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THE SUNNY SOUTH
JUNE 3. 1906.
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THE TiT.nr.it BROTHERS.
T Theodore D. Jerv«y, Is
r novel In which are pre
sented the vital questions
confronting the south
growing out of reconstruc
tion, and In which the au
thor defines the true rela
tions now existing between
the races in the south.
“The Elder Brother” is a
book which should prove
pleasing as well as in
structive. and doubtless
profitable, to any reader,
especially to three groups—readers of
good literature, the politician and the
churchman. Mr. Jervey has compiled his
work along the line ot‘ the popular his
torical novel, but with the avowed pur
pose of fastening attention to the prob
lems (primary rather Ilian to the pres
ent) of the racial question, and the plight
forced upon society, politics, and the
church by its suddenly imposed actuality
at the close of the civil war. As a novei.
It is in viting from I he start, and retains
. Interest to the end frequently leading to
both dramatic and amusing situations.
The booh has an admirably designed and
deVelopi^ plot, likewise a purpose, and
what is unusual, neither is made subserv
ient to the oilier; the strength of the p.ot
giving the best effect to the objective Idea.
The story of the two brothers, the eider
being the hero, while a fine exposition of
character with a moral and a le¥6on, con
it ms merely the novel; the conditions un
der wihlch they grew from childhood to
manliness and became leaders of men,
socially and politically, is a part and par
cel of the history of the exciting times.
The heroine, if any. out of the multiplicity
of stars, is a breezy and beautiful young
woman of education and character, who
attained social position and influence be
yond her birtli and surroundings—an
other lesson.
The practical politician of the aggres
sive present will find much to hit?' advan
tage in this book. The analysis of the
political conditions, and consequent exi
gencies. during tile reconstruction pe-rlod,
when the life of law and liberty hung on
ihe cloutfe, is tborough and impressive.
The opportunity of the negro at the date
of his emancipation, and the threatened
fate awaiting him from failure to grasp
the responsibility of sudden elevation to
citizenship, are treated frankly and forci
bly, and the reader is sure to compare the
Ritual ion then to that now existing—and
learn something. All in all. It is a book
•trong in the treatment of the cogent
questions involved, and highly entertain
ing and instructive in the lighter vein.
It is a book with a mission and the im
portance of the mission, whether woven
in history or veiled in fiction. Is impress
ed unmistakably upon the reader.
The Neale Publishing Company, New
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CHARLES, THE CHAUFFEUR.
Whether one owns automobiles or is
only privileged to be run down by them,
!he can but enjoy the rich humor and
clever satire of Mr. S. E. Kiser’s
"Charles the Chauffeur," published by
.Frederick A. Stokes Comgpanv. Mr.
Kiser, who is well known by his contri
butions to the periodicals, has chosen a
unique hero Tor his little book, an ig.
norant man but intrepid, the prize of
chauffeurs. and the pride of a fair
| widow, his employer. His hairraising
adventures, the naivete with which he
relates them, his ambitions, his love af
fairs, and his final downfall are amus
ingly told. The Illustrations are well
chosen, and the book Is good fun with
a possible serious motive In its satire
of the carelessness of the lautomobollst
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THE RELIGION OF DUTY.
McClure-Phlillps have brought out Fe
lix Adler’s new volume, "The Religion
of Duty.” This latest book by the
founder and leader of the ethiaal culture
society gives to ithe ideals and principles
of the ethical culture movement the most
complete and rounded expression they
have yet had. The book is composed of
selections from the written and spoken
address of Professor Adler; and the ex
cerpts have been edited by Leslie W.
Sprague, who has grouped them under
the following headings: “First Steps To
ward Religion, Changes in the Conception
of God, The Teachings of Jesus in the
Modern World. The Religion of Duty,
Standards of Conduct Based on Ethical
Religion, The Ethical Attitude Toward
Pleasure, The Ethical Attitude Toward
Suffering. The Consolation of the Religion
of Duty, The Essential Difference Be
tween Ethical Societies and the
Churches.” Mr. Sprague bus acquitted
himself well in the work of eliminating
those features of the spoken address
itliat would be out of place In print, and
of arranging addresses delivered in va
rious years in such a manner as tolglve
continuity and organic sequence to the
thought implied In the title of the
volume.
