Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-23
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The Macmillan Company will bring
ont later in the year "The Magic Tor
est" by Stewart Edward White, au-
thor of '"The Blazed Trail and Con
jurer's House." a story Of the Canadl'
an woods.
John Lane announces q new conIrl"
button to the Carlyle controversy, en-
titled "The Nemesis Of Froude." 1t is
stated that Sir James Crichton Browne
and Alexander Carlyle look to this vol.
ume to clear Carlyle's memory OF
wrongful imputations
Paul Elder & Co., Of San Francisco,
announce "Drawing-Room Plays" By
Grace Luce Irwin, volume Of clever
plays for amateurs. Literary activity
i'll the Irwin household is evidently not
limited to the author of 1.-The Love
Sonnets Of Hoodlum."
The Smart Set Publishing Company,
New York, will publish THE Congress-
mans Wife," by John D. Barry, the
dramatic critic, and autho: Of "a
Daughter Of TheSpis," political story,
the scenes Of which are laid first I'm
Washington and then in New York.
The Bookman has made list OF
successful authors 1S95-1902" (nclu-
sive), from the record Of all their
books quoted among "best selling
lists. According to this tabulation,
Winston Churchill is the most popular
and successful author in the United
States The list includes not only our
own iloVelists, but also a few English
men.
Dodd, Mead & Co. have In prepara-
ton a new book by Rev. DR.. Beverly
Warner, author Of 1.-THE Young Man In
Modern Life" to be entitled "The
Young Woman in Modern Life" The
author, who believes that with woman
lie the veal and woe of tomorrow, sets
forth some of the problems with which
thc young woman in modern life is
bound to concern herself.
",Tbe Joyous Heart" by Viola Rose
boro, is the story Of one Woman's hap
piDess and the happiness she brought
to others. 1t is q novel full Of very
living and very lovable characters. The
scene is laid in the South, during the
rebellion. Vella, the heroine, with her
joyous heartedness, captivates instant
ly, and the tragedy Of her short life
is moving through its very simplicity.
Gordon Keith" by Thomas Nelson
Page, is the first he has written since
RED Rock" 1t is work of broad
scope; the scene includes New York
city and Virginia.; the period extends
from the close Of the war well into our
own times; the characters are many
and greatly varied; the hero Is South
en-, the heroine a New York girl; the
plot is fun and interesting; the color
has all Mr.. Pages richness.
A New York newspaper gives this as
q list Of the twelve great novels!
Thackeray's vanity Fair" and Hen
~ Esmond," George Eliot's Middle
march," Miss Austen's pride and
Prejudice" Goldsmith's "Vicar of
Wakefield" SCOTS "Ivanhoe," Haw-
thorne's Scarlet Letter." Dickens
"Tale of Two Cities" Reade's Clois-
ter and the HEARTH" Shorthouse's
John Inglesant," Miss Bronte's Jane
Eyre" and Defoe's Robinson CEusoe."
Not long ago a very eminent man Of
letters asked us to name offhand,
without stopping to think about it,"
the greatest Of American writer's. He
lad special stress upon the word
american" so that we took his ques-
ton to mean the four writer's of Amer
lean nationality who owed the least to
Europe and whose work is the most
imbued with the native American spir-
it. We mentioned the following names
in the order given here: Lowell,
Cooper, Hawthorne and Emerson
with a sort of mental reservation to
the effect that Walt Whitman ought
somewhere or other to have got into
the liSt.-Bookman
Wanted Them Jumped.