The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-30

Der an account of the home and working
nablCs Of that prosperous and prolific young
author, Paul Leicester Ford. author of The
Hon. Peter Sterling" one OF the most sue
ceSsful works of the past five years. Mr..
Ford was brought up in his fathers library.
an immense room built out behind the fam
lily mansion in Brooklyn, and has no other
education than the very sufficient one he OBJ
tanned under the parental eye amongst the
100 600 books and periodicals housed therein.
The store of knowledge there acquired has
fed, not quenched, the flame of originality
which was his birthright, and 1t would be
hard to say in which field it shines the
brighter-that OF historical editing or that
Of realistic fiction. Though deficient in ply
steal robustness Mr.. Ford is yet an indie
fatigable worker. Lindsay Swift's article
above referred to is illustrated with a por-
trait of Mr.. Ford and q photograph If his
library-both taken for the occasion.
The New York Times has taken the trouble
to collect a quantity of information about
the literary plans of authors from the au-
thors themselves James Lane Allen, 1t is
learned, is engaged upon novel so lengthy
that it will not appear before the LATTER part
writing ''Olympian Nights, . The Southern
Humorsts; a childs book, The Memoirs of
Santa Claus" may be looked for this year.
George w Cable Is occupied with novel
to be called The Cavalier" which will draw
upon his experiences as a soldier in the Cop
federate army. Mr.. Howells is writing a
novel for Harpers Magazine. Alice Morse
Earle has finished extensive work about
Home Life in Colonial Days" Prof Cnar-eS
G. d. Roberts, whose SISTER to Evangeline
is among the October publications, mas IN
view two series of short stories. One series
will deal with the early history of the coun-
try of the great lakes, and the otner, Wnlcn
will probably be called BY the Marshes VI
Miras will treat of old Acadian life. Her
bert E. Hambiin recently risen to fame
through his engineer and sea stories, 1t at
work upon more of the same general charac-
ter One of them is story OF the Ne"
York fire department, %hlcn WI 80 NJ D%GA
the DAYS of hand engines. Miss Mary h.
wilkins hopes to write novel ana some
short stories. Miss Ellen Omey Kirk mas
finished one book and has commenced an
other.
When 1.-The Shadow Christ'-that remark
obie hook nv the Rev. Gera'd Stanley Lee
Vas In preparation for the press, Two years
ago. the author was asked by MS pup -lsnsr rs
if there were not some way III Which ~
might be made to appear that the occasional
seIeritv of its structures on the Hebrews or
the Old Testament was due not 10 any rac!@l
or religious prejudice, but TO a u!spaSS4oI@ee
study of the men OF those pTlhI I've 49, 800,
in the light of a more complex ana hl9hly
developed civilization BY return OF post
came this disclaimer, for pubhcatlon IN IuS
book Itself where it stands as Chapter ~;
It is safe to say that a more CONCISE ana
eloquent appreciation of the Hebrew race
hiss seldom If ever, proceeded from IN Is
tan pen And its appearance at the present
day is especially timely. when whole ma
tion is in the pil!ory for it's blind persecu-
ton Of a Jew as a Jew. The Critic company
has republished this chapter as the elghth
in it's series of Leafets-a four-p9ge pamph-
let, printed on handsome paper with rupl~a--
ed title. 10 cents.)
The special features of Harper's Magazine
for November, 1898. are: TORPEDO Boat
Service"-(Four illustrations by Rotterdam,
and one after photography BY Lieut.. ]. G.
Fremont, U. s. N. commanding the Porter
See extracts on pages PA. with The Fifth
Corps'-(Seven Illustrations, including the
frontispiece by the authorD By Frederic
Remington. See extracts on pages III. IL.
"Our Seaboard Islands on the Pacific
CThirteen illustrations by Orson Lowell,
Henry McCarter and Harry Fenn.) BY John
E. Bennett. See extracts on pages 4, 8.
'sEastward Expansion of the United S,ates''-
By Archibald R. Colquhoun. See extrao' on
pages s. 9. ''SOme Recent Explorations
with four maps, illustrating the routes OF
Nansen, Jackson, Sven Hedin and Savage
Landor) BY J. Scott Kettle, LID, Sec. R.
9. s. See extracts on pages g. l. Bis Bis,
on pages 11-14. Social Life in the British
Army''-Third paper. Seven illustrations by
R. Cation Woodville.) BY a British officer.
See extracts on pages 5, 8. The number
contains also Part II of 1.-The Span o. Life"
by William McLennan and ]. NJ McIilwraith.
illustrated by Frederic Remington; "Pancho's
Happy Family" by Henrietta Dana Skinner;
Sally" the eighth of the Old Chester Tales"
by Margaret Deland, illustrated by Howard
Pyle: "a Reprisal" written and illustrated
by H. w. McVickar; and the CONCLUSION of
can Angel in O. Web by Julian Ralph IL
Illustrated by w. T. smedley. ''The Drawer"
opens with '"The Lady of LIONS" by Wilmot
Price, illustrated by w. A. Rogers, and con-
tans skits by Albert Lee, Oliver HEREFORD
and John Kendriek Bangs.
monument to the Anglo-Saxon poet. Caed-
mon, author of "Paraphrase of the Scrip
lures" was unveiled at Whitby. Sept. q. by
Mr.. Alfred Austin. It would be an interesting
problem for the literary statistcian to de-
termine which Of the two poets represented
that occasion possesses the larger coterie
of readers.-Current Literature.
- noi1cesIer TIC, ae a now IN EuroDa;
left behind him the manuscript Of volume