SANNA.
Among the new Harper books is a novel
entitled “cJanna,” by Mary E. Waller,
the author of “The Woodcarver of ’L.vm-
pus." The story is one of love, of mys
tery, and of pathos and humor of a de
lightful quality. The scene is laid in
the island of Nantucket, and the pic
tures of landscape and seascape, storm,
and calm, are drawn with a vivid sense
of reality. The heroine. Sauna, is a
wild, romping, witful madcap, bewitch
ing in her glrliish coquetry and charm.
Among other characters is a group of
old salts that one who lias visited the
quaint old town of Nantucket cannot
fail to recognize as familiar types of the
island life. A love affair between two
middle-aged islanders adds much to the
humor of the book, which throughout is
fragrant with the pungent tang of the
sea.
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THE COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUE
LAN REPUBLICS.
The study of two great races is worth
the time of the greatest intellects. The
evolution of races anil their institutions
constitute .real history. The two domi
nant races of Europe and America are
the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin. . They
represent two distinct civilizations di
verging as greatly in the evolution of
sociology, civics and religion as in their
two languages. The Anglo-Saxon idea
took its course from the Rhine into the
British islands, then into America, and
this republic today is the consummation
of the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon idea.
The Latin Idea went in the opposite
direction, and planted itself on the South
American continent and the civiliza
tion of the South American republics rep
resents the evolution of the Latin idea.
The civilization of North and South
America therefore represents the evolu
tion of two ideas—of two great races.
The two great races living on this west
ern hemisphere, contesting for popular
rights, should know and understand each
other, should read each other's litera
ture and study each other's civilization.
J have just completed reading "The
Colombian and Venezuelan Republics,"
by ilie Hon. William I.. Scruggs, which
the author was kind enough to send me.
And it has been an eye opener to me as
to the civilization of the South Amer
ican republics. The author, as the rep
resentative of this government, for years
at the court of the Venezuelan republic
had an unusually good opportunity for
studying the civilization of the Lat ! n
rates, and the work furnishes ample evi
dence that he had this work in mind
while there, and availed himself of every
advantage to ascertain facts. it is
the product of a man who has seen and
investigated the subject matter about
which he writes. He unfolds to his
reader, step by step, the great defects
of the Latin civilization and the weak
ness of the r,atin race, and the great
natural resources of South America. The
writer possesses both the critical and
the judicial caste of mind; he points out
lioth the weakness and the virtues of
the Latin races. His story Is told in
pure, simple English, his style and die.
Lon is that of the scholar—accuracy in
expression is one of the chief virtues
with him. He says Just what he wishes
tc say and no more. The author pos
sesses all the elements of the successful
historian, simplicity, system and versa
tility of information. His work is a
r< holarly production on the Latin races
•1 South America and their civsilization.
SIDNEY C. TAPP.
Magazine Melange^
John Burroughs has much to say about
ills favorite wild flower—the showy cy-
pripedium—in the June Country Calen
dar. To him, none other Is "quite so
striking.” Some of the most delightfully
reminiscent and inspiring nature-worship
that he has ever set forth is appearing
in this series for The Country Calendar
For each number he is writing a prose
poem of a page or so, dealing with the
familiar phenomena of fields and flow
ers and troe^i and birds which appertain
to the current month, full of the leis
urely and meditative spell which he
knows so well how to weave around the
comments of natural objects.
“In Early June,” his contribution to
the issue Just out, contains some inti
mate extracts from his personal diary.
The “slowly moving clouds and the
"breezy depths” of early summer have a
deeper charm and meaning from his
fiewpolnt.
tions, relates his adventures in ”A Win
ter Tramp In the North Woods,” which
included the first crossing in winter and
on snowshoes of the Indian Pass in the
Adirondacks, while his companion, Mr.
Arthur Hewitt, furnishes some truly re
markable photographs. Mr. John Muir,
the famous naturalist and author, writes
with charm and eloquence of “Yoseniite's
Storms and Floods,” and some interest
ing and entertaining personal impres
sions of Mr. Muir are given by Mr. R.
U. Johnson. Bishop Brent, of the Phil
ippines, tells of “A Strenuous Vacation.”
which he took in the wilds of that far-
off country.
