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A book written out of the heart
usually reaches the heart. Charles
Wagner's latest book, "The Better
WAY" seems invariably to have found
dts avn. and TO have delivered its mess
age. Both MI Wagner and the pub
fishers of the book are constantly re-
CeNng letters from grief-strlcken pa
rents who have lost children, declaring
their gratitude for the comfort they
have received from THE Better Way"
and asking IL Mr. Wagner wrote the
charming gospel OF fatherhood that
pfefaces 1t from personal experience.
Ii was indeed out Of sad personal eX-
perenCe that Mr. Wagner wrote. His
nrst.bom was boy-Perre--who
brought untold joy to the youthful
father. Great was the young parents
pride in his hrstlIng, and as the years
slipped by the two grew wonderfully
together The father looked forward
TO having his son as companion In his
work, and the boy was just growing
TO an age when this was beginning to
be planned, when sickness came. AS
the illness progressed the fathers an
ruIsh Increased when death seemed
probable. the father was distracted. In
his efforts to calm himself during his
hours of watching by the boys bedside,
the father wrote down the comforting
thoughts that now form the first chap
tiers of 1.-The Better Way" When the
boy died, the father continued the book,
intending IL TO be a tribute, a monument
10 the memory OF his beloved son.
Maurice Maeterinck's great play,
"Monna Wanna" produced In London
and condemned by the censor--many
think most absurdlyzas immoral,
published by the Hatpes on Sept,
H. The translator Is Alexis Irene du
Pont Coleman, OF the college OF the
city of New York. In a recent descrip-
ton Of Maeterlinck he Is said to resem-
Bic one of those mrthful Flemings
SEATED at the bounteous tables paint
ed by Jordaens In his Dutch interiors"
But this, it seems, is only an outside ap-
pearance. There is an indeflnable
gravity, dellberatlon. and Effectiveness
about him. His eyes remain for long
fixed and attentive his speech is hesit-
atlng; we feel that his thoughts have
not entire confidence in 1t. but prefer
another more docile and patient inter-
preter-the PEN
More than 5000 copies Of Jack Lon
unl 0uNtl, 4 Ut YAH VI INV w
we're sold on Wednesday of last week,
and the book is now In its thirty-hfth
thousand The first English edition
was sold out on the day of publication.
The first fall book on the list of Har-
per & Brothers is Robert w. Cham
hers new love story, THE Maids OF
Paradise" published in September. In
this novel Mr.. Chambers has abandoned
colonial America, which lives so wildly
IN his Cardigan and THE Maid-at-
Arms and has transferred his scenes
70 France. A young French countess
and an adventurous American play the
parts Of heroine and hero. The Amerl-
can, while serving in the French I'M
perial Military police, falls upon net
work Of plots and counterplots, In the
tolls OF which he Is surprised to find
beautiful young Frenchwoman, who has
become involved in pressing dangers by
Der own ignorance of life. Mr. Cham
hers carries the reader from the idyl-
lie village of Paradise TO the most ex-
citing scenes of the F'ranoo-Prussian
war, In which his lovers and other
characters OF his story are intimately
Involved,
Margaret sutton Briscoes new vol
ume OF love stories, The Change OF
Heart is just off the presses of Harper
x Brothers. Mrs. Brlsooe Hopkins rs
well known as the outhor of Jimty and
The sixth Sense, both books having
aroused unusually favorable and inter-
ested comment at the time. OF publico-
ton. Their author began her literary
career in a quite accidental manner.
She had at that time a studio in Balti-
more, where she worked, with much
success. as an illuminator on vellum.
One day, on her return from a few
days rest at an old baek-country farm
house, she deArod TO Jot down. for her
own benefit, a story told her by the
farmer She began In the evening and
wrote and wrote, not needing the time,
until as she penned the final word she
Put out her lamp in broad daylight The
result was the story How the Spirit
Moved Cynthia" which was soon print
cd In magazine. From this moment
sne realized thatl she had found her
vocation.
II Is announced that Miss Cecilia Loft
tus VIII appear In Justin Huntly Nc
&artny's dramatic version OF his novel
me Proud Prince, which Harper n
pe remembered that Miss Lotus is the
lVlmer wife OF Mr. Mccarthy. She is
iuinous as the young woman who rose
from the vaudeville stage to be quon-
Nng.
me new life Of Tolstoi, which is being
Millen by Edward A. Steiner, and
wren wiz be published this fall by the
Huuook COMPANY, il 20 be illustrated
WIN reproductld&s of paintings special
made for It by Pasternak, the brill
It5ht russian artist, who is a personal
friend Of Tolstoi.
ne october number OF the Strand
Maga1lne viii contain the first OF the
tabes IN which Conan Doyle revives
n'Iiock Holmes. II seems that the
sreM detective was not killed In that
,aSt scene In the Alps, His inventor Is
se.s 70 tell what he did when he fell.
"'u "hat he has done since.
onoto Watannas new Japanese love
,s.,V9ry was long time In the naming.
'''e atter title having been chosen and