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Congressman Charles s. Hartman. OF
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Famous Actresses of the Day in Amer
ica,'' by Lewis G. Strang. Published by
L. c. Page & Co.; Boston. - i'=,'..
Mr.. Strang announces in his preface
that he is merely g. compiler and editor
SO far as biographical details are concern
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mere dry biographical details" He. says
with a personality of the 5most, persua-
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can stage" Speaking of Julia .MarloWe
he tells, what great many people. dc not
know, that her real name is, Sarah
Frances Frost. He next discusses Sarah
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at all In the West, following with Minnie
Madden Fiske, of whom he says. There
is a piquancy about her performance that
Is difficult to describe, and a zest In the
way she makes her points that establishes
them with wonderful clearness." After a
few words about Ida Conquest he takes
up Blanche Walsh; Annie Russell, Isabel
Irving and Maxine Elliott, of whom, by
the way, he gives a picture which does
not do justice to her beauty. Then fol-
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OF whom he says: miss Arthur is al
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and she never tears passion to tatters. y
Then he takes up May Irwin, Fife Shan
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theatergoers; Mrs. Leslie Carter, Mary
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Two Pilgrims Progress" by Joeenh and
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Max and Maurice" by Wilhelm Busch
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,I FlIe and Drum at Louisbourg" by J.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Dodd, Mead & Co. have just issued a
pretty edition of George Eliots 'SiIas
Mariner" 1t is cleverly Illustrated by
Reginald Birch.
Little. Brown & Co.. have published, in
appropriate red binding. Gaboriau's thrill
ing novel, File No. 49,
1t has been remarked that whereas for
several years past the popular novels have
been almost without exception by English
authors. yet suddenly there has been a
renaissance Of American fiction The
three or four books which are now selling
best Richard Carvel." David Harum. i"
When Knighthood Was in Flower" and
several others of less prominence are all
by American authors. To this number
must be added Paul Ford's novel, Janice
Meredith which. though published only
three weeks ago, has already reached the
sixtieth thousand.
In a letter written by Mr. Egerton Cas-
tie to q friend in New York he says that
under the literary phantasy of their garb,
the King to the Philosopher are person.
ages who were still living In the middle
of this century, men and women whose
doings and adventures had In days gone
by been recounted to the author by one
who had known them ALL some of them
intimately-namely by the authors own
father The names of the actors are
however disguised, the dates suitably al
tered, and the exact situation of "the
Germanic Confederation Kinglets'-as the
irate Guardsman has it's left vague with
a purpose.
Brilliant as the autumn tints of the
woods and fields it loves so we'll are the
pages Of Outing for November. The buck
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I tory. Many of these little volumes which
are the delight of children come in pre-
tentious bindings and are filled with ex-
traordinary fine illustrations, to say moth
ine of the splendid letter press contained
between their covers.
Ten volumes have come to the C o e
within the past few days from Little,
Brown & Co., Boston. Two of these,
Max and Maurice" and "PIish and
: Plum, are for the little toddlers of the
nursery Both are profusely illustrated
and each is printed on paper Of gaudy
coIors. With Fife and Drum at Louis
oourg is book for boys. and an admira-
bic one, too. Madam Mary of the Zoo
Is in Lily F. Wesselhoeft' best style, the
story being charming one about chill
dren and animals. THE Young Puritans
In Captivity is the third of the young
Puritans" series, and tells the story Of
three English children in captivity among
the Indians during King Philips war.
A. g. Plympton's "A Flower of the VIII
derness' is superb yarn of the old Bay
state in colonial days. THE Island I'M
possible" as its name suggests, puts
party Of children in impossible positions,
out Is charming from the fact that it
makes them do most remarkable things.