The people of the United States have
the best weather service in the world,
the government spending one million
five hundred dollars a year on its weath
er bureau—a larger sum than all th,e
governments of Europe combined spent
for similar service. The bureau not only
gives advance tidings of the weather,
but its warnings of cold waves, frosts,
and storms save millions of dollars in
crops every year, to say nothing of un
counted lives. And the story of how all
this is accomplished is as fascinating as
a Jules Verne romance. This is the sub
ject of Gilbert H. Grosvenor's "Our Her
alds of Storm and Flood" in the June
Century.
The June Issue of Country Life in
America is the annual vacation number
and is the strongest outdoor issue of the
magazine in its history. It gives 100 va
cation experiences, ranging from deep
sea yachting In a small boat to an auto
mobile in .the wilderness of the Canadian
mountains. And the 100 first hand ex
periences are so many hintis for each
reader of the methods in which he can
plan his own vacation.
The first (June) issue of “Tales,”
which has just appeared, offers a re
markably array of fiction by famous au
thors. It contains seventeen stories, of
which sixteen are translated from vari
ous European languages. Most of these
stories are by famous authors, and all
are thoroughly eharactoristic of the va
rious literatures, typifying the brilliuncv
of the Freneh, the realism of the Rus
sians, the keen analysis and wholesome
humor of the Germans, the picturesque
quality of the Hungarians, the pathos
of the north and the romance of Spam
and Ftaly.
The Garden Magazine for June Is a
superbly illustrated number of this most
practical of all out-door publications.
From the “Gardner’s Reminder" on the
first page, telling the actual things to
do, to the many departments on “Hardy •
Borders,” “Annual Flowers.” the'
"Bulbs," “Water Gardens." and the like,'
it covers the subject of planting and of i
growing flowers, vegetables and fruits i
during the month, in the most adequate
way.
Among the many good things in Suc
cess Magazine for June, It seems almost
Invidious to select any particular article
far special mention. Cleveland Moffett
continues his articles on "The Shameful
Misuse of Wealth” and the current in
stalment which deals with the spirit of
discontent created by the ostentatious
display of the idle rich, should be read
ana digested by all right-thinking Amer
icans. William Jennings Bryan tells
in his terse way “What Government
Ownership Means.” This is one of the
burning questions of the day treated by
a man who has made it a life-study.
President Castro, of Venezuela. con
tributes an article on “My Idea of
World Peace;" John R. Dunlap discusses
the Standard Oil question under the
heading “Forty Thousand .Miles of Pipe
Lines." He shows that this method of
transportation is the basis of the Stand
ard Oil company’s success. Fiction is
represented by Emerson Hough’s story,
“The Lost Mine of the Uintahs;” "Trap
ped by a Tornado,” by Frederick Up-
ham Adams, and “From Jungle to
Jacket," by Michael White.
Wide human interest is the striking
tiling about the June McClure's. The
college man is the first concerned in the
sensational disclosures of "The College
Athlete,” which tells, for the first time,
some astonishing facts about the finan
cial arrangements by which some of the
“stars ’ are secured ana kept at college.
It is a story that will be a shocking dis
illusionment to everybody not familiar
with the new spirit of commercialism
th:: 4 . has crept into college athletics.
Typhoid fever. Samuel Hopkins Adams
proves in one of his powerful and il
luminating articles, is an entirely un
necessary evil. He shows conclusively
that the millions of dollars and thous
ands of lives America sacrifices to this
disease might be saved by a little en
lightened work.
The June Chautauquan is a tree num
ber entirely devoted to special articles
upon forest preservation, tree planting
‘.lie use °f trees in the beautification of
streets and home grounds, and kindred
subjects. This number of The Chau
tauquan will be valuable alike to tree
lovers, tree growers, tree users, civic
improvement and other clubs.
^ Literary Drift-Wood ^
THOBEAU, THE PBOPHET OF
NATURE.
