The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Still another edition of Richard Car
vel is announced. 1t is now running
through it's eightieth thousand, and the
new edition i'll be off the press next week.
1t is now called for at the rate of about
two thousand copies each day.
The September Century, the Salt
water Number" Is to be full Of stories,
poems pictures. and articles referring TO
| the sea. The editor of The Century At
las. in writing of the International Date
Line for this issue, discloses the curious
ippines. the United States is the only ma
ton in the world whose trade will have
to cross the date line to reach an impor-
tant part of its territory.
1.-The Choir Invisible" has been drama
tized by Miss Frances Hastings. Her
work has received the approval Of Mr..
James Lane Allen, and the play will be
produced in October by The Henry Jew
EFT Dramatic company in New York.
The management of the undertaking is
in the hands Of Mr.. Clarence Fleming,
who for SO many years directed the tours
of Rosina Vokes and subsequently has
been associated with Mr.. John Hare and
Mr.. Beerbohm Tree and others.
Still another book published by The
Macmillan company is being dranfatized
this fall. 1.-THE Children Of the Ghetto"
will appear as a play in November. Mr..
Zangwill is himself now in New York
superintending its production.
Edwin Markham. author of the Man
With the Hoe has written q poem on
the Dreyfus affair that appears in the
September number of McClure's Maya
zine.
The following descriptions of calendars
for 1900. coming from r. H: Russell,
shows very attractive line Of art work
from which the most fastidious may Sc
lect or those in color, the Bird calen-
Revolutionary calendar, twelve drawings
by Ernest Peixotto, formerly one Of the
artists of The Lark; the Zodiac calen-
dar, designed by Chester LOOMS, and the
calendar. drawn
Kemble. are the ones offered, while new
additions Of the Golf calendar, drawn by
| several new designs for 1900; E. w. KEN
! bleS Coon calendar, the Chinese Chill
dren's. and the Sports and Seasons cal
endars are announced.
The Macmillans announce that they will
print great many new books this fall,
among them F. Marion Crawford's Life
Of Pope Leo Kill. Norman Hapgood's
Life of William Ewart Gladstone" and
''F'ruitfulness. by Emile lola.
Among the good things in the Atlantic
T. !ta[ by Charles Kendall Adams;
Findlateri THE Genesis Of the Gang by
of Things" by Ella w. Peattie.
Messrs Houghton, Miffiin 6. Co. an
nounce for immediate publication in their
series of Classic TRANSACTIONS, ;" Two
Tragedies of Seneca: Media, and THE
fish verse by Ella Isabel Harris The
book will be a 12-mo. in size, attractively
bound in cloth, and will be sent postpaid
on receipt of rs cents.
Mr.. Augustus Thomas new American
play. Arizona" now being presented in
Chicago at the Grand opera house, is in
the hands Of the printer, and will soon
be issued by r. H. Russell in book fornl
Illustrated by twelve pictures from the
play, and with a striking cover design
by Frederic Remington.
Evidently the bfbliomaniacs regard Mr.
Markham's volume, THE Man With the
Hoe and Other POEMS" as a book 20
live. as the first edition of the book
| published only last May sells already
| for double the original price, when 1t can
| be found. Even more valuable are cop
| les of the Western paper which origin
| ally printed and copyrighted the verses;
one Of these newspapers was bought
| recently by a collector for So The book
! is now in its fifth edition.
r. H. Russell announces for early pub
| LEGATION of Maude Adams edition of
Romeo and Juliet" The book will be
| beautifully Illustrated by pictures of Miss
Adams and her company. by Gilbert,
! Haskell and others. and attractively
! bound
| The dramatic force and lively portrait
! ure of Miss M. INLAY Taylor's writings
| are well known to the public. Her lat
! est work, The House of the Wizard"
| soon to be published by A G. mcclure
| & Co., Chicago. will sustain her high
| reputation for skillful handling of the
| historic novel. and furnish another proof
| of the authors versatility.
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