The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-02
BOOK NOTES.

Henry Seton Merriman's London pub
fishers announce a sixth edition of his
successful novel of love and diplomacy,
by the Harpers, and described by them
as one of their beSt-selling novels.
Paul Potter. the man who dramatized
''Trilby, which in the hands of its Amer
lean publishers, the Harpers, made one
fiction, is now engaged upon a dramati-
cation of Thackeray's "Pendennis." Mr.
John Hare will enact the title role.
Gen. Dewets book will stand out in lit
were perhaps the most extraordinary Sc
r1eS of achievements ever performed by
one single human being. Gen. Dewet is
clearly master OF telling and succinct
narrative, a man of deeds who has the
rare power Of being his own historian
The Daily News Oondon).
Edward Sothern's brother, Lytton Soth-
ern is the hero of the story by the Stage
Door" by Ada Patterson and Victory
Bateman: published by the Grafton Press
New York.
The next volume promised by the Graf
ton Press, of New York, is Fate and I
and Other Poems by Gerda DalIiba. The
poems are by girl of sixteen, but no one
would suspect it from their excellence
Only $50 copies will be for sale, and these
will be numbered and signed.
Messrs. Smith, Elder & COMPANY the
London publishers, are issuing another
edition of Anthony Hopes novel The
dntrHSions OF Pfsggy which has been
bears the Harper imprint The West
minister Gazette affirmS that Peggy is the
most freshly studied and charmingly
lifelike" of all MIR. Hopes feminine crea-
tions
Mr. A. ]. George, the we'll known
Wordsworthian scholar has undertaken
the editorship Of the Wordsworth volume
now nearing completion under the general
enitorship of Mr.. Bliss Perry.
DR.. Washington GLADDEN., whose recent
book Social salvation attracted the at
to give the Noble lectures at Harvard
university this spring.
On the fy-leaf of a copy of Audrey
presented to Eleanor Robson Miss Johns
ginning, Three years she grew in sun and
shower" She added this note THE first
suggestion (afterwaard. of course enlarg-
ed and altered) of the character of Az
from the above lines Of Wordsworth
Tito" the novel Of sunny Italy and
dark New York, by Mr.. William Henry
carson, which will soon be issued, was
read the other day by one Of our best
known women novelists. the author wish
ing to secure her candid opinion She
wrote: Il predict not only popular sue
cess but substantial fame for you through
this book
Primer Of Right and Wrong" BY ].
n Larned, is thus described in the Boston
transcript: This is a primer that both
young and old may do well to strike up
an acquaintance with as soon as possible,
middle-way style of common sense pre-
sentiment is persisted in that will insure
the popularity of the volume and win the
large circle Of true friends who are wait
ing to welcome just such a work
DR.. William w. Folwell, who was the
first president of the University Of Minne
sofa. will write the volume on 'fMinnesota,,
in the American Commonwealth Series
It is expected to be ready next year when
the p riIiilnols by Prof. John H. Finley,
college, Illinois. the Iowa 81 Dr --i Az
bert Shaw EDITOR Of the Review Of Re
XeMS, ard the Wisconsin" by Reuben
9. Thwaits, librarian of the State Histor1
zeal Society of Wisconsin, are also an-
nounced for publication. ''-A