The age-herald., 1902-04-04

frontier seized Miss Stone and her com- copy of an expressing narrative, leisure to prepare it, and an audience eager to hear it. The record of her experiences is to appear in book form in the autumn on both sides of the Atlantic Mcclure, Phillips 6 Co. bringing it out in America, and lsbister & Co.,, in England. Mean While the English publishing house will print series of articles from Miss Stone In the Sunday Magazine" beginning with April which will afterward be incorpor- ated in the volume. It Is due to the prompt and in this case generous enterprise of the McClures that Miss Stones book Is as- sured this year. It will be not only the story of her long captivity, but on ac- count of the conditions which led to that incident and a statement of the possibi- 1t1es and deStinies of missionary labors In that field. It will be illustrated freely. It's forthcoming publication has enlisted the active interest of the missionary bodies, and 1t Is announced that it will be pushed by both publishing houses on higher than mere commercial grounds. Miss Stones own returns from it, it is understood, will be devoted by her to missionary work.
 An unpublished work by the late Sidney Lanier is in preparation by Doubleday, Page x Co. It Is comprised In two large volumes, entitled Shakespeare and His Forerunners Studies in Elizabethan Po- etry and Its Development fronn Early English" It consists of two series of pop- uiar lectures; about an eighth of it's con- tents has appeared in print, but the book IS practically entirely new to the reading public. It is called by the publishers MT. Lanlers most extensive piece of prose writing. Among the subjects with which IL deals are Sonnet Makers" "Pronun- citation Of Shakespeare's Time" Music"
 Domestic Life" Doctors" Growth of shakespeare's Art" and Growth of His Spiritual Development" The book will be elaborately illustrated with portraits, facsimiles, reproductions of title pages and pictorial matter intended to give the reader the feeling and color of the time.
 One of the most pronounced hits of modern journalism has been made by the new pages of Comment in Harpers Weekly. The paragraphs are unsigned, but at their head is printed a list of con- tributors, which includes such names as William Dean Howells, John Kendrick Bangs. Henry Loomis Nelson. E. s. Mar tin, Edward ". Townsend, George Har- vey, Henry Mills Alden. and others from week to week of equal note Not the least interesting point about these para graphs Is the remarkable extent to which they are copied all over the country probably more than the contents of any other periodical The spirit of the para graphs is wholly patriotic and optimistic, and their general effect brilliantl They set the high wat CT mark for modern jour nalistic enterprise.
 Thomas Dixon, Jr.s, novel, "The Leop- ards Spots" has gone into it's twenty third thousand hardly two weeks after publication. It received a great deal of free advertising before it was issued. and it seems 1t has not been disappoint- ing to novel readers-or to the publishers.
 Mir. Walter H. Page, editor of The Worlds Work, in his appreciation of Booker T. Washington in Everybody's Magazine for April considers him the most useful citizen of the Republic. arsI says perhaps more persons have heard him speak than any other private citizen in the United States. MT. Page writes about the author of Up from Slayerv,' from an intimate personal acquaintancs of the man and his work