The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

now famous through his "Call of the
Wild,'' contributes a humorous love story
to Leslie's Monthly for September.
Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s 1.-The Leopard's
Spots" has the distinction of being pub
lshed twice in Germany. An edition in
English has just been issued in Leipsic, a
translation is ready at the press of Fred
eriek Lothbart at Munich, and other
publishers abroad, it is reported. by
Doubleday. Page and Company, are seek
ing the rights to the book. DR.. Dixon s
new novel, 1.-The One Woman" is shortly
to appear in several foreign translations.
The Journalist.
Mount Assiniboine, long called "the
Matterhorn of the Rockies lies twenty
miles from Banff, and towers, mighty
mcnolith, fifteen hundred feet above its
neighbors. Attempts to scale the peak
have proved futile, till James Outram, in
company with four guides, was success
full. The details of this mountaineering
feat. perhaps the most sensational yet
achieved in North America will be told
IN the September Century. Reproductions
OF a number of photographs will add to
the YlyidneSS of the narrative.
JUNGLE LARKS'' FOR CHILDREN.
Jungle Larks'' by Gar (R H. Garman)
Is a fine collection of exceedingly bright
and witty animal stories for children, told
In beautiful combinations of colors. I'm
possible TO imagine any kind of pictorial
fun for the little ones more innocent,
more attractive or instructive than these
clever conceptions In artistic execution.
Parents will be delighted with this work,
because OF its great educational value.
Rhinoceros, lion, giraffe, monkey and all
the tribe of the torrid zone, appear in
ludicrous situations and merry pranks, in
close imitation of human life, rousing the
young Imagination and implanting knowl-
edge in natural history after the true
manner of Pestalozzi and Froebel.
The book is original throughout and
Will jump into popular favor.
Crown qto. front and back cover in
four colors. $1.00. Laird G Lee, Chicago.
The story of how shipload of French
intended for Philadelphia, was
landed at Boston and was then transport
ed on OK carts through the British lines
to the city on the Delaware, is told for
the first time in DR.. Oberholtzer's bio
graphy of Robert Morris. The money was
to provide specie to start the
bank of the United States during the
times The tale has been
hitherto sealed chapter in Revolution
airy history, and so has the true account
of Morris's successful efforts a little
earlier to borrow money from Rochambeau
to pay the ragged Continental troops
Without this money Washington could
not have taken the Northern regiments
at Yorktown. Many historical episodes
which were of vital moment to the coun-
try them, and which are of keen interest
to us today, are said to be related Cor
the first time in this volume. Robert
Morris: Patriot and Financier is written
largely from new materials, including six
teen manuscript volumes by Morris him
self The Macmillan Company announce
the book for immediate pubncation.
Samuel Merwin, the author, got him
SET into a troublesome scrape once while
gathering material, some of which is
used in his new novel, His Little World, -
which is to be published Immediately by
A. s. Barnes and Company. He had
engaged temporarily as foreman for a
contractor who was building grain ele-
vator at a Lake Michigan port. One of
his first duties was to superintend the
"shunting'' of some freight cars. With
little idea of what he had to do, he bold
~ clambered to the top of car and took
h., 81 Oh ba
the car whirling to the switch, and at
what he supposed to be the right mo-
ment, the young foreman attempted to
turn the wheel But the brake turned
hard and his muscle was not equal to the
occasion. Before he could stop it, the
car went humping into another car which
it pushed off the track. Fortunately Mr..
Merwin was able to hang on and no seri-
Gus damage was done, but thereafter the
job of braking was turned over to one of
his gang. Mr.. Merwin got experience,
however, and that was what he was after
EVERYBODY'S BEATS
Dame Fortune seems to smile on the
efforts of the young men who are at the
helm of Everybody's Magazine. They
have scored third magazine "beat" In
the September number, with character
study of Joseph Pulitzer, who, at the mo-
ment, is the most conspicuous personality
before the American Public.
Their first scoop" was an article on
Thomas Wallace Russell and the Irish
Land Bill, in June, when every one was
talking of the new era for ireland.
The August issue was on the news
stands few days after the Pope's death