The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-10

will be published shortly by Doubleday
Page & Co, with valuable and inter
estlng array of maps, portraits, fac-sim-
HES, etc.S The book is said to settle many
points IN an authoritative manner con-
corning the much-debated questions OF
Smiths remarkable career, and new light
thrown upon the character of Pocahontas
and her relations to Smith.
Five characteristic poems by the late
Eugene Field, all of them quite unknown
F1eld book, published this week by the
New Amsterdam Book company The
volume is entitled "The Stars: A Slum-
Der Story and geographically is enc OF
the most attractive books of the season
L. Frank Baum, known as the chill
drenss friend. is a Chicago man, and is
foFty-four years Of age. His most ia
NOUS books are: Father Goose: His
Book. Mother Goose in Prose, Amer
lean Fairy Tales, dot and Tot of Mar
ryland . "Fhe Wonderful Wizard of o.
and THE Songs of Father Goose"
Few authors write two successive books
that meet with universal praise. Nelson
Lloyd is one of the few, his Chron,t
Ioafer and A Drone and a Dreamer
having both met with remarkable sue
cess both in this country and abroad.
The New Amsterdam Book company
has scored noticeable success in Lo lis
Becke,s new book, by Rock and Pool.
Not since the days of 'Typee" and the
Louis Stevenson has anything app AIRED
in fiction so quaint and charming as Mr..
Becke'S new work
The Assassination of Lincoln, by Os-
born I'll. Oldroyd, with an Introduction by
Brevet Major General J. M Harris is
ready for publication by Mr.. Oldroyd
The work treats of the assassination OF
Lincoln and the flight, pursuit, capture
and punishment of the conspirators. The
eighty half-tone Illustrations are from
lQIf II ii
Oldroyd Lincoln memorial collection in
the city of Washington, in the house
where Lincoln died: and over half of
them are now published for the first time.
Richard Wagner by w. ]. Hender-
son, which will appear this autumn, tells
the story of that great musicians life.
The author explains Wagner's artistic
aims, gives the history of each of his
great works, examines it's literary
sources, shows how Wagner utilized
them, surveys the musical plan of each
drama, and sets forth the meaning ano
purpose of its principal ideas. In short,
Mr.. Henderson aims to give the reader
a thorough knowledge and understanding
of the man and his works. The volume
will bear the imprint Of G. 2. Ipt-
namS Sons.
'.The World and the ndividual-Nature,
Man and the Moral Order" is a second
series of Clifford lectures by Prof. Josiah
Royce. and is on the press for immediate
The subject of Marie Corellis new nov
ell, to be brought out by Dodd Mead g
Co. next spring, is similar to that dealt
with in 1.-The Master Christian.
1.-The Soul of the Cat, by, Margaret
Benson, which is being brought out by
c. P. Putnams Sons, is a charming col
lection of animal stories. The illustra,,
tons, by Nine Ronner, are fanclfui ana
attractive. Miss Benson is the daughter
of the archbishop and sister Of the au-
thor of tDodo.
A new long novel from the epigramma-
tic pen of Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler will
be published as soon as completed by
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
Miss Fowler in a sustained novel is
more satisfactory than in the snort story,
intense though not less sparkling than
the authors earlier efforts, Isabel earn
afy,i and 1.-THE Double Thread. .
s.The Severance Herbe," promised by E.
P. Dutton & Co, a history of tobacco,
from the pen OF w; IA a. a EN- Inv ~ NV wv
Hartley. Since Fairholt' Tobacco,
published in 1853, this is the first attemps
TO chronicle the career of the plant Oh
Wondrous feature" ina manner peHttiils
the subject.
w. E. Henley Hawthorn and Lav ven
DER poems, which were recently pup
lished in various issues of the Nortn
American Review, is soon to be publshed
by Harper & Bros.
Poet. critic and editor, Henley mas al
WAYS been virile figure in EngllSh 1T
erature. He wrote four plays IN collaDor,,
alton with Stevenson-tDe Deacon Bfooie,
sBeau Austin and Admiral Guinea,
and "Macaire.
Charles Seribner's Sons will shortly Is
she a volume of essays by Mr.. Henley.
A few years ago they published ms
Views and Reviews: Literature. The
new volume is second series.
Augustine Birrell, who is both chan
Gerry barrister and author, has found time
to write another book OF essays. CnaFies
Scribner's Sons are soon to puollSn the
new book, which is entitled Mlseei-
Ianies', 1t contains ten essays on lit
erary and historical subjects. The au-
tborsof ..sOhiter Dicta'' has written little
in his familiar style since Men, Women
and Books" 1894, and Res Judicatae,
1892.
ga Child of Nature, by Hamilton
Wright Mabie. which was issued serially
in The Bookman as john roster, Is
published this week by sDodd, Mead d
Co. The book, which IS one OF MI. Ma
bie,s shortest, is illustrated by Charles
Louis Hinton.
Mrs. Gatty,s parallels From Nature
is published by James Pott & Co. The
author has been quite suecessfui IN pro-
yiding entertainment by means of para
BILE. and her book is worth reading and
keeping. There is "a handsome cloth
binding, with photograVurez frontlsplece
of Mrs. Gatty.
Best Selling Books.