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“WALDA.”
HE story of the foregoing
title, by Mary Holland Kin-
kaid. is one of the best of
the season's output of Ac
tion tints far. While the
writing shows exceptional
strength, the plot is unique
and clever in conception,
and the book holds the
absorbed interest of the
reader from cover to cov
er.
“Walda” is a story of
love and r?ligious fanati
cism. The scene is Zanah. one of those
Ptrange communistic settlements still
to lie found in certain states of the union.
• This particular religious community is
i somewhere in the middle west. As is
, common with communities of the kind, it
I is conducted on the cooperative plan, and
MARY HOI.RAND KINK AID.
Author of “Walda.” Courtesy of
“'j Harper & Brothers.
• tn describing its organization Mrs. Kin-
'kaid evinces a thorough knowledge of the
; economy of commuAism. The motive for
t the sequestered, quiet life of the onm-
'■jTiun'ty of Zanah is more spiritual than
soei .1. though its religion is a strango
Pne. Marriage Is no^nt all the rule among
th e German religionists who have made
this farming A read.a a scenic paradise,
tnut it is not prohibited, if there is one
♦principle more than another that the
’ Zarcihit.ps adhere to tenaciously it is
Ithat no perversion from the outside world
• be allowed to creep like the serpent into
Eden. Zanah is in hut not of the world.
Walda. Kellar. the heroine, is a daugh
ter of tire quaint community. Her father
,1s one of Jhe elders—a man of uncom
mon intelligence and spiritual zeal. Wal
da is regarded much as an angel in the
flesh from her girlhood to young wom
anhood, and her apotheosis is made con
sistent by her rare, spirituelle beauty.
Ehe has beou marked for the prophetess
rf Zanah, and from childhood up lived
with no thought other than to make
I herself worthy in soul for the sacred of
fice. The day approaches for the installa
tion of the new prophetess. The girl does
j-not seem of the earth. Her days are
!spent in study, meditation, prayer and
igood works in the village. As for love.
She knows only that, of divinity, having
'never been taught even parental aflfec-
! tion. The love of the sexes has never
t rossed her consciousness as an intui
tion.
it is while Waldo is in this exalted
spiritual situation and the hopes and
prayers of Zanah are bound up in the
iyoung prophetess to be that a. man from
jthe wicked world without teaches the
retrange young woman the mortal passion
I sometimes called divine. The name of the
! interloper is Stephen Everett, a student,
(Bohemian and man of fortune, who lias
| been drawn to Zanah to study its odd
^life, and, perchance, experience some
' sensations out of the conventional. We
f •will leave the author to relate how the
, worldling was first impressed by the
[ sight of the prophetess:
i “Tile man of Zanah stood with his face
. turned in the direction whence he come,
j Suddenly he doffed the gray felt hat and
waited with uncovered head while three
women approached the well. Two were
,like tlte many who had gone by within
[the quarter-hour. The third was young,
'end her beauty was of such rare quality
that the stranger stepped out to the edge
of the porch that he might better see her
leatures. She was of more than medium
ffceight, and she walked with a majestic
’bearing. Her face, uplifted to the sky,
jwas lighted by the sunset gio-w. Over
Sier fair hair, which fell in two long
jibraids below her waist, she wore a cap
;of fair lawn, and the kerchief crossed
jupon her bosom was white. She appeared
i to be unconscious of the presence of the
inan of Zanah until her gown touched
him. She turned her head and smiled
with such sweetness and such friendliness
ithat the stranger watching her felt a
pang of envy. The man bent his head
reverently and the children stopped their
play to make ohcissance to her.
“The girl was tall and as straight as a.
papling. The ample folds of her blue print
gown did not hide the slender grace of
her figure. The white kerchief, crossed
over her bosom, revealed a rounded neck,
upon which her beautiful head was well
eot. Her cap was white instead of black,
like the-head-covering Wurtv by the cither
women, and beneath it her shining hair
curled about a broad, lo^' forehead. The
face was nobly molded- Eyeyett could
not see each feature, but he knew that
a pair of wonderful eyes were the glory
ALIFORN’IA is becoming a
force to reckon with in
American literature, her
development having been
especially marked the past
season. An author who
seems destined to hold a
high place in the ranks ot
those brilliant writers who
have given the Golden
State this distinction is
Mrs. Fremont Older, of San
Francisco, whose first nov
el. of the above title, is at
tracting no little attention from the read
ing public and quiet general praise from
the reviewers. The book is characterized
by that' rare thing, originality, and the
freshness which alone springs from soul-
enthusiasm. It is for this reason that a
first novel with all its inevitable imper
fections. is apt to embrace meritorious
qualities lacking in the more finished
work of veteran authors.
