The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-16
LITERARY NOTES.

70 Vol oil l. No & Of the Sphinx has come
SPHINX company announces that its oh
!ect is to popularfze @astrology in Amer
lea E;as It IS the first publication of the
aIno printed n America, and its owners
expect 1t to fill long-felt want The
articles in the first issue are numerous
and entertaining. particularly its wheat
forecast for the Chicago board of trade
for July. The editor of the Sphinx Is
Catherine H. Thompson, and it fs nuS
Hshed in Boston. 81
Arrangements have been made to trans
late late into .., French Mr.; Brooks Adams
Decay" which is published by the Mac
milan company: It Is now in its sec
ond and revised edition. It is proposed
to use 1t In economic courses in several
OF the larger universities in France
"a Solitary Summer" by the unknown
writer Of Elizabeth and Her German
Garden, is meeting with a reception
which must be very gratifying to It's
author. second American edition is
already announced for immediate pub
lcation, while four editions have ap-
peared in England. It is the kind of
the same spirit aof enjoyment that makes
one linger on the quiet, shady bank of
some secluded stream.
Messrs. Small. Mayn lrG & Co.. of Eos
NIessrs. Copeland " Day. who are retir-
ing from business. Among the books thus
taknn are "Vivette by Gelett Burgess;
Pro- Richard Burtons volume of ESSAYS
Literary Likings," and his two volumes
of verse; the two ''Vagabendia'' t.eoks
by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey;
vard Episodes, by G. NJ. Flandrau, and
Free to Serve" Miss Rayner's novel of
colonial New York; Miss Louise Imogen
Rhbey P9dmadav ana bv crabt ree f FAINT
enway; "Cfnderp9th Tales" by William
Lindsay Jr.; Morris Rosenfeld's Songs
from the Ghetto Miss Gertrude. Smiths
Tabb's Poems and Lyrics" and the
beautifully decorated English Love Som
net series.
The August Century will be a midsum-
mer and travel number. In the former
character it's Special feature may be said
to be group ofcpapers on tornadoes and
thunderstorms, Thes hrst of these Is
graphic description, at first hand, of the
tornado that visited Kirksville, Missouri
last spring. This was seen from his door.
step by John r. Musick, an author living
in that cityic and as It CONSIDERABLY
changed its course, which at first was
straight toward his house, he had an ex-
traordinarily good opportunity to observe
Richard CaFxelr is in its seventh edition
In other words this means that since the
week of its publfca tion it has been sold
at the rate OF close upon one thousand
4 second edition sof The Maternity of
Harriott Wicken. will be published imme-
diately by the dacIlllldIl CeIIlpdIly- feT-
haps no novel has received such an extra
ordinary diversity Of criticism as this last
book by Mrs. Henry Dudeney.
AppIetons' Popular Science Monthly for
August will contain an article by Apple
ton Morgon on the result of the last five
years of legislation against drunkenness.
Two very surprising conclusions may be
drawn from the authors statistics; first,
that the fewer the places where liquor Is
sold the larger the consumption of liquor;
and, second, that the larger the consump-
ton of liquor the less the drunkenness.
One of the successful novels of June was
undoubtedly Beatrice Harraden.s The
Fowler The third American edition 10