In a thougbful article In the Out
look, Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie thus sums
up Thoreau’s Influence:
Thoreau was not the first American
to live out-of-doors, but he was the first
to make out-of-doors living a profes
sion, and to open the way to a new
kind of writing. His egotism, his as
sumption of Individual ownership in Na
ture. have helped to found a school and
to create a cult; but his spirit has dif
fused itself through American life, and
he must be counted among the perma-
r.tnt Influences In that life. He opened
a world of experience which Is one of
the great refuges from the tyranny of
work and wealth, from which flow re
storing streams of health, vitality and
joy. His defects of temperament are
lost In his agile and virile Idealism,
and tlie best report of this life is to
be found in his parable: “I long ago
lost a hound, a bay horse, and a Turtle
dove, and I am still on their frail. Many
are the travelers I have spoken con
cerning them, wescribing their traces,
nr.d what calls they answered to. I have
met one or two who have heard the hound
and the tramp of the horse and even seen
the dove disappear behind a cloud; and
they seemed as anxious to reeove 14 them
as If they had lost them themselves.”
HER ADAM’S APPLE SPLIT.
(From The New York World )
Margaret Doyle Jackson, the author
ess, Is suffering from an extraordinary
and well nigh fatal accident, which be
fell her late last Thursday night at her
home, 220 West One Hundred and Sev
enth street. Her Adam’s apple was split
through a fall against a window. Her
vocal chords were loosened.
There were symptoms of paralysis at
first and it was feared her skull was
tractured st the base. This was found
not to be the case but when she recov
ered her senses she found she had lost
her power of speech. It was only Tues
day that she became able even to whis
per. It will not be known for a week
whether she will ever recover the speak
ing voice.
Once in a long while a pugilist's Adam’s
apple is split by, a blow, but outside the
prize ring such an accident is extremely
rare.
Her mother in law’s newly arrived
trunk was the cause of Mrs. Jackson’s
illness. She Is the wife of Dr. Charles
Ross Jackson and they live on the
ground floor of the Ivy Court apartment
house. It was 11:50 p. m. when the
porter deposited the trunk by the corner
ol one of the windows of the Jackson
suite looking out upon One Hundred
and Seventh street. A few minutes
thereafter Mrs. Jackson went toward the
window to pull down the shade.
She stumbled over the trunk. As she
fell forward her Jaw was brought Into
contact with the window sill with such
force as to force the larynx up, thereby
splitting It and loosening the vocal
cl lords.
Margaret Doyle Jackson Is an English
•woman, but. has lived in New York for
years. Among her works are "A Daugh
ter of the Pit” and "The Horseleech's
Daughter.” Recently she brought out
“When Love Is King.” Her books have
had a large sale.
IS MRS. WARD A SATIRIST7
London is passing judgment as to
the truth of th e pictures of English
sccial life which Mrs. Ward has drawn
in the Marriage of William Ashe. As
voiced in the London Speaker, the opin
ion seems to be that "Mrs. Ward’s
pictures of life, cleverly and often pow
erfully painted, are representative Eng
lish pictures just because they concen
trate themselves, with such force, the
moral consciousness of the English gov
erning classes.” A noted reviewer In
this country has put forth some sug
gestive considerations as to what he
thinks is Mrs. Ward’s "thesis.” ' Is
she, after all,” he says, ’The subtlest
satirist in the history of English lit
erature? . . . One gathers very
definitely from Mrs. Ward's narrative,
find shall we say, from a certain at
titude of Mrs. Ward herself, the social
atnSbsphor© lln which the passkmate
little soul (Lady Kitty) was smoth
ered. . . Is Mrs. Ward, far from
being a typical middtle-olass English
mind, holding firmly to that faith in
nobility which characterizes the Brit
ish democracy—a feminist of the .most
advanced type? Has she taken up the
delicate weapons that Meredith laid down
henceforth to champion the woman in
modern life?”
THE AUTHOR OF JORN UHL.
Gustav Frenssen, the author of “.Torn
Uhl,” published by Dana Estes & Co.,
was born in the remote village of Barit,
in Holstein, North Germany, on Octo
ber 19, 1863. In spite of his father’s
humble circumstances, Gustav managed
•to attend the Latin school at the neigh
boring tow'n of Husum and in due time
became a student of theology. He heard
courses of lectures at various univer
sities, passed the necessary' examina
tions, and finally was appointed to the
care of souls in the little Lutheran pas
torate of Homme in Holstein. Here,
within sound of the North sea, he wrote
his first two novels, which remained al
most unknown until after the publi
cation of “Jorn Uhl," in 1902. This
book took Germany hy storm, its au
thor much to his own surprise, "awoke
cue morning to find himself famous.”
