The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-26

lincoln Hought0n, Mif6in and Com
| pany. Boston and New York. Price
| $50
| Lovers of action in story will
| find plenty in this romance of partisan
warfare. during the War of iIndepenu-
ence to satisfy them. The scene is laid
in South Carolina and Georgia and be-
side the pretty Tory Miss Geraldine
M0ncriffe. sllch familiar figures as Ma
rion and Tarleton appear i'm the story.
While paying due regard to the accuracy
of historical incident the story is as far
as possible from tine dry detail of the
conventional historical novel; ON the
contrary is as fresh as amy tale of som
temporary life. 1T ought to be one of
the most popular stories of the winter.
What shall be the future of silver?
| This is the question which DIR. e. s.
Meade proposes for discussion in the
current issue of the Annals of the Ameri-
can Academy of Political and Social
Science. The answer must be a two-fOld
one. 1t depends upon the uncertainties
of legislation, and the conditions of its
production. DIR. Meade wisely refrains
from attempting to advocate any parti-
cular system of Legislation AND devotes
his attentions to the production of silver.
Crippled as it should not have been by
recent legislation it yet seems to hold its
own I'm the United States in the volume
of production. The seeming paradox is
made clear when 1T is understood that
in the United States at least, silver is
by-prodrct of lead and copper. For the
latter the demand has been constant and
the prices rising. But in other coun-
tries. notably in Mexico and South
America. vast deposits of virgin silver
still exist and the outlook for a continu-
ed production of the metal even at pres
ent prices is excellent. In the same num-
her Mr.. Il. H. Tremain discusses
franchise Corporations" their partial
public ownership and Professor IL. NJ.
Keasbey treats THE Terms and Tenor
of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty"
The new Embarrassment in the ven
cradle Harper publishing house is some
what difficult to explain. The world has
been informed that Mr.. Mcclure had
gene i'm and captured the whole Harpers
establishment, and there was concluded
most desirable business combination.
Now. ON a sudden, we are told that the
whole affair has fallen through, simply
because the lines of publication of
Doubleday and Mcclure and the Harper
Brothers are so different. This, OF
course. is nonsense. Without the least
notion of what has happened, we ven
ture to say that the pride of the Har-
pers who have undoubtedly let the bust
mess decline. has sprung to lie, and has
determined that if a hustle us necessary,
they will make the hustle themselves.
Therefore. they have let in Il tremen-
dous hustler, g. b. McC harvey, who
may be trusted to do everything for the
Harper house that Mr.. Mcclure might
do, and still keep the Harper name and
prestige at the front instead of subor-
dinIating it to Il cheap rival. This Is
the way it lo0ks, just now. And IIar-
yey is Il hustler-Hlo mistake. What the
effect on magazine literature may be IS
another question kepubn-
can.
Mrs. Burnett's new American novel,
"In Connection with the DE WilloughDy
Claim" which will be published next
Saturday, has had a somewhat Curious
history. 1t was begun Il number Of
years ago and was originally Intended
to be novel of political intrigue, with
Washington as the scene. When the
story was half completed, work upon
it was interrupted and Mrs. Burnett
devoted herself to other literary protects.
In the interval that followed the au-
thor made her home in England and &C.
voted herself to two historical novels OF
Queen Anne's time, "A Lady If <eual-
ity" and His Grace of Osmonde." The
desire however, to finish the earlier
work had remained strong with Mrs.
Burnett, and recently she took It up
with renewed interest and completed
it, burt not on the lines originally laid
down; for the perspective Of the period
since she began the story led her 10
recast the entire novel, TO dlvest il OF
it's political character and to lay The
chief emphasis ON the human interest
attaching ITO the fortunes of Tom DE
Willoughby and his adopted daughter
4 book for boys has just been publish
cd by The Macmillan Company; Ben
Gomez: A Tale of Rogers Rangers by
NJ j. Canavan, is its title. Ben Gomez
tells his story himself. He gives in Il
healthy stirring way a description of his
boyhoed and youth in Lexington in the
middle of the last century, the coming
on of the Old French War and how he
and two companions enlisted in the win
ter of 1883 in Rogers Rangers. With
this celebrated corps, the eyes and ears
of the British army they served two
years near Lake Champlain and Lake
George against the French under Mont
calm, going in dangerous scouting par
ties and taking part III the battles. In
the course of the story we meet with
Lord Howe John Stark and Israel Put
nam. and the adventures end with Rog-
ers' great expedition into the heart of
Canada to punish the st. Francis In
dians THE STORY is told i'm IL simple
h0me-spun style and abounds in local col
or The adventures actually happened
thus giving the story the added value of
historical truth.
BY Advent the Lippincott's will have
ready an entirely new edition of perhaps
the most popular of all church devotional
books, Bishop Coxe's Thoughts on the
Services" thoroughly revised and enlarg
ed by DR., Whitehead, Bishop of Pitts
burgh.