The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-25
"Barra2k-Room Ballads"

"BarTaG Ks Room BALLADS.
There cannot be too much of a good
thing. And for the present generation
a vest-pocket Kipling is to the full
as desirable and necessary as was a
vest-pOcket TennysOn for the youth of
forty years ago. William DOXey, Of
San Francisco, who issues his volumes
CAT the Sign Of the Lark" is the enter
prising publisher who has first realized
our need for portable pellets of Kipling.
He has brought out in the series
known as The Lark Classics" a little
volume which contains the Barrack
Room Ballads and other verses, includ-
ing 'TOmlinson," 'Recessional," IAN
Imperial Rescript," and some of the
earlier and little known verse Of the
man who is classic at thirty three.
The volume is daintily gotten up, print,
paper and the size of the book being
such as to remind the reader OF the
famous Temple editions of r. M.
same series this is purcPasable in cloth,
paper or leather binding, and is salts
factory in any dress.
"Barrsck-Ro9m Ballads. Recessional. Etc"
by Rudyard Kipling. William Doxey. San
Francisco. Cloth, limp, so cents.
Tales of the Trail"
n collection of short sketches by
Col. 1nman, the author Of THE Santa
Fe Trail" has been published under the
name Of Tales Of the Trail" These
sketches originally appeared In maya
zines and papers and are really mem
cry notes made by Col Inman from
his stirring and varied experiences as
an Indian fighter. Being true stories"
thH1y
their literary merit is not of the great
est-COl. Inman is d soldier and uses
his zen for the stories sake alone.
Having known the frOntiersmen Of
fame with knowledge born OF battles
fought together and many a campfire
shared, he has not alone the tales of
the adventures he himself took part in
to tell, but many of the campfire stories
of older men to relate as we'll Kit
Car1On's varied adventures come under
the last division, for Carson, whom
Col IEman represents as the most ret
icent of men, would yet talk when the
tight hour and the right listener came
together. There are thirteen sketches
of varying interest in the volume, and
their heroes are such men as FoTSythe,
Maxwell, Henderson, Kit Carson and
Custer, and their themes are usually as
thrilling as lie and death struggles
can make them.
'Tales CT the Trail" by Col. Henry Inman
Crane G. Co.. Topeka, Kan. $780, For
sale by the st. Pau Book and Stationery
company.
N0teS.
Mr.. w. w Jacobs is making progress slow
ly with his Few novel. A volume Of his short
ss-dssimilar in locae to that OF his
Many Cargoes will precede the publication
hoo
preached Mr. Jacobs with a view to pursuade
Elm to write a numerous play, but present
engagements and ether reasons have pre-
vented him from attempting the experiment
perhaps not NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The House of Hidden Treasure" Maxwell
Gray's forthcoming novel, is regarded by the
author as her most important and significant
work since The Silence of Dean Maitland"
The scene is laid for the most pare in Eng
land and the story opens in the sixties
There is strong and prevailing charm in
this new novel; says the London Chronicle
in the course of a long and enthusiastic re-
view of the book which is characterized as
a Eicture OF "a woman's ideal" and free
from morbid thoughts and theories The
London Spectator says: " The Silence of
Dean Maitland was a very popular novel,
and we can not see why TIE House of HES
den Treasure should not rival the sue ISIS OF
its forerunner." This book will be issued
Immediately by d. Appleton Co.
he DOUh ulOn WiIlCn MI iNlueT f1dSSdrU
is now engaged will, we understand, embody
his experience as a farmer on a portion Of
his own etsate at Buckingham 1t will be
entitled THE Farmers Year" Some por-
lions of it will probably be published in
Lcngman's Magazine prior to the publication
of the whole in volume form. Meantime his
new novel, THE Swallow" continues its
serial course In England Australia and
in this country in Munsey 's.-Bookman.
The October number Of St. Nicholas opens
with two articles on Queen Wilhelmina Of
Holland both Of them illustrated from photo
graphs The articles are written by Annie
C. Kniper and Jeanette May Fisher, and
contain many pretty stories about the merry
girl queen. Under the Sea" .is a paper
that divers meet, contributed by James Cas-
sidy Charles F. w. Mielatz gives "a Boys
RecoIections of the Great Chicago Fire"
wildly recalled despite the lapse of years.
Several times the author was almost hemmed
in by the rush of the flames. Gustav Kobbe
writes of Battling with Wrecks and Dere-
llcts" those constant menaces to navigation.
Appropriately following this is a story Of
the West Indies THE Tr-tons Chase of
Derelict" by Kate Epson Clark, telling how
an enterprising boy picked up rich prize.
"a Tackle in Time" is a story Of the
Philippines with a flavor of football, the
title would suggest, written by Charles
Bryanty Howard ..
A representative of the Critic spent two
days in the state department at Washington
recently and the result is seen in the Sep
TENDER number OF that magazine. where
twelve pages are filled with James Russell
LoWenS dispatches describing the state e