Over 200,000 copies of the German edi
tion were sold within eighteen months
of Issue—a record never before equalled
by any novel In Germany, and editions
speedily appeared In the leading Euro
pean languages. Not a few continental
critics ranked the author with Goethe.
But Frennsen’s books had aroused much
hostility among the Orthodox church
party, and In 1903 he gave up his pas
torate and retired to the Holstein vil
lage of his youth, henceforth a free
man, to devote himself to litera
“Jorn Uhl” has appealed to mo
Germany In somewhat the same man .
that the works of Dickens appealed to
the England of his day, and it is
first. Time that this can be allege o
any German novel. As one of f
sen’s admirers has said. “This
bas sprung from the deep consciousness
ol modern Germany, and utters
longings, thoughts and aspirations
German heart in a way that go ° t
modern book has done.” The P rf,s ..
version is the first translation into
English language.
Henry Timrod ^
It is now sixteen years since The Out
look began Its annum practice of pub
lishing about the first of June a special
illustrated number having to do with
out-of-door life, vacation experiences,
and recreation generally. As usual, the
recreation number for this year contains
a large variety of articles and several
seeres of pictures. The Outlook's “Spec
ie, ter” shows with a dozen or more Il
lustrations what may be done In a very
brief time, M, Charles Wagner, the
author of “The Simple Life,” writes
about “A Quiet Corner”—namely, the
ISle pf Oieron, where he (■ wont to spend
restful days in summer, Mr. Harold j,
Howland, as a oonlrsst to summer vsose
A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY.
I have berries, grapes and peaches a
year old, fresh as when picked. I used
the California Cold Process. Do not heat
or seal the fruit, just put it up cold,
keeps perfectly fresli and cost almost
nothing; can put up a bushel in ten min
utes. Last jeeur I sold directions to over
120 families in one week; anyone will
pay a dollar for directions when they see
the beautiful samples of fruit. As there
are many people poor like myself, I con
sider it my duty to give my experience
to such and feel confident anyone can
make one or two hundred dollars ’round
home In a few days. I will mail sample
of fruit and full directions to any of your
reader., for (19) two cents stamps, which
is only the actual cost of the samples,
postage, etc., Francis Casey, St. Louis,
iMio.
THE WIND.
The Wind that made the meadows dance
Came whistling through the glade.
And all the little birch trees laughed
And twinkled In the shade;
He toesed a red leaf In my hair.
Caressed each slim young tree,
And left the garden all agog
With the gay expectancy.
Today the Wind came back again—
He mnrehed like men at war.
And dust and leaves and frightened
birds
Came hurrying before;
He trampled the meadows under foot.
He whipped the trees to shreds,
And O. the havoo that he wrought
Among the garden beds.
Next time the Wind comes whistling by—
Bo airily polite—
I’li run and tel| my lady trees
To bind their tresses tigntj
I’l| hid the rain erow shout,
And every garden sentinel
Shall hang storm signals out,
—HAPsr’s Ms
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(From The State, Columbia, S. C.)
ENRY TIMROD was borr.
In Charleston. S. C., De
cember 8, 1829. He was
trained for the bar, but
that profession proving
distasteful to him, he be
came a private tutor. On
January 12, 1864, he
moved to Columbia to be
come associate editor of
The Carolinian, and he
died here October 6, 1867.
Dr. J. Dickson Burns
thus described Timrod's
personal appearance: “The square jaw
was almost stern in its strongly pro
nounced lines; the mouth large; the lips
exquisitely sensitive; the gray eyes set
deeply under massive brows, and full of
melancholy and brooding tenderness
which attracted attention to his face
at once, as the face of one who had
thought and suffered much.” Ills friend,
Paul H. Hayne, thus described him: "I
can see him now as he appeared in his
early manhood, repeating in a deep,
musical bass voice, liis favorite ‘ode’ on
’Intimations of Immortality from
Recollections of Early Childhood.’
Short of stature, but. broad-chested and
compactly formed, with his superb head
well set upon shoulders erect and thrown
back in haughty^ grace—his gray eyes
flashing and his swarthy face one glow
of intense emotion—it was impossible ‘o
listen to him without catching some
spark of his fiery enthusiasm.”
