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conventional. What she did was spon-
taReous, without much thought as TO
results. And without any attempt TO
do 50 she made her own romance as
she went al0p-. ! knew her for ten
years, and she interested ME from FIRST
10 last"
The authorized Life OF Dwight l.
Moody which has been prepared in
accordance with his expressed wish by
his son William X. Moody. is published
this week from the press of the Fleming
n. Revell company Advance orders
alone require a first edition Of 100 600
copies. The book Is being printed In
New York and Chicago. and five large
printing establishments and a half
dozen binderies are engaged in connec-
ton with the work.
The publication Of 1.-THE International
Year Book has been announced It is
a compendium OF the worlds progress
FOR the year 1899 This year book. Ike
the one for 1898. issued by the same
firm, has been edited by Frank Moore
Colby, NJ A.. professor Of economics
in New York University. The volume
covers the worlds history for the year
1899 one Of the most important In the
century. and contains 900 pages. with
maps and illustrations
The success OF Janice Meredith" has
already caused It's translation into
French, German and Swedish
English appreciation OF American
DOL
says James Walter Smith, in a London
letter TO the Literary Era for May,
that the time appears not far distant
when the reviewer will have all he can
do TO cope with the output from over
sea. American fiction is already flood
ing the English market. and American
novels share with English novels the
ready consideration Of both the masses
and the classes 'ss II gratihes the
Englishmen TO remember that the bone
and sinew Of the American people are
derived from the bone and sinew Of
the England OF three hundred years
ago, and that In reading the work OF
Americans he Is giving his attention 10
Englishmen of but another and trans.
planted growth e'' Scarcely had he
laid down David Harum. When
knighthoOd Was In Flower and Rich.
ard Carvel' when he found upon his
table another tale Of Colonial Amer.
ca, which bids fair 10 exceed In Eng.
fish popularity the entire trio Of pre-
decessors. Miss Mary Johnston. al
though unknown 10 him, at once com.
manded his interest BY order Of the
Company'-as To Have and 10 Hold il
known ion this side the water-is al
ready certain Of success In Great Brit.
ain and before long Miss Johnston viii
find herself one OF the most talked-of
writer's In the entire English-speaking
world. The critics are already wing
with each other in her praise and one
Of them goes so far as to call by
Order Of the Company the most strik-
ing historical romance we have read
In a long time and he further congrat-
ulates Miss Johnston upon a notable
achievement
IN Tune With the Infinite" by Ralph
Waldo Urine is now I'm It's twenty-sixth
thousand. An English edition has re.
Gently been published by Messrs. George
Bell a. Sons. London, the publishers Of
the famous Bohn Library series. They
are already in press with-a second edl-
ton. An edition Of the German will
shortly be published by the old Leip-
zic house Of George Wigand. A French
translation Is also being made which
Will be published by the I.ibrairle Fisch-
bacher In Paris. the publishers OF
works IN the French.
Ex-Presldent Cleveland viii have two
papers In the June and July Atlantic
Monthly on The Independence Of the
Executive" They win be read with
much interest by men Of both parties.
Most OF our thoughtful critics have
united In giving to James Lane Allen
one OF the foremost places among living
American novelists. A style Of exceed
inc beauty and purity. tenderness OF
wording with an exquisite sense OF
comedy that no other writer has In
quite the same degree, deep penetra-
tion into the purposes Of life fine spir- |
itual perception and an all-pervasiye |
sense OF nature that sleeps his work IN |
are some Of the quail |
ties 10 be found In increasing richness |
In on that Mr. Allen has yet given us |
What his first short stories promised, |
those collected In Flute and Violin" |
was more eloquently voiced IN "A Ken |
lucky Cardinal and Aftermath" |
where the action was blended with the |
gentle harmonies Of nature, where hfe |
md nature were 80 lnextricabiy mingled |
In impulse that one scarcely knows |
whether 10 call them nature-studies OF /
love-stories II IN "A Summer IN Ar
cadyn natures forces played too tire
mendous a part In the storys shaping |
10 altogether please, It Is none tbs less
a wonderful study, OF whose high pur-
pose there can be no question. Mr..
Mabie wrote Of this much-discussed
book: The story IL kind OF incarna-
lion Of the tremendous vitality Of ma
lure. the unconscious immoral sweep
u the force which makes for life. SO
euveloped Is the reader IN
the atmosphere OF the opulent world
about him. 30 deeply does be realize
the primeval forces rushing tumultu-
)usly through that world. that al times
the human fEures seem as subordinate
rs those IN Corot's landscapes
Ny. Aliens power was growing. and
N The Choir 1nvisibls" q reached