“The Socialist and the Prince” is a
story of a past generation on the,Pacific
coast—the declining years of
“The days of o!d, the days of gold.
The days of forty-nine.”
It depicts, with far more fidelity to fact
than the average “historical" novel, the
era of the revulsion following the great
gold hoom. when thousands of unemploy
ed miners and adventurers at their wits'
end for livelihood crowded San Francisco.
The Chinese had swarmed into the coun
try like the locusts of Egypt and tvere
monopolizing every line of manual em
ployment to the exclusion of white labor.
Amid this rude and turbulent mass of
heterogeneous humanity the lately en
riched and tawdrily cultured mining capi-
lists maintained the extravagances of
plutocratic society, their marble palaces
on Nob Hill presenting a striking study
in contrast to the squalid shanties and
rough now board shacks of the adjacent
streets. The author describes the sociol
ogy of this time with admirable touch
and detail, showing the menacing dis
content on the one hand and the self-in
dulgent indifference on the other.
In Paul Stryne, the socialist, the unrest
and resentment of the idle mass are fo
cussed. He is the popular leader, ideal
ized by his earnest, magnetic personality
and gift of speech. Mrs. Older makes no
bones of the fact that Dennis Kearney,
the “sandlot” leader of the anti-Chi-
hero—Alessandro Ruspoli, an Italian
prince. The nobleman is soulful and ar-
i tistic, the last man in the world to un-
i derstand or care for the burdens of the
j people. Being a globe trotter, with prob
ably an eye to the matrimonial possibi.i-
l ties of the “Nob Hill'’ set, the prince |
! sojourns long in San Francisco, idolized !
j by the daughters of the gold nabobs. !
I But he Is not a frivolous empty pale !
J nor a fortune hunter, strange to ' say. j
j His nature is deep as well as poetic, j
| and his chivalry is of the true stamp. j
j Stryne, the socialist, and Ruspoli, the
j prince, are in love with Theodosia Fey-
ton, a coquettish heiress of one of trie
“Nob Hill” palaces. The young heroine-
plays fast and loose with her two ioveis,
keeping them, now in the depths of de
spair. now in the seventh heaven of her
favor, until each is quite beside him
self. Theodosia's coquetry loses its
piquancy after a while and she becomes
something quite the reverse of chaimin^.
To the reader she has hopelessly compro
mised herself, and her vanity is not to
be forgiven. The study of her emotions—
and she is a bundle of emotions—is such
as only a woman could make of her own
sex. Very likely the young woman is a
society type, and her ardent loves have
every element dear to the amatol j ro-
I mnnee. Happily, she sots beautifully over
HE author of “The Trail of
the Grand Seigneur,” who,
in his “Foreword," signs
himself “O. L. L.,” is Olln
L. Lymans. The New
Amsterdam Book Company
reports that the entire first
large edition of his novel
has been taken by the
.hook trade in advance of
publication. This is not
usual with a work by a
new' author, and indicates
qualities thjit attract read-
MRS. FREMONT OLDER,
Author of "The Socialist and the
Prince.” Wife of Fremont Older.
Editor and Business Manager of
“The Bulletin.” of San Francisco.
Cal.
! the follies of giddy youth and matures
into a faithful, conventional matron
The author shows herself an adept iu
delineating character and the passions
that sway men and women. Her power
of description is also exceptionally good. ] turcr. Dr. Franz Delitzsch. the father
ii
nese agitation in San Francisco, furnish
ed the prototype. Kearney himself, now'
the obscured old man. has acknowledged
the likeness and attested the correctness
of the description of the events in which
he was so famous a figure. Paul Stryne,
the forceful agitator, is a will drawn
character, though we can but wish that,
later in his development, the author had
made him less of a demagogue. It is hard
to believe that a consecrated enthusiast,
living for nothing but to make, the wrongs
of the many his own, should become a
poseur and artful manipulator of men
and measures for personal aggrandize
ment. However, every day politics fur
nishes seeming examples of the kind.
