The sun., 1903-03-18
BOOKS AND Bo0xxAxING.

his publishers, Doubleday, Page Co.,
ere authorized to cay that his new volume
Of poems will be ready for publication
before the end Of the year.
George Ade has shown that he could
write clever fables and successful comic
opera libretto. Now he has entered the
short-story field. His first book Of short
stories will be published by Mcclure. Phil
lips a Co.. under the title Of In Babel.
For Babel read Chicago. All Of the stories
deal with phases Of life in the town which
Mr.. Ade calls 'home.'
Chester Bailey Fernald has published
little since The Cat and the Cherub' won
him reputation. but the Century Company
now has In the press . volume Of short
stories by him.
Josephine Dodge Daskam has signihed
her desire to be known in the future -
Josephine Daskam,' without the Dodge.
In view Of the fact that she Ia soon to b
married to Mr.. Selden Bacon. II hardly
seems worth while to bother about her
maiden name.
Eleanor Gates Tully. suthor Of 'The
Biography Of q Prairie Girl smiled the
other day when q famous critic enthusi-
astically praised the purity and finish Of
her English.
Queer, isn't it'' she said. Il went 10
the University Of California and TO Leland
Stanford. for special courses; but because
/ had no high school degree they wouldn't
admit me TO any Of the higher English
courses. had to 20 into newspaper work
and get my English training In that school
Apropos Of Western women and their
books, Pauline Bradford Mackie, who In
not Q Western woman, but who lived for .
time In Tucson. has written q novel called
The Voice In the Desert" II II said to be
a remarkable story Of the desert and its
spell and an abrupt departure from the
authors previous manner. Pauline Mackie
Is In home life Mrs. Herbert Hopkins. wife
OF the author Of THE Fighting Bishop.'
Alice Hogan Rice's lucky star Is still in
the ascendant. Last weeks record Of best
selling books showed 'Lovey Mary first.
with Mrs. Wigs four notches below. but
still among -the first ax.'
Macmillan 4 Co.'S new three-volume
edition Of John Inglesant' Ia made timely
publication by the death Of the books
author, Joseph Henry Shorthouse. Mr..
Shorthouse spent twenty years upon this
romance Of English and Italian life in the
seventeenth century, and achieved piece
OF work that will live. The modern novelist
might ponder over this fact with profit.
One Of the most agreeable bits Of news
that has filtered through book world this
season is the announcement that Margaret
Deland has another volume Of Chester
Tales almost ready and will hand II over TO
her publishers before her departure for
Europe next month.
Mrs Deland says that theee last stories
are better than their predecessors. The
reading public asks only that they may
be as good.
David Graham Phillips's Golden Fleece,
which 10 soon to appear in book form. con-
tains certain characters to whom Boston
and Chicago will have no difficulty In fitting
the names Of actual personages. About
the ethicssof such personality there is room
for discussion, but the story 10 good one
Reviewers are somewhat tangled In re-
gard TO the George Douglas Browne me-
mortal volumes. There are two Rchmonds
In the field. Mcclure. Phillips 4 Co. arc
announcing a memorial volume issued
under the direction OF D. 8. Meldrum. the
legal literary executor OF the Browne estate.
This volume is brought forward as the
only authorized one. and Mr.. Meldrum and
his collaborators are the only persons who
have had access to the Browne papers and
manuscripts.
The other memorial volume Ia published
under the auspices OF Cuthbert Lenox.
and its appearance Ia said to be the result
OF some disagreement between Mr.. Lenox
and the Browne estate.
A Spanish translation Of Andrew Carne-
gie's The Empire Of Business' In to be
published In Madrid.
Clay Emery. author OF 'Cap'n Titus
and in private life Mr.. Clayton Mayo OF
New York. says that he hunts copy and local
color with decoys. On the shore OF q little
bay on the Massachusetts, coast he has q
boati,ouss equipped with comfortable chairs
and settles. A very ancient mariner in
the neghboring hshing village knows the
place and has pipe marked with his name
In the cupboard that hangs on the boat
house wall When Mr.. Mayo is at home
he hoists a big flag 10 the top OF . sixty-
foot pole. and then the sailor folk hock down
to the boathouse. levy on the hosts tobacco
jar. fnd their espccial pipes and spin yarns
by the hour.
The Identification of the author who wrote
over the name Of } p. Mowbray with 'Nym
Crinkie' was a surprise to many readers
Who had enjoyed a Journey To Nature
and .Ths Making of Country homs. :