Gertrude Smiths Boys of Manniton
Prairie will appeal to boys Of this sec
ton, as 1t deals with Western life. Ev-
elyn Raymond's Boys and Girls of
Brantham" is a very bright and enter
tanning story of young life in a military
academy. Rob and Kit" is interes ing
throughout and has many touches Of hu-
NOR. Bruno" is the story of a dog,
tolo py BYRD Spilman Dewey, which, in
the words of the author Is dedicated
to all who have ever loved one of those
faithful creatures Of whom we, in our
ignorance and vanity, are wont to speak
as the lower animals"
From Lee & Shepard, Boston we have
by the latest mail Under Otis in the
Philippines. 1t is Edward Strateneyer's
latest of the 'Old Glory Series" and tells
in thrilling manner the story of a
young American officers career in the
tropics.
Dana Estes e. Co.. Boston, have nut
forth Laura e. Richards peggy" a
volume of over 800 pages in a gorgeous
yellow cover. The Illustrations, excellent
etehinss: are by Etheldred B. Barry.
From Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston,
comes "Nannie's Happy Childhood" by
caroline Leslie Field, a book for young
sters from ten to fourteen The authors
style is clear, catchy and entertaining.
The same firm has just published Sarah
Orne JeWetts Betty Leicester Christ
mas one of the prettiest short stories
for children of the holiday season
l.. c. Page & 90, Boston. send out "a
Child's History of Spafn.'' 1t is by
Leonard Williams. and tells in straight
forward, simple language of the rise Of
the CASTLES to the zenith of their power
and then of their fall to the position Of
fifth rate nation. This company also
sends out i've books Of the Cosy Corner
Series; Annie Fellows Johnston's 1.-TWO
Little knights of kentucky" Charles s.
Pratts Little Peterkin Vandike;" Mel
lie Heliis' Little King Davie;" William
]. Longs ''The Making of Z:mri
Bunker" and Edith Robinson's "A Little
Daughter of Liberty"
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"Jane Eyre"

Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, with
an introduction by Mrs, Humphrey
Ward. Published by Harper & Bros,
New York and London.
Harper & Bros. have taken UP a pop
ular work in publishing the tHaworth Ell
ton of the life and works. of the sisters
Bronte The books will have prefaces
by Mrs. Humphry Ward and annotations
to Mrs. Gaskells life of Charlotte Bronte
by Clement K. Shorter, The edition will
be in seven volumes, the first of which
will be that superb story, Jane Eyre,
which, though given to the public over
fifty years ago, is most frequently drawn
from the libraries by the young. people
speaking the English language, The Sc
ries is prettily bound in green, with a s
worked on the cover, and; is sp!endidly IL
Illustrated.
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1For Loves sweet sakeo

For Loves Sweet Sake; Selected Poems
of Love in All Moods" edited by G.
HembeTt, Wesley. Lee & Shepard.
Boston, publishers. For sale by ST
Paul Book and Stationery Company
The one original feature in this compi-
lation is the arrangement of the table of
contents-the four chapters-in the fol-
lowing conceit:
Page.
glad Observation-Disclosures.
2; II. Love has a ncont:de -fair..... 49
III. Love has evening-slg Ching, sad .1t5
Y: Love has night-despair.. I57
Choer these. respective headings the
editor has culled amorous poetry from the
authors of all lands and languages. trans
latiOns of the latter being given. from
Thomas Moore to Alice MeynoH. -Four of
the poems are original, from the pen of
the author, Mr. Wesley 1t is not too
high praise to say that they are not the
worst in the volume by any means. The
absence from this compilation of eroto-
clsm IS to be gratefully commended by
the reader even though we are bereft
the sensaticnalism of Swinburne and Ella
wheeler Wilcox. AS q substitute for a
book of familiar quotations, For Love $
sweet Sake will be found good one.
wren only the subject of love Is to be
calculated. Here we have love in all it's
moods and lenses, with the exception per-
maps OF intense Sapphire passion II is
a work that can be safely placed in the
hands Of any young girl, for the compiler
mas given a wide berth to all poems of
passion, and brought together much more
f. OF the platonic than the Ovidian.
