The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-08

was born in Illinois and graduated at
Beloit College. For the last 10 years
he has been engaged as a newspaper
man, serving first as the entire staff Of
a small paper in Iowa, and later as re-
porter, staff correspondent and special
writer for the old Chicago Times and
the Chicago Tribune. Mr.. Hyde has
refused several offers to go to New
York, and he declares the fullest faith
in Chicago as the future literary cen
ter of the country. His previous pub
locations, outside of his newspaper
work. are a child's book of verse and
a number of magazine stories
The historic little Indiana city, Vim
cennes, is having a boom" which is
directly ascribed to the wide publicity
given ii by Maurice Thompsons novel;
"Alice of Old Vincennes" At least the
editor of the local paper credits the
towns awakening to the advertising it
received by the publication and pop
ularity of the book,
Every day or two" he says, some
one stops off between trains to see
the old ,atown and to visit the places
made famous in the book and play.
People are writing from many differ
ent parts of the country and from
abroad, asking about the places of his
toricai interest spoken of in the story.
Recently a club man of New Orleans
wrote asking me to decide an argu-
ment as to the way the name of the
town is pronounced"
The Century Company is about to
issue a new volume of verse and prose
by Richard Watson Glider. 1t will CON
sist chiefly of poems written since the
publication of Five Books of Song
and I'm Palestine" and will bear the
title Poems and Inscriptions" Those
who know of the authors active in
terest in civic affairs will probably
seek to connect such pieces as THE
Tool" THE Demagogue," "The Politi-
clan" and 1.-THE Blameless Knight
with recent political campaigns, The
inscriptions" were written for the
public buildings and monuments at the
American Exposition, and will be
familiar to all who visited Buffalo,
last summer. An extract from Mr..
elders poem on the naming Of THE
City Of Light" which is printed in this
book, was made in President MCI<in-
ley's last speech, delivered the day be
fore he was shot. "These buildings, ~
he said will disappear; this creation
OF art and beauty and industry will
will remain to
Make it live beyond its too short
living
With praises and thanksgiving"
Onoto Watanna, author of "A Jap
anese Nightingale" about which so
much has been said and written of
late, is a young woman of exceeding
ly attractive personality and charming
manner. The slightly Oriental cast of
her features adds piquancy to her APP
pearance, which seems very graceful
ly to combine the old world and the
new. Miss Watanna exhibits in hel
literary work a rare gift of pathos
and humor, a capacity for genuine
comedy which promises well for her
artistic career. She resides in New
York city, and has just completed a
new novel.
When Mr. Basil King finished his
new novel, Let Not Man Put Asun-
der" there was some difficulty over
the title. Mr.. King first called il
Whom God Hath Joined" but it was
| discovered that this title had already
been used. The present name of thu
| book naturally suggested itself, anr
| has proven a most successful one
During the late mayoralty election con
| test in New York the book was ex
tensively advertised in all the cars by
red posters on which was printed only
the striking title of the novel The
following dialogue was overheard on,
day on an elevated train:
First Man-''What is that Let MOI
Man Put Asunder"? Is it a book?"
Second Man-"Don't know. Is it? ]
thought it was one of CrOker's pOlitica
dodgers"