The times., 1901-03-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Barr McCutcheons S new novel, tell this
story of him:
Mr.. McCuteheou is enough of journalist
TO have had many experiences. and some OF
them amusing Once az dinner he responded
to the toast. "a Woman's Smile, giving
hastily written bit OF verse TO suit the
occasion and the ladies. Among the guests
was man from adjoining city, and so
much was he delighted with the response
mat ne asked Mr.. MeCutcheon to write IL
on the back of an envelope Tor HIM
\ few months later Mr.. McCutcheon attend
ed a small dinner party in CITY not lar
from Lafayette and among the guests was the
man who had admired the response. Every
thing was informal and it was not long be
1ofe one of the ladies called for toasts. Inc
| admirer. as he may be called, was the hTst
one urged to ''say something nice. lie
arose and profusely apoogized for what ne
was about to perpetrate, admitting that ne
| had written some verses huTiediy Tor ntle
affair that did not come of, but If the others
would promise TO ''throw plates" he wou.d
| give toast TO "a woman's smile. ForSetiul
that the man who wrote them was present
he recited the gallantiy, and then
| modestly sat down, with uncertain sort OF
| applause his recompense.
| Suddenly the man remembered that the
| writer of the verses sitting directly op-
| poSite, and he began 10 turn a merry req.
He lost his power of speech and was the
| most uncomfortable person who ever studieo
| a plate al a dinner party As soon as .iie
ladies left the room he dragged Mt NC
Cutcheon OF TO corner and exclaimed:
81 want TO explain old Don't think
| that | had forgotten that you wrote that
| toast. was not trying to steal your thunder
1t was and is my intention TO introduce you
as the author when we go into the craving
| room, and create little dVersion-
| That's all right Mr.. D interrupted
| McChtcheon; don't say another word about
| it. It's nice of you. but really don
| how the deuce we can carry the thing out
| as you intend You see, Just before you
! got here this evening our hostess actually
forced me to repeat those verses for the
crowd-and l did So
Doubleday, Page & Co announce the
spring appearance in book form of Mas
| ters of Men, the story by Morgan Rob
| ertson now running in the SATURDAY
| Evening Post
| Frederick D. Chester bacteriologist Of
| the Delaware Agricultural Experiment
! Station and director of the State Bac-
! THEOLOGICAL Laboratory, has just com
! pleted "A Manual of Determinative Bac-
| teriology" The work aims to arrange all
! sufficiently described bacteria in such
way that they can be determined by the
! laboratory worker.
Among the new books to be issued by
.. Appleton & Co. is "A Landmark His
tory of New York" by Albert Ulmann,
who has treated the citys story from a
novel point of view Instead of following
the customary plan of dealing with facts
and alluding incidentally to historic sites,
the author has described a series of eX-
cursions to old landmarks and woven the
history about them. The erection of
tablets within recent years In many parts
of the city has helped materially to iden-
tlfy important sites, and to give def
mite sense of realism to the. story of the
past To make tour of these memorials
in their proper order and relate the in
terestlng events connected Herewith is
the plan of the book
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. have Just pub
lished THE Railroad" a collection of
short stories selected from "McCiure's
Magazine" This volume is the second in
the series Of Stories from McClure's."
Messrs. Herbert s. Stone & Co. will
bring out this spring an edition in one
volume of The Love of An Uncrowned
Queen" by w. II. Wilkins, NJ A. 1t tells
the story of Sophie Dorothea, the consort
OF George l, and Count Konigsmark-a
story as passionate and romantic as that
OF Mary Stuart and Rizzio
The fourth edition of Who Goes
There?' Story of a Spy in the Civil
War has just been issued by the Mac
milan Company. Grand Army men seem
to have caught ON to this story. 1t has
been receiving much notice from some of
the general officers both from the Con-
federate and Northern armies. An inter
one seems to know on which side of the
civil war the author fought
Owen Johnson, whose novel, Arrows
OF the Almighty is TO be published next
month by the Macmillan Company, is the
grandson of Judge Nimrod johnson, who
was at one time a law partner of Gov
ernor Morton, the war Governor of In
diana. His is an old Indiana family a
member of which Henry n. Johnson rep
Ind In
ago.
THE Lions Brood is a new novel by
Dufield Osborne announced for early
spring publication by Doubleday, Page &
Co. The Lions Brood, 1t will be remem-
bered were the sons of the old Cartha-
ginian leader. Hamilcar. who as children
We're sworn enemies of Rome.
The stories that are told by Mr.. w. C.
Coup in "Sawdust and Spangles' are
most diverting. and not the most amusing
of them are those that relate to the man
ufacture Of freaks. In our credulous
young days we supposed that all these
monsters of the arena were genuine, but !
Mr. Coup assures us that it requires some |
ingenuity to manufacture white elephants |
and Cardiff giants. The following letter |
from Mr.. p. T. Barnum which is printed |
in the book, refers to these eccentricities |
in delightfully."- frank and breezy way:
Bridgeport, Oct S, 1870
'My Dear Coup: Yours received | will |
join you in a show for next spring and will |
probably have Admiral Dot well trained this
winter and have him and Harrison in the
show. Wood will sell all his animals right
and will furnish several tip-top museum cur
iosties. You need 10 spend several months
in New York arranging for curiosties cuts,
cages, bills. etc We make a stunning
museum department. You have a Cardiff
Giant that won't crack also moving
figure, sleeping beauty or Dying Zouave-a
big gymnastc figure like that in Woods
Museum-and lots OF other good things. and
you need tine TO look them up and pre-
pare managers etc. Yours truly
"P. 7. BARNUM.''
q ] will spare time to coach up the show
in New York when you come. l think
Siamese Twins would pay"
Prof Groos, author of The Play of An
imals" and professor of philosophy in the
of Basic. has written THE
Play of Man" of which the publishers, d.
Appleton & Co. say:
THE results of Prof Groos' original
and acute Investigations are of pecul-
lar value TO those who are interested
in psychology and sociology, and they
are OF great importance to educators.
He presents the anthropological as
poets of the subject treated in his
psychological study of the Play of An
imals,' which has already become
classic. Prof. GroUs who agrees with
the followers of Weismann, develops
the great Importance of the childs
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