.
1 Elmore Elliott Peake does not find
fame as restful as it might be. Now he
: lias received a letter from a young lady
Jn Kansas, asking him about a copy of
, ■‘‘The Pride of Tellfair,” which he had
| promised her. Mr. Peake packed his
} brain to recall the name, and at last
was quite sure that he had never prom-
! Seed the lady a book, and politely wrote
! her to that effect. In great astonish-
! ment she replied, asking him if he did
! not remember calling at her house with
j the encyclopedia he was selling, and the
■ delightful conversation they had had
« on literature, and how he had given her
\ such helpful 'hints on story-writing, be-
; Bides sellng her the encyclopedia, which
; was full of helps to young writers, and
! how anxious he had 'been to have her
• opinion of "The Pride of Telfair.” Mr.
I !Peake has since learned that some en-
| terprising book agent has been imper
sonating him throughout Kansas, and the
consequence is that the author now' views
fils daily mail with a certain degree ol
terror.
THE VOICE OF THE SEA.
In the hush of the autumn night
I hear the voice of the sea.
In the hush of the autumn night
It seems to say to me—
Mine are the winds above.
Mine are the caves below.
Mine are the dead of yesterday
And the dead of long ago.
And I think of the fleet that sailed
From the lovely Gloucester shore,
I think of the fleet that sailed,
And came back nevermore!
My eyes are filled with tears,
And my heart is numb with woe—
It seems as if ’twere yesterday.
And it all was long ago.
—THOMAS BA1EEY ALDRICH.
HE novels of the present day
which are read by the “for-
tunates or unfortunates”—
as thes* may happen to be,
according to individual
opinion—are afTeetlng ma
terially the morality and
the temper of the reading
public. For ‘this reason If
for no other the novelist
should keep constantly in
mind that wTse saying of
Bulwer. “The pen Is
mightier than the sw’ord.”
In discussing the subject of novel writ
ing the first thought is as to the lan
guage used. Undoubtedly it is best to
use only pure English, without the
“faddy” sprinkling of Latin, French.
Spanish and other foreign languages. The
reason that this is best is quite evident,
for to the majority of readers the mean
ing of such passages is lost and the para
graph weakened rather than strength
ened.
SIMPLE LANGUAGE.
By pure English we mean English pure
—free from slang and provincialisms;
straining after high sounding words.
Where this rule is not followed it Is
necessary for an intelligent reading of
the hook to have at hand a *60 encyclo
pedia, else many things will only be an
unsolved riddle. Neither should the au
thor use words that he would blush to
By CATHERINE DILLON
speak, forgetting apparently that writ
ten words reach thousands and possibly
millions, often having more effect on the
reader than spoken words on the hearer.
HIGH IDEALS.
The true heroes and heroines should
be shown to admire truth and honor
rather than love money and he blind to
shame. But if in order to justly repre
sent human nature shadows must be cast
across their lives; let them fall in the
earlier part of the story, making the
brightest and best part at its close, just
as the sun shines brightest when its rays
are chasing the miasma of the storm
away. Give to the leading characters
such strong courage that they will lead
the thoughts of the reader in a pathway
beautiful and bright. And if there must
be a dark page to the story let it come
as early in the story as possible—this is
according to the natural law. for in dark
ness the world was created and then It
was given light.
VILLAINS AS HEROES.
It was never intended that a villain
should be held up as a hero and all crimes
condoned; neither is it in accordance
with the “things that really are.” The
result of such reading is harmful, for it
causes the young readers to build their
hopes upon sand hills, believing that af
ter their wild acts and “sowing of oats”
they may return and receive as great or
greater rewards. The novelist might pos
sibly answer that only weak persons
would be thus ffllsely led astray; but it
is over this very class, the weak ones,
that the novel exerts Its most powerful
influence.
WICKED TODAY—GREAT TOMOR-
EO W.