The earliest edition of Timrod’s poems
was a small volume by Tickner & Fields,
of Boston, published before the civil war.
The edition of his complete poems was
not issued until after his death, when
the south was recovering from the rav
ages of war, and was brought out by
E. J. Hale & Son in 1873; immediately
afterwurds. In 1874. there followed a sec
ond edition of this volume which con
tained the noble series of war poems an?
other lyrics written since the edition of
I860. In 1884 an illustrated edition of
the poem entitled “Katie” was published
by Hale & Son. In 1899. through the
efforts of Captain Courtenay, Houghton.
Mifflin & Co. brought out a complete
edition of Timrod’s poems, with an in
troduction by J. P. K. Bryan, whose
father, Judge George S. Bryan, was
during the whole of Timrod’s career his
devoted friend, ever ready to assist him
materially, morally and In every other
respect. The proceeds of this edition
were used to purchase the bronze bust
of the poet hy Valentine, whicli is in
AVashingtnn square. Charleston, and the
present monument In Trinity church
yard, the latter replacing a very pretty
shaft wlaich had been erected there by
some of the poet’s friends several years
before. A special edition of the poem
entitled “The Cotton Boll.” handsomely
Illustrated, was gotten out in pamphlet
form as a souvenir of the Charleston
exposition. The 1873 and 1874 editions
contain X^ketch of Timrod’s life written
by Paul H. Hayne; the two were schoo.-
mates and lifelong friends, and Hayne’s
story of Timrod’s troubled life and pa
thetic death is most beautifully told.
Tt was the ambition of Timrod’s life
to see all of bis poems gathered to
gether in one volume, hut he never lived
to realize it, although an edition actual
ly went to press and the proofs of Tt
were sent him shortly before his death.
He was reading these proof sheets over
with some friends In the Academy build
ing on Laurel street, which is shortly to
be tom down. They were upstairs In
the room on the northwest comer of the
building when the poet was seized with
the first of a series of hemorrhages
which ended In his death. The proof
sheets fell to the floor covered with his
life blood. As the end approached some
time afterwards he asked that these proof
sheets be placed on the bed beside him.
where he fondled them lovingly. During
the last few monTlis of the poet’s life
he wrote a friend as follows: “You ask
me to tell you my story for the last
year. I can embody it in a few words—
beggary, starvation, death, bitter grief,
utter want of hope. » » « We have lived
for a long period, and are still living, on
the proceeds of the gradual sale of fur
niture and plates. We have—let me see!—
yes, we have eaten two silver pitchers,
one or two dozen silver forks, several
sofas and a huge bedstead. * * * To
confess the truth, I not only feel that I
can write no more verse, but I am per
fectly Indifferent to the fate of what T
have already composed. I would con
sign every line of it to eternal oblivion
for $100 in hand!” Poor fellow! dis
appointment after disappointment had
followed him through life. At the time of
which he wrote he was scarcely in great
er want than his neighbors and all
around him, but his delicate, sensitive
nature could not bear the strain of the
war, followed by the reconstruction pe
riod with all its horrors, and fie suc
cumbed, with his work only just fairly
begun, at the age of 37.
Many years before he died Timrod
wrote a little poem predipting that he
would pass away just at dawn, and the
prophecy was fulfilled. In ids last mo
ments he repeated several verses of this
poem to his sister, Mrs. Goodwin, who
had so tenderly nursed him during his
illness, and asked her if she remembered
them:
Somewhere on this earthly planet.
In the dust of flowers to be,
In the dewdrop, in the sunshine.
Sleeps a solemn hour for me.
At this wakeful hour of midnight
I behold it dawn in midst.
And hear a sound of sobbing
Through the darkness—hist! oh. hist!
In a dim and murky chamber,
I am breathing my life a>
Some one draws a curtain si
And I watch the broadening day.
As It purples in the zenith.
As it brightens on the lawn.
There's a hush of death about me.
And a whisper, “He is gone!”
^ Publication Notes
The new novel by "Barbara,” the au
thor of "The Garden of a Commuter’s
Wife” and "People of the Whirlpool,”
will be published bv the Macmillan Com.
pany toward the end of June.
