St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-15
LITERARY NOTES.

"Five Little Peppers and How They
Crew." By Margaret Sidney. Quarto.
Illuminated board covers, 25 cents. Bos-
ton: D. Lothrop company. Child life
| is so rarely appreciated at its true worth
by the hosts of writer's who dabbIe in
| Juvenile literature. so called, that no
story doing full justice to the tempera-
ment of childhood is in danger of being
soon displaced by new issues from
the press. 1t is several years now
| since Margaret Sidney wrote Five
| Little Peppers and How They
Crew." During these years the story
has lost not whit of its original bright
ness and freshness. Its continuous
popularity has unQueStionably earned
for it the right to an honored place on
the small and not overloaded shelf of
| child classics. Its success has been
| phenomenal from the very first: edition
after edition has been exhausted, and
still the reading public are not satisfied
| The publishers, resolved to meet this
| persistent demand if possible, have
brought out new illustrated uuarto
| edition of 100000 copies, bound in richly
| Illuminated board covers and sold at a
| low price. After the printing of this
| monster edition the plates will be de-
| Stroyed.
Clarence Stuart Ward, whose .:Wit.
Wisdom and Beauties of Shakespeare
the literary world we'll remembers, is
writing novel entitled 1.-The Reproof
| of Chance
| Henry Cabot Lodge has finished his
work on George Washington for the Sc
! rieS of American Statesmen, and it will
| be published in two volumes before the
| centennial celebration of the Inaugural
| ton of Washington as president.
The Correspondence of John Lothrop
! Motley" recalls to public attention what
The London Athen8um pronOunces 1.-The
| admirable memoir of Motley written by
| DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes"
Prof. Arthur Sherburne Hardy's
| unusual interest while appearing seri-
ally in the Atlantic Monthly, will be
published the 23d of this month.
"a White Umbrella In Mexico" +.
Hopkinson Smiths new book of travel,
will be issued Immediately by HOugh-
ton, Miffiin & Co. Mr.. Smith is equally
skillful with pen and pencil, and his
book will contain many illustrations.
The Atlantic Monthly for April will
contain DR.. Holmes admirable poem
written for the SEVENTEEN birthday of
James Russell Lowell.
Houghton. Miff1in IL Co. have Just
Holmes. which is even better than the
earlier one.
John Ward, Preacher" has received
the honor of being ''pirated" in London.
The authorized English edition is pub
lished by Messrs. Longmans & Co.
A Southern gentleman, writing to
John Fiske after reading his book Just
published on ''The Critical Period of
American History" remarks: ''Such
histories as this will vastly help to carry
forward the great work of pacification.
What we want is true national unity
resting upon an Intelligent appreciation
of the privileges and responsibilities of
the American people. Your work, by
bringing so clearly and forcibly to mind
the part our Southern statesmen took in
forming this wonderful government, will
awaken afresh the energy of patriotism
in the Southern heart. May we not
hope also that rejecting minds in the
North will think more leniently even of
South Carolina for her rash act in 1861,
when they know how she acted in
1eSS?''