The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-08
ST. PAUL WOMEN
WRITERSTO THE FRONT
Their Work and That of Other
Authors Is Passed i'm
Review.

ing. Mrs. french (AHHe al Hel'
of st. Paul. has made raplh
strides and won an enviable posltlon'
In the November Century she has
story called THE Marrying Of Susan
Clegg," which is bright, we'll written
and bears upon it no marks OF the am
ateur. or course she is writing book,
although it has not been announced
Shaking of Mrs French reminds US
that she is not the only Western Wom-
an who is known in magazine work.
or the only ST. Paul woman who mas
made a name for herself. Mrs. FRANK
lin Floete, of st. Paul, Yields clever
pen. and has done a good deal OF 1T
erary work. She writes mainly
sketches of travel, although she has
also written as well several stories
which have appeared in Eastern maya
zines. and, by the way, her pen name
is not Francis Willing Wharton. Some
of Mrs. Floete's friends. for no partieu-
lar reason, took it for granted that the
name mentioned above was hers, ana
whenever story appeared over TINS
name in the Cosmopoltan-for Francis
Willing Wharton has had almost every
month until this, something in that
magazine-she has been congratulated,
and when she stated that the stories in
question were not written by her, her
friends have laughed in an incredulous
manner and put down her denial to
modesty. But this has led to several
misunderstanding and now Mrs
FIoete is anxious that the matter be
made clear, as she does not wish to
come in for the glory which belongs
to some other woman. or indeed to
shoulder her faults, If faults there be.
Whatever Mrs. Floetes pen name is,
1t is not Francis Willing Wharton.
The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady
has done a very daring thing-and by
some persons considered reprehensible
in condensing the old novel Ten
Thousand a Year." and materially
changing it and republishing it under
the name of "Tittlebat Titmouse." 1t
Is to be hoped that Mr.. Brady will con-
tinue to write his own innocuous tales,
and refrain from further despoiling old
idols with an irreverence quite incom-
patible with his cloth-or what his
cloth was formerly. For he has quite
gone out of the preaching business
since he has taken to literature, and
taken to it so fiercely. He seems to
issue a novel a week; somehow one
fancies him never sleeping and eating
sandwiches with his left hand While
perpetrating some remarkable story
with his right. But this thing OF re-
publishing old masterpieces in a way
to suit anybody who happens to find
them too long, is quite alarming, and
one wonders whether we Will have
Bradyized editions of "Pickwick Pa
pers" and the beloved David Copper
field" next Some one should speak
firmly to Mr.. Brady and let him know
there are persons who begrudge even
one page of Ten Thousand Year"
A discussion has arisen among the
literary critics as to just who Is the
actual hero of Alfred Henry Lewis
latest novel, Peggy O'Neal." The ma
tority of the critics either speak Of
Andrew Jackson as deserving of this
title, or the unknown narrator of the
story known in the book as the Ma
jor."
On the other hand, another contin-
gent side with DR.. Jacob Goldstein,
the eminent scholar, who writes as
follows: 1.-The real hero of the story
Is in the apparently minor character,
who old Jim always describes as the
red-headed Jew He is no less person
than the famous Maj. Mordecai Manuel
Noah, editor, philanthropist, politician,
dramatst, ambassador, duelist and
Prince in Isreal by special appoint
ment of the Sandhedron In Jerusalem.
Mr.. Lewis picture of Noah, with the
observation of the latter about the
Jews and Jewish problems, place all
American Jews under a debt of graft
tude to the author"
The HermIt-By Charles Clark Mum.
Lee &, Shepard Boston, publishers. For
nv P1nl Book and stationery
company.
A strange, rambling sort of story is
this which begins in the Maine wilder
ness, from whence the scene changes
to a small town and returns to the
woods. The hermit is an old man who
has wandered from home and become
Injured to the lonely Businesses of the
woods, where with his squirrels as
companions, he leads happy but aim
less existence. To the wilderness goes
Martin Frisbie and DR.. Sol on shoot
ing and fishing expedition. They Stun
BILE upon the old hermit, but not until
they have discovered the woods are in
habited by a wild man, who is also, as
1t turns out, connected with the home
town of the two hunters. Martin
Frisbie returns to Greenvale and again
makes love to Angie, his boyhood
sweetheart, whom he finally marries
and who turns out to be a daughter to
the old hermit of the wilderness. The
faults of the book are too great a dis
cursiveness and the spinning out of
commonplace incidents into an inter
minable tale which could have all been
told in a hundred pages. story OF
400 pages must be very fascina ting to
hold the modern reader who likes his
fiction crisply and quickly done.
Rips and Raps-By L. de v. Matthew
man Frederick A. Stokes company
publishers. For sale by st. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
The author of this little volume wrote
a similar one which he called Crank
isms" which were more clever an6
original than this one. BY means OF
putting one or two of these sayings or
a page, accompanied by picture sup
posed to bear some relation to the
adage, he has managed to make a small
book. Some of his remarks are bright
others are very stupid and are sale
every day by persons who would no
consider their wit worthy of being pu
between covers. Some are good, sucl
as: I'VE look for our brothers fault!
with a searchlight; on our own we turf
q dark lantern" "the fool usually look!
abroad for evils to correct" what i
would profit q man to gain the whole
world and lose his own soul, is wha
many man is trying to find out;
Ndlfhv lIIcra iS that which navnr nOnas