The great majojrity of the novels of
the day are teaching that men and
women may be wicked in the earlier part
of their lives and great and good at its
close. There could not be taught a baser
or more inaccurate thought. The quiet
and unknown heroes of today, the men
and women and boys and girls who are
overcoming petty trials and temptations
—thes^ arc the ones who will he the pub
lic heroes and the great and the good
later in life.
SHOW EVIL AS 13Y,-..
When a villain is presented, show what
a horrible thing it is to be such and do
not condone or palliate his or her crime.
Again, make prominent all the “little
faults” common to human beings that
the reader, seeing them in others, may
be led to correct them. It is not at all
necessary to “preach” in order to do
these things.
LET HUMOR ABOUND.
Bring a spark of mirth into your story
and adroitly mingle it with pathos, for
life's most beautiful pictures come out of
shadow and sunshine. Weave the story
not altogether in palaces, for fortune
only smiles on the few. Show that hap
piness is possible and often .is found in
the cottage, and that misery can and
'does creep through the palace door.
Away with the modern idea of the nov
el, which gives us thoughts that gr>
excuse of hunger, and it may be that the
sky on a dark stormy day. Give to us
the true, wholesome novel, which, when
finished leaves the mind clear, bright and
with happy thoughts.
^ Publication Notes
The leading issues in current diplomacy
—the Venezuelan settlement, the Panama
canal treaty, and the agreement between
the United States and Great Britain for
the settlement of the Alaskan boundary
question—are clearly stated and discussed
in the editorial department of the Re
view of Reviews for March. In no other
American publication are the internation
al problems of the moment so fully and
candidly treated.
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Bon STS COLUMBUS, OHIO*
The Arena for April opens with a
thoughtful and timely paper by John M.
Berdan. Ph. D., on “American Litera
ture and the High Schools.” This is fol
lowed by a brief but suggestive "Plea for
Simpler Living.“ from the pen of the
Hon. Samuel M. Jones, mayor of To
ledo
“The Pit" continues to be the best sell
ing book in the United States, and, as
was expected, it is to be dramatized. The
book offers more than ordinary opportu
nity for the making of a play, and com
petition for the dramatic rights rages so
vigorously that the price paid for them
promises to be record-breaking. The pub
lishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., contem
plate publishing a memorial edition of
all of Frank Norris' works, together
with a new volume of literary essays
verv soon.
Professor Josiah Royce. author of “The
Spirit of Modern Philosophy," etc., has
written an introduction, to the new edition
of the late John Ftske's "Cosmic Philos
ophy,” which Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
have just published. The introduction
covers 12'J pages, and discusses in some
detail Dr. Fiske’s methods as a thinker
and his position as a student of philo
sophical problems. The modification
which resulted in his position in his later
years of study and its necessary effect
upon the matter of these four volumes,
are also set forth.
An interesting incident connected with
Cyrus Townsend Brady’s new and al
ready successful novel, “The Southern
ers," has to do with the purchase, by
a friend of the author, of a parcel of old
books. They were purchased for a song,
and without more examination than
enough to discover that, among them,
were several that the purchaser wanted.
Further examination revealed a diary,
written by an Alabama girl in an old ex
press ledger during the war; the name of
the writer was missing, but there was no
doubt of its genuineness. It wag of ab
sorbing interest, and in view of the
many stories that have been written
with a southern girl for a heroine and a
northern boy for the hero, it is pleasant
to know that the romances are not so far
wrong, for the girl, who began by loath
ing everything that was northern, ended
by marrying a union officer. Mr. Brady's
friend, on discovering the great romantic
interest in the diary, promptly presented
it to the author, in whose mind was al
ready growing the form and some of the
incidents of his new novel. This diary fell
straightway into his developing plans; it
gave him inspiration, and in the end he
made large use of it in depicting the men
tal state of young womanhood during
that period.
The swift success which has come to
Churchill William’s just published novel,
“The Captain,” is another demonstration
that the story which draws its inspiration
from American history and is written
with regard to truth, has, other things
being equal, a larger and more enthusi
astic audience awaiting It than any other
form of fiction. There have been com
paratively few such novels. "The Con
queror” might be named by some as one;
"The Crisis” is a conspicuous instance.
