The age-herald., 1898-11-13
M-BY PAUL FRY.

Max Pembsrton is busily engaged in dramatizing his recently published story, "Ikronstadt."
 The advance orders of "Tekla." Robert Barr's latest work, far exceed those of any of his previous works
 ''Tattle Tales of Cupid" by Paul Leices- ter Ford, will be published this month. MT. Fords Story of an Untold Love- is now in its fiftieth thousand.
 What will interest the English-speaking public. says a French correspondent. is the greater and greater recognition that Rudyard Kipling is winning in France.
 Until "Cyrano de Bergerac" became fa- ous through Copuelin's presentation of tho play in Paris. some months ago. the name of its author was known to very few in this country, although he had already es- tablished himself in France as a poet of consequence MT. Edmond Rostand is a native of Marseiles and a Parisan by res- idenceidence. He was but twenty-three years old when he published his first com edy.
 Madame Sara Bernhardt next took his poetical paraphrase of the woman of Sa- maria, La Samaritaine," and made tre- mendous success of 1t. This fall-M Rich ard Mansfield appeared in Rostand's "Cy- rano de Bergerac," ,"-and no dramatic event of the season was anticipated with such a keen and sustained interest. This play can now be obtained in book form, paper binding.
 In fact, suggestion was made lately to the effect that English and American pub fishers might find it profitable to follow the fashion of the French in publishing the best or most successful plays of the hour. Following upon this timely hint, we le arn that certain publisher now has in press MT. Anthony Hopes little comedy, ''The Adventure of Lady Ursula" which is being presented with so much success by MT. and Mrs. Sothern in New York.
 MT. stephen Crane, the popular young author of "The Red Badge of Courage" who went to Cuba as war correspondent, is said to be in Havana at present, hard at~work. His novel will be based on scenes of the late war. It is nearly completed, and will be published in short time. The publishers predict that there will be much interesting criticism about the book.
 ''DeSoto and His Men in the Land of Florida" is the title of Miss Grace Kings new book to be published this month This story is based upon the Spanish and Por- tuguese accounts of Conquest" by the brilliant armada which sailed westward under DeSoto in 153S It is most enter tainingly written and is beautifully illus trated.
 Miss Agnes Reppliers History of Phil adelphia" will be published shortly. This work Is in the same series and in some sort uniform with the charming volume on New Orleans which Miss Grace King brought out a year or two ago. In this volume Miss Repplier has traced the for tunes of the Quaker City from the day that Charles II. granted the province of "Sylvania" to William Penn, and gave his royal blessing in the harbor of London to Penn's first colOnists. Miss Agnes Rep- plier has gained an enviable reputation as an essayist She has always lived in the Quaker City, so that her volume should be valuable from an authentic as well as literary point of view.
 There has recently been published in a leading magazine '"The Adventures of De Rougemont," said to be the actual expe- riences of man who spent thirty years among the cannibals of Australia. It now comes about that De Rougemont, whose real name is Grin, spent most of these thirty years in Europe courier and valet. So that the Wide World" cannot longer exploit the experiences as true when has been exposd as an imposter.
 
 MT. Guy Boothby seems to have a large sale for his books in London. His work, ''The Fascination of the King" had an extraordinary run in the metropolis. Later @"Dr. Nikola'' was also a great pecuniary success. But all this does not signify that MT. Boothby really writes good books He has had no sales whatever, to speak of, in the United States, and even in London a recent critic admits the popularity of his books, but pertinently asks, 'Is it art?" Across the World for a Wife" has just been published by MT. Boothby, but if 1t Is no better than "The Fascination of the King" 1t, too, will deserve the homer characteristically applied by MT. Alden pot boilers."
 Nothing in a literary way seems to be causing quite so much comment mostly favorable, as Mr. Ruryard Kipling's "The Truce of the Bear" One reviewer says that if Mr. Kfpling means Russia when he writes:
 ''When he shows as seeking quarter, with
 pawlike hands in prayer,
 That is the time of peril-the time of "The
 Truce of the Bear,"
 that one copy of ..Literature'' will be all smeared over with black ink in the Rus sian censor's office before it reaches sub scribers in Russia. Apropos of Adam Zad,' it is interesting to know that 'Zad" is Persian for born, and "Adam-Zad" means Adam born, just as Shad-zada means king-born sahb-zada lord-born.
 
 Stanes Weyman's new novel, "Castle Inn," is on sale at the book stores. Read