Aside from Stryne, there is another
The fact that the emperor of Germany
lias upheld the cause of orthodox theologv
against the opinions expressed by a Pro
fessor F. Delitzsch, of Berlin, has caus
ed surprise among many of the cler
gymen of this country, to whom the lat
ter name has stood for ail that was
sound as well as scholarly in Biblical
criticism. The mystification arises from
tile confusion of Dr. Franz Delitzsch, the
father, with Dr. Frederick Delitszch. the
| son. it is the latter with whom the em-
j peror is in theological controversy, also
| in archeological agreement. Delitzsch.
! tlis son. will shortly introduce himself
I to the American public by the series of
J lectures upon his recent Babylonian inves
tigations. to which, when delivered in
; Berlin, the emperor lent his presence.
I and approval, dissenting afterward from
I certain theological conclusions of the lec-
I
and it is rarely that she lingers when-
dullness would b- encountered. It is evi
dent that she is well informed in the
matter of local color and a knowledge o;
local history.
Mrs. Older is the wife of Fremont
Older, editor and business manager of
The San Francisco Bulletin. While al
ways purposing at some time to do cre
ative work hi literature, she has hereto
fore applied herself to absorbing knowl
edge rather than imparting it She is an
American girl, horn in New York—and
received a thorough and systematic,
though somewhat varied, education m
private school, under tutors and, for a
time, at Syracuse university. She has
always had a decided predilection for
languages, speaking fluent’y German,
French and Italian, and reading Greek
and Latin at sight.—Funk & Wagnalis
Co., publishers. New York.
of her countenance, which had an ex- j but to arrange these poems as far as
pression of exaltation he had never seen t possible in the order of their composi
te
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Everett contrives to meet the girl In
a way that thereafter throws hint much
in her society, and his sojourn in Zanah
Is indefinitely prolonged. Walda has
made a. deep impression upon him and
he is not long in realizing that she has
his heart. The courtship is one of the
strangest recorded in fiction. The proph
etess struggles between her sense of di
vine election to the office carnal love
would forbid her filling and a young
woman's very natural sentiments toward
an attractive young man who has called
out her deepest affections. The descrip
tion of this struggle is done well. In
the end the community loses its proph
etess and the reader is satisfied with the
denouement, of course.
The love story is one of great charm
and delicacy of touch. One can but mar
vel at the boldness of the self-sufficient
modern who hesitates not to woo a vestal
virgin at the very altar of the gods, and
the surprise is greater that, having won
• her love, it can so transform his selfish
nature. The story is essentially serious
and in large part idyllic, hut it is by no
means without humor and flashes of fem
inine cleverness. There is action enough
to give it a story-telling zest.
Mary Holland Kinkaid was born and
reared in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Soon after
being graduated from a Philadelphia
school she accompanied her parents to
Colorado. In 18S6 she entered upon a
severe course of that journalistic train
ing which has developed so many ca
pable and eloquent American writers.
Later she became interested in the po
litical development of women in the west,
and held an important position for a
year and a half as assistant state super
intendent of public instruction in Col
orado, at the end of which time she re
signed in order to return to literary work.
At present Mrs. Kinkaid is editor of the
literary department of The Milwaukee
Sentinel. She has been editor of the
woman's page of The Denver Times,
Omaha World-Herald and one of the
Chicago dailies, and besides has had a
thorough training in reportorial work.
She is regarded ns one of the brightest
woman journalists in the west. She
was early married to a mining lawyer or
Ouray. Colo., from whom she has sepa
rated. (Harper & Bros., publishers. New
York.)
POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU.
Philip Freneau, “the poet of. the -Vrnet-
ican revolution." about whom and his
work too little is known, was a gradu
ate of Princeton university in 1771, and
it is jieculiarly fitting that the Princeton
Historical Association should understand
the publication of his almost forgotten
poems.
In 1865 E. A. Duyckinck published a
volume entitled “Poems Relating to the
American R-evoiuition. by Philip Fre
neau.“ It was a collection of the more
notable of the poet's revolutionary songs
and satires arranged in the chronolog
ical order of the events and furnished
with historical foot notes so as to form
a running story of the struggle. Aside
from this single volume, which con
tained only sixty poems, the writings of
“The Poet of the American Revolution"
have.” until the present edition, remained
precisely where the poet left them.
Many of the poems exist in unique edi
tions, and all of them have become ex
ceedingly hard to consult except in a few
of the larger libraries.
The importance of Freneau as a side
light on the spirit of the times, as a cre
ative force in the early period of Amer
ican literature, and as a writer of some
of the finest lyrics in our native litera
ture. has rendered necessary a new edi
tion of his poetical works and an ade
quate and authoritative account of his
life and influence. No man has suffered
more- than he from misconception and
from the inaccuracy of careless writers.
