The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-12-18
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Hall Game is already at work on q
new novel which deals with the drink
question.
II. G. Wells new romance, The In
visible Man," Is to be ready at an early
date. The IDEA of II IS quaint-a man
becomes invisible, but his clothes don't,
and the results are remarkable.
A novel entitled Taken by Siege"
by Jeanette Glider, is soon to be re-
published. 1t first came out anony-
mously several years ago and was not
a success 1t is a story of journalists
and musicians.
Mrs. Anna Eichburg King, who Is re-
membered as the writer of the charm
Ing Kitwyk stories published in the
leading magazines, Is soon to be mar
rled TO John Lane, the British publish
err, who gets out the Yellow Book.
Amelie Rives' new novel will be IL
lustrated by her husband, Prince Trou-
betsky. 1t Is said in connection that
some time ago while standing before
q marble bust Of herself in her old Vir-
glnia home she said to a friend h In
tended to send 1t to her former hus-
band, Mr.. Chanler. whom she called
"the most amiable of men,"
Admirers of good fiction have the
Messrs. Harpers to thank for a new edi-
ton of Mrs. w. x. Clifford's stirring
novel, Mrs. Keith's Crime" The book
first appeared In 1885, when the author
was unknown save as the widow OF the
brilliant scholar whose name she bears.
The novel has It's artistic flaws, but
none car deny its power and its right
to a new lease of life.
A new germ-breeder has been discov-
cred, and this time the lives of authors
are In peril. According to experiments
which have recently been completed at
Berlin and Leipzig by the leading bac-
teriologists Of Germany, the ordinary
inks Literally teen with bacilli of a
dangerous character, the bacteria taken
%therefrom suficing to kill mice and rab-
bits inoculated Herewith In h space
Of from one to three days"
An article describing and illustrating
science teaching in the University OF
Chicago will occupy a prominent place
In Appleton's Popular Science Monthly
for October. Prof. Frederick Starr, the
author, is not the least among the forces
tending to advance this new university
to the front rank, and his description OF
its aims and methods Is sympathetic as
we'll as comprehensive.
Alphonse Daudet recently declared to
a visitor that he considered he had
earned the right to work only when the
spirit moved him, and that 1t had De
come his practice in consequence mere
ly to write In intermittent fashion. Fol
over two years NJ. Daudet has been en-
gagged in this leisurely way on a move
of which the title Is ''Soutien de Fam
ille.' The book is how approaching
completion and there is every chance
of its seeing the light in the course OF
the winter.
1t is said that the highest price pei
word ever pald 10 an author WIS pai'
by Messrs. Scribner to Mr.. Rudyart
Kipling for his railroad story, mo
OO7," published in Scribner's Magazine
The story numbers over 1000 words
and the price paid was about $1,000
This, as II might suppose, covers al
serial rights. Twenty cents a word II
the highwater mark in authors pay
Kipling gets no such prices In his owl
country. AS a rule he Is bought out
right by an American publisher or edit
or and resold to England.
Miss Jeanette l.. Glider of the Crltl'
c~onfesses to the authorship of a move
that attracted considerable attention
when published anonymously, a few
years ago. The story, which Is called
Taken by Siege" was published serial
ly in Lippincott's Magazine, and late
in book form by the Lippincott's. |
will be republished in a few weeks b!
Charles Scribner's Sons, with the au
thor's name on the title page. The stor,
deals with the journalistic and musica
life of New York City some twely'
years ago.