The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-25

her friend Starlight, the fairy, with the
power to meet her dolls on a footing Of
fehowship,and many a night she spends
in their really superior and instructive
society visiting with them Strangeland
and taking part in their games, until,
! unfortunately. they discover her iden-
| t1ty and the dream is past
c-Fairy Starlight and the Dolls by Eliza
| Deth ,. Blakeley. Published by A. c. Nc
Clurg Co. Chicago. 81. For sale BY the
81 Paul Book and Stationery company
Our Little Book for Little Folks" Is
| a neW-fashioned little primer ar
ranged by w. E. Crosby, late superin-
tendent schools Of Davenport, 10. It
| Is designed to help very young chill
| dren in their first steps in learning.
| whether in the home or kindergarten.
The lessons are made attractive by
| pictures and songs, and the book will
| doubtless be welcomed by teachers and
parents, who are always in need Of
| such little books
c'Our Little Book for Little Folks" ar
ranged by W. E. Crosby. The American Book
company
Notes.
In simple dress, as BELTS the unpreten-
tious character of Its contents, comes "a
Sunole OF Rushes. collection Of dialect
rhymes from the pen of FRANKLIN w. Lee
1t Is the third of the pamphlet series of Mr..
Lees verses being issued from the press
OF the Rush City Post. Rush City. MINI.
The next number will be Hearts, a col
lection of love rhymes.
Miss Helen Hay daughter of COL John
Hay, ambassador of the United States to the
court Of st. James, will contribute to the
May Century a sonnet enatled Days to
Come" Gen. Horace Porter, the new am
bassador to France, will continue his Cam
pafgning With Grant, his special TOPICS be-
ing Grants equanimity and his treatment of
his generals, together with a minute account
OF Grants experiences in the field at the
time OF the explosion of the Petersburg mine.
In the editors symposium in the May num-
Der OF Current Literature Mr.. Cable gives
his readers more of patriotism than of mere
+ literature, Crete and Cuba J" THE Patriot
ism of Ideas" and Cosmopolitan Patriot
ism" being some of the subjects he discusses.
Hamilton w. Mabie continues his series of
literary essays with an interesting paper Oh
the Growth of Historical Study and f.
NJ. Hopkins, in his department Of American
Poets Of Today" writes this month of Louise
lmogen Quincy, and quotes from her works.
The publishers Of MeC:ure's Magazine an
nounce for the May number, in the way of
fcton-a department in which McCIure's new
er falls to be distinguished-the conclusion
OF Kipling's great realistic story of the Grand
Banks, Captains Courageous; a further
fnstallment of Robert Louis Stevenson's
charming last romance st Ives" and short
stories by Conan Doyle, Cy Warman and
others.
Two Harvard men, who made literary rep
utations IN undergraduate days. since greatly
augmented. will describe UNDERGRADUATES
Life at Harvard" in the May Scribner'sL
Robert Grant, author Of 1.-The Little Tin
Gods on Wheels and Edward S. Martin,
author of "a Little Brother CT the Rich
cover in coiors, from design by Cor
guet, is feature of the May ScribAer's.
i This magazine announces four beautiful spe-
cial covers in colors for the year.
The New York Critic of April 10 announces
the result of It's prize competition for the
best list Of the best twelve American short
stories. The prize has gone TO J. w. George,
J. of st. Louis, who has selected two stories by
Hawthorne, two by Irving, two by Poe. and
one each by DR.. Hale (''The Man Without a
country, OF coGrse), Bret Harte, Frank R.
Stockton Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas
! Bailey Aldrich and Mary E. wilkins. The
| editors add that they do not offer this "as
an ideal list, be it observed. but merely as
on the whole. the best Of those submitted"
The complete novel in the May issue of
Lppincotts is Jason Hrdreth's Identity"
1t is a story Of unusual originality and pow
er, turning on an incident which has had
precedents in real ife, the loss Of memory and
personal identity; but the plot is so deeply
and skilfully laid that the last pages will
! come as a surprise to almost every reader.
The May st. Nicholas opens with a frontis-
piece, ''The May-Po!e Dance by C. Relyea
Illustrating a poem with the same title by
/ Corneia Walter McCIeary. How Cousin
| Marion Helped is a story for girls by Alice
| Batch Abbot. DR.. Emily G. Hunt describes
! an odd pet Of some Of her young friends
/ in New Jersey "a White Red Squirrel !"
1 George Il. Smith, in q paper entitled Gen