The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
LITERARY GOSSIP.

Niailo1 CTdW1oTo mas spent most of the
Heart of Rome He has studied Rome in
all its phases and has been writing novels
ana serious books about it for twenty
years; but this time he has undertaken
to put the heart of the city into a novel
and the result Is one of the few really
fine and enduring books about Italy's cap
ital. The author of "Saracinesca" has
here written his strongest and clearest
DOCK; novel in which, around an alb
sorbing love story are grouped and pic
tured the manifold elements that go to
make up the whole of Rome of the pres
ent day. The story contains more ac-
ton and a stronger and more vital in
terest in life than most of Mr. Crawford's
recent books. The story is the thing from
beginning to end. Mr. Crawford whose
biography of the late pope is well under
way, has just returned to New York to
superintend the publication of his novel
Jack London's philosophy of life has
fine ring. The only things necessary, he
says are good health, work a philosophy
OF life, and sincerity. with these, you
may cleave to greatness and sit among the
lowing capital aphorism: Light out after
it with club; if you don't get it, you
will nevertheless get something that looks
frank and determined in his dislike Of
nonsense Some ford person who wished
to pay him compliment said that his
and strength, Mr.. London ANY style
l may have has been acquired by sweat
replied the author Of The Call of the
Wild"
Two books by Stewart Edward White
are announced for publication this fall,
these is ''The Magic Forest" which de-
scribes the adventures of a little boy who
loses himself in the Canadian woods and
ends by spending the summer among the
Ojibways. The other book is called mere
~ The Forest" and is not fiction. THE
Magic Forest is Illustrated with a number
OF, full-page plates printed in colors like
those of Jack London's ''The Call of the
Wild and with quantity of imaginative
drawings in the text.
"The Metal of the Pasture" ranks first
and 1.-THE Call of the Wild fourth on the
Bookman's list of best-selling books
through the month of August, Mr.. Lon
don's novel has been greeted with as much
enthusiasm in England as here. Clement
e. Shorter writing in the Sphere that
.The Cal OF the WIG. is the most re-
young a man that have ever read
The enormous labor which the biography
of Gladstone has laid on John Morleys
shoulders is indicated by the simple state
ment that he and his secretaries have in
the course of their long task examined
about 100000 documents Mr.. Morley'S
book, which the Macmillan company will
publish in three volumes, will contain gen
erous extracts from Mr.. Gladstones pri-
Vate diaries.
In her introduction to the Macmillan
company'S reissue of Maria Edgeworths
1.-THE Parents Assistant" Mrs. Thackeray
Richie says:
"Once when the present writer was
very little girl she suffered for short
eyes, which prevented her from reading
or amusing herself in any way Her
father, who had just then returned from
weary hours. began telling. her the story
of the Forty Thieves, and when he had
finished, and had boiled down the wicked
thieves in OIL and when she asked him
to tell it over again. he said that he
would try and find out something else to
amuse her, and looking about the room
Assistant, which was lying on the table,
and began to read aloud the story of the
Little Merchants. The story lasted
two mornings, and an odd, confused inn
preston still remains in the listeners
mind to this day of Naples, Vesuvius,
pink and white sugar plums-of a dark
Belgium, of a sloping garden full of
flowers outside the shutters, of the back
of big sofa covered with yellow velvet
and of her fathers voice reading on and
on. When she visited Naples in after
days she found herself looking about I'M
consciously for her early playfellows."
Ca most unhappy title) were written when
battle was in the air. AS Mrs. Richie
says, ''These quiet scenes of village life
We're devised to the sound of clarions."
Budapest is intensely foreign in peasant
costumes and old customs that have still
survived through centuries, and on the
other hand surprisingly modern, a queer
mixture which lends a picturesqueness to
this half Oriental, half cosmopolitan city,
Its splendid modern civiliza ton, which still
retains plenty of the Oriental atmosphere,
makes it one of the most unique peoples
of Europe 1t is the Magyar, the true
Hungarian, which is the keynote there,
fighting for independence from the Aus
TRAN yoke Hundreds Of these are we'll
bred, noble men, whether titled or not
living in luxury surpassed by no city on
the globe. 1t is all described in F. Berl1e-
ley Smiths new volume entitled ''Buda-
PES. tie City of the Magyar"
ST. Pau has new magazine. published
monthly at the Manhattan building. 1t is
called Opportunity. and is devoted to
Western interests. Among its offerings
for October are number of interesting
stories. including. Winter Travels in the
Wilds of Alaska, by Joe Smith, of Seat
tie, Wash; Irrigation in the Great
Northwest" by Herbert L. Dore, of Win
nipeg; THE Growth of Macaroni Wheat"
by Pref. w. NJ. Hayes; Tea Growing in
Texas" and many other articles descrip-
tive of various phases and opportunities in
the West.