The facts as to his career are distorted
in almost every work of reference that
has essayed to deal with him.
The present edition of; Freneau pre
sents for the first time a trustworthy
account of the poet's life- and influence,
as far as it is possible to know and es
timate them, and practically a complete
collection of his poems. The editor has
.endeavored not only to rescue every
poem that is in any way significant.
tion. or in the order in which they first
appeared in print. Such an arrange
ment. with a poet like Freneau, is vir
tually an autobiography and furnishes
a commentary upon the history of a
highly important era.
The edition contains much material
which, as far as the public was con
cerned. had practically become extinct.
“The Spy.” for instance, a fragmentary
drama dealing with the Andre episode,
is here printed for the first time. Of
Freneau's pamphlet satires. produced
during the first years of the revolution,
not one has ever before been repub
lished. Revisions of some, of these were
printed in later editions of the poet, hut
these revisions were so thoroughgoing as
in reality to be new poems. “The Voy
age to Boston." for instance, written and
published while the siege was yet in pro
gress. was cut down by the poet for the
first “dition (1786) of his works from six
hundred and five linos to three bunded
and six. and of those that remained
more than half were entirely changed.
For the historian the earlier is by far
the more valuable form. In such cases
both texts have been reproduced. For
many of the poems, like “The House, of
Night” and the revolutionary satires, va
riorum readings of all the author’s edi
tions have been indicated.
Great pains have been taken by the
editor to make the text authoritative,
and in his effort be has had the assist
ance of Mr. John Rogers Williams,
general editor of the. association.
This edition of the poems of Freneau
will be issued in three octavo volumes
of -about four hundred pages each. It is
printed from type upon fine deckel-edged
bnen paper and is bound in green cloth
with gold top and uncut edges. Volume
one, now ready for distribution, con
tains the editor’s preface, pp. v-viii. and
an introductory life of the poet together
with a literary estimate and criticism of
bis writing, pp. xicxii. The poems oc
cupy. in addition. 2!i4 pages. Table of
contents given oil last page of this cir
cular. The edition is limited to 1,250
copies, price S3 per volume, net.
will "bring gooseflesh” to the most skep-
—cal. When the first tale appeared in a
magazine more than one enthusiastic
reader declared it was the best thing the
author had ever doneand a story could
come far short of that and be sure of the
widest welcome from the American pub
lic.—Doubleday. Page & Co., publishers,
New York. Sold in Atlanta by Ameri
can Baptist Pu»lica.tion Society.
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This is a second edition of two smaller
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a Country Home," by W. M. Johnson.
All of these sketches have appeared in
recent years in The Ladies' Home Jour
nal and are familiar to a great many.
For this reason, perhaps, it is unneces
sary to give ar.y description of the work.
It is a book of distinct value to inex
perienced persots who are contemplating
building. It Slould give them some
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houses. It Shogd direct them to various
conveniences ajfl artistic construction.
The building ; plans’ are designed for
houses to costlrom $1,000 to $4,500. The
book is illustrat’d on almost every' page.
—Doubieday, Isge & Co., publishers.
New York. SoI< in Atlanta by' American
Baptist Publicaion Society.
A SUMMER IN NEW YORK.
A wide circle of readers have ever a
welcome for a new hook by Edward W.
Townsend, the creator of “Chimmie
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of this author's works, but it will prove
a very readable piece of summer litera
ture.
Cheery humor strongly characterizes
this new story, though its characters are
largely' of the “smart set," and far re
moved from “Chimmie.” The heroine
and some others who figure in the story
come from the great spaces outside of
the metropolis, and increase the breeziness
of the tale. The idea of these people mak
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is certainly' a novel one. The characters
and scenes are sketched in a few telling
lines. The illustrated chapter heads em
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THE WIND IN THE ROSE BUSH.
Here we have Mary E. Wilkins in a
rather new vein, but with ample oppor
tunity to follow her bent of character
sketching. The book is one of short
stories—"The Wind in the Rose Bush,
and Other Stories of the Supernatural.”
There are five of these ghost stories, and
they are the real New England thing in
that line. Probably' there are more spooks
in that little corner of the union than
In all the rest of the states combined.
Besides the title story, we have “The
Shadows on the Wall,” “Luella Miller,”
“The Southwest Chamber,” “The Vacant
Lot” and “The Lost Ghost.” Many of
our readers will recognize the stories as
having previously appeared in a maga
zine.
