The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-10
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aSlCdtion 10 Inc uoWHIdA OIL IAo rboSepery
Miss Halle Ermine Rives, the young Ken
lucky girl who wrote a novel defending lynch
ing few years ago, and had season OF
nervous prostration because she was adversely
criticised, has recovered sufficiently to write
a second novel which the Bowen Merrill Conn
pany of Indianapolis will soon issue.
Onpta Watanna, the Japanese woman who.
wrote "A Japanese Nighting gale. = is writing
anather book, which the Harpers will publish
zext fall. She was born at Nagasaki.. She.
came to this country from the West Indies
and did newspaper work, publishing her first
story IN a western newspaper. Her father
Is an Englishman.
The Riverside Biographical Series. issued
by Houghton MifHin Co., now contains
fifteen volumes. They announce in the River
side Art Series, a volume on Van Dyck, by
Miss .Estelle Hurll, whose excellent taste and
| good Judgment are impressed upon the vol
| umes Of this series, of which twelve volumes
! have been issued.
| The Atlanta South says that Will N. Har-
| ben, the Southern novelist, was a Knoxville
| lTenn.), merchant, who began writing stories.
| enc OF which was accepted by The Youths
Companion which paid him we'll for it. So
| he quit his business and launched successfully
in literature. Still. it wouldn't do for every
| fellow to run such risk.
Ferris & Lead. Philadelphia, have issued a
new edition of Professor Sharpless' QUAKER
| Experiment In Government" D.. This edition
includes the original volume issued under
that title and the later supplementary volume
| completing the hstor!, down to the end of
the revolution, since which the Quakers have
had little connection with government in the
| United States. ."
! Paul Laurence Dunbar contributes very
clever little dialect poem, 1.-TWO Little Boots, -
to the Saturday Evening Post. 1t is a touch
ing meditation Of a negro mother over the
child's boots after he was dead:
/ Amt you kin o. sad yo'se'f J~.-
/ You little boots?
| Dis is all his mammys lef',
/ Two little boots. = - =
Since huh baby's gone am died
IIcav'n Itself hit seem to hide
Des little bit inside
Two little boots.
The Hampers say in their notes: Richard
/ Harding Davis. like most successful authors,
had his days of grind and uphill effort before
he finally found himself in Evan Bibber,''
''The Princess Aline.' and all the rest He
had the usual trials of man who starts out
!. to do newspaper work, and yet who has dis
tinct literary aspirations. The editor: who
passed on Davis reDortorial copy said that
the hardest work he had to remove the
Literary touch from Davis reports, and he
finally said, "For heavens sake, Dick, re-
member that you writing for a newspaper,
and not for Harper's Magazine" Not long
afterwards Mr.. Davis was writing consider
ably for the Hampers, and their editors then
had to grapDle with the problem of how to
get the journalistic idiom out of Mr. Davis
extraordinarily clever literary work. All of
which was rather wearing on the aspiring
young author 20"
The Bbliophile Society Of Boston have
issued two volumes Of their fine subscription
edition Of the odes and epodes of Horace, in
nj vO111r with md nh
is printed on handmade imported paper, spe-
cially watermarked by the society, and the
Latin text is edited by Professor G. L. Smith
Of Harvard University. The illustrations are
J by Howard Pyle and E. N. Garrett and others
| and among them are 200 pen and ink drawings
by Pyle and Others $50 specially drawn illus
trative initials and full page etchings. There
Is an introduction by Archbishop Ireland.
The work Is rich in notes ard commentaries
by the greatest Latin scholars, American and
foreign. There many facsimles of title
pages of rare editions Of Horace to be found
only in the great libraries Of the world. Nc
copies are for sale to those who are not Nom
, bers of the Bibliophile Spciety.- Q. G. Wyman
| Of Minneapolis, member Of the society, owns
the only copy of this Bibliophile Horace in
this city. -
Houghton, Mifflin 6. Co., in their notes with
respect to the remarkable geographical range
of the books included i'm their spring an
nouncements, say: ''The scene of Mary John
ston's Audrey is laid in s.old Virginia. Ir
The Diary Of al GeesesG irl. s Kate Douglas
-' Virgin takes for tier denesne a bit OF SUISSE,
in old England. tMaude Egertone Kings idyl
Bread and Wine has its scene in ASwitzer
: land, and Abbie Farwell Browns In the Days
of Giants belongs to Scandinavia. Within
our own country, north, south, east and ives
J are drawn for scenery, and background
William Sage's The Claybornes is a. Virginia
product; Charles Egtert craddock's. Cham
4 pion' is;a Tennesseean, of course; Arlo Bates
: Diary Of IA Saint belongs naturally to New
England, as does also Jennette Lees Son o
a Fiddler. Georgia Wood Pangborns Roman
Biznet,' in spite of dts foreign sound. is =:
) story of upper New York state. But tn
west has been an especially attractive field t
tho authors of this New England house. Fou
of them write of the country beyond tn
Q missouri. Bret Harte's heroes could not b.
$ other than ,Californians, Mary Hallock Foote'
Tho Desert end the Sown' deals chiefly will
Arizona, Frank Lewis Nason's AT the EN-
! of the Trail is a tale of Colorado, and RIPPLE!
= d. Saunders John Kenadde is an Arkansan.