The age-herald., 1902-05-18
The Romance of Little I Louis XVII. E
By PaulPry

and it was as follows: Thirty stores re- port Audrey" six stores report The Conqueror;" six stores report ~The Hound of the Baskervilles;" two stores report "The battle-ground"
 These held first place in the respective cities; those bearing second and third place are also interesting, but include a greater variety.
 Gertrude Atherton's "The Conqueror has aroused a vast amount Of comment some good natured and Just and much more than is captious and splenetlc. A recent correspondent adds the following: q have no desire to take either side Tn the Hanilton-Burr controversy. but 1 would take issue with MT. Jonathan Ed wards Blackwood as to the possibility or Mrs. Jumel having been born (nee) Mrs. Peter Croix, or Eliza, Bowen. She was born Bowen, christened Eliza, apd later was married to Mir. Peter Crpx' The mistake of crediting people with having been born with christened names Is a common one. but Mir. Blackwood Is the first to extend the privilege to married women"
 MT. Cyrus Townsend Brady's 'Hohen- zollern'' recently published is to appear in a dramatic version in the early au- tumn. James o. c. Duffy the dramatic critic of The Press of New York City, has prepared the play in four acts. It is said that the last act deviates somewhat from the book. In the latter Barbarossa relents through mere good humor on the stage the hero Hohenzollern remains consistently heroic and by becoming mas ter of the situation forces the Emperor to grant his demands. James K. Hack ett Is to appear in the title role,
 Among representative Americans who will attend the coronation will be Richard Harding Davis, who goes as correspon- dent. He will represent Golfers Week ly at the festivities in Madrid when AL fonso XIII takes the oath to observe the Spanish constitution, and also at the cor onation of Edward VII. next month, in London. A seat has been secured for him in Westminster Abbey. MT. Davis's lat est story, "Ranson's Folly" is being pub lished serially in Golfers Weekly, Part I being in the current issue.
 A new book by Herbert Spencer, en- titled Facts and Comments" has just been published and Is also announced to be his last work On April 27, this ven- erable philosopher celebrated his eighty second birthday. During the many years spent in writing his former works ideas have occurred to him which he Jotted down; and now he gives the world the benefit of these thoughts in the new book. The topics discussed are of general inter est. Of it MT. Spencer says: This vol ume, can say with certainty, will be my last.
 ''The Diary of Goose Girl' by Kate Douglas Wiggns, is a tale of an Ameri- can girl who ran away from her lover and played at being goose girl in tiny Sussex village. Mrs. Wiggins senti- ment for beauty finds abundant play in the descriptions of the village where the heroine tended poultry, and she has sue ceeded in indivluualizing her hens. ducks, and geese, making them very interesting indeed The attractiveness of the book is heightened by lavish illustrations.
 
 Bret Harte, who died suddenly fin Lon don a few days ago was a most prolific writer, the lists of his works comprising forty-four titles. Although he was a Cal ifornia writer he had lived In England for some time. He began writing in 1868, when public attention was called to a short story entitled 'The Luck of Roar ing Camp" His latest collection of West | ern tales, Openings in the Old Trail" was published only two weeks ago. and | contains some of his best stories. | It Is related that young lady while | waiting for MT. Hut the illustrator of l ''The Mississippi Bubble" picked up that novel, and became so interested in the | heroine that she offered to pose as the beautiful Catherine. The result is shown l in the frontispiece.
 Anthony Hopes new novel is finished, but it's publication in book form has been | deferred until 1t shall have had a serial | introduction. PAUL PRY.