The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-20

article was one of the best in the paper and
was entitled "A Glimpse OF Royalty. While
Miss Johnston and her father were abroad
they stopped for a time at resort on the
Mediterranean coast. and Queen Victoria
was also there at the same time. very
simple yet interesting account OF chance
meeting or the road with England's Queen
was. we suppose, the first thing that the
author of To Have and to Hold ever wrote
for publication
William Stearns Davis, the author Of "a
Friend of Caesar is the grandson of
William A. Stearns, for many years Presi-
dent of Amherst College. The writing of
such an ambitious historical novel has
demanded a thorough reading in the
classics The author is now twenty-three
and is still senior at Harvard. He wrote
his work when he was twenty-one. Inc
Macmillan Company publish it.
Mrs. Edith Wharton, whose novel. The
Touchstone," has just appeared. will have
in the June "Scribner" little comedy
in one act entitled Copy" Mr.. John Blair
and Miss Keller appeared in this play last
winter at a private performance. 1t has
been purchased for production in England
by Mr.. George Alexander.
The publishers OF Janice Meredith
which will go down in literary history as
the best advertised book of the present
season, have now announced that the un-
precedented demand for this novel has re-
suited in a wild desire on the part OF
many readers to know the origin OF
Janice's alleged miniature, which has APP
peared in literary magazines. 1t is said
that there is general longing to know
where the picture was evolved, whether
it was a copy of real colonial miniature,
or merely fancy sketch. On this point
Mr. Paul Leicester Ford has enlightened
the public. He states that he described
his heroine to an artist friend, and the
artist drew the sketch, consilio ct aux 10
the author who commented on the picture
at various stages Of it's progress, and
caused 1t to be, in its final form, true
portrait of his heroine as she appeared to
his minds eye But there is one point
In this situation which may have escaped
even the keen eyes OF Mr.. Ford's pub
fishers. If the picture of this novelist,
as it appears in current magazines, is
placed side by side with the alleged
portrait Of the heroine OF his novel. it will
be seen that the features Of the two bear
a strong resemblance to each other. In
his ideal girl for the benefit Of his artist
friend. he was, perhaps unconsciously,
describing the way he would look were
he a girl. This makes the miniature all
the more fascinating as character study.
1t is an odd coincidence that just as
two Of the leading magazines are pub
fishing biographies of Oliver Cromwell
third biography should come from the
- DIT Sc II ts- th<o
work of Charles Firth, NJ. A. Of Ballot
College, Oxford Arrangements were made
for its publication long before the APP
pearance Of the two other biographers
was announced.
1.-THE Education of the Young in the Re-
public of Plato" is translation by Bern
ard Bosanquet, NJ. A.. LII. D.. OF t1at
portion of the educational scheme which
Plato sets forth in the Republic as whole.
The translator supplies notes and intro
duction in which he writes of Greek educa-
ton in the best days of Greece: Education
in Platos Time; Education After P.atos
Time; and the opening argument of the
Republic" The Macmillan Company will
publish the book in. this country as agents
for the Cambridge University Press.
THE Burden OF Christopher" IS the title
creasing volume of fiction having for its
theme questions of industrial reform and
the ethical aspects Of economics. 1t is
the work Of Florence Converse, the author
Of Diana Victrix,' and published ty
Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin & Co. 1t is
the story OF young man who succeeded
to his fathers manufacturing business and
endeavored to introduce into the conduct
of the enterprise profit sharing, short
hours. and the maximum wage.
Undoubtedly the most remarkable BIZ
cycle ride yet noted is that of 1927 miles
through seventeen countries, described in
Round the World on Wheel" by John
+. Fraser ~. af
Probably before the new century is ten
years old We shall have Round the World
in an Automobile"
1.-THE Banker and the Bear; Story of a.
Corner in Lard" is the title of novel
by Henry X. Webster. which the Macmil-
Ian Company will publish on June /. AL
though Chicago is not mentioned in the
book as the scene of action, the Chamber
of Commerce of that city is the point
round which the action centres. The
Bear and the Banker are chums The
Bull is financed by the Banker in the
endeavor to run the Corner in Lard, and
the story derives its title from the neces-
sity found by the Bear for the ruin of
his chum the Banker in order to upset the
financial schemes of the Bull"
That vigorous reformer, John Jay Chap
man, has again stirred up the minds of
thinking men with a new volume of poIit-
ical essays entitled Practical Agitation"
in which he does not spare the citizen who
sits back and signs and laments the down.