In each of these stories the actual envi
ronment of history has been preserved;
in each there is an honest effort to vivify
a distinguished American. Mrs. Atherton
gave us a glowing portrait of Hamilton;
Mr. Churchill a picture of Lincoln. In
“The Captain,” dominating a dramatic
love story, is Grant, and The New York
Times, in the course of an article upon
the book and its treatment of the sub
ject historically, declares it to be “a sat
isfying portrait of the brave, indomitable
soldier who, in the reverence of every
American heart, stands side by side with
Abraham Lincoln.”
The "negro book” seems to be the
most likely bidder at the present time
for the popular favor which the historical
novel and, in a measure, the novel of
purpose have in turn enjoyed. One novel
which deals with the danger of negro
domination is now reported as selling a
hundred thousand copies, and the pub-
ishers of another, on the best of evi
dence, are quoted as having sold twenty
thousand copies in advance of publication,
t’he interest In such books appears to be
of a more lasting sort than in the case
of the usual novel, and this is perhaps
not hard to understand when we con
sider the constant Interest in one phase
or another of the negro question, and
the acute interest at the present moment
as to the part which the negro shall be
allowed to take In public life in thg
south. Philip Verrlll Mighel's novel, “The
inevitable,” which treats these issues
with forcefulness and clearness of vision,
which have been recognized by all the
critics, and which has steadily brought
the book into larger vogue, together with
the Rev. Mr. Dixon’s work, is indication
that the enormous circulation of “Uncle
Tom's Cabin'* was not due entirely to a
feeling upon the negro problem of which
the civil war and its lessons have made
an end.
, BRITISH LITERARY NOTES.
(From Our London Correspondent.)
London, April 1.—Since the publication
here of Frank Norris's story, “The Pit,”
only one other work has rivaled the
American novel in the amount of inter
est which it has excited—the volume thus
distinguished being “The Private Papers
of Henry Ryecroft,” by George Gissing.
The reception of this book has been re
markable, and it is difficult to recall
any other recent work, with the exception
of Barrie’s "Little White Bird.” in the
case of which reviewers have ignored so
completely the exigencies of “criticism”
in testifying to their hearty and com
plete enjoyment. "Ryecroft” is a suc
cessful man of letters, now retired after
the manner of George Meredith, and this
volume contains his reflections on many
subjects, chiefly, of course, literary ones.
George Gissing, who is now 46, is known
already both in England and America as
a loyal Dickens enthusiast and a novelist
whose studies of the under side of London
life have been unusually successful. His
“Now Grub Street,” “Whirlpool,” and
“Town Traveler” made his reputation.
Gissing is a great traveler, and recently
explored Greece, where he wrote “By the
Ionian Sea.” In “Henry Ryecroft.” how
ever, th<; writer seems to have touched
• high water mark.”
Mary E. Wilkins’ point of view and
manner of writing do not seem to ■ have
teen affected materially by matrimony,
and it will be rather interesting to see if
the tone of an immensely popular woman
writer on this side of the water will suf
fer any change as the result of her mar
riage. This is Miss Ellen Thorneycroft
Fowler, author of “Isabel Carnaby” and
“A Double Thread,” who is to be united
to Alfred Laurence Felkin on April 16.
Rider Haggard came into town last
week especially to appear before the
chambers of agriculture in support of
a new scheme of his which consists in
getting the British postoffice to establish
what the novelist describes as a “goods
post.” by which farmers' produce might
be sent to consumers by mail as it were.
Mr. Haggard spoke eloquently in favor
cf his idea, which he regards as the Brit
ish agriculturist's surest means of salva
tion. But most people who like good
stories will wish that the author of “She”
were less interested in the questions
which appeai to him as a “squire” and
more occupied with the imagination of
other places as fearsome as the under
ground river and the sacrificial pit in
“Allan Cjuartermain,” and other charac
ters as enthralling as Twala the One-
Eyed and Gagoola the witch-finder in
“King Solomon’s Mines.”
