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.'Bo6bie McDuff"
The only cheerful and commonplace
touch in Mr.. Clinton Ross latest tale
is the title, which was evidently chosen
so as to furnish that sharp contrast
as compared with the contents which
proverbialIy has the effect of wit. AS Is
we'll known, Mr.. Ross writes romances.
This particular romance is all about
the heir to a great Russian name, who
was brought up on Staten Island and
forbidden by his fathers will to go to
Europe. After losing his fortune, he
finds himself in France, where many
strange and absorbing events happen
to him. Abductions, duels. hidden pas
sages. gypsy ancestors, family secrets,
marriages with countesseS-none Of all
the ingredients necessary to spice a
romance of the first order is omitted
from this chronicle of 1.-The Fortunes
of Bobbie McDuff" 1t is a brazen, re-
sounding tale, for which, perhaps, the
title of romance is a little too sub6ued
ana tame. 1t might, with more justice,
be dubbed a literary cocktail.
''Bobbie McDuff," by Clinton Ross. L. C.
Page & Co., Boston. 81. For sale by the
St. Paul Book and Stationery company.
"The Well Bred Girl in Society,""
Mrs Burton Harrison's little booklet,
'"The Well Bred Girl in Society,"" first
appeared as series Of papers in the
Ladies' Home Journal. Considering
that this medium carried them into a
greater number of homes of the kind
most likely to need their sage and
wholesome advice than any one bound
p oT.Ion hat
appearance in book form, however
dainty, seems very mucn Of an after
thought. If there is any young girl in
the country anxious to become "a we'll
bred girl in society,"" but uncertain of
the way of doing it, who does not read
the Ladies Home Journal, we advise
her to purchase this little book.
The precepts laid down are whole
some and simple-we had almost said
natural-and Mrs. Harrison is to be
commended if for no other reason than
that she discounts emphatically the
f1Orid, sensational accounts Of sO-called
high life which fill up so much space
in the Sunday newspapers. Mrs. Har-
rison has quite evidently tried to avoid
the style Of the usual book on etiquette,
but the subject of the well Bred Girl
in Society is a difficult one-especially
when intended for those who need In
if her kindliest advice appear rigid and
conventional, it is again her evident
intention A simpler style and fewer
pOlysyllaIbic words, It seems to us,
would be more suited to the subject
and make much pleasanter reading.
1.-THE Well-Bred Girl in Society,"" by Mrs.
Burton Harrison. Ladies' Home Journal
Girls Library. Doubleday & Mcclure COM
pany. so cents. For sale by the st. Paul
PnOlY oOd OFT
Literary Notes:
The Doubleday & Mcclure company is about
to celebrate it's first anniversary by issuing
what is unquestionably the event of the year
in the publishing world-Mr. Kipline's new
book. The volume is called 'The Days
Work. and contains a dozen stories which
represent the high-water mark OF Mr.. Kip
lings genius thus far. including as they
do examples of his most mature and most
varied work. They range from the sheer
guish The Brushwood Boy to the notable
group of tales embodying the authors own
contribution to the Song of Steam" and
with the throbbing engines of the ocean
steamer and the railway locomotive that
play such a vital part in modern civilization.
Mr.. Kipling has been working over this vol
ume for the last three or four years.
A new edition of Great Words of Great
Americans edited by Paul Leicester Ford,
is being prepared for Immediate publication
by Messrs. c. P Putnam's Sons. The same
firm announces new and revised edition
pressons and TRANSACTIONS by Maurice Hew-
lett. 1t will contain new preface and
number of Illustrations especially designed
for this edition. Mr.. Hewlett's range, limited
by this work in the first instance to artistic
and critical circles, has been recently Wild
ened by his popular romance, The Forest
Lovers" now in its fourth edition.-Book-
man.
The October issue Of the Art Interchange
brings two excellent color plates-one
view of early Winter" showing a frozen
brook lined with beech trees the other
cluster of Summer Roses" The pictorial
Fisherman, by BaiXeras which serves as
frontispiece to the number, showing pic
tureSque type of seaman in his boat in the
harbor gathering his harvest of cookies.
Anthony Hope has just finished a novel
which is devoted to very delicate and pene-
trating study of Dsraen. 1t is a new de-
velopment in the novelist's career and will
be anticipated with great interest.-Book-
man.
The Lippincotts have made a lucky find in
the correspondence between Charles Lamb
and Robert Lloyd. which is promised at
once. Robert Lloyd was brother to the
Charles Lloyd who. with Lamb and Cole
ridge issued an early volume of poems He
young, leaving little work of an enduring
kind Robert Lloyds correspondence with
Lamb gives view by new angle into the
! hospitable London menage Of the Lambs. The
| letters are of much value on many accounts
and VIII be welcomed by all lovers of Ella
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's new book, entitled
Home Life in Colonial Days" will be pub
ltshed at an early date by the Macmillan
company. Mrs: Earle's researches into Amer
lean life are already too well known to need
description. In this beautifully illustrated
book the author introduces us to the homes
of colonists first of all. She then leads
us by the light of other days, that is by
| household and home circle The serving of
meals. for instance. and domestic occupation
has especially attracted tire author. She
gives some chanters uron fax, wool culture
and spinning. hand weaving, girls occupa-
tons. jackknife industries etc All with fine
be book which should appeal with a par-
tfcular force to those whose family traditions
carry them back to the days of which Mrs
Earle writes.
The three prizes in the Century Magazines
| competition for the best story, poem and
essay, open to students who received the
degree of B. A. in 1897. have been won 6v
young women; although moro men than
women entered the competition Two of tha
prize winners are Vassar graduates. and ons
is from Smith.
The report of the competition will appesr in
| the November Century, with the prize story
"A Question of Happiness" by Miss Grace
NJ Gallaher: Of Essex, Conn.,. who graduated
at Vassar. B. A., 1897.
The old established Boston firm Of Roberts
BROS has ceased to be-Messrs Little Brown
q 90. having acquired the title and good will
OF the business. Messrs Hardy Pratt &, IN
a new firm Issuing from the old have secured
the subscription books of the late firm. among
"hich the B2lZac IS the mainstay. The