The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-29
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Grace Marguerite Hurd's novel
The Bennett Twins will be published
this month by the Macmillan company.
1t was announced some little while ago
as q lively study of life among some art
students in a famous New York studio.
While the characters OF the story are not
supposed to be portraits, those who have
known intimately the studio in question
will probably recognize more than g. hd1t
at personal Characterization.
Some wonderful things are described in
Saturn as seen through the great tele-
scope in the Lick observatory in Cali
fornia; "A Yacht Race in the Clouds"
which Is by no means a fairy story; "A
Boat That Pulls Itself Up Stream" and
White Magic in a Bicycle Wheel" in
which it Is shown that any boy who
owns bicycle may become more or less
OF g. white magician. The wonders OF
nature are further treated of in the de-
partment Of nature and science, wherein
the protective shapes and colors of GER
and to some extent pictured. The boat
that pulls itself UP stream, or seems TO.
is really pushed by the water, which by
turning paddle wheels at the boats sides
to wheel to revolve and coil itself, as
opon Windlass, q rope attached to
the boat follows 1t, and the ingenious
stone carriers save large part Of the
labor they would have to perform In get
ting the empty boat to the place of land
ing. The yacht racing in cloud land is
done by miniature boats set up on the
kite strings of high-fying kites R. Van
Bergen writes a letter explaining the sit
KNOWN are described by Mrs. c. V.
JaInison, author Of Lady Jane;" and
there are short stories by Annie b. Jones.
Lynn r. Meekins, Belle Moses and 9th,
ers, verses by Mrs Spofford, Albert Bige-
low Paine, etc., and pictures by at least
the young amateurs whose drawings are
winning prizes in the st. Nicholas league
Miss Gabrielle E. Jackson's Pretty Polly
Perkins makes her farewell bow this
month, and Allen French's Junior Cum
is won In splendid burst by the youth
full Splinter, Chester Fiske.
The September number Book Of the
itoyal Blue. published by the passenger
railroad. completes the third volume OF
this interesting magazine. This number
contains an interesting history of the
famous stone viaduct at Relay, Nd the
Oldest stone arch railway bridge In ths
world; an interesting biography of John
Van Lear M Mahon, who was the author
of the first charter of a railroad in Amer
lea (the Baltimore * Ohio, after which
is formed nearly every railroad charter
in the United States An interesting ac-
count Is given as to the manner in which
bill in the Maryland legislature for the
confirmation OF the famous document.
The biography IS accompanied by PHI To-
graph of the author from an old oil paint
ing. In this number Mr.. Arthur G.. Lewis,
who conducts Stub Ends of Thought
which have been widely read and copied.
has contributed a poem entitled "Tha
Under Dog" which In many respects IS
one of the best things which has ever
come from this versatile author and is
worthy of reproduction.
The Century company is about to pub.
fish new series of the world Dest
books, to be called The Century Gas
sizes" selected, edited and INTRODUCED
by distinguished men of letters. The
publishers have had in view beauty or
external form and elegance of typogra-
ply combined with high standing ana m
trinsic merit of the works to be reprinted
and purity of text. The books are prime
ed from a new cut type, which will be
used only in these volumes, and on pure
rag paper. made especially for the Sc
ries, which bears the water-mark cen
fury classics. The first six, to be Is
sued in October, are as follows: Ba-
cons Essays" with an Introduction by
Prof. George E. Woodberry Bunyan
Pilgrims Progress, with an introduc-
ton by Bishop Henry G. Potter; Defoes
Plague in London with an tntroduc-
ton by Sir Walter Besant Goldsmith's
s.Vicar of Wakefield, with an introduce
ton by Henry James; selections from
the poems of Robert Herric, with S.o-
graphical and critical study by I. b.
,Aldrich, ard Iinglakes Eothen," ln-
PRODUCED by the Rt. Hon. James Bryce
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