The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Grams Magazine for June keeps up It's
record for Improvement with each Issue,
and lives up to its promise to Keep It's
readers in thorough touch with the af-
fairs of the day. Aside from Editor Muir
ray-Aaron's ever welcome discussions or
"Books of the Hour" and his gossip on
current topics For Our Young People,"
Mr.. A. Logan's caustic and very readable
In Washington's Corridors" and Editor
GlaTes monthly .f resume Of the Anglo
ton" Mr. G. e. Aliens usual instalment
Of Our Foreign Trade and It's Possiblli-
ties" Mr.. Geo. H. Daniels (of the New
and Canals" and DR.. Booker 7. Wash
ington's THE Negros Crucial Trial" af-
ford view into the world movements
that the careful reader cannot afford to
ignore.
Kipling has found in South Africa
themes so trenchant as to satisfy even
the strenuOusness of his style. The first
fruits OF his splendid imagination as 1t
South African veldt Is found in Folly
Bridge" a short story which will ap.-
pear in the Fourth Of July number Of
Golfers Weekly.
Magazine appears the first instaiment Of
a series Of articles by Mr.. Stuart Robson
IN the nature of an autobiography, and
entitled 1.-THE Memories of Fifty Years"
The July or vacation number of Pear
sons is particularly strong in fiction.
Cutclifre Hyne, who wrote The Adven-
lures Of Capt. Kettle commences a new
series of stories called Tales of a Steam
Hotel" Up to now the big Atlantic lin
ers have figured very little in fiction, save
as the setting for some love story. Mr..
Hyne, however, must needs write of ad-
venture. In the inner life-the life which
most people know nothing about-on
board big liner he has unearthed an
immense fund of material. The first Of
the series concerns the looting of the
specie room. 1t is a mastery piece of
work. and the characters are drawn with
those bold strokes that made little Capt.
Kettle famous in two continents.
The new English novelist, Isabel Smith.
whose story ''The Minister'S Guest" is
to be published Immediately by d. Apple
ton & Co, has aroused much interest
among English literary critics. Her new
markably vivid characterization and sus-
tained interest Like Miss Fowler, she
has talent for pictUring the lives of
Nonconformist community.
In the July McClure's appears a sketch
of Bryan by the well known Kansas
journalist William Allen White, author
Of ''Boyyille Stories" This Is the first
Of a series of pen portraits of political
celebrities by a writer particularly welf
qualified to write of both their public and
private life. The article contains a
shrewd estimate of Bryans political ca
reer and throws much light on the causes
of his popularity.
The French exposition Is the cynosure
of the worlds eyes. at the present mo-
ment, and the subject will be treated In
rather novel manner in the Century for
July, where eight striking full-page pic
lures by Castaigne are to appear, with.
out other text than their titles -
The Dowager Empress Tsze Hsi An,
who has fomented the present uprising
OF the Boxers" is the subject of a spe-
China; The Long-lived Empire" which.
the Century company is bringing out this
month.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of
Leland Stanford Junior university. has
written an introduction for Familiar
Fish, Their Habits and Capture by one
OF the most experienced of American fish
ermen. This book is on the point Of pub
ication by d. Appleton & Co.
China, the Long-LiVed Empire" will
be the first book on the subject to appear
since the present uprising startled the
nations of the West.
In the country life of Missouri James
Newton Basket has the field to himself
as novelist, and there seems to be no
lack of readers for fiction dealing with
sectional American life. Mr.. Baskets 5
novel, LAS the Light Led" which was
published only a week ago, has lust gone
Into its third thousand. His publishers
are the Macmillan company
Senator Hoar's paper on Harvard Col
lege Fifty-eight Years Ago" IN the JrIv
Scribner'S, Is full of "reminiscences of fa-
nous men associated with the university.
and there are many amusing anecdotes
Illustrating individual traits Of some Of
the professors and the ways Of the col
lege boys of his time
The July Century will contain the first
lnstallment of the "reminiscences of Will
liam Mason, the distinguished composer
and pianist, who has long been the dean
of the musical guild in America
Bonnell, Silver & Co., New York, will
publish Immediately an intensely inter
esting timely book Tor ocean voyagers
the Modern Mariner, the Transatiantic
Traveller. and Quaint Facts Of Neptune =
Realm" compiled by John Colgate Hoyt
The title of Miss Johnston's romance Of
early Virginia is one that readily lends
Itself to popular paraphraSe, and the car
toonists of the daily newspapers, as well
as some advertisement writer's have been
quick to perceive its effectiveness in this
direction and to make use of it. The
uses to which it has been put have ranged
from. service as the title line of a car
toon on the president down to the "catch
line OF department store advertise
ment, 1t Is related that child entered
the Providence public library a few davs
ago and asked for book for her mother.
preferably ''that novel of Mary Johnsfon' a
called To Get and to Keep
Fords, Howard & Hubert will publish
Immediately new addition to their
Nuggets" series in Quaint Nuggets" :"
seventeenth century men-Dr Thomas
Fuller. Bishop Joseph Hall, John Selden.
the lawyer and wit; George Herbert, the
VI lS maj N|OQHlIy arson ana poet. and
1saak Walton, apostle Of "the Angle:1
compiled by Eveline Warner Brainerd.
Richard Henry Stoddard, writing of
The Last Lady Of Mulberry" by Henry
Wilton Thomas, says that the author
has enlarged Greater New York as
Dickens enlarged London by his stories
Of poor life which is certainly a re-
markable tribute from a veteran man Of
letters to a young writer.
Mr.. Randall Roberts has an article on
Lord Hawke at Home" in Cassell :
Magazine for June: Lord Hawke pro-
ceeded TO give me some very interesting
information about the pay and status Of
| the present day Yorkshire professional.
The regular members of the team he
said. receive a fixed salary during the
summer, and winter pay besides Then
they have. in addition, certain perquisites.
For instance. as of course, you know,
every member of the team has a chance
of earning talent money which means
that any batsman that scores so in an
innings gets a sovereign, thirty, shillings
| If he makes IS, two sovereigns If he scores
100, and so on. There is no fixed fesN
which entities a bowler to talent money.
but am empowered by the county com
mittee to give sovereign to any of our
bowlers for what I consider sufficiently
meritor!ous performance And then.
every member of the team has his hene