The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-22
LITERARY NOTES.


Colonial New York, by Jesse Van Zile
Belden.
The Grafton Press, New York, has
just issued "In Oudemon;" the RENT
niscences Of an occasional traveller by
Henry S. Drayton M d. 1t is an inter-
esting narrative of adventures and curl
GUS experiences without the usual smoke
and dash Of battle.
The Cornhill Booklet for April is a
delight to the book collector as 1t has
brought forth from obscurity three very
characteristic articles by Nathaniel Haw-
thorne which are not found in his col
lected works. AS frontispiece there
appears Mr.. Edwin Osgood Growers
fourth leahet in "The Four Seasons
series. 1t is entitled THE Buoyant
Spring."
Among the important books just issued
are the first two volumes of the Temple
Moliere, lie Bourgeois GentiIhomme''
and lie Medicin Malgre Lui" and ''Buch
der Lieder,'' by Heinrich Heine, published
IN the United States by Mcclure, Phillips
& Co., and in England by J. NJ. Dent e.
Co. The Dent books are already famous,
and the present volumes are no excep-
tons in excellence of Typography. bind
ing and general appearance. The Moliere
is printed in the original French from the
text of NM. Mesnard and Despois. The
songs by Heine are printed in the Ger
man at the Gutenberg Press, Stuttgart,
for the above mentioned houses.
The April New" Lippincott Magazine
opens with a complete novel, as usual
This month it is stirring detective story
by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield, wife of
Admiral CrowninshieId, which keeps the
reader guessing up to the final pages
Mysterious Miss Dacres' is the tite
and Josephine Dacres, the heroine, well
deserves the designation. Among other
things which puzzle her landlady is Jo-
sephine's undertaking habit Of walking
on the grass beside the path-never on the
path itself-but this is only one of many
Of her peculiarities, though it is a straw
In the wind which points in the right
direction. With a strong plot to start
with. Mrs. Crowninshield makes the most
striking situations and sp-inExles plenty of
humor through her diverting story Cy-
rus Townsend Brady's college tale
Fourth in the serles) takes UP the season
able subject Of hazing at Annapolis. It
is called "a Hazing Interregnum," and
Is full of sport and as clever as anything
which even this popular writer has pub
ltshed. THE Enterprise Of Flora" by
Francis Gribble, leading English au-
thor, is really brilliant little romance
which opens in a dancing academy and
ends-where many romances do not-but
to mention the place would be to tell Mr.
Gribble's story. Adachi Kinnosuke, the
Acknowledgements, who writes such
beautiful love tales of his native country,
contributes ga Cherry-Bud in Foreign
Land" This is an idyllic, pathetic story
of a young Japanese girl named Tome,
and an American artist. who together
famed away two summers and were too
much In love to think OF marriage" 1.-The
Last Sonata" by Clinton Dangerield, is
a. story of gold-mining In the West, short
but thrilling.
Casters Magazine Of illustrated engi-
neering has the following articles in it's
May number: Niagara Falls Power,
the Present Extent Of It's Application"
with nineteen Illustrations, by Harold w.
Buck, electrical engineer Of the Niagara
Falls Power company; speed Regulation
Of Water Power Plants, the Practical
Side OF the Problem" with seven illus
trations. by Allan V. CARAT, 1.-THE Copy
ing Of American Machinery, as an Eng
Eshman Sees It." by Joseph Horner;
Steam Boilers at the Paris Exposition"
some continental types, with twenty-five
illustrations. by w. D. Wansbrough;
Liquid Fuel, Some Conclusions From
Recent Trials by E. L. Orde; 'The In
dustrial Situation in Great Britain, the
Need Of Colonial Development; a Cana
dian Opinion by William 7. Allison, M
A; Modern Cupo1a Practice, Study Of
Cupola Designs" with eleven i1lustra-
tions, by DR.. R. Moldenke; Electric Dis
tribution for Street Railways" a Com
parison of Various Systems, by c.. f.
Bancroft. Current Topics-'The Belle
Vile Boiler in the British Navy" 'Steaan
Jet Engineering Two Thousand Years
Ago., "Eolipiles and Their Uses" MAX
ing Weldless Chains Industrial Better
ment," and 1.-THE Apprenticeship QNes-
ton"
The leading feature of The Smart Set
for May is a novelette, entitled "The
Wage of Character" by Julien Gordon
(Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger). This is
the most ambitious story that Mrs
Cruger has published in some years, and
is perhaps the strongest and most brill
liant she has ever written. She has dared
to write of New York and Washington
society. in which she has so long been
an admirable and commanding figure
and 1t is hardly to be supposed that
she could locate a story of such length
in her immediate environment, welding
the 1ncisive and epigrammatic pen she
does, without creating lively fiut-
ter In the social dovecote. Her story
tells of the strange courtship and sud
den marriage CT Hazard 1'horne, brill
liant young Harvard graduate, to the
sister Of his schoolmate and intimate
friend. Hamilton Darrell, a muIti-mill-
ionaire. Their life in New York and
afterward in Washington, where Thorne
goes as member of congress, and
where he becomes sensationalIy involv-
ed with two women socially conspicu-
Gus, is an intensely realistic and fascin-
ating study. Mrs. Cruger is one Of the
few women in literature who write al
ways to the point, and she dissects
character with the pitiless skill of the
vivisectionist. In 1.-THE Wage of Char
acter' the reading public has a ncsv lit
erary sensation. Other good features
are to be found in the Smart Set.