The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-01
A Remedy for Love. By Ellen Olney
Kirk, Houghton Nifflin & Co.

Ill
ali Of Mrs. Kinks novels, it Is particu-
larly attractive to girls.
Book and Authors;
Comment and Gossip.
Nobody has described the Inflated town
of st. Pierre-or all Martinique, In fact
Two Years in the French West indies
published by the Harpers several years
ago. ':Picturesqueness and color, he
says, these are the particular and unri-
vailed charms Of st. Pierre. A population
fantastic, astonishing population of the
Arabian Nights. Perhaps the most novel
impression of all is that produced by the
singularity and bTilliancy of certain of
tiful audacities of color contrast - And
on another mage one reads. not without
emotion: '"This evening, as write, La
Pelee is more heavily coiffed than is her
wont. OF purple and lilac cloud the colt
banded by the sinking sun. La Pelee is
in costume de fete and In her phantom
turban one great star gl1mmers for
In his preface Hearn speaks Of the sin
gular spell that Martinique cast over
him. and potent spell It must nave
vivid as living pictures before the fasci-
mated readers eye. To read his book is
to visit the exquisite scenes and to OBJ
serve the customs and manners OF
country now grewsomely annihilated.
The island of Martinique has suddenly
become an actually to thousands of peo-
pie who had only the vaguest idea of its
Whereabouts. The papers are full of the
country and the people and all avail
excellent idea of the historical Importance
of the island can be obtained from Mrs.
Latimers new noval, The Prince In
cognito;", The hero Of her story is wreck
most half of the book is devoted to his
adventurous career there. Some charm
ing pictures. of the tropical beauty of the
fated island are given, and there are
many references to St. Pierre, Fort de
France, and other names that have come
SO prominently into public notice through
Bert Harte, who died suddenly in Lon
don on May 5th, was a wonderfully pro
prising forty-fve. titles. His first book
was published in 1869. and his last "Open-.
ings in the Old Trail, )" just appeared the
intervening years went by without the
appearance of a fresh collection of his
western tales. Abroad. he and Mark
Of
fury. Mr.. Kipling has more than once
acknowledged his Indebtedness to Bret
Harte. whose short stories he much adj
mired. Mr.. Harte has been living in Eng
land for some time and was in his sixty
third year.. having been born at Albany
N. Y, in 1899. .5-."s,Iie
Miss Mary Johnston publishers are in
forming hungry world that the author |
of Audrey has the "shyness fostered |
by years of invalidism and seculsion at
the formative period of her life. She |
eludes al efforts to draw her personally |
Sho h io ioa1 n S,,r, ,i,ac
from periodicals. her publishers asked |
Miss Johnston to give them some facts
concerning her life. Her responses were
the deliciously feminine injunction But
please don't let the papers get hold of
any of these things!' .
The name audrey by the way, has
a curiously interesting word history. BY
a process of pronunciation and eision
which only the English are capable of,
1T comes from the name hlheldrida. In
Saxon times the Feast of Saint Etheldr-
da, or Saint Audrey was held every year
in the Isle Ely On the 18th of October. At
brought cheap finery. Necklaces, and all
the little knick-knacks characteristic of |
such occasions. These came to be called
to tawdries, from which comes the word
tawdry.
.'The American Men of Letters Series"
n rare example of persistence in a liter
airy undertaking: The series was project
ed and begun by James T. Fields. the
friend of Dickens and Thackeary and Low
ellis; successor on the Atlantic 1t was
continued by Charles Dudley Warner,
and at his death passed on to- Horace
pa scudder. who died leaving it unhn-
editors, however. the series has gone on
and the publishers now announce its rapid
progress towards completion. The pres
ca -, i
by George E. Woodbury.: Longfellow by
Thomas Wentworth Higginson; and Whit
tier, by George r: Carpenter. Other vol
yard G.. Bourne: Parkman. by Henry D.
Sedgwick. .Ir:: Whitman, by John Bur
roughs; and Holmes, by Owen Wister.
The forthcoming Life of Iongfellow."
BY Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the
American Men Of Letters Series, will be
especially Interesting on the personal side;
aiece of the first Mrs. Ilongfellow, has
had access to letters throwing much
light upon Longfellow's early married
William Henry Babcock, the author of
The Tower of Wye. has ben having
Book which is coming out this Spring ing
This story. which has recently been an.
,ounced under the title of "Kent Fort
Manor, has been in preparation for three
"a, . tAiio VAS lillellueu 10 De called sIho
claibornes;" but, on the eve of its an
1ouncement Mr. sage's new book ..The
slayborneS. was announced as In press
or imn,edia tie publication. BY a curious
coincidence both books deal with the same
oerlod and to some extent with the same
locality in the Chesapeake that was SO
Intimately connected with the William
Claiborne of Mr.. Babcock's 1.-THE Tower
IF Wye
Mr.. Sage and Mr.. Babcock seem, each
without the knowledge of the ether to
1ave hit upon these smilarities Of time
md place. but as "Kent Fort Manor"
vas begun some three years ago. 1t, per-
1aps. has the priority Of mention = 1T
viii show little similarity. at least. in
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