The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-20
LITERARY NOTES.

1.-THE Romance of Gilbert Holmes, .
by Marshall Monroe Kirkman, went into
a second edition within a week Of its
publication. Mr.. Ktkman began the book
thirty years ago merely as pastime. Two
years ago he began the book in earnest
and wrote at it steadily every Satur-
day half holiday throughout that fall
and winter Then he let it live another
year before trusting his judgment to give
it to the public. His readers hope that
he will take more holidays and give them
another romance.
Pandita Ramabai has long been an in
teresting character to Americans and to
Chicagoans in particular Her pathetic
story is to be told by Helen S. Dyer.
The noted widow of India is
now working in the famine
districts Of India. She has
established farming and industrial
school at Muki and has already made
provision for more than 400 girls and
women Mrs. Dyer's book will be pub
lished by the Fleming H. Reveu COM
pany.
The beast fable" goes back to the re-
hottest antiquity for it's origin, and no
more grateful indication of the growing
WholeSomeness of chldren's literature
could be found than the increasing num-
Der of collections of such stories to be
noted among publishers lists. 1.-The Book
FarwelI Brown, published late In October
by Messsrs. HOughton Miflin & Co, fills
an important place in such literature as
it is one of the completeSt of such BOOKS
and among the cheapest, and therefore
most accessible to the child. 1t tells sto-
rfeS OF seventeen saints who have been
friends with and protected by birds and
beasts, and besides entertaining children
is sure to interest them sympatheticaIly
with the birds and beasts about them
and dependent upon them for care and
kindness. The stories are told simply but
without childfshneSS, and should do mucn
for a childS education in the direction of
humanenesS besides affording them much
entertainment Miss F. w. Cory who
has done so much creditable work for
st. Nicholas, has contributed eight illus
trationS to the work.
A curious tale of hare's leap for lib
erty is told in the November number of
pack of harriers,' says the writer, that
is so courageously cheated of its prey as
were the Yarmouth Harriers in no.
table run. Poor pussy, pressed very sore
the cliffs stand at a height of some sixty
feet above the beach. The hounds Civ
ing her no chance to double, she took a
header for the sands. She broke her leg
luckily it was nothing worse-but in
spite Of this accident she was still game,
and leaping into the water swan out to
sea. In future it will be hard to describe
the hare as t1mid, quaking creature
Her bravery may have been born Of de-
spair, but it is plain she had all her wits
about her."
The latest development in magazines is
the. entrance of the firm of John Wanna
maker into the publishers field. They
will take over and publish. beginning
with the December issue. Everybody's
Magazine. eve have set ourselves the
task of building up in character and cir
culation an illustrated magazine of our
own and of the best type" says the an
nouncement. A highly attractive Christ
mas number is promised with cOntribI-
tons from James Whitcomb Riley, Miss
Mary e. Wilkins, Charles Major, author
of when Knighthood Was in Flower,
Edwin Asa Dix, of Deacon Bradbury"
fame, and novel seriel by a new South
ern woman writer, of whom much is ex-
pected.
A recent important contention to ped
by Prof B. A. Hinsdaie, of the University
of Michigan, published by the American
Book Company of Chicago. The book is
rich in practical suggestions for the
eral chapters to rules and hints which
will be of great assistance to the pupil
also. The subject Of attention, both pas
sive and active, is taken up and a Wig
orous treatment is given of its nature,
KINDS, and value, together with fruitful
suggest tons as to its cultivation. Thor
oughness is shown to be a purely relative
matter, and inSiStence is placed upon
the fact that it is a great bar to the pu-
pills progress to require too much of
him as it is to require too little.
Forty thousand copies of Mr. F. Mari
on CraWford's new novel I'm the Palace
Of the King; a Love Story of Old Ma
drid, were sold in advance Of its publica-
ton, on Nov 1.
At last we have Maurice Hewlett's
new romance. Richard Yea and Nay
was published Nov. L by The Macmillan
Company.