The age-herald., 1898-08-14
'The Gadfy" has gone into it's twelfth

"The Gadhy" has gone into it's twelfth impression.
 "Tekla,'' by Robert Barr, author of "The Mutable Many" etc, will soon be pub lished by Stokes & Co.,
 new novel by Gertrude Atherton en- titled "Californians," will be ready early in September. Miss Atherton is the au- thor of Patience Sparhawk.''
 Robert w. Chambers, whose recent vol ume of short stories, "The Haunts of Men," has gained such wide popularity will soon have ready another volume, "The Ashes of Empire"
 Henry Cabot Lodges "Story of the Revo- lution," which is now running as a serial in Scribners Magazine, will be brought out in the early autumn.
 particularly elegant volume on Gains borough" is being prepared by Walter Arm strong, of the British Museum. The work will be illustrated with twelve colored miniature fac-simies of Gainsboroughs paintings and twenty other full-page pict- ures.
 This seems to be a great era for the translation of popular novels into nearly all languages, even Japanese, into which "The Choir Invisible" has just been turn ed and is said to be meeting with great success in the land of the chrysanthemum. Octave Uzanne, a well known French author of polite literature, is now in Lon don collecting material for a volume on English society. He has been doing "The Ring" and ascot, and generally casting a critical but not unfriendly eye upon local manners and pastimes.
 M. Uzanne has also just completed work entitled History of Fashion in Paris. It will probably be brought out in this country in an edition de luxe in the late fall. It will be elaborately illus trated.
 In the "American Review of Reviews" is decidedly the best article yet written upon the subject of the great marine bat tie outside the harbor of Santiago on July 3. It is entitled "The Battle with Cevera's Fleet off Santiago" and is written by Winston Churchill, the author of "The Celebrity, WhlCn mas cduSen SUCH TeCeHt widespread favorable comment by critics and reviewers MT. Churchill is a native of St. Louis, and is doing some splendid work along literary lines. As a graduate of the naval academy at Annapolis, he is peculiarly fitted to write about naval hap penings.
 In writing this article about the great destruction of Cerveras fleet, the author evnces the most pronounced dramatic abll- ity His descriptive powers and vivid im- agination gives the reader swift and lucid picture of the conflict; all the more extraordinary as MT. Churchill evidently did not personally see the events he is re- lating "The enemy is going west, signall- ed the Vixen, at the first swerye of the bow, as she scuttled out of the Brook lyn's fire, and the 'Resolute' was already dashing off to Siboney, where the admiral was in conference with General Shafter. Another vessel shot out of the narrow way, then another and another, and then came the gleam of those peculiar white waves which naval men knew so well belong to a torpedo boat in full cry. Painting and throbbing like live things mad with terror, the six ships, brides of the Spanish navy, were running for the open sea- Don Quix- ote was titing full speed at the Wind mill" This short quotation serves to show the authors wonderful picturesqueness In future look out for the name of Win ston Churchill"
 "AlI the wit in the world Is lost on him that has none" said La Bruyere, and this might very aptly apply to those captious critics who declare that John Kendrick Bangs writes tedious and tiresome books.