The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish immed-
lately Mrs. MelnelFs monograph on Rus
kim
With the July issue the publishers pro-
pose to change the title of the Self Gull
ture Magazine to the Modern Culture
Magazine.
Cassen & Co. s new books for May in
cluded THE Story of the Heavens"
Royal Academy Pictures, $780," "A
White Woman in Central Africa" Per
sonal Recollections," with Dante in
Paradise" and number Of new volumes
of work" handbooks and guide books
Historical romance finds access into
schools where novels would find it i'm
possible to enter. ITO Have and to HoId''
has been adopted in the reading courses
of number of young ladies seminaries
where the character of the reading mat
ter is strictly scrutinized by those in
charge. One young ladies' school at
Dobbs Ferry, New York, recently ordered
OF dealer over a hundred copies of Miss
Johnston's successful romance.
The new Boston publishing house
which has just been Incorporated under
the name of Noyes Platt & Co. is the
result of an arrangement between
Messrs. Curtis & Cameron, publishers of
q co. (mcorporated), for, cooperation be-
tween these two houses in the publication
OF certain books on art and illustrated
books. More detailed notice of the pro.
posed publications of the new house will
be seasonably given to the trade and TO
the public. The first work to bear the
imprint of Moves, Plat & Co, will be the
official illustrated catalogue of the fine
arts exhibit of the United States at the
Paris exposition, which is TO be pub.
nshed Immediately, both in English and
French editions, under concession from
the United States commission.
The June number of The Bookman
Che summer reading number) has a
special cover by G. c. Parker, and. con-
tairs among other articles, a valuable
paper on the the Boer war, by Spencer
Wilkinson. Mr.. Wilkinson, as is we'll
known, is the military critic Of The Lon
don Post. Other papers in this issue are:
The Yiddish Theater in New York." by
Hutcnins Hapgood; an article by Rev.
Newell Dwight Hills (of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn on the successful new
novel, 1.-THE Redemption Of David Cor
SON. Prof Harry Tlhurston Peck's paper
on Mrs. Dudeney, and Aylmer Maude's
article on Count Tolstoy.
For the last year Gov. Peck has been
writing some stuff for his paper, which
to boys, comments on the current events,
stories on his friends, etc, which will be
published in book form under the title
OF Sunbeams, by the Author of Peck's
Bad Boy" and contains fifty apt and
humorous Illustrations Some of it he
writes in the manner of editorials, while
some is in a personal vein, but the most
of it is Just exactly like Peck" and will
stir the risibles of the reader and make
him laugh, or will set him to thinking
real hard at the treatment of some sub
iect in a different way from which any
other writer has treated it. The fathers,
the mothers, the boys and the girls, the
rich and the poor. All who have ever
read any of Mr.. Pcck's writings will be
glad to read this, his latest and best.
The book will be ready June 5, and pub
lished by Jamieson-Higgins company,
Chicago.
The American Monthly Review of Re
views for June is a well illustrated num-
Der. The important news topics of the
month are editorially treated in 1.-The,
Progress Of the World" the opening de-
partment. A character sketch of James
]. Hill, a Builder of the Northwest" is
contributed by Mrs. Mary Hartman Sew
erance, who outlines the remarkable ca
reer of the president Of the Great North
ern railroad. DR.. Albert Shaw, the editor,
writes from full knowledge on ''Paris and
the Exposition of 1900" Mr.. Jacob A.
Riis, author of "How the Other Half
Lives forecasts the work of the New
York tenement house commission recent
ly appointed by Gov Roosevelt Mr..
Cleveland Moffett writes en- automobiles
for the Average Man Mr.. Charles A
Conant describes the operation of the re-
funding law passed by congress last
March. There are also illustrated arti-
cles on summer camps for boys the pas
sion play at Oberammergau and new
fiction for summer reading.
Leafy June is high carnival for Out
ing's readers, and color strikes the ley
note of it's issue 1t comes in its new
and permanent three-color cover by Max
field Parrish, and it's opening article on
1.-THE Country Cart of Today by Caspar
Whitney, has nine illustrations in four
colors by Edward Penfield. 1t is the sea-
son when the road calls with more than
siren power, and early Road Driving
and It's Patrons" is a welcome reminder
of other Junes and other men. June, too.
claims polo for it's own, and the 'Edu-
eating of Polo Pony comes from the
pen of Owen Wister, tinged with the
serio-comic persifiage of this gifted writ
ter. June, too, is when How to Lay
Out and Care for a Golf Course is sea-
sonable, and 1.-The Why and Wherefore
of the Rules of Golf will be understood
as explained by c. B. Macdonald, a mem
Der of the N G. A rules committee.
Anglers will find-in "a Bit About Rass''
a wealth of practical knowledge, and
1.-The Evolution Of the Trout and ArtiEc-
ial Fly explain5 many a trouting mys
terry.