New-York tribune., 1903-04-20
LITERARY NOTES.

The heroine of John H. whitson's Barbara
q Woman Of the West which Little Brown &
Co publish IS the wife Of a somewhat self
centred man of literary tastes, Roger Tfmberly,
living on a ranch in Kansas. Out Of gratitude
deed Of mine in Cripple Creek is given 10 the
young couple. and Roger. with his imagination
fired hastens TO visit the mine, leaving his wife
alone. Failing to write home, Barbara in de-
spair. sets out to find him. Her long and
patient quest for her husband. the means which
she adopts 10 support helself and the ardor with
which she is wooed by Gilbert Bream are among
the complications which ensue. The author. who
is a journalist by profession. is thoroughly
familiar with the West. He has spent many
years on the plains. was at one time engaged IN
the cattle business. and went to Cripple creek
when that place wild mining camp He
has written number Of serial stories for young
people
Pioneers Of Religious Liberty in America
announced by the American Unitarian Associa-
ton is volume made up Of lectures which at
tracted wide attention wheD delivered in Boston
early this spring These lectures were given
by Edwin d Mead. President w H P Faunce
of Brown University, Professor Williston
Walker of Yale University; DR.. Washington
GLADDEN.. Professor Francis G Peabody. OF Har-
ward, and others. The purpose of the book is TO
set forth some OF the great principles through
which religious freedom in this country was
achieved and the connection with these princi-
pies Of the great men who advocated them and
gave them their enduring power. The thirteen
Champions Of religious freedom here set down
were truly pioneers in the work in which they
became conspicuous, and TO them is due much
Of our present inheritance.
Wilhelm Muller. father Of the late DR.. Max
Nulle-. Of oxford was writer of lyrics and
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in Germany. His diary, hitherto unpublished,
an intimate and detailed account of his life and
thoughts from his twenty-first birthday, August
: 1919 until the close Of the following year and
containing a naive C-Cussion of his ldeallsuc
beliefs is now issued by the University of Chi
cago Press in a volume containing also some
correspondence. The Diary and Letters of VIII
helm Muller" The book is edited by Philip s
Allen and James Taft Hatfield. The letters
were written by the poet to his wife during the
early years of their marriage and throw inter
esting sidelights upon the lively literary and
musical society of Dresden and Berlin. where
Muller was always a welcome guest. In view
Of the fact that the library and personal papers
Of Wilhelm Miller were all destroyed by fire
many years ago. II is possible that no other in
innate record Of the poets activity or artistic
striving will come 10 light
Miss Faith Bickford. whose story for children,
Daddy Joe's Fiddle" is published by Dana
Estes & Co. Is in her twenty-first year She
was born in Cambridge, Mass. and from her ear
Iiest years has had a strong ambition 10 be
writer, directing all her educational training TO
this end. Miss Bickford is the daughter of
retired Congregational clergyman, and has had
the advantage not only of access TO large Il
trary in which she has browsed from childhood,
but also Of constant sympathy and cooperation
in her literary work
We are told that a woman went into a well
known Philadelphia bookstore the other day
and asked for Mark Twain's Grafton on Julius
Caesar" The clerk endeavored TO convince her
that Mark Twain never wrote or delivered the
Grafton in question. but she was sure she was
right departing quite unconvinced. with the re
mark that she could probably find it some
where else. The only wonder is that the clerk
did not try to persuade her to order histori-
cal account Of Anthony wayne's attack on
Santiago.
Chauncey c. Hotchkss, author Of For
Maiden Brave" published by D. Appleton &
Co. has his own fads and fancies In the manner
Of working He generally takes the climax Of his
Mot and works backward from il until he has
his story roughly outlined. Then for month or
TWO he searches out data bearing on the events
and localities and begins his novel composing
with leadpencT in a common blankbook that