The age-herald., 1899-05-14
s-SBY PAUL FRY.

work entitled "Dreamers." It is written in satirical vein, and will take off such pop uIar writers as Davis. Kipling and others. initiating their chief charaeteristics, etc.
 
 From tfle same source the gratifying news comes that Scribner will soon publish a new volume Of short stories by Richard Harding Davis. His many adniring read CTS will welcome this volume with pleasure.
 
 It is interesting to note that some of the most popular selling books of the season were first books by new authors. "Pris- oners of Hope" by Miss Mary Johnston; David Harum." by Edward Westcott; "When Knighthood Was in Flower" by Edward Caskodon, and "Aylwin" by The odore Watts-Dunton, the authors first hoyel, and Bob, Son of Battle" by Alfred Oilivant. All of these have reached a sale of ten thousand, and some of them are far beyond it.
 A certain prominent London critic recent ly said of the much-talked-of TIpling that there are two kinds of deteroration-the de- terioraton of the who does not take pains. and the still sadder deterioration of the man who takes more and more pa ns. The labor MT. lIipling must have given to books like Captains Courageous and "The Days Work is incalculable. but they show an immense decline from the freshness, the spontaneity and the power of his earlier work.
 Apropos of MT. Kipling, here is another anecdote for those who are mak ng a col- lection of them about this popular young T +l,. st when he first saw MT. Kipling, con graduated him on his youth. ''I am as old ls you" said Kipling. Ten years of h. dian journal sm is equal to thirty years i'll England" Happily, however, MT. kipling has proven that his youth counts for great deal after all.
 Miss Harraden's "The Fowler will be published on this side shortly and is said to be the most ambitious piece of work the author has yet undertaken. It VII be re- membered that Miss Harraden spent some time with friends in California. hoping to Improve her health. The youthful author has heen seriously hampered in her work by ilE health; and, no doubt, those who re- member "Ships that Pass in the Night' " tn pleasure will hope that Miss Harradcn may yet be spared years of usefulness.
 It is said that Mir. Swinburne has been watching with the feenest interest and pleasure his friend Theodore WattS-Dun- tons success. "Aylwin' has enjoyed a most phenomenal success on both sides of the Atlantie,-and has received an uHHsual amount of praise and approval from the literary critics.
 X new book by MT. Robert Barr. enti- lied "The Strong Arm" which is said to contain some good fighting along tho Rhine and the Moselle. will be published this month. Mir Barr's "Tekla'' reached splendid sales and was satisfying even to so fficult q person to please as a Hub- fisher. MT. Barrs work continues to ip- crease in popularity.
 
 A volume of poems has just been pub Iished by Dora Sigerson Shorter, and is en- titled My Lady's Slipper, and Other Po- ems Something Ike year ago a volume of poems by the same author was publish ed in this country ent tied "The Fairy Changeling" Mrs. Shorter i5 the daughter of a distinguished Celtic scholar and man of letters, and sho has been recognized for some years d poet of undoubted prom se.
 MT Stephen Crane's new volume of verse Will he publ shed this month. It takes it's raIne War Is Kind" from the initial po- em It is being ilustra ted by MT. Will II. Bradley, who has grown very enthusiastic over MT Cranes work. so that we may eX- | pect something very brilliant from the pen j | by the way. has returned to f's old quar- | ters at Oxted London, and is finish | ing novel which he hopes to have ready for publication in the spring.
 Mir. Winston Churchill whose first book "The Celebrity" made his name familiar | to the reading public something like | year ago. has written novel of great I CT length and wider scope which will be 1 published this month. It is called Rich | md he nPr'O nd he 175o and 17SO
 The following clever epigram is quoted | from "In Lantern-Land:
 | "Dou Quixote read romanees till his wits, | By nature weak, became extremely hay; | The modern reader quite collected, sits l It is the writers only who go crazy | The most important book of the spring l publications is 'Tha Letters of Robert | Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Brown l ing 1S45-1S46. A brief period, yet it takes | two bulky volumes to contain the coltec- | tion-such a collection of love letters as | heretofore seemed beyond the range of. | practical literature "The Life and Letters | of Lewis Carroll' was published at the 1 same sme, and il is gratifying te learn that works of this class are being bought moro largely each year.
 In fiction the most noteworthy book pub lished this spring was NTr. w D. Howelfs Tagged Lady" This should sell well dur ing the coming months as the demand for MT. Howelrs works shows steady in- | crease.
 Mir Alden, in his literary letter from Ion4 | don. makes the statement that he knows | at least two young literary men Of whom .he public has as yet heard little, yet who. may be regarded as coming men, Mr. Ber- nard Capes is one; MT. Robert Hieizons is the other. For each writer MT. Alden has kind words of praise and encouragen7enG and he propheses that each one W II some day give us splendid work. tie
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 It is said that Thomas Nelson Pase's | Red Rock has just entered upon it's hftf- | eth thousand Of course MT. Pagel was | well known to American readers as a wrt ter of short stories. sketches and critical articles. So, in view of his popularity, 1t