The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-29
LITERARY NOTES.

During the fall the Harpers will bring
out a series Of dainty little CHRISTMAS
b biue as nH'aof rule each viii contain the
best 'long short story of some we'll
known American author-,,for Instance;
GOOD for the Soul by Mrs m M af
wise sen Man" by Dr. Van Dyke Other
volumes which have been announced are;
THE Captured Dream" by Octave Tha-
net; book of light verse, by John Ken
drick Bangs: 1.-Two Gentlemen of. Ken
lucky" by-James Lane Allen; and Sc,
Harding Davis, Frederic Remington, and
Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart.
Mr. Stevens book on the Dre5 fus case,
which has just been brought out in this
country by the Harpers, seems to have
present anxiety about affairs in the Trans
vaal, the papers have given it very care
full attention and are practically united
in regarding it as very, remarkable
settled law of British journalism. they
have even allowed themselves to be en-
thusiastic over 1t.
F. Tennyson Nicely says in regard to his
future: 1T is my expectation and hope
that some adjustment may be perfected
whereby the seasons business will not
be lost The difficulty could not have
presented itself at more unfortunate
period, in the midst of one of the busiest
publishing. seasons on record. l have no
doubt that at "a meeting of my creditors.
which will be called within a few days.
some arrangement will be made to con
tinue and perpetuate my very valuable
business.
The old adage about truth and fiction
was justified again in. the recent football
game between Harvard and Wesleyan,
when Ellis, tie Harvard right hali-back,
jumped over a Wesleyan tackler's head,
scoring a touchdown. The same feat is
described in Mr. , R. H Ba d,o So new lew
exciting incident is Illustrated in the
been published by D. Appleton & Go.
No recent magazine papers have. at
racteo SO mufn at'e atcd craated s,c
lively and widespread discussions, as
Rollin Lynde Hartt's Atlantic essays,
The Montanians and "A New England
Ohioans," in the November Atlantic, Mr..
HART carries his characteristic method
into a new and prolific and widely In
teresting field Il
August Mau's book on "Pompeii. Its Life
and Art" will be Illustrated with over two
hundred half-tone drawings and ten full
page photographers. According to. a note
by Prof. Francis w. Kelsey, who has
translated and edited it, the work is a re-
suit of twenty-five years devotion to the
study of the subject, and will be perhaps
the most complete account of Pompeii to
be had In single volume.
Capt. Joshua Slocum's account of his
remarkable voyage around the world in
the forty-foot boat the SPRAY" now APP
pearing in the Century, has made a de-
cded hit In the November number Capt.
Slocum will recount his experiences in
calling at Juan Fernandez, and in visits
ing the family of Robert Louis Stevenson
at Samoa.
An editorial in one of the newspapers
on Norman Hapgood's Life, of Lincoln
md hat will hal he iI<a
that 1t will undoubtedly treat Lincoln
from the literary point of view mainly
This reference, drawn from Mr.. Hap
goods former work, happens to be mex
act. Lincoln, to- be sure, is not treated
in the manner of conventional history
but still less is the book volume of
literary criticism.
Mark Twain In the November Century
retells the thrilling story of the burning
of the sailing vessel Hornet thirty-two
years ago, and how portion OF it's crew
and passengers sailed. rowed and drifted
In a life boat thousands Of miles from the