The age-herald., 1898-12-04

Sir Edwin Arnold's new book, "The Queens Justice" true story of Indian life, will be published in the course of a week or two. .z4f t.i.5
 Books on the war coming from America are "A Short History of the War With Spain," by Marion Wilcox, and "Heroes of Our Late War with Spain," by Clinton Ross.
 An interesting dispute has been going on over the statement made in leading per- iodical that Dr. A. Black is stepbrother 'of the eminent Dutch novelist, Maarten Martens" The solution of the diversity of names seems to be that the name of both the novelist and the principal of the school of fiction Is Schwartz, "Anglice Black"
 
 novel by the late Harold Frederic, the last work he completed before his illness, months. The serial rights have been bought by an illustrated weekly paper
 American fiction could i'll afford to lose so good writer as Harold Frederick, who died recently in Henley, England. His great success as novelist was late in com ing and for many years he had been a disappointed man. His reputation as a nov elist was hardly more than ten years old, but we had come to think of him as one of our foremost story-telers.
 Harold Frederick was born on a farm in central New York in 1856; he eventually found himself landed in journalism. As a correspondent his work has become very widely known. His imaginative works comprise some ten or eleven volumes. Tn the Valley" has been spoken of as one of the best historical novels that we have; it is strong and vivid portrayal of the revo- lutionary period. "The Damnation of Ther- on Ware" MT. Frederick's most successful work, has for it's theme the warfare of re- ligious beliefs waged in the soul of a man. Of 1t reviewer says: MT. Frederick has aimed to produce great and typical pic ture Of American life, and an unerring in- stinct has taught him that such a picture must be concerned with the life of a small community rather than with the more at- tractive but also more sophisticated civili- zation of the great cities"
 MT. T rreuerlcK w. Morton, whose compil- ations entitled Woman in Epigram" and Man in Epigram,' have found much fa- vor, has now prepared Love in Epigram," a third collection of the same character.
 The Christmas number of the Pail Mall Magazine contains, among other good things, an article by I. Zangwill It will be tale called They That Walk in Dark ness," and the color for it will be drawn from the Ghetto"
 William Le Queux's ''Whoso Flndeth Wife" is announced by the publishers.
 It is said that nobody in Paris believed even eight months ago that "Cyrano" could possibly have success in this country, and for that reason MT. Rostand did not think 1t worth while to protect his rights hare and 1t was through his sheer modesty that some people undertook to protect them for him in way.
 The translation by Miss Gertrude Hall of "Cyrano de Bergerac'' is now in its thir- teenth thousand. Every copy of Miss Halls translation that is sold pays him a royalty, and the success of MT. Mansfield's produc- tion is netting MT. Rostand something like $100 day.
 The London dailies that seemed to get an untold amount of satisfaction out of the establishment beyond dispute of the De Rougemont imposture, now comes forward to verify the story published some time ago and signed "Kassandra Vivaria." This story deals with the life of young Italian girl, autobiographed in treatment and real
 
 "Yes?" put in the good old clergyman sympathetically.