The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-16
LITERARY NOTES.


LITERARY NOTES.
Pere Didon's remarkable Life of
Christ, with an INTRODUCES on by Cardinal
CE~&s. is to be issued in a new and more
compact edition for subscription
The second edition of Winston Church
Ills new novel THE Crisis" is on the
press. The Macmillan company state
that the first 100000 copies We're sold
within six days of the date Of publica-
ton.
1t is not often that book written by
an anonymous author goes to press with
its third edition before the book is even
Bile record of THE Tribulations of a
Princess which Harper Brothers have
just issued.
The recent reception of Brander Mat
theWs into the London Athenaeum Club,
AFTER eighteen years of waiting for the
distinction, is an honor of no mean i'm
portance> Prof. Matthews was originally
nominated by Matthew Arnold nearly
score Of years ago.
Like the author of David Harum," Mr..
A. r. Condor. whose novel, The Seal of
silence" is to be published in June by
p Appleton & Co., never saw his book.
Mr.. Gender, who was a young Oxford
graduate finished his novel in December,
about month before his death.
MessrsI Harper Brothers are about to
publish a new novel entitled Heart and
cIE-splrltuf Santo, Mrs. Henrietta Dana
Skinner Mrs; Skinner is the daughter
of the late Richard H. Dana Jr.,. who
wrote Two Years Before the Mast She
resides in Detroit, where some of the
scenes of her new novel are laid.
In Mr.. VIII n, Harben's novel, Yves
terfelt," which the Harpers will issue in
June, as3stlhe sixth Of their American
Novels Series, the author has introduced
a rather original feature in the second
G6naRtgir{fh "a Is to , say the sudden
is led to believe Is the heroine of the
story.
Publishers complain of the scarcity of
good books for girls, and their readers
mas yet come to view. Books like Little
women are as rare as ''Trilbys, yet
Such books sell away up in the thousands
and with the large rewards offered and
SO many women writing fiction it is in
deed difficult to understand why first
class stories for girls are not forthcoming
A novel by Frederick U. Adams is an
nounced for publication on June II by
the Lothrop Publishing company. The
theme is the kidnapping of six New York
m1ll1onaires by an irresponsible news
paper correspondent, and treats of the
various adventuresyof the marooned mag
mates, the Wall street panic caused by
their mysterious disappearance, and
their fnalF rescue through the efforts Of
an enterprising newspaper. 1t forms a
book of 500 pages and those who have
read the advanced sheets are generous
L.
ton to spirited fiction and adventure
The following novel, mills of God" by
a new writer, Elinor M. Lane, has offered
an occasion for a charming cooperation
by the authors artist friends in a wholly
original, scheme of illustration. The time
or the romance is the late eighteenth
century in Virginia and London, and the
illustrations are apparently contemporary
portraits of the principal characters exc
cuted in varying mediums. There is a
beautiful miniature portrait of Lady
Grafton. the central figure, and a. bas-
relief of another character actually mod
eled by H. H. Kitson, the well-knoWn
sculptor. A third character is presented
IN apparently an old portrait in oils, and
fourth IN an old-time silhouette. The
originals were persons carefully selected
ana dressed in appropriate costumes by
the author and her friends. The effect
Of this little gallery of eighteenth cen
fury portraits is described as peculiarly
charming. Mills of God, will be pub
lished in America and England about the
middle Of June.
Mrs. Ella w. Peattie, whose romance
''The Belea guered Forest is to be pub
lished shortly, has had exceptional oppor.
Of American life. She was born in NTichi-
gan while her father was at the front as
a soldier in the Civil war. For several
years she was a successful contributor
to Chicago and Omaha newspapers. and
travelled over the greater part of the
United States. Her stories and sketches
were accepted by nearly all the leading
magazines and she gained an exceptional
and Western types. Her recently finish
ed romance 1.-The Beleaguered Forest
has been described as a consistent study
of a Woman's inconsistency, sketched
against the background furnished by the
great forests of Northern Michigan.
Sir William Martin Conway, who wrots
THE Bolivian Andes, a Record of Climb
ing and Exploration" which the Harpers
publish this month, holds the worlds
record for mountain climbing. In 1891
he explored the Himalayas, crossing
pass 23,0O0 feet high. and in the course OF
his travels surveyed 1000 miles Of noun
tains. Later he made an extensive jour
ney in the Bolivian Andes, taking many
wonderful photographs, and embodyins
this indefatigabIe traveller visited Lake
Tticaca. the most elevated Of South
American lakes, for the purpose of max
Ing. an authoritative report upon that
region.
In the New York Journal Saturday re-
view. Miss Dorothy Dix calls attention
to what she terms a remarkable literary
coincidence, in the fact that 'the two
of the year have been written by Miss
Potter and Miss Runkel, who are scarcely
out of their teens. Miss Dix should have
added that, before Miss Runkel had be-
gun her story, Miss Potter, the author OF
The House of de Mailly." had published
at the age of seventeen, her first novel,
"A Social Lion, which was the seasons
sensation in Chicago. Miss Dix remarks
that whereas Miss Runkel has written
story of the Swashbuckling style-of
which the public has begun to tire-Miss
Potter in THE House of de Mailly," has
written tale which bids for the favor Of
poster1ty, being love idyl-a field
flower that springs up and buds and bios
some in the most brilliant and corrupt
court of Europe"-that of Louix XIV
Lake Geneva, Wis, busily engaged upon
future work
LITTLE ONES WELL WATCHED.