The title of the new novel by Miss
Elizabeth Robins, “A Dark Lantern,”
has led one of the literary papers to in
quire: "Is it a study of burglary?” The
Macmillan Company, who issue the book
this week, assert positively that the vol
ume has no relation whatever to "The
Amateur Cracksanm,” and that the title
refers to the hero.
Miss Lilian Whiting sailed for Italy be
fore her new book. “The Outlook Beauti
ful,” was published, to secure additional
material for a more elaborate volume, to
be called “The Florence of Landor.”
Miss Whiting has been spending the win
ter in Washington, where she has been
the recipient of many social honors. "The
Outlook Beautiful,” just published by
Little, Brown & Co., is a book after the
nature of her well-known “World Beau
tiful” series, and, therefore, appeals to
a large audience.
In his new book, “The Sunset Trail,”
'just issued by A. S. Barnes & Co., Alfred
Henry Lewis pictures a fight of buffalo
hunters against Indians at the ”Dobe
Period,” which will be issued early in
the fall. Alleyne Ireland, author of “The
Far Eastern Tropics,” is also just sailing
for England, to be gone until the lust of
August.
The appearance of four new novels, all
anonymous, in ‘the spring list of a New
York publisher, invites speculation as to
what the precise significance of anonymi
ty may be, where current fiction is con
cerned. Why should the author of a pop
ular novel prefer to conceal his identity?
Wherein lies the inducement to anonymi
ty? “Mrs. Darrell,” for example, one
of the four books above mentioned. Is
by a writer already known as the author
of a dozen novels. Does he, or she, desire
reviews which shall be aboslutely un
tinged by recollections of those other
books? Is the man who wrote “The House
of Cards” unwilling to disclose his iden
tity simply because his publications have
hitherto been outside the realm of fiction
and he fears that his novel might there
fore be taken up from a wrong point of
view? Why does the author of “Sturm-
see ' and "Calmire” choose to remain un
known. despite the compliments that
greet his work? Piquing curiosity can
hardly be the motive of anonymity; for
an anonymous hook needs to be specially
good In order to succeed. Readers have
Walls,” which tells of an extraordinary I doubtless felt much curiosity as to th
f.f -® es ^, the 7. SU ~ S ” mad j identity of the author of “Elizabeth and
Her German Garden.” and they would like
to know just who wrote "The Garden of
response to bugle calls. The vivid
description is founded upon an actual
fact. The fight and the bugle among the
Indians are matters of record in the ro
mantic history of the earlier west. When
the besieged hunters first heard the bugle
they thought of rescue. When no sol
diers appeared there was thought of
painted renegades. After the battle the
mystery was solved. Among the dead
Indians was found the body of a negro
bugler who had deserted from the army
and joined the hostile Indians.
The Harpers have received an order
from Australia to print a large edition of
some of Owen Wlster's western tales,
published under the name of "The Jim-
myjohn Boss.” As this is the third time
within the past month that an entire
edition has been ordered for that part
of the world—the other two novels se
lected being “Abner Daniel" and "The
Georgians," both by Will N. Harben—
iit would seem that the Australian book-
market was becoming a factor that pub
lishers would do well to consider.
Ernest von Wolzogen, the German nov.
eiist whose famous story. "Das Dritte
Gesehlecht" (The Third Sex), is about
to be published in this country, passed
'the early years of his life in England.
Indeed, he spoke English before he knew
the German language, and his interest in
English letters has always been keen.
It is rumored that he is about to come
to this country for a lecturing tour.
Henry James will publish through
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. this autumn a
book of travel sketches entitled “English
Hours.” with numerous illustrations by
Joseph Pennell. Mr. James is visiting in
Cambridge with his brother. Professor
William James.
Dr. William Osier sailed for England
on the Cedric last week to take up the
duties of reglus professor of medicine at
Oxford university. He left with his pub
lishers. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., a new
▼olums of essays entitled “The Fixed
a Commuter’s Wife” (a novelist who is
represented among the four books men
tioned at the beginning—“At the Sign of
the b ox ) # but no one would care two
straws about either of those mysterious
individuals unless they had proved them
selves capable of writing interesting
books. The Macmillan Company who
publish the four books above mentioned,
say that the authors of them are well
known, both in and out of literature, and
that a single book by one of them reached
a sale In excess of one hundred thousand
copies.
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