Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-30

Miss Marie Corelli, with her custom
airy reluctance to self-advertising, de
clines to impart, even to her publish
ers. any information concerning he
Forthcoming novel, beyond announcing
It's title, Temporal Power"
T. w. Higgison writes that his mem
DIR of Longfellow is now going through
the press. He will prepare brief lie
Of Whittier, which will he contains
in a proposed series to be publishe,
by the Macmillan Company.
The forty-ninth edition OF r. u
BlackmOre's Lorna Doone" has jus
been announced in London at popu
lar price. The continued demand /,
England for low-priced copies OF thu
novel shows its popularity. Abou
10000 copies of London slx-penn.
edition are said to have been sold Their
within two or three weeks, about fiv'
years ago. There is not so great a de
mand in this country for cheap edi
tons, but there are two or three goo,
editions
The Great Round World New York;
in its Review Of the Book Reviews
says: Every one is reading Audrey
The fact in itself might explain tn,
vogue of the book in the hands Of til,
reviewers, but it is also undeniabl
that popular taste is not altogethe
wrong in its estimate of Miss Mar,
Johnston as the best of our historical
novelists. She has style full Of colo
and she knows her period. If her sto
ries are sentimental, the sentiment 1
not unwholesome. She is, moreover
always interesting"
The Evanston Qll) Public Hbrar
Board has branded many of the popu
lar novels of the day as unfit for ger
eral circulation and baniShed ther
from its shelves. Among the book
which are regarded by the board a
immoral are "Sir Richard Calmady,
by Lucas Malet; "a Lady of Quality,
by Frances Hodgson Burnett; "Th
Aristocrats," by Gertrude Anterior
"The Secret Orchard" by Egerto
Castle; "A Fool of Nature" by Julia
Hawthorne; "lf | Were King" by Ju'
tin Huntly Mccarthy; "Orloff and Hi
Wife by Maxim Gorky; Jude til
Obscure" by Thomas Hardy; 9TH
Story of Mary MacLane," by hersel1
and "Dr. Dale" by Marion Harland.
"A Pastehoard Crown says Boo
News, is a novel that deals with lif
on the stage-and off; and is written b
an author thoroughly qualified to spea
upon her subject. Miss Morris, by ret
son both of her experience as an az
tress and her skill as a novelist, ha
succeeded in writing an engrossingl
interesting book, withal, it must h
confessed, an almost painfully depres
ing one. On laying it down, which on
does not do till the last page is turne'
one has hardly the heart to be gla
that it was written. 1t leaves benin
it an unfortunate impression of ga
fare, of tinsel, of insufficient ventilf
ton. that Expresses the reader almOS
as if with the actual physical presenc
of the same
Bret Harte. who died suddenly /
London on May ,. was Il wonderful
prolific writer the list of his work
comprising forty-tive titles. His frs
book was published in 1869 and hi
last Openings in the Old Trail" jus
appeared the last week in April. Yer
few of the intervening years went b
without the appearance of fresh co
lection of his Western tales. ABROAD
he and Mark Twain are regarded a
the representative American authors O
the last quarter century. Mr. Kiplin
has more than once acknowledged hi
Indebtedness to Bret Harte, who's
short stories he much admired. MI
Harte has been living in England 70
some time, and was in his siXty-thr
year, having been born at Albany
\. Y, in 1899.