The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-17
Abroad with the Jimm.cs. By ]

Bell. l.. c. Page and Company, Bos-
ton. Mass. $50,
This is not n descriptive story as it
may seem at first 10 those of us VINO
know that a Jimmy is q window-open-
ing device employed by burglars. but 1t
is really a very witty and funny account
OF trip abroad which the author APP
pears TO have made with a brace OF good
people 10 be known as Mr.. and Mrs.
Jimmie. They have housc-boat at
Henley and go TO Paris and take in
Strasburg, BadenBaden,s Stuttgart Nur-
enberg, Bayreuth. Oberammergau at
the time of the Passion Play, Munich,
the Austrian Tyrol, Salzburg. lscti anu
Vienna: visit Iolstoi and have Won
dc,fui variety Of experiences.
It is a bright little book, full of the
humors of travel, and the "Ammur1klns,
MS the Englishwonlan called them. give
us many smiles and an occasional laugh,
for instance when Jimmie enrages the
London cabby by naiyeiy asking him
"Can you speak English?"
The author Of The Expatnates'' and
.srhe Love Affairs of an Old Maid has
done her usual good work in this book.
She does not appear to think much OF
our English cousins however. although
certain individuals meet with her hearty
approval Read this Henley scene where
an English acquaintance, invited to the
boat-house, makes himself at homo in
Jimmie's bed. Jimmie has TO sleep on
the floor. AT last the women Qae au-
thor and Bee) arose in defense of jim
mic and offered the Easlisiinan their
own state-room, which he promptly ac-
cepted.
Did you ever IN all you life?" asked
Bee. locking at the other woman.
mo, I never did, came the reply
Never did WHAT" asked the Eng
1ishman.
Never saw anybody like you in
book or out of it,, promptly returned
Bee: '.hut i suppose there are ten thou
sand Just as good-ioolsing as you are.
Just as tall, and well built and selfish,
..seifish!'' he blurted out. with very
red face. what is there selfish about
me. I'd like to know; you offered me
your room, didn't your
There is a solid element in the book
In the chapters in which the author de"
scribes her Interviews with Nordan and
Tolstoi, and writes q critical COMPARE
son of the two differing geninses.
Will N Harlem, the well-Ilnown Geor-
Eia novelist, was a. merchant in knox
VILE, Tennessee. when he began to write
stories. After experimenting for a year
y
and received a satisfactory check for it
JIG continued writing and at the end of
another year was one of the editors of
.he paper. Ona day he turned up in At
lanta and meeting friend. he said:
Il have resigned my place on the Com
panion. My associates, twenty-six in all.
made it pleasant for me, but you see
want to write stories myself and not
spend my life revising and editing the
work of other men. j know what l am
about. Just keep an eye on me-"
Harden wrote book after book, and
number of short stories. He made
his way from the start, Travelled abroad.
got acquainted with the leading literary
men of London. Joined their clubs, and
returned to his native land fully equip
ped for his chosen profession He has
won by sheer merit and hard work, but
in his early career his confidence was
probably largely due TO the fact that
he had comfortable fortune and knew
that he was in no danger of starving if
the publishers rejected his manuscripts.
.-F'rom The South (Atlanta9 for May.
Little, Brown & Co.'S fall fiction in
cludcs 1.-THE Pharaoh and the Priest,
translated from the original Polish of
Alexander Glovatsli by jeremiah Cur
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err Butler Hubert; Tower or Throne, a
Romance of the Girlhood of Elizabeth,
by Harriet T. Comstock; The Shadow
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by Christine c. Bush; a new edition Of
Miss Belladonna.' with additional chap
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book by the author OF Miss Toosey's
Mission entitled Faithful
Miss Katherine de Forest, for many
years the special Paris correspondent OF
Harper's Bazaar, has just been elected a
member OF the most exclusive society of
art critics In paris. Miss dc Forest is
q daughter of ]. w. de Forest author OF
Miss .Ravenel's Conversion, and mem
Der of a distinguished old New York
family. As a writer Mr.. de Forest was
very successful. and in the estimation OF
w. D. Iowells was one OF the best nov
clists America. has produced. Miss de
Forest inherits her fathers talent. and,
besides admirable work as fashion cor
respondent and art critic, she has writ
ten clever short stories. some OF which
have appeared in ]darper's Magazine
Miss de Forests fashion articles in the
Bazaar are regarded the most authori-
tative work of the kind Her long con-
nection with this periodical has resulted
in making her charming home in Paris
a Mecca for numbers of American wo-
men abroad.
DIR. George Bird Grinnell. who is we'll
Known MS the author of THE Punishment
OF the Stingy' GIarpers) and other capital
stories about American Indians, has
recently been sent to the West by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on a special mission to
the Standing Rock Indians, with whom
the government has lately been in dis
1tite over the lease of certain lands DR..
Grnneli was selected for this delicate
enterprise OF. account OF his thorough
Familiarity With the Indian character. and
his capacity for winning their confidence
and friendship. In The Punishment of
the Stingy," DIR. GIinnli has incorporated
much curious Indian lore which he him
self has heard in long and friendly vigils
by Indian camp-fires.
The following story is told by the Lon
don Publishers Circular:
One day. while Mark Twain was con-
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