The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-29

Co, publish 1t under the title, 'The
Theater and Its People"
The Octopus" is the significant title
selected by Frank Norris for the novel
ne mas just completed and which Will
shortly be published by Doubleday, Page
q Co. 1t Is the longest and those who
nave been permitted to read it In manu-
script pronounce it the strongest work
that has thus far come from his pen.
In the November Review of Reviews
there are two comprehensive illustrated
articles on the campaign methods of the
Republican and Democratic national COM
mittees, respectively. The former Is
contributed by a New York newspaper
man, who has the entree at the RepuD-
mean headquarters, and the latter by
Wills j. Abbott, manager of the Bryan
press bureau at Chicago. Each article
is illustrated with reproductions of the
literature" cartoons and posters circu-
lated by the respective committees On
one page appears facsimile of a folder
issued by the Republican committee In
twelve languages. These articles show
how the business of vote-hunting has
been developed into science. The tao
tics employed by the great parties in
Great Britain, as illustrated In the par
hamentary elections of the past month,
are described in the same number by Mr.
w. T. Stead.
Cobb's Island is not the island de-
scribed as the scene of the pirate duel
in ITO Have and To Hold" The scene
of this encounter is undoubtedly Smiths
Island, on which the Cape Charles light
house stands at the entrance of the Ches-
apeake bay. This island has not suf-
fered as Cobb's, and Mr. George Hitch
ems, the genial keeper of the life-saving
station, situated now on the very spot
TnI i
ure In showing any visitor the beach,
sand dunes, scrub trees, marshes and
myriads of gulls just as they were in the
olden days Smiths Island is separated
from the mainland but three miles at its
southern end and nine miles at its north
ern, and forms the ocean beach eight
miles northward from the Cape Charles
lighthouse Cobbs Island, where Miss
Johnston spent her summers and learned
the language of the waves, is of very
much the same formation, but without
any trees, and is twenty miles farther up
the beach, separated from Smiths by
many intervening islands and inlets. the
Virginia Of Miss Johnston's books is not
so completely lost as you imagine.-From
Miss Johnston's Virginia" BY Thomas
Dixon Jr., in the November Bookman.
The Saturday Evening Post for Oct. q
is the monthly double number, and 1t Is
lege interests. The cover in colors Is
by George Gibbs. The opening article is
"The Young Lawyer and His Begin
nings." by United States Senator Albert
J. Beveridge. DR.. Nathaniel Butler,
president of the Colby college, contributes
an article on Women in the Colleges
DR.. Russell H. Chittenden, lirector of the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College.
outlines 1.-THE Practical College Course
For Young Men" Dr. Henry s. Prit-
chett, president of the Massachusetts IN
stitute of Technology, has the leading ed
itorial on the engineering profession and
the opportunities that are offered today.
The leading poem of the number is by
Prof. Charles G. D. Roberts. The fiction
includes: "Her Fiance-A Story of Smith
College," by Josephine Dodge Daska1n;
His Growing Day" by Ian Maclaren;
1.-THE Diary Of a Harvard Freshman" by
Charles Macomb Flandrau; cat the Cor
ner of Lovers Lane-A Princeton Ghost
Story" by Jesse Lynch Williams.