Although “The Curse of Central Afri
ca.” the recently published expose—this
time with names, dates and actual pho
tographs—of the present situation in the
Congo Free State was originally an
nounced as the work of Captain Guy Bur
rows, the volume which is now making
so great a sensation in Europe is nearly
half the work of an American, Edgar
Canisius. Mr. Canisius is a Chicago man,
and his father once held the position of
United States consul at Vienna. Mr.
Canisius was engaged in Washington by
the Congo government to take a comrais-
sionership in the Free State. He spent
nearly ten years there, and then, some
twelve months ago, resigned his post, dis
gusted by the countless outrages which
he had been obliged to witness, and deter
mined to call public attention to them
without loss of time.
Madame Sarah Grand has been keeping
herself remarkably close in her house at
Langton of late. The writer has appeared
on the lecture platform not at all and
has been seen only seldom at the meetings
of the various societies of which she is,
ordinarily, the most ardent member. The
explanation is, of course, another book,
and Madame Sarah confesses as much,
but she declined flatly to divulge any in
formation whatever as to its subject. It
Is -unlikely, however, that the new work
will be ready before fall, at any rale, for
Sarah Grand never writes in a hurry.
She spent two years over “The Heavenly
Twins” and the same amount of time over
both “The Beth Book” and “Babs, the
Impossible.”
There is to be an uncommonly interest
ing literary gathering at Manchester next
month. Manchester was the first Eng
lish city to establish—fifty years ago—a
free library, the ceremony in connec
tion therewith being attended by many
distinguished literary men. The jubilee
of that interesting occurrence comes next'
month and will be celebrated with appro
priate proceedings. To these will be in
vited all the foremost English writers of
the present day, and also Mrs. Richmond
Ritchie, Henry F. Dickens and Lord Lyt-
ton, whose respective fathers, Thaeke-
| ray, Charles Dickens and Bulwer Lytton
| attended the original opening ceremo-
I nies.
Lord Byron’s great-granddaughter.
Lady Mary Milbanke, inherits something
of her famous ancestor's genius and is
about to puolish ^ collection ofjher poems
in a small volume which will be called
“Fair Children.”
There has been litigation over the an
cient “Blue Posts” Tavern at Portsmouth
of late between the “publican” who now
manages it and the brewing company
with whom mine host has a contract.
The old place is interesting from a literary
point of view since it was here that Cap
tain Marryat laid one of the best scenes
in "Peter Simple.”
Much surprise has been felt in this
country over the small amounts realized
by the sale of Emile Zola’s literary treas
ures. It is safe to say that had the sa.e
taken place in London more than $30
would have been bid for Flaubert’s
"Trois Contes,” with a personal dedica
tion by the author, and more than $40 for
the copy expressly printed for Zola of
Anatole France's “Crainquebille.”
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HEAVYWEIGHT BOOKS DOOMED.
The heavy, arm-breaking, temper-de
stroying volume of the past is doomed.
Book buyers cannot have failed to notice
a marked improvement in the make-up of
the new books of certain publishers—their
increased lightness of weight. Until re
cently the English book manufacturers
have been far ahead of the American
in this respect, and most light-weight pa
per used by publishers had to be imported
from England. But about five years ago
American publishers began the agitation
in this country for a home-made light
weight paper. The model to be imitated
here was the English. Esparto paper,
made in limited quantities even in Eng
land, because of the scarcity of this grass,
j At the repeated instigation of publishers,
| several American manufacturers com
menced experiments in the light paper. At
first little progress was made. The Ameri
can product, though light. lacked the
necessary cohesiveness—a fatal defect.
The work was persisted in, however, until
success was achieved, in the last year or
so, and the American light-weight paper
is now coming into general use. Made
of it. a book weighs between 30 and 40
per cent less than one of equal size made
of the old smooth, heavy paper. The light
weight paper is not smooth, and to the un
informed it appears to be rougher, and
supposedly cheaper, than the old smooth
paper to which readers are accustomed.
