New-York tribune., 1902-06-09
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
motors and Motor Driving" by Alfred C.
Harmsworth and other leading automoplises'
has just been published in this country by Lit
tie. Brown & Co It is one Of the Baomin'on
Series of Sports and Pastimes.
Mrs Gerald Stanley Lee. who signs hersen
Jennette Lee, and has a short story in the cur
rent "Scribner's+' is the author of story OF
New-Englsnd lfe 1.-THE Son Of a Fiddler" pub
Hshed this spring.
Charles F. Lurnrnis author Of 'The Awaken
ing of Nation" has a practical and generous
method Of helping in the civilization of the Ind
ian. lie takes to his home every year two Ind
.an children from neighboring tribe. and keeps
them for the year. at the end Of that time TAX
ing two others for the same period These chill
dren learn more by living in Mr.. Lummis's
household than they could possibly acquire dur
ing the same period If left merely TO learn at
school and live with their own people. Mr.
Iurnr1iss home is situated between Pasadena
and Los Angeles. and is famous as having been
built by his own hands
A few weeks ago the Macmillan Company pub
nshed a novel by Charles Major, entitled
Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hail." that has
since had large sale and has been extensively
advertised We have now before novel by
Henry Hastings. with the title Of Mistress
Dorothy Of Haddon Hall: Being the True Love
Story OF Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hall
The resemblance is striking; the Macmillan
Company have been quick 10 perceive it, and ii
is said that they intend to take legal steps TO
put stop TO what they regard an infringe
rneut Of their rights well q violation of
the ethics of publishing
In his STORY of the Cowboy" published by D.
Appleton & Co.. Emerson Hough gives an &C
count or the quarterly report of foreman to
the Eastern ranch owner, which constituted the
ra1st serious labor Of the year. and which is SAID
to have read follows:
Deer srr we have brand 500 caves this
roundup we have made sum hay potatoes is
fare crop. That Inglishman yu lef in charge
az the other camp got to fresh an we had TO
KIN him. Nothing much has happened sence yu
ief Yurs truely, JIM
The scribners have just published ''one Of
cur Conquerors." Lord Orp1ont and His
Auainta" and The Amazing Marriage" making
twelve OF the fifteen volumes in their pocket edi-
ton Of George Meredith The three remaining
volumes will not appear until early autumn
little Brown & Co, VIII bring out q three
volume edition Of Daniel Webster's hitherto un-
collected speeches and writings in the fall
Apropos OF Mr. John Kendrick Bangs's new
book "oIyrnpian Nights" which the Harpers
viii publish on June L. It is interesting to
learn that Mr Bangs himself sold the first copy
IT seems that a book agent called upon the
author and tried to sell him a 50 copy Oh
a volume OF sermons by a famous divine MT
Bangs. feeling no immediate need Of the ser
meas made repeated efforts tc rid hin1selI OIL
the agent put in vain Finding that reouhs
,pere uuavaiIing he tried persuasion. That, too,
failed Then bright thought occurred TO hiIn'
snd he offered to take the book agents SUD-
scription for a copy Of ''olynapian Nights 10
mis- surprise the offer was accepted the money
paid. and the agent. after genially consuming
another half hour of Mr.. Bangss Vaiuaple
time. departed with no further reference to the
Ser-oons Evidently" said Mr. Bangs, in re-
counting the incident The concluded was De-
vond the reach OF religious instruction
r-,a fourth IN the series of Dents County
f-uides- which E P. Dutton & Co. are pup
fishing in this country, will be oeVooeo 10 INC
Lake Counties and the Isle of Wight ana is py
W G. CoIlingvood, who has specially lei TIC
,,hsact for treatment in the style in which these
county guides have been written They are
mach more than suidebooks in the usual sehse-
The sermons delivered at Yale University py
@o,,r New-York clergynen. the Rev. Drs. HUNT
,ng+on Greer. Briggs and Rainsford, are gatn-
cred into a volume called 'Cornerstones' 'ha'
Thomas Whitaker has brought out
.
V r~,.5.., gentleman now living in New
Work who wishes his name withheld, has mace
Gift 70 tVvo hundred and fifty Canadian pubic
1sh-a-;es Of a COPY OF THE Literature of Amerl-
,.- tJtstor-v,' which has just been published py