The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27

Mr.. Sanborn's volume will be received
with delight Mr.. Sanborn, no doubt,
brings to his task a peculiar fitness, inso-
much that he was intimate not only with
Thoreau, but with the latters innumera-
Ple-friends and acquaintnces.
Canada has produced new writer in
the person of Adeline M. Teskey, whose
book, "Where the Sugar-Maple Crows
is from the press of R. f. Fenno & CO.
Miss Teskey has produced in these idylls
of a. Canadian village something unique
in the way of character studies.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Of New York
city, have prepared an edition of what
they call the selected works" of the
elder Dumas, and have put it forward in
handsome style in new translation,
with new Illustrations, decorations, notes..
and editorial features. The firm has peen
at work on the edition for several years.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the great Nor
Weglan poet, novelist and dramatist,
writes: "Of all the authors of the present
day, Selma Lagerlof is the most dear to
me- Her books are great saga OF
human love, adorned with the richest
wonders of imagination, and at the
same time they are so pure-pure as the
freshly fallen snow
The Cavalier" is told by youth CT
nineteen, and it was at this age that
Gable entered the service.
No fewer than 5000 copies formed the
first edition here of 1.-The Life Of Robert
Louis Stevenson" by Graham Balfour;
yet every copy has been taken up by the
booksellers before the day of publication,
Which indicates that interest III and adj
mlration of Stevenson still continues in
the United Kingdom. This seems to be
an extraordinary circumstance; as the
biography is two-volume work, and by
no means inexpensive.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. have just
concluded arrangements with Jerome K.
Jerome for the publication of his new
novel, Paul Kelvar," on which he is at
present at work.
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deavor to submerge his identity as a
humorist and will make the serious lit
erary effort of his life: The work will APP
pear next spring.
A Sketch of the life of John Trum-
bull, together with a catalogue of his
works, has been prepared by John +.
Weir, director of the Yale Art school,
and will be published at once by
now, coming so soon after the opening
of the special exhibition of the Trum-
bull pictures recently announced in the
daily press. The exhibition is IN con-
NAL, and it was at the instance of the BIZ
centennial committee that DIR. Weir pre-
pared this book. The Trumbull gall
lery of historical paintings, descriptive
and commemorative of the American
Revolution, is one of the most valuable
possessions of Yale university; and this
life of the artist, son of Gov. Jona
than Trumbull, of Connecticut, and
pendence, has a peculiar value and in
terest to students of early American his
tory and art.
Two companions for book lovers are
Little Pilgrimages Among the Men
Who Have Written Famous Books and
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women
Who Have Written Famous Books
which will appear at the end of this
month.
Mr.. F. F. Harkins, their author, is
Boston newspaper man. He has not
restricted his ''pilgrimages'' to the
shrines of New England authors alone,
but has broadened the scope to take in
Bret Harte'S Pacific Coast, Octave Than
cts and Hamlin Garlands Middle West,
James Lane Aliens Blue Grass Ken
lucky and Thomas Nelson Pages Vir-
ginia.
A second series of w. E. Henley's
early publication by the Scribners. This
series will deal with art in the same
manner and with the same touch that
the first series dealt with literature. Mr..
Henley,S exclusive devotion to literature
of recent years has somewhat obscured
his reputation as a writer on art He is,
nevertheless, one of the acutest art
critics of the time, and has written some
OF the most pentrating and illuminat ting
aesthetic literature that has appeared in
English. In collecting the incisive essays,
short and long, which make up the pres
ent volume-many of which are from
The Magazine of Art while it was under
his brilliant editorShip-he has laid all
his readers under obligations.
new novel, La
zarre," abounds in telling little epigrams,
in which the wisdom is not forced. Here
are. some sayings that attract particular
attention: why should we lay up griey-
apces against one another? They must
disappear; and they burn our hearts -
Mans success in the world is proper
toned to the number of forces he can
secure to work with him.. And again,
zone day is never really like another,
though it seems so.''