The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
LITERARY NOTES.


Golfers Weekly for June 10 has a fine
photographs of a war party of Cheyenne
Indians on the front page. The editoria
treat of the situation at Mani a and the
Washington peace jubilee is covered by
special correspondence and many fine
photographs. There is a page on Paris
Salon pictures of 1899 which gives an ex-
tremely good idea of that famous annual
exhibition of paintings and statuary. The
important special article is entitled THE
C. Hillegas; and the double-page IS a
composite Photographic page Illustrating
the scene of trouble between ''Oom' Paul
Kruger and the British government, viii h
threatens to become serious.
THE Marlowe Book" is hands Onae
souvenir of Miss Julia Marfowe, contain
ing over twenty half-tone reproductions
of photographs taken of Miss Marlowe in
nearly as many different plays Many of
the pictures were made especially for the
book will not appear elsewhere, and Mr..
drawing of the balcony scene from 'Ro-
meo and Juliet" The cover is printed in
colors and was designed by Mr.. Ernst
Haskell; The work is by R. Fl. Russell,
3 West Twenty-nfnth street, New York.
The first move toward making perma-
nent the history of the cup races in book
form is made by R. H. Russell, who will
bring out shortly history in pictures
tense of the Americas cup. The pic
lures, reproduced from large wash draw
: ings, show the most interesting point of
each of the races. There is no type,
save a concise note of explanation of the
different challenges with dates and re-
suits, accompanying each of the pic
lures.
The Beeeher family is one whose
branches are very many and whose lines
of work are as varied as the individuals.
1t IS grandnlece of Henry Ward
Beecher Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson,
who is at present very much to the fore
in relation to the economic emancipation
of women. In the July number of The
Cosmopolitan Mrs. Stetson will wage a
Peck over an article in the June number
of The Cosmopolitan. The Woman of
Today and Tomorrow. Mrs. Stetson has
something in the June number four
line poem ON Queer People," The Illus
trations by Oliver HEREFORD are themselves
queer.
sudermann' great play on John the
spring number of Poet-Lore. A foreign
correspondent in the last Literary World
says: Although a remarkable produe-
out of Germany. 1t has been published
but little over a year, and my edition Is
already the twentieth
The critics are sorely puzzled to dis
cover whether Mr.. Bernard Shaw writes
his Perfect Wagnerite" In humorous
vein or not. Some of them take the book
very seriously and others treat 1t as a
Colossal joke; and at all of them Mr..
Shaw sits and chuckles Taken TN either
way, however, the book is. diverting
enough. and the discriminating reader
will discover that it contains both hui
NOR and depth. Mr.. Shaw thinks too
deeply to be entirely superficial and he
has much too brilliant a to be always
solemn.
Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard,
has written a Source Book Of American
History which will be published imme-
diately by the Macmillan company The
book is made up of 1879 extracts from
writer's contemporary with the events
which they Describe. The extracts are
chosen chiefly from letters, diaries, rem
infscences, travels, speeches and MARIA
tives.
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston,
will Immediately publish a new bird
book" entitled '-On the Birds Highway
by Mr.. Reginald Heber Howe, Jr Mr..
Howe's essays comprise studies of birds
along the eastern coast from Maine to;
Maryland. The. book will contain some
sixty illustrations in half-tone from pho
tographs' by the author, and a eoIored
1Fontispiece In heliotype after a painting
by Mr.. Luis Agassiz Fuertes -
A second edition of Mrs. Charlotte Per
kfns Stetson's Women and Economies
has been brought out by Messrs. Small
Maynard & Co., Boston The text except
for few unimportant corrections remains
the same, but a full index of subjects has
been added. The same publishers are
also issuing Mrs. Stetsons story pub
nshed some years ago in one of the mag
az1nes, 1.-The Yellow Wall Paper"