Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-03-19
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Funk & Wagnalls Company an
nounces the publication of The Social
list and the Prince" by Mrs. Fremont
Older. 1t is a novel of Californian life
during the anti-Chinese labor agitation
The new novel with which Lucas
Malet is to follow her success with
1.-THE History of Sir Richard Calmady"
has been completed and will soon be
published both in England and this
country.
The monumental "Dictionary Of
Slang" upon which w. +. Henley and
John X. Farmer have been working
for some years past is almost finished,
and the final volumes are to be pub
lished at an early date.
Il. p. button l. Co. have just pub
llshed THE Truth and Error of Chris
tan Science" by NJ. Carta Surge, a
Cambridge graduate, with preface
by Canon Scott Holland. The author
has given the matter very serious
study.
The Century Company is about to is
sue a book Of fiction dealing with the
lighter phase of life at a girls college,
by Jean Webster, a recent recruit to
the ranks of story writers. The dis
tinctive quality Of her work is its spon-
taneity and humor.
Herbert s. Stone & Co. announce for
early publication a story by new
writer, called "Brewsters Millions"
The hero is New York fellow of good
parts who, to save an inheritance Of
$1O,OOOOOO, starts out to spend for
tune Of $1,OOO.OOO in a year.
A nature book OF some moments is
soon to be issued by Charles Scribners
Sons. 1t is to be upon Trees. Shrubs
and Vines of the Northeastern United
States" and its author, IL. f.. Park
hurst. will give therein general &C.
count and botanical details of the sub
ject, aiming especially to interest those
readers who have never made study
Of botany.
The University of Chicago Press
publishes volume entitled "AsSyrian
and Babylonian Letters" by Robert
Francis Harper. professor of Semitic
languages and litera ture in the Univer-
sity of Chicago. They cast much
light upon the administrative methods
of the Assyrian government and upon
the practical workings of the state re-
ligion, and furnish valuable informal
ton concerning Assyrian and BabylO,
Man life and customs.
Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart is one of
those sincere and unpretentiOus people
whose work is often undervalued be-
cause it Is left to make its own place
and select it's readers without blowing
Of trumpets and beating of gongs, says
the Outlook. In the little group of
writer's who deal with real things in
real way in this country she holds a
secure place. She has various gifts
skill in chara cterization. feeling for her
la ckground. Il good sense which shines
IN well-phrased reflections; but her
most original gift is humor-unforced,
spontaneous, kindly. full of human
tenderness. The story of Napoleon
jackson, Apply described Ill lHe SUI
title as The Gentleman of the Plush
Rocker. is, in its way, little master
piece. 1t is bit of life reproduced
with contagious mirthfulness. with
genuine skill and with a keenness of
insight into character which commands
our respect while it compels our laugh
Ter. A more bcguiling story has not
appeared this season, nor more real
one