The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-01

It is interesting to note. In connection with the miners troubles at Cripple Creek and President Roosevelt's direct action in regulating the number of troops there. that in a certain novel just pub lished there is an account of miners revolt which seems a wonderful prophecy of the actual events now taking place. The novel is Hamlin Garlands "Hesper, in which the action is mainly that of a miners strike brought with dramatic realism before the readers mind. The author presents in this story some strik- ing types of the independent miners who revolt against unionism and stake their lives on the outcome.
 Harper and Brothers will publish "Ju- dith of the Plains Marie Manning's new novel, on October 2S. The story is rich in clean-cut pictures of life in the old cat tie days of wyoming, drawn sometimes with unctious humor, and again with the straightforward pathos and tragedy of desert life Miss Manning wrote much of her novel during a two years resi- dence in the west, of which one year was passed on a Wyoming ranch, where the "next-door neighbor' lived thirty miles away. Here Miss Manning entered ac- lively into ranch life, and transferred the scenes and the people with ease and hu- nor into her book.
 Mrs Margaret Deland's new volume of old Chester stories is just published by the Harpers under the title of 'Dr. I,ayenders People" This volume with it's companion book, "Old Chester Tales represents Mrs. Deland's most import ant work. and the most successful of 'her fiction since John Ward Preacher published some time ago. Mrs Deland was horn in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but has been identified with Boston for many years. Her creation of the wise and very humorous old clergyman, pr. Iavendar. has been a genuine achieve ment in literature.
 Peter Newell has illustrated "The Hunting of the Shark and Other Poems, by the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and Harper and Brothers are now bringing out the book in hand some holiday edition uniform with "Alice" and Through the Looking Glass" also illustrated by MT. Newell which they published last year and the wear preceding In connection with the new volume, which has a colored frontis- piece and numerous amusing pictures In tint. MT. Newell explained to an inter- viewer that though most of his illustra- tive work is reproduced in black ana white. or in one tint. he really pants the greater number of his pi lures in colors finding 1t far easier and more eHec'lVe to work in that medium. And there is more inspiration in color" added the artist. It is not generally known that MT. Newell has exhibited pictures Tn oil at New York Academy of Design and at the Atlanta Exposition one Of his water-coors was purchased as the nu- cleus of a proposed gallery in Atlanta.
 EIinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" who has just published an- other book "The Damsel and the Sage" through the Harpers, affirms that her work Is written direct from life, and that the facts she reports regarding society, which critics have sometimes questioned, are jncontrovertibly true. In "The Dam sel and the Sage" the author inserts here and there many aphoristic remarks upon the social conditions as she sees them in England which will probably provoke further challenge from the same quarters. Mrs. Glyn lives with her husband and her two charming little girls, Margot and Juliette. on their estate at Harlow, Tn Essex. which has been for two hundred years in the Glyn family. She is much addicted to study and reading, eschew- ing golf or any other games, and hating, as she herself avows, thick boots and mud" Mrs Glyn is a sister of Lady Duff Gordon.
 Harper and Brothers have already found 1t needflu to issue second editon of John Bigelow's interesting work or ..The Mystery of Sleep which the au' thor recently revised. The book has met with pronounced favor. Its author IS the Hon. John Bigelow, who was our min ister to France, and executor and trus tee of Samuel J. Tilden. One or MT Ripelow's sons is Poultney Bigelow, thu third volume of whose History of th' German Struggle for Liberty" has jus hsen published by the Harpers; and an other son. John Bigelow. Jr., who wrot "Reminiscences of the Santiago Cam naien." which is. also. on the Harpe list and completes remarkable ram fly record for authorship.
 Among the Putnams' fall publications particularly interesting work is m Life of voltaire." by S. G. Tallentyre whose brilliant study, "The Women the Salons" was received few year ago with the greatest favor. Especiai'' with readers of the younger generation voItaire is becoming more and more t he merely a name This book. written II bright, telling style, portrays the char acter of voltaire with truth and sympa thy and should arouse fresh interes fin the great mind who turned the tren' of Europe The author justly acknow ieges the inestimable services which Vol taire rendered to the world service which are often forgotten by many wh think of voltaire only as the arch-here tic.
 ..voltaire found the earth oversprea' ~yith hideous undergrowths of oppression