But, as a matter of fact, the light, rough
paper is decidedly more expensive to
make. Tt is to be hoped that this long-
sought improvement in bookmaking will
be strenuously persisted in by the pub
lishers.
ANIMAL FICTION CRITICISED.
A new phase of the warfare between ro
mance and realism is active. John Bur
roughs, the naturalist, scores the writers
who are trying to make natural history
conform to the fiction writing which deals
with the lives of birds and beasts. Ernest
Thompson-Seton is his special target. The
arraignment is most severe of those
writers who tell of the wild animals they
have not known. Mr. Burroughs sharply
resents the endeavor to show that the
craft and ingenuity of birds and beasts
are attributable to maternal Instruction
Instead of to instinct. The writers of al
leged Tiistorical • novels who pervert the
facts of history to suit the situations In
the story, he contends, cannot do the
harm that the writers who palm off their
imaginings for the facts of natural his
tory may do. Attractive stories made a
deep impression in this manner, and
search'ers for truth in animal life .are
warned not to be misled. The animal
story writers will next be heard in their
own defense, and the controversy is likely
to prove quite interesting. Indeed, many
people, not naturalists, see more than in
stinct in the habits and methods of the
animals which are counted as man’s best
friends.
Under the Lamp
With Late BooRs
HE GULF STATES HIS
TORICAL MAGAZINE”
is the title of a valuable
bi-monthly publication of
Montgomery. Ala., which
is entering upon the last
half of the first year of
its existence. The editor,
Thomas N. Owen, is at the
head of the Alabama state
historical department, and
it is largely to his efforts
that Alabama is so far
ahead of her sister south
ern states in the matter of adequately
preserving her historical records in litera
ture. Mr. Owen is regarded as high au
thority on southern history generally,
and his assistance has been sought by
the historical departments of several
states in the work of compiling records
from the archives in their possession.
The business manager of the publication,
Joel C. Du Bose. M. A., is himself a his
torian and bibliographer of recognized
ability, his school history of Alabama be
ing a model work of its character. Mr.
Du Bose has boon for many years a well
known educator of Alabama, and is at
present a member of that state's legis
lature. He has been in Atlanta for sev
eral days past in the interest of his mag
azine, it being his intention to devote a
large part of his time to traveling for
that purpose.
"The Gulf States Historical Magazine”
is ail that could be desired in a publica
tion of its kind. It is most attractive in
its physical makeup, and the papers in
each issue, of which there are several,
treat in a thorough, authoritative way
subjects of southern history which have
not received the literary exploitation
their importance merits. The contribu
tors represent the best scholarship and
thought of the south, and. in the ma
jority of instances, their work is clearly
a labor of love. A great deal of the data
from which these important papers are
written has lain for many years in ob
scurity, practically lost to the knowledge
of even the scholarly antiquarian, and
it follows that the magazine abounds in
historical information that is somewhat
of a revelation. Certainly the articles
are fresh and have the merit of being
based on original documents
The object of the publishers deserves
a warm support throughout the south.
It is high time that our people were pay
ing more attention to the illumination
of the truths of history, and in no better
way can this be done. “The Gulf States
Historical Magazine’s” subscription price
is $3 per annum.
THE LEE READERS.
The south has long acknowledged the
need of just the series of school readers
which the American Book Company is
offering in “The Lee Readers”—a reader
which will inculcate in the plastic mind
of the young student not sectional preju
dices, but local patriotism. This the ad
mirable text book before us does, it might
be said, without overdoing it. at the
same t’me familiarizing the young* reader
with many appropriate literary gems of
southern authors. Such typical write! s
ae Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson
Page, Henry W. Grady and Frank L.
Stanton are represented in these readers.
"The Lee Readers” are by Edna Henry
Lee. who is a first cousin of Robert E.
