The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-23
LITERARY NOTES.


''There is no question" writes Lillian
Whiting, that Truth Dexter will be
the novel Of the summer"
OF special interest to lawyers is the
Life of John Marshall" by James Brad
ley Thayer of the Harvard law school, to
be published by Houghton, Miffiin e. Co,
in the Riverside biographical series. It
includes Prof Thayer's notable address
on the Marshall Centenary and some inl-
pertant Unpublished letters.
A large first edition of Mr.. Owen John
sons novel, Arrows of the Almighty
was sold before the day of publication. A
second edition is being prepared by The
Macmillan company for publication this
week. Mr.. Johnson enters the field Of
fiction with fair auspices. Recent grad
yates of Yale are likely to be interested
in this novel by the late chairman of the
Yale Lit"
The May publications of Little, Brown
&c Co, include "a Daughter of New
France" by Mary Catherine Crowley, a
story dealing with the life of Cadillac
and his founding of Detroit; when the
Gates Lift up Their Heads" a powerful
novel of the. South in the early seventies,
by Payne Erskine; and Mrs Anna Bow
Husband in Paris
Referring to the vote of the New York
State Librarians for the best and most
popular fifty books of 1900 it is interesting
to note that r. H. Russell, the art
Publisher is credited with two books
in the list, i. e.. 'NIr. Doeley's Philosophy
by the ininitable F. Peter Dunno who,
by the way, was at last accounts recu-
peratmg in Italy from his attack Of ty-
phoid; and the English translation Of
Edmond Rostand's '.L'Aiglon.'
The May Atlantic has many articles of
peculiar interest to its large academic
audience. Prof Munsterberg's paper on
american Productive Scholarship is che
of the most radical and searching of MS
essays in criticism. Prof A. s. Cook, of
Yale, contributes a notable essay upon
teaching English. Robert Herriek, of the
University Of Chicago, has a story en-
titled The Professors Chance" Thsre is
a discussion of American prose style b.
Prof. J. d. Logan, of the University OF
South Dakota, and of American poetry
by josephine Dodge Daskam.
The striking poster Of "A Sailors Log
-Rear-Admiral Evans autobiography
was wholly made and printed at the
Brooklyn factory Of the publishers OF the
book, d. Appleton & CO. 1t shows Il
medallion portrait of the admiral, fanked
By two American flags, which two sailors
hauling to the masthead The flesh tints
are finely reproduced. The frame OF tie
poster represents a rectangle Of cable.
The new poster is masterpiece Of color
work, and will be greatly priced not only
for it's artistic beauty. but as an interest
ing historic document.
The May number Of the Ledger Month
~ contains all the usual departments
stThe Cultivation of Physical Beauty"
by Stella Stuart, Thoughts Affecting
the Life of a Young Girl by Mrs. Gle
men& Farley; "a New York Girls News
and Views by Edith Lawrence; How
to Market for the Home Table" by Mrs.
Gesine Lemcke; Seven Sandwiches for
Spring" by Elizabeth Wadsworth
Morrison; Current Fashions" by Mathil-
de verlet;; standard Henlorset Patterns; -
The Washing of Summer Dresses. :"
by Constance Fuller Mcintyre; Dainty
Bags for Dainty Uses by Alice Fellows
Knapp; Helps to Good Housekeeping,
by Cornelfa c. Bedford; Growing the
Queen of Flowers" by Geo. K. Knapp;
youth and Home Department"
world Over" Worlds Progress" and
correspondence an5 mar Minute
Talks" anS ...uen more interesting mis-
cellany.