Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-12

Pinson. 1t is a tale of the south, giving
a true picture OF the negro race AZ the close
OF the eiyll war. The book will be hand
The Dodge Publishing company announces
Tor immediate publication a coltecuoh OF
e e6f wOr limite Ses 70 iS SS epp 0eimS This e S1YeSe
ton will be entitled "Eavorite Songs OF
Love and will be bound in cloth, ooSe
leather and full English calf.
A volume OF particular interest and value
to be issued this spring is Sir waiter Bes-
ant 3 autobiography, which Dodd, Mead q
announce a new volume of essays by Maui
rice Maeterlinck, the "Belgtan snakes
peare," and also two short plaYf by him.
was published there has been no such IN
Clark's paper in the January Atlantic. It's
Century" It is supposed t. be an add. ess
delivered at a NEE eng OF Is New YORK
h hls tori society iT years ear I'M nen twenty ~ Ara. NV
century. .r
History of Russia from Peter the Great
So sSor AISxa IN snp n; ~ ,s im ~ mOt'V work K
was announced last fall by the publishers.
Messrs. James Pott a Co, as almost ready
layed the publication OF the work In order
to incorporate in II the wonderful develop
ments- so recently made by Russia In the
far east.
The Walter Butler who figures in Car,
digan," Robert w. Chambers successful
novel, was a real character. whose house
is still standing near Sir William Johnsons
residence just outside of Johnstown. Few
people knew the house, now falling to de,
cay, or its former owner until Cardigan,
was written; and thus the historical novel
ist pays his debt to history by revlVing
interest in former days and people.
Miss Ellen Glasgow has written 3 new
ground" and will be published In London
In the spring. Miss Glasgow does not pro-
duce novels as rapidly as some OF her
young contemporaries, but new books have
Issued steadily from her desk at intervals
eyer since her nrst successful neXel, The The
young woman, and much Is expected of her.
Prof. George Trumbull Ladd is the author
Of an important work entitled "Phliosophy
Of the Facts, Principles and Ideals OF
in Prof. Ladd's published works is next
closed the series of monographs upon the
he nearer side of mans ideal life and Of
HIS ethical, artistic and religious nature
and development.
Mr Thomas 4 Janyier has recently ar,
he has been booking after the English
publication Of his latest book Of stories,
side by the Harpers. Mr.. 'Jsnyier is a
master of the short story. In The Pass
humorous, but "In Great Waters is full q
the tenderness and simplicity OF sea-dwell;
Ing folk and OF the poetry ana patnos, ano
often tragedy, of their lives.
Authors OF Our Day In Their Homes" a
companion volume to American Authors
and Their Homes published last fall tand
which the library committee of Connecticut
has just included in its list OF best books
for 190D comprises a new and important
group OF American authors. A glance al
the table of contents shows that the writ.
ers included are OF popular interest, and
first volume appear in this. We notice
more particularly Mark Twain, Gilbert
Parker, Charles Dudley Warner, Winston
Churchill and 8. Weir Mitchell.
AT just the time when interest in this
question is most active, A. c.. McClurg q
Co. are to bring out two books o n Mica
ragua. Lieutenant James q. walker
u. s. N, the son Of Rear Admiral Walker
and who was in charge of the survey o.
1898, has written an account of his trip
which is to be published at once under th'
title OF ocean to Ocean" IL Is In q
less full Of information and accurate II
all it's details. IL will be illustrated from
original photographs. with a frontispiece II
photogravure and a number OF new maps.
H.. @. Wells IT, amongst the most logical
tEre wonders Of the world. He has hitherto
confined his DEMONSTRATIONS to fiction. as
in TT War of the Worlds" but he hal
the future in a capital book which he calls
~"Anticipations," which will shortly be pub
llshed In America by the Harpers. MIR
Wells has gone thoroughly into his subjec
and covers not only a forecast OF what VI
shall accomplish In mechanical develop
ment, but in our civic and domeetic prog
ress as we'll. 1t IL a book decidedly calcu
lated to arouse debate and timulat'
thought.
Few announcements OF new books 70
this spring will be OF greater interest I
the reading public than that OF the prom
ised publication by o Lane in Marc