The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish immed-
lately Mrs. MelnelIs monograph on Rus
kin
With the July issue the publishers pro-
pose to change the title of the Self Cul-
ture Magazine to the Modern Culture
Magazine.
Cassell & 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 RecollecuOns," 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 Hold
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
Dopbs Ferry, New York, recently ordered
OF a 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 NCyes, Platt & Co. is the
result of an arrangement between
Messrs Curtis & Cameron. publishers of
the Copley Prints, and Small Maynard
d co. QncOrpOrated), 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 season2bly given to the trade and 10
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.
lshed 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 well
known, is the military critic cf 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, "The Redemption Of David Cor
SON. Prof. Harry T1hurstOn 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
combines humor, sarcasm, sense, advice
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
HI
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.. Pccks 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 q well illustrated num-
Der. The important news topics of the
month are editOrially treated in The
Progress of the World" the opening de-
partment. A character sketch of James
J. Hill, 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 or '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 its opening article on
'"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 Its Patrons" is a welcome reminder
| of other Junes and other men. June, too,
| claims polo for its own, and the "Edu-
eating of a 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
| ber of the N. G. A rules committee
Anglers will find in "a Bit About Rass
| a wealth of practical knowledge, anG
THE Evolution Of the Trout and ArtiEc-
ial Fly explains many a trouting mys-
| terry.
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