The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
LITERARY NOTES

| London publishers have issued big edition1
OF thirty volumes of coronation literature.
| Funk & Wagnalls, New York, have pub
| lished an up-to-date romance of the Philip
pines entitled Daniel Everton, Volunteers
Regular" by Israel Putnam, detailing tho
| adventures of al American soldier who, after
heroic lighting and experiencing severe
| wounds and malaldaE fevers, got his honor
| able discharge and narried the Spanish Ma
layan daughter Of a rich hacienda owner, not
for love. but to get money with which to save
his father from the effects OF a defalcation.
His love for New York girl made complica-
tions of a trying nature.
'In the Eagles Talon" romance. OF the
Louisiana purchase, by Sheppard Stevens
(Boston: Little. Brown & Co., 254 Washington
| street,, is q deeply Interesting portrayal Of
the social conditions of the people of upper
Louisiana during the year simmediat ely pre-
ceding the transfer of Louisiana territory t0
the United States, when St Louis was dis-
orderly frontier settlement and the conspicu-
Gus citizens were hunters and trappers. The
settlement had. in 178o, experienced the rigora
of an INDIAN outbreak, in which the Lafre-
Mere household suffered, a little babe. Louis
Lafrenere tesea ping, who is the conspicuous
figure in this story, (which relates how Louis
and Felicite Ian glois,s after various contre-
temps on 10th sides OF the ocean, came to-
gether in marriage at st Louis when the
American flag ascended over the town.
Dumas Master Adam, the Calabrian,~
heretofore not published in English, will he
issued in translation this autumn by r. r.
Fenno & Co., New York. They will issus
soon new edition of Mrs. Harrieon's Lucas
Malet') 'The Wages OF sin,' illustrated.
R. F. Fenno e. Co., New York, announce q
competitor for Majors latest romance in
Mistress Dorothy of Haddon Hail." by
Henry Hastings, who processes to have gone
deeper into historical records and has found
sensational matter about Sir John Manners
and Dorothy nobody has hitherto used. Tho
Macmillan company, publishers of Majors
novel, have taken steps to prosecute Fenno b
Co. for infringement OF their copyright, the
title of Hastings book closely resembling that
of MAJORS book
Doubleday, Page & Co. announce "Ameri-
can College Sororiues,'' an account of all tho
girl Greek letter societies in this country.
The percentage of fiction in most public
libraries In this country ds nearly 50 per
cent. according to John Cotton Dana, who
presents the following conundrurns: Taking
a few typical libraries for example, We ind
that they contains with total collections OF
from $4,000 to 100000 volumes. between 5000
and 10000 different titles Of fiction, adult and
Juvenile; and that these 5000 to 10000 stories
have been written by from d. 200 to 3,0o0 Diff
ferent authors. Are there 5000 or even l,oo0
writer's of good novels, or have there ever
been so many in the whole history OF English
-
ries translated from other languagesf And
have all the writers of novels OF the last two
centuries produced 10000. or even 1900, dif-
ferent story books for old or young worthy
of a place on the shelves of any public educ
cational institution
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the English novel;
let ia not only a writer of fiction of great
prominence. but she Is social reformer OF
the practical kind. She is the leading pro-
moter in London Of schools for the education
of crippled children and induced the London
board of education to undertake this special
work She herself has founded school.
where the physically afiicted and the men-
Ward is quite dfdactic in her novels. but she
puts in practice what she breaches In her
books
Senator Vest, OF Missouri, has intimated 20
friend that it Is probable he will, before
long, produce a volume or two of his remin-
iscences. chiefly for the purpose of defending
and vindicating the dead from wrongful re-
Elections by the living. Such book ffu0
Vest cannot fail to be interestinG. :.