Miss Wilkins has already made a repu
tation in many' different fields of fiction
writing, but this unusal volume repre
sents' still a new achievement. Her
ghosts are as real as her Inimitable New
Englanders, and besides the admirable
character drawing which every' reader
would naturally look' for, she exhibits
ability in making a story “creepy” that
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
The Putnamsare the publishers of a
new and exhaiiiive work on Christopher
"j le i Columbus, in Tree volumes, by John
Boyd Thacherv who is already well
known as the uthor of “The Continent
of America" of “The Cabotian Discov
ery." The peionality and career of
Christopher Colmbus are of eternal in
terest to the wad. Volume after volume
has been writtf about him. and yet the
story of his ranrkable life, the descrip
tion of his strige character and of his
momentous distvery must ever be new.
Mr. Thacher egins this study' of Co
lumbus and hi achievements by care
fully considerir the two historians on
whom the studtt of this tinn is depend
ent, namely. Per Martyr and Bartolome
de las Casas, -later Martyr was the in
structor of th« royal children at the
court of Ferdiund and Isabella, and he
chronicled all if -he Important events
of his time, eagrly preserving every de
tail that he cold jftther of the marvel
ous discovery ( Columbus. Bartolome
de las Casas ws o^ of the earliest mis
sionaries to the incians, and the first hi-
torian of the ivw *orld.
Having thus pro>erly introduced the
hitorians and lavlij establlsned his au
thorities, Mr. Thacer takes up the ca
reer of Columlus lmself. He first con
siders his birti ari pareltage, clearly
proving that Colurnus was not “to the
manor born" but erne of humble stock.
His life in Portgu; and tie early voy
ages are related indetai! The question
of the corresponded between Columbus
and Paolo Toseand is mpst fully and
ably discussed; repnts are given of the
letters in Spanish, fttin art! Italian, to
gether with transitions, aifl the conclu
sion is reached thfithls correspondence
did actually take $tce.
So vividly are th detail* of the four
great voyages set rth thit the reader
seems to be a fell r travder with Co
lumbus as he sails cross pe sea. The
storv of the first > ’age appeals to the
heroic, element intuman nature, and
Columbus almost ;es on the stature
of a demi-god, whi: the grgideur of his
achievement dazzl&the miid; then in
the fourth voyage flsee hi* an old and
broken man, disgrdd by i B sovereign,
dishonored in the t s of tl*- world, de
prived of his righsand pi Vileges, yet
with the undying I in his heroic soul,
striving to carry his v irk, to add
new lands and bri. 1 more [lory to the
sovereign of Spair aud t< crown his
life of toil and faai hip w h new lau
rels. There is a pa Hie eli tent in the
story, which appea to the sympathies
of the reader, whi it hoi t firmly to
the truth, refusing » be • awn away
from it by the in let fo the dra
matic.
The story of Co ibus < ids with a
chapter on “Los Re; s.” A 'anderer in
life, even in death e bod; of Colum
bus was not allow; repose and today
no man can point h cert nty to the
place of hi* burial. The hi; ory of the
various removals o he bo< has been
told, historical doc ients ave been
has long been known in this country
through translations of his P.iblical com
mentaries. notably those upon the “Proph-
eok-s of Isaiah” and the “Book of
Psalms.” published by Funk & Wagnalis
Company.
Mrs. Pelton. author of “A Tar-Heel
Baron.” a new novel of North Carolina,
which is winning praise for its character
drawing, tells a story about a blacksmith
who lives in a mountain town in North
Carolina, which is also her home. Last
autumn, when she was leatSng the vil
lage for the winter, she derided, that the
slow pace of her horse was due to old
age. She searched for a proper guard
ian. and finally found an old mountain
eer, who promised to takp good care of
the animal. When Mrs. Pelton next saw
| the blacksmith she told him what she
j had done, and asked him if he thought
! the mountaineer would look after the
[ horse properly. The man looked at her
closely, and drawled out gently: “Waal..
Mis’ Pelton. I was just a-wonderin’ if
you had provided a home for Bird after
the old man dies."
Frank L. Nason, author of “The Blue
Goose,” a. tale of life in a Colorado gold
camp, was not always a mining expert.
He. was educated for the ministry, hut
when the time came for his ordination,
taking up ministerial duties did not seem
to him possible—conscience, among other
things, stood in the way. Taste, associa
tion and inclination led him to geology,
and he declares he has never regrejesj
his choice.