Lee. She is a Virginian, and her father’s
estate is located at Antlers, Va. She
has had wide experience, both ns a teach
er of reading and as an author of text
books. We auote the following from the
preface, outlining the plan of these read
ers as given by the author;
“The aim of the author is two-fold:
First, to represent tht best literature and
the best thought of the south, assigning
it due place in our national life and litera
ture: and second, to give in a carefully'
graded, basal series of readers, a definite,
practical, and progressive plan of study
of literature, art and nature.”
While these readers are distinctly
southern in character, they are not un
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general the attention they deserve; and
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litrature and interests of other sections
of the United States and the world at
!a rge.
The readers, five in number, are very
attractive in binding and typography, and
profusely illustrated. They well merit
general adoption in our schools
HORSES NINE.
In this book of horse stories, Sewell
Ford, well known as a Baltimore news
paper man. has made a hit with the
reader who is a bit "horsey.” Some of
his work is too technical for the un
initiated. for it goes into the argot and
enthusiasms of the paddock in a way
that leaves no doubt as to where the
author's heart lies. He loves a horse,
that is clear, and what he does not know
about a horse would be a small acquisi
tion to an equine manual.
There are nine stories—a story about
Skipper, the blue-ribboner; of Calico, who
traveled with Roundtop; Old Silver, Blue
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Blazea. Chieftain, Barnacles, Black
Eagle. Bonfire and Pasha. Each horse
lias his own individuality and peculiar
idiosyncrasies—for does not a thorough
bred horse approach being human ? This
affords the author plenty of play in style
and subject matter, and the nine stories
have abundant variety. A few of tli»
rtories are so charmingly simple that
they appear to have been intended for
youthful horse-lovers. The illlustrations
by Frederick Dorr Steele and L. Maynard
Dixon happily carry out the spirit of the
tales.—Charles Scribner's Sons, publish
ers. New York.
THE STORY OF A BIRD LOVER.
The Outlook Company, publishers of
this charming study in ornithology by
A\ illiam Earle Dodge Scott, was obliged
to print a second edition before publica
tion. so grat was the reading public's in
terest in the forthcoming work. The
book, which lies before us. is different
from both the usual nature book and the
usual autobiography. The love of birds
and the study of their lives and habits
form the theme throughout, but it is
closely interwoven with the story of the
author's life, which is out of the ordi-
rary and therefore interesting.
The interest of this book lies not mere
ly in the fact that the author is recog
nized by ornithologists as one of the
foremost experts in America as regards
the life and habits of birds. It is chiefly
because Air. Scott in quite an unusual,
perhaps even unique, degree has brought
the life of the birds nearer -to the life
of man—has established, so to speak,
personal relationship with the whole bird
kingdom. He has a “laboratory” at
Princeton, where he keeps for purposes
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hundred live birds, native and foreign.
It is an absorbing story that Mr. Scott
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growth of his love for birds, of the stud
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life, of his travels into many not well
known parts of the country, where his
experiences, personal and scientific, have
been curious and interesting.—$1.50, net.
A DAUGHTER OF THE SIOUX.
General Charles King has long been be
fore the American reading public as the
writer of western romances in wheih
regular army troopers and post life large
ly figure. In his latest work. “A Daugh
ter of the Sioux.” he sustains his repu
tation fully. The book is full of the dash
of the frontier and exhales in every
chapter the wild flavor of camp and trail.
Like most of King’s works, its dramatic
situations are many and strong. As the
title would indicate, the story is an In
dian romance. The hero is a young troop
er stationed near an Indian reservation;
the heroire a Sioux chief’s daughter.
The love story is very pretty, though not
very probable, and the realistic descrip
tion of personal experiences and arid
nature is in the author’s best vein. In
some respects the book is very l'ke the
latest story of Hamlin Garland, than
whom few story-tellers know more about
Indians. The story is just the kind that
Remington loves to illustrate, and the
reader will be delighted to find a number
of typical illustrations by that peerless
delineator of western character, as well
as others by Edward Willard Denning.—
The Hobart Company, publishers, New
York city.
HILL’S BEGINNING OF RHETORIC
AND COMPOSITION.
