The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-07

and word by word. and letting its fine fe-
| licities of fancy and form and phrasing
| melt upon the tongue and sink into all
the power of their apprehension. The
book is broad and deep, and goes to the
| marrow of things"
Mildred Champagne, the young Boston
writer about whom so much anxiety was
felt, reached Boston from Jamaica in the
Schley August II, leaving Kingston, ia
maica, few hours after the terrible hur-
ricane.
On the wharf awaiting the steamers ar
rival were her father, mother, sister, in
innate friends, reporters and member of
eoe ARM U %h6 5he bringing on young
| authors first book, Love Stories from
Real Life"
Miss Champagne's. experiences in the
| hurricane were thrilling, although she es-
capped with no injuries save nervous
shock.
Mr.. Alfred Holders book, "a Fight for
the city, has reused a good deal Of in
an AMI inside t view of American politics and
city life. The writer of long article on
the book in Macmillans magazine comes
to conclusion which has peculiar IN
terest for us: "If the great American.
spectators continue to embark in English
enterprises. traffic exploitation and the
| like it will behoove this community to
watch very carefully lest they import not
only their capital and their energy, but
/ also their Iarnllldr InelHOuS. 1NOl even 1OI
| the joys of an overhead railway down Pic
| cadilly or the Strand. would we welcome
| the presence in London of such power as
appears to be welded by the directors OF
| these concerns. in New York.
The Forest and Stream Publishing COM
! pany announces as In preparation spe-
| cial limited de luxe edition Of Grinnell' S
| American Duck Shooting. The edition will
| consist of 600 numbered copies, each
signed by the author, printed on specially
page plates on India tint paper The first
edition of this work proved so attractive
to sportsmen that it was soon exhausted,
| and there was frequent call for more
| lished.
DR.. E. ]. Dillon, author of the Life
of Maxim Gorky,' recently pblshed by
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. is thoroughly cos
mopolitan and has studied and lived in
nearly every country in Europe. When he
| first went to the continent he studied at
| the College de France, where he devoted
himself to Semitic languages. Later at
| the University of Innsbruck, in addition to
| Greek and Latin, he studied Sanskrit.
Arabic and Hebrew Then he spent over
| two years at the German universities,
was to st. Petersburg. where he entered
himself in the Oriental faculty at the
| university of that city. He further pur-
\ sued his studies at the University of Lou
vain and then returned to st. Petersburg
| to qualify himself for the Russian degree
of master of Oriental languages. In all
Dr. Dillon has studied at the universities
| OF seven different European countries, and
has taken degrees in three.
1. K. Friedman whose first humorous
| book, 1.-The Autobiography of a Beggar,'
| has recently been published by Messrs.
| Small, Maynard & Co, after having
attracted most favorable attention during
its serial publication in the Saturday Eve
| ming Post. of Philadelphia, was born in
Chicago in 1859. He attended the public
| schools there, and completed his education
at the University of Michigan, from which
he was graduated in 1898. For a period