The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-13

trainer, has written a book on The Train
ing of Wild Animals which The Century
Company will soon publish, with many Illus
trations. Mr.. Bostock has had the assist
ance of Miss Ellen Nelvin In the prepara-
ton of his manuscript; Miss Nelvin having
written several animal books and being one
OF the few women who are fellows OF the
Royal Geological Society.
Miss Sarianna Browning. only sister Nf
the poet. died n few weeks ago in Florence.
where she lived with her nephew. the poets
son. at the !atter's villa. La Tore all An
tella. Miss Browning had led q singularly
unselfish life. devoted first to her mother.
then her father. and finally TO her brother
after the death of his wife. 1t was this
sister whom Mrs. Browning, then Elizabeth
Barrett. was afraid to meet. with the natu-
raj timidity of an affianced woman at being
first introduced to her future husbands rel
atives. II was afraid she wrote in one
of her exquisite letters to Browning 'of not
being liked enough. / would rather. ten
times over receive Queen Victoria and all
her court-do you understands detters OF
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett:
Harpers). Miss Browning was buried in the
Protestant Cemetery at Florence on April
"a.
Next month the Macmillan Company will
publish n beautiful book entitled World :
| Children. By Dorothy Menpes. This con- !.
s.sts in chapters on English Children
Scottish children" Irish Children,
| canadian Children" American Children"
and so on. written in lively and vtvacious
English BY clever and sympathetic OBJ
server. The beauty of the volume consists
! largely in its series of a hundred illustra-
| lions in color, reproduced from paintings by
| Mortimer Menpes. the authors father. All
| sorts and shades of children are described
and pictured in this book-clean children,
dirty children, healthy children. sick!y
| children. children naughty and children
| good, children, white. yellow. brown and
black. the little folk Of north. south east
| and west-all pictured by an artist whose
| chief passion Is for color.
The exploits of Morgan's Men, which arc
J now figuring prominently IN John FOX 8
serial in Scribners. The Little SHEPHERD o,
| Kingdom Come" are real episodes Cleaned
| at first hand by Mr.. Fox from General Ba-
| sill Duke and other famous Kentucky SOL
| diers.
Meredith Nicholson. whose novel Of
| American city life, THE Main Chance.
| CBobbs-MerrilI Coz has just appeared. was
| lucky enough to have been born in Craw-
| louisville, the very storm center OF literary
| Indiana There !s a saying among Hoosie-
authors that It is better to have been born
| in Charlottesville than to have come into
I
| your mouth.
| During the autumn the American Sports
mans Library series being published by the
| Macmillan Company will be enriched by. the
! addition of three new volumes. The first
| OF these will be on Tho Bison, Musk-Ox
| Sheep and Goat Family" Mr.. George Bird
| Grinnell will write authoritatively OF the
| bison, Mr.. Owen Wisrer will treat of the
sheep and goat family. and Mr.. Caspar
Whitney, the editor Of the American Sports
| mans Library. will write about the musk
OK. being probably the only white man who
I knows enough about this. the most mac
| cessible game in all the world. to handle
the theme satisfactorily. The second volume
in the series will discuss the subject OF
| Guns, Ammunition and Tackle and the
third which is announced for December,
| will deal with THE Sporting Dog This
library series is attracting great attention
on the part of American sportsTnen. to
whom 1t makes 4 legitimate and well-nigf
| irresistible appeal.