The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-27
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.
Lillian BELLS THRIFT-NEw NOV.
ELSA TRAVELLERS BOOK.

paper publication. She had visited
Tolstoi, Nordau, Ibsen and other lit
erary lights in Europe, and she gave
her impressions of these various peo-
pie in the newspaper articles. 1t did
not require a great deal of additional
writing, however to complete a very
interesting book of travel. Some of her
personal experiences and those of her
companions We're thrown in, and she
took occasion to tell what she thought
of English manners and customs, with
the pleasing result of having made a
book which not only the European
traveller fwill enjoy but the stay at
home as well. Mrs. Bogue is now at
her summer home up the Hudson,
where she is at work on an account
of married life, in which her own hus-
band figures largely. Mrs. Bogue evil
IDENTIFY believes in taking advantage of
every experience in life for use as ma
terial in her writing.
Two new novels by well-known Eng
lish writer's are starting in serial pub
LEGATIONS here this summer. Anthony
Hope has written a story of London
life, in which a young widow is the
chief figure, called THE Intrusions of
Peggy" and James M. Barrie's last
story, The Little White Bird" tells
about the experiences of an old club
bachelor, young married couple and
a little child. The stories will be pub
lished In book form this coming fall.
Harry De Windt, who was recently
resuced by a whaler up in the neigh
borhood of the strait between Siberia
and Alaska, will doubtless have an in
teresting story to tell about his expe-
riences in making the overland trip
from Paris to New York. Mr.. De
Windt has already shown himself to
be an entertaining writer, his last
book, Finland As 1t Is" having just
been published in this country. So
the name suggest little more to the
average reader than pine forests, wild,
barren country, with occasional fish
ing villages, and an embarrassing peo-
pie some decades behind the times,
but one does not have to read far into
Mr. De Windt's book before the coun-
try has a fascinating interest. The
need of such a book. however, is not
so apparent. We probably care less
for that particular bit of the earth's
surface than any other just at this
time. The subject, doubtless, has more
interest for Europeans. Indeed, the
present book came out of a sugges-
ton made to the author by a st. Pc
tersburg ok-seller, who said he had
many inquiries every summer for a
volume on Finland. Acting on the adj
vice of this same bookseller, Mr.. De
Windt made his book story of trip
through the country, as we'll as a
guide, telling Englishmen and Ameri-
cans how to get there, what to do and
how to do it. Before taking the would
be traveller into Finland, Mr.. De Windt
L. of ,t-
in various European capitals. He says
that the gaiety and beauty of st. Pc
tersburg exists only in the magma
tons of English writer's, and calls this
city the ''dullest in Europe"
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam's vol
ume of short stories, 1.-THE Madness
of Philip" is adding to the fame of
the author considerably, as we'll as
the publishers. Most of the stories in
the book were published in the maya
zines, where they attracted attention
because of their cleverness. There is
little to be added about the stories
in their present form, except that the
volume Is tastefully bound and that
the Illustrations by Miss Fanny Cory
add much to the readers enjoyment
of the characters of the various stories.
themselves and a thorough knowledge
of children, but Miss Cory has way
of picturing children in mischief Or
at play that is especially attractive.
For some reason or other there
seems to be a revival of interest in
Daniel Webster. Only a few days ago
a shore life of Webster was published
by Boston firm, and there is now an
nounced biography of Webster from
the pen of Prof. John Beach McMas-
ter, the we'll known historian. In
September there will appear also a
large volume of Letters of Daniel
Webster" compiled by DR.. c. H. Van
Hyne, who, by the way, is associated
with Prof. McMaster in the depart
ment of history in the University of
Pennsylvania. 1t only remains now
for the historical novelists to take
their cue and proceed to get out few
novels in which Webster shall figure
in time for the fall trade. Seriously.
Prof. McMasters work on Webster,
will be, of course a valuable produce
ton. Some of the chapters have al
ready been published in one of the
magazines and if the rest are as good,
the book will be deserving of every
praise The Letters of Webster"
curiously enough, was the outcome of
Prof. McMaster's work. Mr.. Van Tyne.
as an assistant in Prof. McMaster's
department, went up to Concord near
ly two years ago in search of Webster
material for the biography. 1t happen
ed that Mr.. Van Tyne found that lit
orally hundreds of Websterian letters
had never been published, although
volumes of Webster letters had already
come out. Mr.. Van Tyne called the
attention of Prof. McMaster to the
facts, and the historian advised his
Young assistant to take up the work of
collecting the particular material. Mr..
Van Tyne spent all of last summer
going through private collections, MAX
ing copies and discovering new and
unused material, with the result that
his volume, to be issued this fall, is
a very fat and substantial volume,
and this, too, after taking out fully
one-third of the matter which was
originally designed to go into the work.
A New York newspaper had an
article not long ago which was headed,
"America's Fastest Author" and fol-
lowed with an account of the work of
CYRUS Townsend Brady. Within day
or two there were protests from vari-
Gus parts of the country against giving
this honor to MIR. Brady. The article
in question stated that within period
of seven months of active work Mr..
Brady had produced four long stories
amounting to $4,000 words; short
articles amounting to 10000 words;
book reviews amounting to $4,000
words. and sermons amounting to 3D.
900 words; a grand total of 435.500