The sun., 1902-10-08
BOOKS AND BOOKMAKING.

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a wheat ship. Now comes word that h,
has bought mountain ranch on the Pacific
Slope instead. and intends to live and worl
there, coming to New York for few months
every second winter.
The ranch has only ten acres and boast,
no buildings, save log house and stable
but the house is to be enlarged and the new
owner is enthusiastic over the charms o
the place.
Il can shoot deer from my front win
dows," he wrote 20 New York friend
THE quails are a pest. There's a trou,
stream just around the corner. We have
| the Stevensons for near neighbors. This
beats a Harlem fiat"
Several of the retail book shops are noted
for the literary equipment of their statesmen
The wife Of well-known writer went into
one Of these shops the other day and wat
met by lofty youth who smiled at her
reassuringy.
Il want copy of Chide Harold, she
said, meekly
Juvenile counter; second aisle to the
left, directed the salesman, with a grace
full move Of his white hand
BY the way the fall book announcements
show a deluge Of Juveniles Not only
are all the old and trusted purveyors to
children represented, but the cry is, -Still
they come
One statistician started to make list
Of the seasons books for children, hut gave
it up after he had counted $50 Evidently,
writing folk are grasping the fact that
those who can really furnish good Juvenile
books CLEAN much fine gold, and that even
the mediocre writers of chidren's books
prosper better than the average writer
who caters to grown-ups
For boys there are many books that are
fairly satisfactory; but publishers, one and
all, bewail the scarcity of good books for
girls. A rich harvest lies waiting for a
worthy successor to Louisa NJ Alcott.
One Of the new books for girls. "Jaret
Ward" deserves especial attention be-
cause it is the first long piece of fiction by
a woman who is perhaps more closely in
touch with hundreds Of girls than any
other woman in the land. Mrs Margaret
Sangster's editorial work, magazine articles,
poems, &c, have for many years placed her
In the front rank among women who write,
and her personality. diffused through her
work, has given her a remarkable influence
among her public, public that numbers a
multitude Of girls
Janet Ward" is sure Of many readers,
and deserves them for i, has the fine touch
the quick sympathy and the human interest
that prove the authors thorough under
standing Of girl nature
Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch is
much perturbed, for 1t means that there
is real Mrs. Wigs, though she iourishes
under another name Alice Caldwell
Hogan may have improved upon the origi-
nal. but Mrs. Wiggs in actual life is as
modest a. her literary representative and
is in despair over her new notoriety
Lion hunters storm the cabbage patch
in quest of the original Of Miss Hegans
heroine and the heroine has appealed to the
author for protection. From all accounts,
if the siege goes on Mrs Wigs will retreat
20 cabbage patch fastnesses and her re-
morseiess literary sponsor will stand be-
A new Dutch novelist is about TO make
his bow to American readers under the
auspices Of G.. P. Putnam's Sons The new
conner il Frederick van Eden. and his novel,
which deals with a universal problem Of
domestic life. is called The Deeps of De-
liverance." Margaret Robinson has made
the translation.
Justin McCarthys Portraits Of the
Sixties" pres ats striking pen portraits OF
characters famous in the London literary
and social world forty years ago.
In this day Of labor storm and stress
A Country Without Strikes should sell,
on its title, to readers fond OF pure ro-
nance. As matter Of fact, the book
which Is published by Doubleday, Page 4
Co, is not romance, but merely an inter
esting study Of the Utopian economic
conditions which prevail in New Zealand.
The last addition TO the Century Com
pany's Thumb Nail Series is Sheridans
Rivals" and for preface the publishers
have used an extract from the autobiog-
raphy Of Joseph Jefferson.
The conjunction recalls Warren Milers
witty saying, which jefferson loves to quote.
The acting version OF THE Rivals used
by Mr. jefferson was shockingly unlike
Sheridan's original. After the first night
OF the play jefferson met Miller and asked
him what he thought Of the Presentation
1T reminds me Of certain lines in one of
Buchanan Reads poems" said Miller
promptly 'You remember and Sheridan
twenty miles away
Nine. Theo BENTON has been visiting he
Tolst oi family AZ the place where Count
Leo Tolstoi is convalescing in the Panine
villa, on the shore of the Black Sea She
says that the writer has quite regained
his strength and his ruddy complexion
and has much work planned.
He wears his peasants clothes but seri-
ously objects to the stories concerning
his going barefoot, When the Parisian
journalist who started the barefoot tale
called upon Tolstoi the latter was just
about TO go to his bath. Shoeless and
stockingless as he was, he received the
interviewer Hence the tales which have