The age-herald., 1902-02-25
LITERARY NOTES.

 new story will very shortly be published by A. c. McClurg & Co. This is the writ CTS first attempt at fiction; but it is said that she has dealt successfully with sev- eraI large questions in her novel, and made an attractive narrative with much human interest.
 "The Virginian," by Owen Mister is to come from the press of the Macmillan Company soon. It will be illustrated by Keller. The Virginian is a young cowboy of exceptional gifts who, at the widest period, falls in love with a Vermont girl of education superior to his own. His as- sociation with a woman of refinement awakens in him a strain of native fine ness.
 Maude Egerton King, one of the new writers, tells a story of Swiss life in Bread and Wine" and garnishes 1t with many descriptions, which, as the Swiss mountaineers have not for many a year appeared in a novel, will add to it's at fractions. Georgia Wood Pangborne the author of Roman Biznet," the sixth novel. has chosen heredity as her theme, and has made her hero the son of a French Canadian half-breed and a Ger man musicians daughter. The struggle between the two strains of blood seems to him, after a stormy youth to end with his fathers death; and he tempts fate by | marrying.
 Cassell & Co. will publish "The Real Siberia" by Foster Fraser, describing the personal experiences of that well-known traveller and writer.
 '"The Wings of Dove" Henry James latest novel. which has been in complet- ed manuscript form for nearly year, has at last found a London publisher. It ap- pears in Constable, Archibald & Co.'S early spring announcements.
 During the half-century which has elapsed since New England was scandal ized by Parson Wilbur's vision of the apostles 'in their swallow-tail coats'' and by Hosea's declaration: You've got to get up airly, eff you want to take in Godl' times have changed. The more daring phrases of MT. Hay and Mir. Harte seem mild and almost pious in these lat ter days and young readers of "Remin-
  stand why MT. Garrison was regarded with horror for disrepectfully connecting the place of future torment and the con- stitution of the United States. The truth is that the unlearned middle-aged New Englander of today rejoices in mild fr- reverence. He knows nothing of the Catechism in which the grandfathers were drilled; he cares nothing for the creeds, and confessions, and discplines respected by the fathers; he is his own bishop, priest. and church, conference and synod, and yet Is as absolutely sure of his high favor with the Lord and Of his future happiness as the dourest Of Scottish Calvinist elders. Such one is Jess Hutton, the speaker of sayings in "Rockhaven," Charles Clark Munn's new book. Lee & Shepard will publish MT. Munn's new book; and they report that hls first, Uncle Terry" continues to sell very well, although no longer advertised, except by it's readers.
 There is no doubt about the demand for Miss Johnston's Audrey" The orders l from other cities come not in single bat talions. but in divisions and army corps; and the booksellers who began to take orders to avoid being mobbed on the day of publication find that the work of writ ing names occupies about one-forth of their working hours. One reason for this is the very good colored pictures which tempt even those who read the story In The Atlanta Monthly. The artist Is F. c. Yohn; and. if he has note quite equaled Miss Johnston's presentation of the sweet flower of the forest, he has made her very striking in the successive pictures. The change from the child who stands listening as her destiny approaches to the woman at the moment that it Is accom- plished is too striking to escape the most careless PaZer at Shop windows Evelyn Byrd is seen in three pictures-twice with Audrey and once with Harvard; and the Californian who has recently bought her home, Westover, may expect an invasion of visitors as soon as the season of travel begins.