The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-31
BOOhS AND NOMINATING.

| van NoINl y IuSJ bONti,
Longstreet." which was published last
season by Harper Bros. was woven
about the problems and conditions of New
England factory life. Now she has just
returned from Paris to begin work on a
novel dealing with the white working
people OF the South While collecting
material for the story the thorough H ding
young author worked for a time in South
Carolina cotton factory.
Nine Marguerite Durand. the original
owner OF La Fr0nde. a Partisan journal
conducted entirely by women, has pre-
sented the paper to the members Of her
staff and will hereafter be merely CO.
worker with them.
DR.. Henry van Dykes STORY of the
Other Wise Man" has heen translated into
| Tur kish. but the censor refused TO APP
prove its title.
"Why won't it do?- asked the publisher
Because 1t is not true" was the solemn
answer.
-Not true' Why isn't it truel"
Because" explained the censor. there
il no wise man but Mahomet."
The title was changed to suit Turkish
requirements and free English trans
lation Of the substitute would read How
the Other Scientist Got Left Behind"
The English publishers Of the W,rds
| WoIk objected to the cover Of the American
| periodical a. too frivolous. In the English
edition Mercury. God of Lies, has been
substituted for the symboical woman's
figure that decorates the American cover.
French and German editions Of this
successful magazine are being considered.
Joseph Conrad Is one of the writer's to
whom critics have accorded unstinted
praise, but who have never achieved wide
popularity with the reading public. His
Youth, just published, may bring him
| this popularity. II has moved the critics
to almost extravagant eulogy.
DR.. Charles Eastman. author of Indian
Boyhood." is himself a striking example
Of the Indians possibilities in education.
Until he was Is he lived as a member of
an uncivized Sioux tribe. Then his
father decided that he should he educated.
The boy did not know a word Of English.
hadn't civilized conceptions; yet he pre-
pared himself for college in nine years,
doing work for which the average white
boy takes twelve years.
Josephine Dodge Daskam's frivolous
attitude toward the woman's rights cues
ton, "a shown in her recent speech before
the serious minded Pilgrim Mothers. H.
| emphasized in her 'Omar for Ladies',
which appears in tho January Hdrpers
One for her club and her own latchkcy nights
| Another wastes In study her good nights:
| All take the clothes and let the clturc 20,
| Nor heed the grumblc VI the women rights.
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Emerson Hough, whose Mississippi
| Bubble holds rank among the six best
| selling novels of the season, is at work
| upon a new book concerning transportation
| in the West.
Max Beerbhom has written almost any
thing save novel. Now he Ia fulfilling An
oft.nade promise and publishing a novel.
-X,iloipa Dobson will be a whimsical story
of Oxford life from the point of view OF
an exclusive Oriel man. and English readers
are looking forward to good laugh.
william r. Thayer has been made a
| knight Of the Order OF the Crown Of Italy
in recognition OF his historical work. The
Dawn Of italian Independence. The late
William " Story was another Harvard man
| who received this honor.
The character and career Of Cecil Rhodes
supply such excellent material for fiction
| that it IL a.wonder that We have not had
a deluee OF Cecil Rhodes novels. Melchior
de Nol o. is now at work upon one for the
Rerue des Deur Mondes.
Andrew Carnegie's THE Empire OF
Business" IL to he published In italian
Immediately and will very soon appear in
| German.
-The Leopard's Spots" Is another Double
day. Page & Co book about to be pub
lished in Germany,
Henry Seton NJ rrinan. whose literary
career has been one of unint srrupted sue
cess and who has now made lother hit
with "The Vu!tures," il in private life Hugh
Scott, an English country gentleman.
Much Of his childhood was spent In France,
and n series Of long sea voyages, necessi-
tated by his health, reused in him wander
lust, which ne has never lived down, though
he calls a beautiful country place in Suffolk
home. Both In looks and In temper ancnt
he il said to resemble Robert Louis Stew
enson.
! A hist orical novel dealing with the Ameri-
can Revolution and though written by an
English author strongly favorable to
| America sounds like novelty. This IL
what Eden Phillpotts is preparing in "The
American Prisoner"
Miss Ida NJ. Ia b III, whose history of the
Standard Oil Company IL just now attract.
ing much attention, has attained enviable
rank u- n historian through knowing ex-
actly what she wanted to do and having
the pluck to surmount all obstacles In the
way Of the doing. She loved history and
she wanted to write history, so, with very
little money to back the venture, she went
to Paris and studied for three years at the
Sorbonne and the College de France, sup
porting herself by chance cont ributions
to American magazines.
One Of the leading historical scho ars
and writer's of France was her teacher
and friend. and at the end OF the three
years she came back with the manuscript
Of her life Of Madame Roland" which
was followed by the lives OF Napoleon