The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-17
BOOKS AND NOMINATING.
Alice Caldwell Hogan Is having an inter,

hllte NauWeii HeRdn II having All inter-
esting holiday season. Her Mrs. Wigs
is the best selling book in the Christmas
trade, and it, author has been too busy
over trousseau to count her royalties.
Miss Hogan is to be married on the nth
Of this month, and "Lovey Mary will be
published over the name OF Alice Caldwell
Rice.
John Kendrick Bangs will not turn out
so many books for the next winter season
a. he has offered TO the public this fall
This Is to be Mr.. Ba ngs's busy year He Is
to take charge Of the Metropolitan. which
was recently purchased by Col George
Harvey and is to be devoted entirely to
Gotham interests. The theory TO be ex-
plotted is that all the country burns with
a desire TO know what is doing in New York
and that a magazine purely local will,
paradoxically, have distinct universal
interest.
Ellen Glasgow, who IL spending the win
ter in New York. says that she, in round
about way, owes the publication of her first
published novel TO Harold Frederic. She had
already brought one novel in manuscript
To New York and failed TO place 1t. She
went home. wrote another book and brought
il here. History repeated itself. Pub
fishers were stony-hearted. At last. in sheer
despair, she sent the manuscript anony-
mously To well-known firm. 1t was
accepted, because the reader into whose
hands il fell was sure that he had a book by
Harold Frederic and that the firm couldn't
al ord to miss it.
An edition of Rudyard Kiplng's Pan in
ak.l n. a..
Life in America, has been issued for private
circulation in London. Mr.. kipling has a
new patriotic poem ready for press, and the
British lion is getting roar ready against
the poems advent. There are rumors Of
a sequel to kim" but that seems to be
too good to be true.
Ordinarily the announcement of forth
coming historical novel does not fill the
reader with enthusiasm: but when one is
told that Maurice Hewlett is writing a
novel around the character of Mary Queen
Of Scots one remembers Richard Yea and
Nay and feels a genuine thrill Of antici-
patton. Mr.. Hewlett has also been working
upon another volume Of Italian studies
The publication of A. Radcliffe Dugmore' =
Mature and the Camera" and its brisk
sale emphasize the rise Of what might I've
called a new industry Mr. Dugmore was
the first photographer to attempt photo
graphs of living birds for use in illustration
of natural science few efforts 10 secure
satisfactory photographs Of fish and ami
mails had been made, hut with slight results
That was in 1898. Since then the rise of the
nature-study cult has created tremendous
demand for such work and innumerable
photographers are devoting their entire
time to hunting and fishing with camera,
many Of them being sent to the far corners
Of the earth 70 carry out important COM
missions. Mr. Dugmore, who still leads
the van, is an Eng ishman and nephew Of
Lord Brougham.
Richard lie Galenne's troubles wit
his hyacinthine locks began even before
his literary days. When he was a young
accountant in Liverpool Office he wore
his hair longer by several inches han that
of his fellow clerks.
One day he was called to the private
office. There sat four old men, the MEM
bers of the firm. They looked at young
Richard sternly and he quaked. Then
one of the four an old Scotchman, spoke
"the firm has decided that you haven't the
necessary funds to have your hair cut
1t will advance you the sum of three pence
for that purpose"
+. Nesblt author Of -The Red House y
which is one of the successful books of the
season, lives in country house which is
one of the show places Of Surrey, England
Recently an American visitor remarked
upon the age Of the house, but her hostess
at once dsclaimed for the place all an
tiquity. ITS not really old you know. y
she said. This part Of the house was built
in l7+0 and even the original walls are only
500 years old"
1T made me feel impossibly youthful y
says the American who tells the story.
Hall Game is to dramatize Halle Erminie
Rives's Hearts Courageous
1T is an amusing fact said a New York
publisher, the other day. that English
prejudices have affected the orthography
Of all the books we v, published lately. The
English simply won't have honor, valor
| and the rest without a "a The Ameri-
cans don't care whether they get honour
or honor. So we've been saving trouble
by using the u 1t simplifies English
sales and doesn't hurt American sales"
The Marquise de Fontenoy. who has for
years been writing foreign court possip
for various American newspapers, has been
| accused by many reviewers Of being the
author Of "The Martyrdom Of an Empress
| and A Dotted Coronet.' She has Just been
denying in print any connection with the
books and. at the same time, giving the
| anonymous author of a DofYed Coronet
scoring for betrayed British diplomatic
secrets obtained through her husband dur.