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way. is vice president of the Standard
Oil Company, has avoided publicity by
simply sending Miss Keller h£j- allowance
through their friend. Mrs. Laurence Hut
ton, and not corresponding with her. An
other of the hiind girl's staunch friends
Is Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburg.
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Fite greater part of the sacred ashes in
San Domingo. Rut if the true remains,
or the larger portion thereof, are at San
Domingo, Mr. Thacher discloses the as
tounding fact that no less than eight
separate and minute portions are scatter
ed about the world, and these are traced
and located.
The author presents Columbus in a
twofold character, the one disclosing the
consummate seaman, the practical man
ager.of men and affairs; the other, the
religious enthusiast, believing he has
been selected by Providence for the
purpose of effecting a great design—the
restoration to Christendom of the holy
sepulcher—and that with the accomplish
ment of this design will be ushered in
tile millennium. The discovery of the
new world was incidental to this larger
purpose. It is this union of the practical
wit-h the mystical that furnishes the
key to the character of Christopher Co
lumbus.
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TOWN — OTHER SKETCHES
FROM LIFE.”
B\ r JULIA KATHERINE BARNES.
“Tabby was a Welshman,
Tabby' was a thief.
Tabby came to my house
And stole a piece of beef.”
For his theft Tabby had the possible
excuse of hunger and it may be that the
“Annals” were the gift of appreciative
townsmen to their chronicler, but in
reading them one fails to find any ex
cuse for their infliction on the unsuspi
cious public.
The style in which they are written
suggests a snappiness, reminiscent and
reflective, of George Ade. but the slang is
ancient, unconvincing and utterly lacks
his point, moral and purpose. The hu
mor—well, the humor is neither subtle or
irresistible. Take for example—“Judges
and Judges.”
We are mighty fond of ours.
One, the silver-tongued orator of the
state, has his headquarters here—>if one
tnay so term his home—aesthetic.
We venture to prophesy that he will yet
wear the ermine-trimmed pajamas of the
supreme court, and they will be well
graced and set good, etc.
In “Billy Link's Benefit.” the beneficiary
and his wife expectantly await the hoped
for audience as follows: “Willette, his
wife (Billette, methinks he calls her)
came to his side, and strain them never
so -hard their four poor eyes focused on—
nothing. (Had you put on specs, chil-
lun, eight eyes might have fetched ’em.)
“Just then a gong nailed to a tree an
nounced the arrival of a street car.”
Thomas Nelson Page's new novel, the
first from his pen since “Ked Rock,”
will make its appearance in May. 'there
will be no serial publication. It will con
tain 500 pages and will bear the title
“Gordon Keith.” The story is one of
great scope; the scene includes New York
city and Virginia; the period extends
from the close of the war well into our
own times; the characters are very many
and greatly varied; the hero is southern,
the heroine a New York girl; the plot
is broad, full and interesting; the coior
has all Mr. Page's richness
Perhaps the most striking thing about
“Journeys End.” besides the “Lady-or-
the-Tiger’’ ending, which is attracting
wide attention to the book, is the -sug
gestion of well known people in its char
acters. Evelyn Berkeley and the ‘ Horse
Guards” seems inevitably io be Ethel
Barrj'more and “Captain Jinks of the
Horse Marines”; her friend must be Irene
Van Brugh; the photograph store—Ritz-
man's shop on Broadway; Manager Free
man—Charles Frohman, and so on
Doubleday. Page & Co., though still a
young publishing house, has rapidly de
veloped its business, because of its good
fortune in bringing out new authors.
Among them are Frank Norris, whose
“Pit” is now the best selling book in Lie
United States; Miss Ellen Glasgow, wno
has achieved her greatest success with
"The Voice of tiie People" and “The Bat
tleground"; Allen French, the author of
“The Colonials,” and Thomas Dixon, Ji.,
whose “Leopard's Spots” has gone be
yond 100,000 copies before the end of its
first year. In addition to these are such
writers as Booker T. Washington and
Helen Keller. They now' present another
new author—Miss Martha W. Austin,
whose first novel. “Veronica," shows a
literary quality of an unusual sort. It
ir. the quiet story of a woman's love, and
has charmed all who have read it by
the delicacy of its subject and by its un
usual style.
The Abbey Press, New York, has just
published a book by Miss Sarah Wil
lard Howe, entitled “Oberammergau. in
1!W(>." which Is the result of her trip
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trated by pictures representing those who
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