The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04

Carlen Bateson. author of "The Man in the Camlet Cloak" is an Ohioan. Her father was a prominent newspaper man of Toledo, being connected with the Bee" of that city Miss Bateson. at the early age of thirteen. received di- ploma from a high school whose curri- eulum entitled her to enter Cornell or any other leading university of our land but on account of her age she was bar red out of all except Buchtel college, where she graduated four years later with the honor of having made the best record of any student who completed the course at that institution.
 Miss Bateson has a charming and orig nal way of expressing her thoughts, and her new novel is one which ought to com mand attention among the scholars. Her two principal characters are strong types of the hardy frontlersmen.
 "The Man in the Camlet Cloak. s1.5O the Saalfeld Publishing Co, Akron, o.
 The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams. is the most valuable contribu- ton to the literature of the west which has appeared in many long day, and 1t must be placed upon the not-too-well- filled shelf with Two Years Before the Mast and the few other American Class ics' " says the San Francisco Bulletin. The New Times considers the book gives "a portrait of most picturesque figure in Western life that can be handed down to posterity as authentic in every small detail. The unmistakable marks of re- ality are to be found on every page"
 Arthur Sherburne Hardy's novel of New York society life. His Daughter First" is reported by the English Book man to have been one of the best selling books in Scotland last month.
 Clara Louise Burnham's new novel, Jewel" is just published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The central figure of the story, it is expected will be as well liked as Little Lord Fauntleroy. But the book is not a juvenile. The success of Mrs. Burnham's last book '"The Right Prin- cess" will be remembered, but the new story is said to be more interesting.
 "The Marrow of Tradition" by Charles W. Chestnut story published by Houghton Mifflin & Co.,. two years ago, has been made all the more interesting by recent events in the south The work of a colored man, it handles with modera- tion and freedom from rancor the per picking race questions of the south, and tells story which in no wise is over drawn.
 A factor of unusual importance in our present and future immigration is the growth of irrigation in the west-a mat ter that is admirably treated by the au- thor of American History and Its Geo. graphic Conditions" announced for pub lication by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,, in October.
 Dante lived in an age so different from our own that in order thoroughly to ap- precate him. much supplementary read ing is necessary. With this fact in mind. Charles A. Dinsmore has prepared a vol tune entitled. Aids to the Study of Dante," which presents in serviceable form the knowlege essential to the un- derstanding of the poet as stated by the best authorities, the original documents most commonly quoted, and those inter- pretations which most clearly reveal the significance of Dantes work. It should be of great service to students and gen. eral readers.
 The snap and style of books from Paris has been attractively reproduced in Guy Wetmore Carryrs new book of short stories. "Zut and Other Parisians,' which has just been published.
 Houghton, Mifflin x Co. announce the following new editions: Third edition of His Daughter First" by Arthur Sher- burne Hardy; seventh edition of "Our Lady of the Beeches." by Baroness von Hutten; second edition of "A Spectre of Power" by Charles Egbert Craddock.
 'The Adventures of Gerard is the ti- tie of A. Conan Doyle's new book which is announced by Mcclure, Phillips & Go. The volume is made up of a connected series of stories, recounting the wonder ful romantic and heroic adventures in love and war of Gerard a brigadier in Napoleon's army The tales, marvels of excitement, incident and peril. are told by the brigader himself, old and griz- zled. but marvellously proud of the ex- ploits of his youth. He is a delightfully."- ingenious, egotistic, self-praising old sol- dier. to whom army and 'honor'' are everything. He is widely different from Sherlock Holmes but he Is sure of quite as many admirers.
 Mcclure. Phillips X Company announce for publication in September volume of Letters From a Chinese Official" It appears anonymously. Wu Ting Fang, the recently recalled Chinese ambassador to the United States, is said to be the only Celestial who really understands our western civilization and it's point of view. It is open to serious doubt if any Occi- dental has bridged the great chasm which separates the methods of thought of the two hemispheres. This little vol ume of letters ought to go a good way toward promoting an understanding be- tween the two portions of mankind The author is undoubtedly someone who oc-