The age-herald., 1898-08-07

us not to confound Robert Herrick, the author of "The Gospel of Freedom" with that eminent divine and very excellent English poet, Robert Herrick. The elder Herrick only passed on to the silent ma jority some two centuries ago. This is al- most as bad as the Spaniards announcing that Washington" would take command of the American forces.
 We learn with genuine pleasure that Dr. A. Conan Doyle is writing a series of detective stories for "The Strand Maga- zine. They are entitled Round the Fire" and are treated ala Sherlock Holmes, with the great amateur detective left out. The natural query in every ones heart Is, Will our friend Holmes ever be brought back to life from his lonely grave in some AL pine ravine?
 Apropos of detective stories the present supply hardly equalB the demand. We don't care where the scenes are laid, be they in New York, Newport, Paris or the empire of the Car; = they only present difficult problems solved with much pict- uresqueness and excitement they will al- ways fascnate the public Detective sto- ries might very appropriately be called fairy tales for adults"
 The council of the celebrated order of France, "The Legion of Honor" has erased the name of M. Emile Zola from the roll of it's members. More than half a million men have been decorated With the order of the Legion of Honor which was lnsu- tuted in May, 1892 In an old letter written by Robert Louis Stevenson, we ma thls interesting obiter dicta: "For Zola nave no toleration, though the curious, emi- nently bourgeois, and eminently frencn creature has power of a kind. But l would he were deleted! I would not give chap ter of old Dumas for the whole boiling Of the Zoas. Romance with the smallpox diseased and black hearted, and funda- mentally at enmty with joy"
 Miss verina Anne Jefferson Davis, bet ter known as Miss "Winnie" Davis es- saved some work in a literary way several years ago and later published her first book "The Yelled Doctor The Work possessed enough merit and promise to make her friends look hopefully for fur ther efforts on her behalf. Recently she has published another novel under the title of "A Romance of Summer Seas. The story is told in conversational form by one of the guests at a country summer house; a MT. Bush, who is given the sug- gestive title of "Globe Trotter." The book is pronounced a very pleasant one for sum mer reading and should encourage MISS Davis to further effort. It will hold an honored place in the literary output Of that New York literary society, "Ihe Llttie Sisters of the Quill of which the author is a prominent member.
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 -1fiiIcie is possibly no enconium dearer to a young writer's heart than to hear some eminent authority upon things literary de- clare "Henceforth MT. So and So is to be reckoned with" This assertion of the fact that he is a coming novelist was recently put forth about Mr. Bernard Capes. He has published an historical novel. 1.-The Adventures of the Comte de la Muette,' which is having a good sale in London. It will be published in this country in the fall. It is also stated that MT Capes' he roine is alone sufficient to make the for tune of the book.
 "The Nigger of the Narcissus," by MT. Joseph Conrad, re-christened by American publishers, "The Children of the Sea-" has been one of the most successful books of the year in England. MT. Conrad has been a fairly rrolific writer since he made his first appearance, two or three years ago, with "Almayer's Folly" In his volume of short stories, "Tales of Unrest" three of them are sketches of the Dutch and Span ish Indies, a region which MT. Conrad's imagination has annexed to English litera- ture almost as completely as British India has been annexed by the imagination of MT. Kiplng, or the South Sea Islands by Stevenson. MT. Conrad is a Pole by birth, and his early years were spent in Poland. At the age of 13 he found his way to Paris. drifted to Marseiles, and afterward to seafaring life. He later married an France. PAUL PRY.