The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-12
LITERARY NOTES.


Mr.. Julian Ralph, the well known au-
thor and Journalist, has revisited his ma
tive country just in time to see the ap-
pearance of his striking new book, WARS
brighter Side, which is coming from the
press of D. Appleton & Co. The book is
described as affording most vivid and
amusing pictures of the experiences Of
Ralph, Kfpling, A. Conan Doyle and 9TH
ers who edited or contributed to The
FRIEND the paper published at Earl Rob-
ert's request for the army in South Af-
RIGA.
An interesting find" has recently
been made at Boscoreale, a village near
Naples. A Roman villa has been I'M
earthed which contains some wonderful
frescoes. In The Magazine of Art, for
May, Leader Scott gives a description
OF these in the course of which it IS
stated: THE summer triclinium was
absolutely gorgeous with frescoes. The
whole walls were INTELLECTUALLY divided
into panels by wreathed columns with
their architraves and corn,ces and ev-
cry panel was filled with pictures-some
representing buildings, and others fig
ures. Three of them show the tenn
porary erections and affairs Wlich the
Romans were wont to erect for the feast
OF Isis IA custom which is kept up to
THIS day When the people, on a GER
IoLIA Noy III OClOD6E, OI -IOTTS AIHunZld-
ia, erect affairs to the Madonna). One
of these architectural frescoe3 is par
tlcalarly interesting, as it shows the
style of building for county villas
amongst the Rom3ns, and proves the
genesis of the Loggia, so dear to Lem-
bard and Tuscan medieval architects.
1t represents a villa with a number Of
balconies and colonnades one above the
other These Roman architectural
scenes seem to explain the piles of fan
-tastic buildings which form the back
grounds of those mar elo=s early fres-
Goes in the church of San Piero a
Grade, near Pisa, which were done 200
years before Cimabue, and must have
been either inspired by or descended
from late Roman art. In another fres-
CO of an Isis altar, votive offerings in
the form Of bowls of luscious fruit are
placed on each side of the altar depict
ed; third panel is a garden scene, with
the specus or rock-hewn cave, whence
the spring water flows. The classicary
draped figure of Isis stands in a,
wreathed temple above a fourth of the
painted affairs.
Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish in the fall
book of short stories by Caroline Duer,
entitled unconscious Comedians"
Miss Duer's stories in The Smart Set ami
other magazines have created so much
manent form was inevitable
Three more issues of the new and in
teresting Riverside Biographical series
are announced for immediate publication
Boston. New York and Chicago. These
are Ulysses S. Grant, by Walter Allen;
Lewis and Clark" by William R. Lign-
ton, and John Marshal" by James B.
Thaver 49, "a tElifi'
Messrs. -Houghton. .N1flin & Co. Of
Boston, New York 'andn1 Chicago. Ian
nounce for iEnmedfate publication two
books appropriate. to the sprngtime,
which will be most welcome to all who
are interested in nature study One is
Olive. Thome Miller's The Second Book
of Birds" and the other Bradford Tor
rey's Everyday Birds - +,.,te .
The April issue @(No. 14D of the River
side literature series Cat present issued
quarterly, published By Messrs. Hough
and Chicago, contains Alexander Pores
famous poems The Rape of the Lock"
the Essay on Man and the .Epist'e to
DR.. Arbuthnot." The book Is edited, with
Biographical introduction. introductions
to the several poems and n tes BIZ Henry
w; Boynton, M A.. instructor in Eng
The poems themselves and the critical
skill shown in it's preraration render this
book valuable addition to tho sterling
group of masterpieces contained in the
Riverside literature series.
L.. &C. Page & co. announce for early
publication "A! Sunny sontherner,' by
JuIla MaGruder,- author OF The Prln-
A large first edition of Mr. owen. John
sons novel, Arrows Of the Almighty. .
was sold the day Of publication. A see
ond edition is being prepared by the Mac
milan company for publication this week.
AS a grandson ofstAe War Governor MOI :
ton to- of Indiana and q son of Mr.: Robert
Underwood Johnson, the poet and associ,
ate editor OF the Century magazine Mr.
Owen Johnson enters the field of fiction
With fair auspices. Recent graduates Of
Yale are likely to be interested in this
Lit" ~,
A Search for an Infdel, is the title
of the Rev. .yenkin LLOYD Jones new
book. Like Tess, or Bits of Wayside
Gospel it is written in an out-of-doors
atmosphere. Ii is another chapter i'm
the nature or gospel good fellowship. mu-
tual service and kindness which DR.. Jones
has preached and practiced for SO many
years. The Macmillan company will
publish the book next month.