The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-02
The Concise Standard pIctlonary-By
HINTS ABOUT LATEST BOOKS.

The president Of one of the biggest job
/ blng houses in the country told the head
| of large New York publishing house
who was visiting Chicago last week, that
although the sales of individual novels mac
not reached such great figures as in the
! past three years, yet the total sales of fic-
| ton for the use Of the appellation DR.
fore. Out of the six best selling books for
heads the list, and is followed by Charles,
| Majors Dorothy Vernon" while another
Of the six is Gertrude Atherton's ''The
/ Conquerer.
/ The cause of progress in religious
thought has in this country no more ar
don. minister OF the historic Boston con-
| gregation known as the New Old South
Church" He has been styled by an emil
n ne authority "a leader as6 Of thought and
| Faith will be found the fullest iustifica-
ton for the use of the appellatfon. DR..
Gordon believes religious thought has adj
vanced to a freezer and fuller interpreta-
| tiCn of Christian doctrine and this free
dom of spirit in religious matters is the
keynote Re ", OF his . BOOK Which follows logi-
| Shelley is having his day. Not only is
he being read more than ever before, but
| he is serving to inspire the younger Amer
lean singers with ideals of social freedom
and poetic beauty. His complete poetical
works are now included in the Cambridge
|
poets. continuing the adequate editing and
excellence of bookmakfng for which that
series is noted.
The exceptional character of the Pur-
| ity Books in the Self and Sex Series has
50 commended ITSELF to the Judgment Of
Mems Christian association. that they
| have requested an edition of - 600 copies
of reprint of thefehapfers on the dis
tribution among thessoldiers in the e. PHI hi
| ippines, Cuba and the other army posts
and through the genera secretaries in IN
| purity cause has contributed the entire
! amount necessary 70 pay for this large
| edition. 80.
Archie Butler Hubert author of .'The
Queen Of Quelparte. which Little, Brown
| & Co. will publish IN September, is enjoy
| ing bicycle trip abroad, accompanied by
| romance of the far East was obtained BY
the author when IN Korea, in 1897 and
| 1898, as editor of the Korean Independ-
| portant American Newspapers and a
great deal OF the romance is founded upon
| fact.
Miss Mary Johnson ,sauthor Of Audrey
t the most popular book of this year. is
| spending the summer as usual in Vir-
| GINA. 1t issssaid that she has begun on
another book aszs4
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich is spending the
summer at his cottage at Tenants tHar-
bor Me. His new collection Of short
| stories "a Sea Turn and Other Mat
ters," is to be published early in October.
| These stories are said to be written in
his best manner, and their scenes range
all the way from Budapest to New Hamp-
| shire and Virginia. ao51 =
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will
publish in September a volume Of stories
| for children entitled 1.-THE Book of Ma
| ture Myths by Miss Florence Holbrook,
of the Forestville school, Chicago. Ill. 1t
signed to follow the authors popular
"Hiawatha Primer" and is written from
a carefully graded vocabulary built up on
| that of the earlier book
| Miss Jordan's recently published "Tales
of Destiny has been more provocative of
| interested discussion than any of her
previous volumes. The two stories in
seem to be I'm the Case of Dora Riser
| and "a Collection" Some see in the
| latter tale spendthrift use of material
| that would have made a successful novel,
safest sign of Miss Jordan's prolific i'm
| aginative powers and promise of greater
work in fiction
/ Miss Onoto Watanna's novel ga Japan
csc Nightingale" was written rapidly, as
are all her stories. When once a story
| is formulated in her mind she writes with
great ease, finishing page after page with
out much effort She Is a very conscien-
! tious worker, and Srevises with persistent
care. "a Japanese Nightingale was writ
| ten last year, and is one of the most pop
| ular of the publications of Harper Broth
| ers. The book has been dramatized and
| will be produced on the stage next sea-
| son with more magnificence, it is promised,
| than the play of Ben-Hur. Miss Watan-
| ma is only twenty-three years of age.