The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-20

Face of the Waters" "As the Light
Led" by James Newton Basket author
OF "At You AIS House. IS another book
by this novelist of Missouri life. The
Banker and the Bear: story of Cor
ner in Lard" by H. X. Webster. is a stir
ring, romantic love story which runs its
course through some exciting episodes IN
the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. "A
Friend of Caesar is an historical novel
by VIM. Stearns Davis, who, by the by,
is a grandson of the late President Davis
OF Amherst college, and at the early age
Of q has written a book in which scholar
shin is blended with skill a novel writer
in rather remarkable way. "A Breaker
of Laws" by w. PETIT Ridge, and The
Bennett Twins" by Grace Marguerite
Hurd, complete the list.
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timely new edition of Philip Gilbert
Hamerton's Paris in Old and Recent
Times" is published this week by Little
Brown & Co. 1t traces the early history
Of Paris and gives in Mr.. Hamerton's
usual delightful manner an account or the
origin and growth of the more important
buildings, Notre Dame, the Louvre, ire
Tuileries. the Luxembourg. the Hotel de
Vile, etc. New illustrations add to the
attractiveness Of the volume.
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No greater contrast between personality
and work can be imagined, says the writer
of Feminine News and Views in the
New York Evening Sun, than in the case
of Miss Mary Johnston. whose ITO Have
and To Hold" has won the hearts both or
the general public and the captious critics.
Miss Johnston looks as II she had stepped
straight out of Miss wilkins books. she
is small and slight, brown-haired. and IN
manner extremely unasser:ive. Sherlock
Holmes himself would be likely to size
her UP as a Yankee school-marm rather
than assthe author of the most warm
blooded#romance of the hour, fun not
alone of swagger and sword play and top
boots but tenderness and tragedy and
passion 1t is another proof Of how many
a great one fails TO look his part-a sig
nficant point when we recall the many
aspirants for honor of one sort or another,
who start out by raising heaven and earth,
not in achieving something, but in looking
the part they would like to achieve.
First get your golf suit" is the motto of
more than one kind of sportsman.
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The first book on Western college life.
so far as we know, is just coming from
the press of Doubleday. Page & Co. This
book, written in part by nephew or Eu-
gene Field. is devoted to stories OF Stan
ford university As this college IL CO.
educational, the opportunities for new
kind of college story were very great.
The authors of the book are Mr.. Charles
X Field and Mr.. W. Fl. Irwin, now or
San Francisco, and since the life is quite
different in Lower California from that OF
the other colleges in the United States.
and the skill OF the young authors is very
unusual. a real success may be confidently
looked for. The first edition was exhaust
ed before the book was complete, and
second one is in preparation
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Mrs. Edith Wharton. whose novel. The
Tombstone" has just appeared, will have
In the June Scribner's a 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.
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Mr.. Julian Hawthorne has been spending
time lately lsshing himself into fury
ever the question, How can Mrs. Hum
phry Ward write good critical introdrc-
tions to the Bronte novels when she her
self has written only didactic novelsE
This Is as much as to say. How can any
one with critical power write criticisms?
II Mrs Wards novels were purely objec-
tive, Mr.. Hawthorne might have more
reason for his question The verv fact
that they are not wholly objective, but
rather subjective. expressive of their au-
tbors personal ideas makes it apparent
that Mrs Wards forte lies rather in
speculation than in fiction artstically con-
structed. In other words TO be didactfc
in fiction implies the critical attitude to-
wards life The artist pure and simple
does not obtrude his own personality
through reflections. He paints without
comment Mr. Hawthorne's own argu-
ment Is the very weapon TO destroy his
position. -Lounger in the May Critic.
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THE Farringdons," the new novel by
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, author Of
Concerning Isabel Carnaby" Is pro-
nourced by Or Robertson Nicoll and 9TH
or English critics the best and most bril-
liant book which this successful author
has written The first English edition IS
Sc 900 copies and the advance orders sent
to the American publishers. the Messrs.
Appleton, are said to De very large.
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II il stated that David Harum" has
passed its 45oth thousand.
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Henry wilton Thomas, whose brilliant
novel 81 Italian life in New York. The
| asst Lady OF Mulberry" is the latest in
| stance OF a successful first book, is
Young New York journalist and writer or
| short stories. He has lived in italy as
| well as in New York. and IL therefore
| peculiarly fitted to realize the atmosphere