The author of this admirable little text
book, Adam Sherman Hill, is Boylston
professor of rhetoric and oratory in Hal
yard university.
Thor author teaches young writers to
express themselves correctly, not by dry-
mechanical devices, but by stimulating
them to put their natural selves into then-
compositions. The book aims to remove
the obstacles, small or great, that lie
between what they think and. what they
write. The young writer is jhown how
to present his thoughts in th<f best Eng
lish wdthin his reach and in the form
adapted to| his purpose. The book lays
stress on correct, rather than incorrect,
forms, and on better, rather than on
worse, modes of expression. It contains
numerous exercises on every Important
point, sufficiently varied for the most
jiainstaking teacher, and is a worthy ad
dition to Professor Hill’s widely used se
ries of text-books on the English lan
guage.
American Book Company, publishers.
New York. Cloth, 12mo. 522 pages; $1.25.
MARTY.
John Strange Winter, who is easily good
for a couple of novels a year, is ou;t with
another new one—“Ma.rty'.’’ As a story for
light reading, to be forgotten with finis,
this piece of fiction will answer for the
dawdling reader. Tne title character, w'ho
serves as the heroine, Marty Benson, is
a dashing young woman whose widowed
mother keeps a small shop, dealing in the
casit-off garments of people of the upper
crust. At her first ball, clad in some of
the shop's renovated finery, she meets a
j swagger young fellow, George Ethering-
| ton. the son of a retired colonel, who loses
j no time in declaring his undying love for
j her. The young girl at first mistrusts
George's affection and intentions, buc
finally marries him. mucth to the opposi
tion of his mother and the positive con
tempt of h’is sister. While on their con
tinental bridal tour she overhears two
Englishmen of George’s social set express
surprise that so “swagger” a fellow should
have married so much beneath him. This
cuts the bride to the quick and after the
couple have returned to London and are
about to be snugly ensconced ia a love of
a flat. Marty' joins the disappearance syn
dicate, leaving a note telling George she
will never be a clog on his life because of
any social inferiority. Of course the
young husband is badly broken up, his
mother relents. Alarty’s mother almost
collapses and the scornful sister in law al
most shows a glimmer of remorse. Before
there is a call for an undertaker the fool
ish young W'ife is found in a French con
vent, pining for George and the love of a
flat in London. How superfluous it were
to add tha:t they lived happily ever after!
,T. B. Llppincott Co., publishers, New
York.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY.
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el after all. The scene is first in Dinan.
Brittany—the home part—then in and
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around Paris, then hack home—Dinan.
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THE JOURNAL OF ARTHUR STIRL
ING.
I have hefore me. fresh from the press,
the story of a young and unrecognized
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his tribulations in a cold and unfeeling
world, which, in the bitterness of failure
he derides in the most scathing terms;
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some and would only interest the very
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the strain'.’
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thinks it great. It is called “The Cap
tive.” And when it is completed. Oh!
glorious day! he takes the precious man
uscript to a publisher, to another and
still another, hut they all shake their
wise, practical heads and look sympa
thetic. A most noble work! A most
deserving production! but it would not
“take.” So there. He waits a few
more chapters, philosophizes, goes into a
trance; he courts death. You are very
sorry; you are very much in sympathy
with him, but you do not see where you
are getting your money's worth, you
are not even interested. You throw the
book aside, next time you see it you walk
around it, eyes averted. It has that ef
fect. Yet, with all, it is filled with noble
thought; it is touching, for it is the out
pouring of a disappointed soul!
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is a plea for his fellow-poets. The world
owes them a living, it owes them recog
nition and the means by which they
may live. But the higher and divine ele
ment of literature is no longer appre
ciated and understood. His brothers are
lost, the world is damned, irrevocably
damned! This is his firm belief.
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toil, it might have been my rare good
fortune to have been able to present to
the world a work of genius. But as
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is void of interest. It will appeal to the
very few. to those of his own clique. Yet
it is all that it could be in its particular
sphere of belles letters. (D. Appleton &
Co., New York.)
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