The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-22

and graceful touch. She holds the at
tentiOn OF the reader throughout. The
Tenth Commandment" is purely a
story Of the heart, strong. picturesque,
| uplifting-a story of temptation. A So
cial question of great intensity-One Of
ten found in real life-indeed the char
acters are not all fiction studies-is
| fearlessly handled but with the utmost
| purity of thought and expression. The
lamented Frank R. Stockton said after
reading the manuscript of the book:
1t is bound to attract attention for
the great strength of its character, -
and of single chapter entitled, "A
Ship Has Put to Sea- he said; That
chapter alone is destined to make the
book a great American novel;" fine
picture of the author adOrns the book
as its frOntispiece. Published by Lee
& Shepard, Boston. For sale by The
E. P. Judd company.
| The New York World says: The
Tenth Commandment" was published
on November by Lee & Shepard, with
a first edition of $4,000, and passed into
the second edition five days after pub
; lication. This book, which is a romance
of New York's -Four Hundred is
claimed to be a true story.
| The Century company sends US the
following interesting story in connec-
| ton with the two hitherto unpublished
tales by Louisa Alcott which they will
shortly print Together with many
others, they were written originally for
Lulu, the beloved niece and adopted
daughter of the popular author. When
May, commonly said to be Miss AL
colts favorite sister. and often identi-
fed with the Beth of Little Women"
died abroad in 1870, she left baby girl
to her siter's care. For Lulu Miss AL
colt told and wrote stories by the doz-
en-, many of which, tied up in little
birch bark covers, We're kept carefully
| in place of honor and called Lulu's
Library. Some of these were publish
ed after time, but more were not.
Additional interest attaches to the story
to appear in the December st. Nicholas
from the fact that little Lulu and her
aunt are chief of the dramatis personae
of the story. All the principal charac-
tiers in the story are real people.
though disguised by Chinese names,
and, of course, the Chinese incidents
are fanciful. Lulu could not pronounce
the names of her two aunts very plain
ly. so Aunt Louisa became "Ah Wee"
/ and Aunt Anna "Ah Nah" And in the
same way Miss Alcott has introduced
Lulu's names of her cousins as EFF
Rat" and jay Rat while Julia, the
governess becomes "Ju Huh"
The author of that amusing volume
of parodies, Borrowed Plumes, Mr..
Owen Seaman, has just been appointed
sub editor of Punch. He was at Glare
college, Cambridge, 1880 to 1884, and
captain of the Clare boats in 1883, in
which year he stroked his college Grew.
He won the Person prize for Greek
verse, open to the University, in 1882,
and year later took first class in clas-
steal tripos. He studied archaeology in
Munich and became lecturer at the
Durham College of Science, Newcastle
on-Tyne, and also lectured for Cam
bridge on modern poets and Greek art.
In 1893 he moved to the Lower House,
Putney. near London, and wrote for
the National Observer, the World and
Punch. He was called to the Bar I'm
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