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more associated with tender feeling than
the old inverted boat, the prototype OF
which is now to be ASSOCIATED from its
original site. The old time-stained hulk
will be torn down to make room for
trade. The moss-grown tinbers, every
one Of which is linked In the minds and
of the great novelist's masterpiece, will
be torn apart and burned up, except such
pieces as will be carried away by relic
hunters, and a warehouse or something
quaint old structure which gave back
ground for a picture which. for It's In
tense humanity, Its power to move, its
contrast of the most selfish Of Vices and
the most generous of virtues, has few
equals to be found anywhere In English
literature. ~ -
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Peggotty's house, the home of Little
Emily and Of Peggotty herself and Of
Ham Peggotty, is to be taken away from ron
been sold by auction for 9460 (about
$4,000, and will be removed. from the
surroundings in which Dickens first saw
it and in which it has remained for many
a year since. The home of the Peggottys
is one of the principal scenes in David
Copperfeld." 1t was there and on the
seashore near IT that 'Davy': spent the
he played at child love: with little Emily.
Thither came the Incompatible Steer
forth and thence he fled with Emily, and
not far away he lay with his head upon
his arm" las David had often seen him
lie at SCHOOL,. but this time on the sand
and cold dead. No scene in Dickens is
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NManHPrS.v

'Manders; a Tale of Paris" bv EIwvn
barron; Illustrated by T. Spicer Sim
son. L. G. Page & Co, Boston. pub
fishers. For sale by the St Paul f3ool,
and Stationery company.
This Is a book in which the princina,
scene is laid in Paris, but It is not a
French novel," as We understand the
term If 1t be an imitation of Balzac- n 90
BaiZac so much diluted as to be scarcely
recognizable The heroine is an arttst's
model but virtuous model and. cause-
quently unreal, weird and fanciful Tho
Zero, Manders, is the son Of a suicide
but he develops all kinds of good ana
moral traits, as totally unlike the French
man OF real life as is his decorous mother
unlike the typical French woman Of part
Sian society 1t Is a French story writ
ten from the point of view of . ~,
Yorker, with touch Of Anglicisrn thrown
IN TO puzzle the reader, and set him off
Oh frantic search throughout the vol
utne for bit Of local color.
1t may be claimed that the book is NOT
bad. Certainly no one need be injured
by Its perusal; but, to say that II &c 4.
good book, from an artistic point Of view
would belize Just criticism. With q faint
touch OF Iriinyism, little vague imita-
ton or Gautier, with a dash OF those
breezy romances run off from the nresees
OF the New York Ledger and Ero,,i.
Leslie Weekly, is made up a work MT
before the public as a study of French
life. Phe perfectly moral model becomes
a devoted mother to the son OF. her suicide
husband, and then, in her ignorance, signs
away her own virtue to the brothers of
that husband for the paltry sum of / :
600 francs. Yet she is good and pure. hut
Woeflily ignorant, falls In love with an
artist, and dies the death of saint
M0nders. void Of all education, save that
of music, becomes a famous operate
tenor and-woll. that IS ALL The absence
Of plot IS discouraging, and when one has
completed the book he must not be blam-
ed for feeling a trifie weary.
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MFahIe,s in slang

Fables in Slang" by George AIDE, illus,
by Herbert S. Stone eco, Chicago and
New York.
George AIDE has brought out the ia
bIes in Slang which he has been publish
ing in the Chicago Record fer some time
past AIDE is one of the most brilliant
of the newspaper men of the West and
this new departure IN fable writing has
proved the most taking work he has ever
done. He clothes in the simplest Ian
guage peppered with slang and sailed
with delicious hun6r, uaany of the seri-
Gus things Of life, pointing a distinct NOR
al with each story. Nobody ever tires Of
AIDES fables 'tS@3tif2 ~ i&s-s& q;