The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
Literary Notes,

If anyone thinks that Fenimore Cooper
has ceased to be read let him say why
Messrs. Houghton, Mifiin & Co. are prepar
ing to publish in October an entirely new ed
ton of the Leather Stocking Tales in five
handsome volumes. Many writer's mistake
their poorest work for their best, but it is
worth remembering that Cooper himself de-
clared that his Leather stocking Tales
stood a better chance of permanent popular
ity than anything else he wrote-The Book
Buyer.
Besides the fifteen illustrations in the arti-
Gle on Author Diplomats" the October
critic contains portraits of many noted au-
thors of the day. Mr.. Mortimer Mempes'
hitherto unpublished Whistler Of the snowy
lock is the frontspiece. Mr.. zangwiIl s pho
tograph by Hollinger was made especially
for the Critic. A photograph of Mark Twain
at Onteora is also seen here for the fist
time, and one of Mr.. Spencer Tra:k, the
banker-author Miss Viola Allen as Glory
Quayle in THE Christian" appears on the
front cover of the magazine. And other inter-
esting faces are those Of Lieut.. NJ Is, the
new superintendent of the West Point Mill
tary academy; NJ. Louis de R0ugemont the
famous traveller and adventurer Mrs. Rich
mond Richie, Gilbert Parker, the late Rich
ard Malcolm Johnston, Kassandra Hiyaria,
Henry James, Daudet and his daughter, Miss
Fanny Davenport and the vivacious Gyp.
The Young Man, an English publication,
gives the following account of how Mr.. Kip
ling became converted to the idea of prohi-
bition:
''Mr. Rudyard Kipling tells us how in a
concert hall in America he saw two young
men get two girls drunk and then lead them
Keeling down a dark street. Mr.. Kipling has
not been total abstainer, nor have his writ
ings commended temperance, but of that
scene he writes: Then, recanting previous
opinions, I became prohibitionist. Better
it is that a man should go without his beer
in public places, and content himself with
swearing at the Observation-Disclosures of the
majority: better 1t is to poison the inside with
very vile temperance drinks, and to buy
lager furtfvely at back doors, than to br ng
temptation to the lips OF young fools such as
the four l had seem l understand now why
| the preachers rage against drink. 1 have
said, There is no harm In it, taken moder-
ately;" and yet my own demand for beer
helped directly to send these two girls reel
ing down the dark street to-God alone knows
| what end. If liquor Is worth drinking, it is
| worth taking a little trouble to come at
| such trouble as a man will undergo to COM
| pass his own desires 1t is not good that we
! should let 1t lie before the eyes of children,
| and have been a fool in writing to the con-
| trary.'"
| should entirely agree with Mr.. Kipling if
prohibition did prohibit; but it does not
| notably in the safe where this distinguished
! author made his American home.-The
| Lounger, in the Critic.
Among the noteworthy holiday produc-
lions is Bachelor Ballads" arranged and
| set to pictures by Blanche McManus. The
| old favorites by Thackeray. Hood, Sheridan,
| Lamb, Longfellow, ]. @. Adams, Crane and
| Kipling have been collected and quantity IL
! Illustrated in tint. striking feature of the
book Is the unique cover design by the same
| artist The publishers, the New Amsterdam
Book company. state that nearly the entire
! first edition has been sold in advance of pub
lication.
The period of 1S55-7O was the golden age
/ Of English illustration, and in volume IS
sued BY New 1ho BOOK bo8 hnay en-
cluded, in Photographers. line and etching;
| numerous examples Of the early work OF
nearly all the men who are now nov foremost 1G.S
lads. Edward Burne-Jones, Whistler, Rossetti.
Du Maurier and many others;
strang the %tb W singer
excellent description Of the different processes
| Of etching and engraving, entitled Etching,
| ing Pictures" The various processes are IL
| Illustrated with original plates by the author.
| Tn a volume to be called Along the Trail, y
Richard Hovey has brought together the
| lyrics he has written during fifteen years;
with the exception of those which found
| their way into the two Vagabond1a vol
umes. That the trail" extends well into To3 the
two eVS'' Of the poems at the beginning, of the
hook 1.-The Word of the Lloyd from Havana
ga "ITnmanifest Destiny" Messrs. Small,
Maynard & Co., of Boston, will publish the
volume.
| INLAY TAYLOR, who wrote ''On the Red
] Staircase" and "An Imperial Lover, has
| been working for the past year on new
story called "a Yankee Volunteer" which