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

date publication "Antonia," tale Of
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
HenrySS. Drayton, M. D. 1t is an inter-
esting narrative of adventures and curl
GUS experiences without the usual smoke
and dash of battle
The Cornhin Booklet for April is
delight to the book collector, as it has
brought forth from obscurity three very
characteristic articles by Nathaniel Haw-
thorne which are not found in his col
lectcd works. AS a frontispiece thera
appears Mr.. Edwin Osgood Growers
fourth leatlet in 1.-THE -Four Seasons
series. 1t Is entitled 1.-The Buoyant
Spring"
Among the important books just issued
are the first two volumes of the Temple
Moliere, lie Bourgeois Gentilhomme"
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. M Dent 81
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
L
songs by Heine are printed in the Ger
man at the Gutenberg Press, Stuttgart,
for the above mentioned houses
The April New" Lippincott Magaz.ne
opens with a complete novel, as usual
This month it is stirring detective story
by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield, wife Of
Admiral Crowninshield, which keeps the
reader guessing up to the final pages
mysterious Miss Dacres'' is the title
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 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- inkles plenty Of
humor through her diverting story Cy-
rus Townsend Brady's college tale
Fourth in the series) takes UP the season
able subject of hazing at Annapolis. It
is called "a HaZfng Interregnum," and
is full Of sport and as clever as anything
which even this popular writer has pub
lished. THE Enterprise of Flora by
Francis Gribble, a leading English au-
thor. is a really brilliant little romance
which opens in 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 IA Cherry-Bud in a Foreign
Land. This is an tdyllic, pathetic story
OF young Japanese girl named o Tome
and an American artist, who. together
Tanned away two summers and were too
much in love to think OF marriage" 1.-The
Last Sonata by Clinton Dangerfeld, Is
a story of gold-mining In the West, short
but thrilling.
Casters Magazine of Illustrated engi-
neering has the following articles in its
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
lishman 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 T. Allison, NJ
A: Modern Cupola Practice, a Study of
Cupola Designs with eleven illustra-
tions. by DR.. r. Moldenlze; Electric Dis
tribution for Street Railways" a Com
parison of Various Systems by c. F.
Bancroft. Current Tepics-"The Belle
Vile Boiler in the British Navy" '.Steaan.
Jet Engineering Two Thousand Years
Ago. "Eolipiles and Their Uses" "Mak-
ing Weldless Chains Industrial Better
ment." and THE Apprenticeship QHas-
tion''
The leading feature of The Smart Set
for May is q 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 it is hardly to be supposed that
she could locate e. story of such length
in her immediate environment, welding
the 1ncisive and epigrammatic pen she
does, without creating a lively 1iut-
ter in the social dovecote Her story
tells of the strange courtship and sud-
den marriage CT Hazard 1horne a brill
liant young Harvard graduate, to the
sister of his schoolmate and intimate
friend. Hamilton Darrell, muIti-mill-
ionaire. Their life in New York and
afterward in Washington, where Thorne
goes as a member of congress, and
where he becomes sensationally 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 THE Wage of Char
acter" the reading public has a ncsy lit
erary sensation. Other good features
are to be found in the Smart Set.