The Saint Paul globe., 1899-02-26
LITERARY GOSSIP.

"Sour Saints and Sweet Sinners" by DR.,
Carlos Martyr. This is sharp, caustic
description of parochial life, written from
the inside, by pen as keen as Dean Swift's
or Junius. The well-known author runs the
gamut from candidating, through the "unco
guid,' to church politics. Every clergyman
and every church officer will be intensely in
terested in this volume. Pictures are painted
with pre-Raphaelitic finish and fidelity, and
with wit and satire enough to furnish q
dozen books. We commend this work as
unique of its kind. The Sour Saints may OBJ
ject, but the Sweet Sinners will overrule the
objection, and the public will buy the book
F. Tennyson Neely, publisher. New York and
London.
"A Brief Introduction to Modern Philos-
ophy," by Arthur Kenyon Rogers, Phi. D.,
Is published by the Macmillan company.
Prof Rogers has attempted to show how
the problems Of philosophy arise from the
presuppositions of our ordinary beliefs and
practical needs, and what are the most sig
nficant solutions that have been given to
them by modern thought. It thus aims to
furnish a general survey which shall be use
full to the student as an Introduction to a
philosophical training.
There has been much comment concerning
the title of the novel upon which Beatrice
Harraden has so long been engaged, and
which is at last completed and about to be
published. 1t was to have been called, Il,
too, have passed through Wintry Terrors.''
This is line from one of William Watson's
poems. She now has betaken herself to Holy
Scripture, and appears to have finally adopt
ed as her title, The Fowler
Our soul is escaped as bird out of
the snare of the fowlers.''
The book is to he DubliShed by the Rlack-
woods, in Edinburgh. and by Dodd, Mead &
Co.. in New York.
Fighting for Humanity; or, Camp and
Quarter Deck by Gen. o. o. Howard, the
American Havelock, who, a delegate of the
Christian commission to the encampments
hospitals and ships visiting soldiers and sea-
men, has put his observations and sketches
into book form under the title of Fighting
for Humanity; or, Camp and Quarter Deck. -
His reviewer says: 1.-The book could not be
better" The work affords graphic pen pic.
lures of the pavllions, the tabernacles, the
hospital tents, with camp life, the saloons and
their antidotes, of men-of-war and transport
ships, of Clara Barton and her work, of the
Cubans, and the closing chapter contains an
estimate Of Gen. Shafter and some interest
ing items touching his campaign and battle
F. Tennyson Nicely, publisher, New York and
London.
Lothrop Publishing company have in press
for early issue Tales of the Malayan Coast" I"
by Rounsevile Wildman United States con-
sui at Hong Kong. Mr.. Wildman's connection
with the stirring affairs in the far East his
association with Aguinaldo, the Filipino chief
and his intimate connection with Dewey's
victory and the progress Of the war in the
Philippines will give to his stories an espe-
cial interest. The book is timely, and no
one better knows the Malayan coast than Con-
sui Wildman.
The timely topic of Mormon polygamy and
the opinions of the late Brigham Young and
various Mormon wives, regarding 1t, is tact
fully discussed by Mrs. Frank Leslie in an
illustrated article which is one of the prin.
cipal features Of Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for March. The Nicaragua canal
project-past, present and future-is ably dis
cussed by e. A. Fletcher, whose contribution
has the advantage of being thoroughly well
illustrated. Queen Wilhelmina and Women's
Work in Holland" by s. NJ. D'Engelbronner,
Is full of personal and literary as we'll as
pictorial interest, which is equally true of
'Sketching from Nature by H. Villiers
his hair-breadth escapes while campaigning
with Gomez in Cuba, tells some thrilling
stories of that veteran hero and the late Gen
Quintin Bandera IA Skein Of Silk" is q
charming illustrated paper, by w. c. Kitchin,
describing silk-worm culture in Japan The
Woman In Action article tells about the fair
sex In Wall street. Bret Harte and Egerton
Castle head the fiction writers In Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly, and there are COM
plete stories this month by Mary j. Holmes
illustrated BY WenzelO. and Eta w. Pierce