The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-06
BOOK NOTES.

muse WHO ISIU6IlptT NIL. OdfHucl I.
Clover,s earlier story Paul Traver's Ad-
ventures will be glad to hear of the
publication of a second book by the same
author ION Special Assignment"
hero of the former book appears in many
Western adventures. Both Juveniles are
published by the Lothrop Publishing COM
also also Just brought out charm
ing. story for young readers, Ethel
in Fairyland." This book has handsome
Illustrations by Mr. Hermann Heyer.
The approval of so excellent patron of
the turf as August Belmont. on anything
connected with horse racing, ought to go
a great way in establishing it's quality.
w: A Fraser's novel of, the race track,
'.Thoroughbreds, recently came under
Mr.. Belmont's eye, and he Immediately
wrote Mr.. Fraser in praise of it.. saying:
1t is very interesting, and a, an excellent
horse racing.
Mr.. Wright worked for more than two
years on .'The Printer of Udells', before
he submitted it to a publisher. Even then
ne worked 1t all n, again pf and fewr9se
fed him. Just as it went to press Mr..
Wright was taken desperately ill with
pneumonia, and for a time it seemed prob
able that he would not live to see his
book published. His tremendous determi-
| nation stayed with him though, and
helped him through the crisis. On the
very Ody IHdC 1t Was announced that lie
would recover the proofs of THAT Printer
of UdeHS arrived. He read them during
his convalescence when he was so weak
and i'll that he could WELD the pencil only
few moments at time.
The Neale Publishing company, of
| Washington, has increased it's business
| to such an extent that hereafter it will
have New York office as well, where,
under the management of Mr. Walter
| Neale most of its editorial and publish
| ing work will be done.
sally Wister's Journal" lately edited
by Albert c. Myers and published here by
Ferris & Leach, has reached England and
has given not less delight there than it
has afforded American readers. The Lon
don Athenaeum says or it: SALLY Wister
is one of those charming maidens whose
memory has been preserved-like that Of
Dorothy Osborne or the Jessamy Bride
by fortunate accident. We shall never
know how many as sweet and fair have
passed away and left 20 sign, save, per-
haps, faded sampler or characteristic
smile inherited by their grandchildren.
Thus we lave to make the most of the
few whose charm survives, and among
these a high place must certainly be given
to the delightful Quaker maiden whose
diary has been publ-sned by the pious care
of Mr. Myers
The great interest aroused in the writ
ings of Charles u. d. Roberts, through the
life. THE Kindred of the Wild" has
made necessary the reissue of his first
volume of fiction, .'Earth's enigmas,,' first
published, in 1892. and out of print for
out in an attractive form by Messrs. L. c.
Page & Co., with the addition of several
new stories, and ten illustrations by
Charles Livingston Bull.
Round Anvil lock" by Nancy Huston
Banks, which the Macmillan company
published a week ago, has already eX-
| hausted it's large first edition. As in "Old-
field, the setting of the novel is in South
| ern Kentucky a century ago. Everyone
who has read it says that while the style
| and the beauty of the book are similar to
| those in Mrs Banks first story, the book
! is very much better constructed as
| count. There is less of 1.-The camee-like
| delicacy of .OldfeId,'" one critic says, but
a more vigorous and dramatic plot.
People of the whirlpool is reported by
| the booksellers in New York city among
the books most in demand. The preceding
| volume by the same author, 1.-The Garden
| of Commuters Wife, has been steadily
in demand ever since its appearance but
! the first fortnight of its issue amounted to
! half those of THE Garden of a Com
muter's Wife since it appeared. which
shows the hold the latter book took on it's
readers. 1t is amusing to note that one
| cocksure critic definitely and explicitly
| ascribes the book to the late 81. P. Wow
| Bray
There has been a great deal of rivalry
| among american puDnSnerS Tor the work
| OF Joseph Conrad. since the publication of
Youth has aroused the critics to APP
probation of a new force in literature.
Recently Col Harvey. of Harper & Bros,
! announced from London, according to
| cablegrams that all Conrad's future work
| will be published by that firm. Apparent
| ly an error has crept into Col. Harveys
calculations "Falk, and Two Other
Novelettes,' the next volume by Conrad,
will be published this fall by Mcclure,
Phillips & Co.
Miss Herminie Templeton, the author
of the rollickihg Irish fairy stories Darby
O'Gill and the Good People," which NC
Clure, Phillips e Co. have just published,
is the daughter of an English army officer,
and rumor has it that she was born in
India The stories that she tells in her
book are real folklore tales of old Ire
land, and are as near in form as possible
to the tales as they are told by the cot
tagers at their peat fires in the Emerald
ISLE
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