The age-herald., 1902-04-19
LITERARY NOTES


 London Letter in Philadelphia Times. Miss Johnston's Audrey is praised bv nearly all the ewspapers-especially hv , those whose judgment is worth some- thing. It is also having an excellent sale. Indeed, do not know of any novel of the last twelve months which has had a more decided success here than Audrey" has had
 Ihomas Dixon, Jr., author of "The Leopard's Spots," says he discovered the curious fact, in reading the daily papers oI the South issued in 1885, that every word or the platform of Booker T. Wash ihgtons plan of negro education can be round In the speeches of the Confederate generals to the negroes when they re- turned from the war. MT Dixon has. Perhaps' been rather unjustly acc:sed of opposing the Tuskegee plan in his novel "The Leopard's Spots" is in any event certainly phenomenally successful novel oeal1ng with real conditions in the South as the Southern white man sees them.
 A new volume by Booker T. Washing. ton, entitled "The Building of Charao- ter" will be published shortly by Double. day, Page & Co.,, comprising a series of his Sunday Evening Talks to the stu dents of Tuskegee Institute, thought hv many of his friends to be the best literary work he has done. up from Slavery" oy the way, has been recently voted by the librarians of the State of New York to be one of the best fifty books of last year; and of all the fifty books out of the five thousand published last year. it was second in the number of votes re- ceived.
 G. F. Putnams Sons announce the pub lication of "A Political History of Siav- ery'' by William Henry Smith. Two vol umes. It is an account of the slavery controversy from the earliest agitations Tn the eighteenth century to the close of the reconstruction period. Mir Smith was identified with the abolition move ment some years before the war and took an active part in the formation of the Republican organization in Ohio. When John Brough the great war Gov ernor of Ohio, took office he appointed MT. Smith as his private secretary which office he held until he was elected secre- tary of state of Ohio during the closing days of the war. Resignng from this of lice he became in turn editor of the Cln- cinnati Chronicle, general manager of the Western Associated Press and later of the Associated Press.
 MT. Carnegie's new book, "The Empire of Business discusses conduct and management beginning with a young mans first start, the A, B, c of Money, Capital and Labor. Thrift. the Winning of Fortune and it's Spending Trusts, Anglo-American Trade Relations Busi- ness as Profession, the Cost of Living. Railroads, Steel Making Technical Edu- cation. 0th h. jects. Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York are the publishers.
 Edward Everett Hale, whose S0th birth day has just been celebrated, is best known in literature as the author of The Man Without a Country" Over 500000 copies of this book have been sold. His publishers, Little, Brown & Co. of Bos- ton, recently issued an Edward Everett Hale booklet. giving an outline of his life and principal writings, etc.. with several illustrations. A copy of this booklet will be sent free to any applicant.
 What is the 'valley of decision?" is a question frequently asked by those who have not yet read Edith Wharton's novel. To those who have read 1t the meaning of the title is of course apparent but even they do not, all of them. know the source of the quotation. "Multitudes, multi tudes in the valley of decision"a appears on her title page; flor the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision is the rest of the sentence and 1t is quoted from the prophet Joel.
 A full-page picture of Richard Harding Davis, from clever drawing by his wife, Cecil Clark" is an interesting feature of the current number of Harper's Weekly. It appears that Mrs. Davis Is an amateur artist of much skill
 The Life of Hawthorne, in Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'S American Men of Letters series, has been written by Prof. George E. Woodberry, who is well suited to the task. The book Is now in preparation