The Saint Paul globe., 1898-10-30

Der an account of the home and working
habits 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
tained under the parental eye amongst the
1C0, 600 books and periodicals housed therein.
The store Of knowledge there acquired has
fed, not quenched, the flame of originality
which 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
sicaI robustness, Mr.. Ford Is yet an inde-
fatigabIe worker. Lindsay Swift's article
above referred to is illustrated with por-
trait lof Mr.. Ford and photograph If his
lfbrary-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
of next spring. John Kendrick Bangs Is
writing ''Olympian Nights" The Southern
Humorists child's book The Memoirs OF
Santa Claus" may be looked for this year;
George W. Cable is occupied with novel
to be called 1.-THE Cavalier, which Will draW
upon his experiences as soldier In the Con-
federate army. Mr.. Howells is writing
novel for Harper'S MaSaZlue. +AliCe NlOIS %
Earle has finished an extensive work about
ssIIome Life in Colonial Days" Prof. Chares
G. d. Roberts, whose sister to EVangehhe
is among the October publications. has in
view two series Of short stories. One series
will deal with the early history oil the cQun-
try of the great lakes, and the other, wnlcn
will probably be called BY the Marshes oI
Miras - will treat of old Acadian life. Her
bert F. HambIin, recently risen to 1ame
through his engineer and sea st0Tles II 1t
work upon more of the same general cha[acr ITa5-,
fer One of them is a story OF the Ne"
Work fire department, which will go back to
tho days of hand engines. Miss mary H.
Wilkins hopes to write M nTVel anu anu, 'JIe boe
short stories. Miss Ellen Oney AIrk mas
fnished one book and has commenced an
other.
vnen .eThe Shadow Chr1st'-that remark
abIe hook by the Rev. Gerald Stan1ey Les
was in preparation for the press, IVY SS"Ls @
ago the author was asked pY MS Popq- Pq!I ~
If there were not some way IN Wh1cl 1t
MIGHT he made to appear that the occasional
severity of its structures on the hebrews VI
the Old Testament was due not to any rac.al
or religious prejudice, but to dispaSsioI.a.e
study of the men of those primi i've times
in the light of more complex anu nlsLy
developed civilization BY return OF pos
this disclaimer for PuollcaGthton Gh+ar ar ~
1t is safe to say that more c3nc.se anu anu
eloquent appreciation of the HEBREW raGe
has seldom, If ever. proceeded IRON m saS Gn..s
dav is especially timely, when Wnole ma
ton is in the pillory for its blind persecu-
tion of a Jew as a Jew; The Crltlc company .p1y
has republished this chapter as the eightn
in it's series of Leafets-a four-p2ge pamph-
let printed on handsome paper with rubri a
ed title. 10 cents.)
The special features of Harpers Magazine
for November, 1898, are Torpedo Boat
Service"-Four Illustrations by Reuterdahl,
and one after photography By Lieut. j. Q.
Fremont U. 8. N, commanding the Porter.
Coo IN 2-4
Corps"-(Seven~ Illustrations including the
frontispiece, by the author) BY Frederic
"Our Seaboard Islands on the Pacific
(Thirteen illustrations by Orson Lowell,
Henry McCarter and Harry Fenn.) BY john
E. Bennett. See extracts on pages 4, 3.
By Archibald R. Co,quhoun. See extr3c' on
pages s, 9. ''Some Recent Explorations s.
with four maps, illustrating the routes OF
Nansen, Jackson, Sven Hedin and Savage
Landor0 By J. Scott Kettle. LID, Sec. r.
G. S. See extracts pages, s, T. Bis
marck"-By Sidney Whitman. See extracts
on pages lila Social Life in the British
Army'-Third paper. (Seven illustrations by
R. Cation Woodville.) BY British officer
See extracts on pages 8, o. The number
contains also Part II. Of The Span O. Life.
illustrated by Frederic Remington; "Pancho's
Happy Family by Henrietta Dana skinner;
"Sally," the eighth of the o,d Chester Tales" "
by Margaret Deland, illustrated by Howard
Pyle; "A Reprisal,'' written and illustrated
by H. w. McVickar; and the conclusion OF
Gan Angel in a Web by Julian Ralph, IL
Illustrated by W. T. Smedley ''The Drawr r.
opens with 1.-THE Lady of Li2ns,' by Wimot
Price, illustrated by w. A. Rogers, ard con-
tains skits by Albert Lee, Oliver Herford
and John Kendrick Bangs.
A monument to the Anglo-Saxon poet, Caed-
mon author of "Paraphrase of the Scrip
tures," was unveiled at Whttby, Sept. q, by
Mr.. Alfred Austin. 1t would be an interesting
problem for the literary statistcian to de-
termine which Of the two poets represented
on that occasion possesses the larger coterie
of readers.-Current Literature
Paul Lelscester Ford, who is now in Europe
left behind him the manuscript of a volume