The Washington times., 1901-09-29


| this autumn under the captivating title
Bluegrass and Rhododendron'' with the
subtitle Outdoor Lie in Kentucky. IL
will have the Scribner imprint.
The Roentgen Rays in Medicine and
Surgery as an Aaid in Diagnosis and as
Therapeutic Agent is the title of
book to be published Immediately by the
Macmillan Company. The author, Fran
els II. Williams, NJ. D., is a graduate OF
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, visiting physician at the Boston CITY
Hospital, fellow of the Massachusetts
Medical Society, member of the Associa-
ton of American Physicians, and a men,
ber of the American Climatological Asso-
ciation There are about 800 illustrations
in the book which embodies the results
of the original work that has been car
ried on by the author during nearly hve
the already considerable literature of the
subject, chiefly that of Germany. France,
England, and America.
The publication of Mr.. Gelett Burgess
poems in the little volume entitled "A
Gage of Youth" which is announced by
Small, Maynard & Co., will be quite likely
, to surprise many people, who. remember
ing The Purple Cow and the Coop"
verses, have thought Mr.. Burgess muse
to be the singer of the totally absurd.
The frontispiece to Miss Jewett's TORY
Lover" which Messrs. Houghton, Miftiin &c
Co. announce for September publication.
is a rare instance of perfect accord be-
tween author and illustrator The artist,
Mrs. Charles ii. Woodbury., has caught
the authors idea of her heroine, and the
result is an exquisite miniature of Miss
Mary Hamilton.
With "The Roadmaster's Story-The
Spider Water which will appear in the
October urIrobpr pe '.Nc(,tura'c NJ.
Frank II. Spearman completes his series
of remarkable railroad stories. Mr.. Spear
mans book. Held for Orders: Tales of
shortly by Mcclure, Phillips & Co., is GER
tain to enjoy large measure of success.
e. p. Morris, professor of Latin at Yalo
University, contributes to the bicenten-
nial publications volume, published by
the Scribners, entitled ION Principles and
Methods in Syntax.''
Frederic Harrison gives us the result
of his late visit to America in a book
which he calls George Washington and
Other American Addresses
Several current events will tend to at
tract interest to 1. K. Friedman's new
novel, BY Bread Alone" one of the Sep
tember publications of Mcclure, Phillips
& Co. 1t is story of the steel mills of
Chicago, showing the gradual develop
ment of irreconcilable differences between
employer and employe. 1t depicts the life
of people who are at present of unfor-
tunate interest to the public-the Poles.
Moreover. it introduces in fiction an an
archist of the Emma Goldman type. The
reader wonders IL there was any compar-
ison in the authors mind when he named
her Sophia Goldstein. Fleeing in turn
from Russia and France. she drifts into
New York, where, being bird Of that
black feather. she joins Herr Most's flock.
About the time of the Haymarket riot she
finds her way to Chicago and associates
national. In by Bread Alone" she is To-
Gated In the factory town of Marvin,
where she harangues the ignorant Poles,
excites mobs. and lives a life of dire men
ace to society
Mcclure, Phillips G. Co. publish this
month a new story of Scottish village life.
THE House of the Green Shutters by
George Douglas, writer little known to
American readers.
The publishers of Post Wheeler's book.
'Love-in-a-Mist," send out the following
extraordinary story about the author:
rost Wheeler. whose book of verse; 'Iove-
in-a-Mist," has given him the title of The
Stephen Phillips of America" in looks is slender
and collegiate. One who knows him one
time lecturer at Princeton University, would
never guess he had spent years roughing it the
great Northwest, above the Arctic Circle. hunt
ing and camping with the Indians or dog-driv-
ing on the Yukon ice trail at Is degrees below
With partner, a Canadian trapper he was
November. hunting in the region north of
the great Tanana divide, in the heart OF
Alaska. Some other hunters had eamped here, on
stream known Charities River and
these the two had joined. Moose signs were
abundant, and grizzly tracks suggested good
sport.
One afternoon Mr. Wheeler. with his partner
star ed ont fp bar hons
of grey grouse. Darkness caught them some
miles from camp. They had believed that valley
free from wolves, but an ominous and lonesome
howl from hill mile away warned them they
were mistaken. The wolves In that country are
a leah and heavy Siberian breed. and being
used to pulling down moose. could not be ex-
pected to fear overmuch. The men made
all possible speed but the yelps came faster.
Weighted with furs they were heavily handicap
ped. They gave up hope of making camp, and
choosing handy dead spruce climbed speedily.
At safe elevation they held council of
Between them they had rifle with four cart
ridges and one hatchet. 1t was so degrees be-
low zero and TO wait through the long hours
before daylight meant certain death.
An idea came to Mr.. Wheeler. Lets bcild
FIRE up here he said. Climbing to the top OF
the tree he chopped all the branches he could
heavy limbs and started blaze. They fed this
with all available fuel intending, when it was
well going, to dump it on the ground to keep
the pack at a distance. Unfortunately however.
the branches above their heads caught FIRE, and
they had to slide to the lower limbs, while the
dead top Of the tree famed up like gigantic
bouquet.
Mr.. Wheeler once said that the most violent
exercise he took during the next twenty
minutes crawling from limb TO limb, with such
uncomfortable company waiting dinner below
and blazing branches and sparks raining from |
above.
The fire. however, proved lucky accident, for
it brought the campers with their rifles and the |
two were rescued. As 1t turned out they were |
only a half mile from camp, though they had |
supposed themselves much farther.