The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29

HE Christmas magazines are mar
wells of typographical and pic
torial excellence and are full
to overlooking with good mat
ter. 1t would be invidious to name
even one as particularly fine, and, in
deed, the task would be a hard one, as
all are above the average. The amount
of advertising carried by these books
is certainly evidence of commercial
prosperity and one of the best signs
that business is in a flourishing con-
dition. 1t can literally be said of mod
ern magazines that they are readable
and interesting from cover to cover. as
the information and news contained i'll
the advertising sections are of inter-
est to all readers.
The publication of the life of Glad
stone in England has brought to a
head a curious contention of long
standing between publishers in Lon
don and book sellers throughout the
rest of England. A Mr.. Brash, of New
castle-on-Tyne, sets forth the matter
in q letter to the London Publishers
Circular. On Friday, the 9Th of Octo-
Der, all the morning papers contained
lengthy reviews of Mr.. Morley's book
with the heading published Today"
Throughout the day Mr.. Brash had to
explain to annoyed and skeptical Gus
toners" that the only favored city was
London, the publishers headquarters.
The 10th was Saturday, and the rail-
ways did not deliver after noon; so
their consignments of the books did not
reach provincial booksellers until Mon
day. Mr.. Brash and those whom he
represents claim that they ought to
have justice in the matter of publica-
ton day to this extent, that parcels be
sent to country booksellers in advance
so that the book may be on sale SIM
ultaneously throughout England.
The editor of the Publishers Circular
replies to this statement of a long
standing grievance that the thing is
impossible in the case of a book for
which the whole country it waiting,
because the greatest care has to be
taken that no copy can be reviewed be-
fore the date fixed. The papers give
an undertaking not to review before
the date fixed, and copies are sent out
to them a little beforehand to give
them time to do justice to the author;
but if thousands of copies were sent
off all over the country to enable book
sellers in Newcastle or Aberdeen to
sell vi Tie SotlllC Ody DIS AOHuOn DOOk-
sellers, it would be quite impossible to
prevent premature notices in some of
the papers, and all the important pa
pers which were keeping faith with
the publishers would have just cause
for complaint, and, quite possibly
would refuse in the future to notice the
books of publisher who had not TAX
en- care to prevent the possibility of
premature reviews appearing"
DR.. Henry c. Rowland, author Of
Sea Scamps" (McClure, Phillips &
Coz, turns with the regretful sigh of
the man who is misunderstood from
the reviews of his book TT astonishes
me-" he says ito find that quite a good
proportion of readers consider the
characters in my book as bad men,.
Now, they didn't consider themselves
bad men, even if they did do a good
many things, which might in more
civilized countries appear at least lille
smuggling, etc. They themselves ex-
pressed the proper point of view when
they say they did no one dirt One
must remember that influences and
conditions of the South seas produce a
moral standard quite different from
that of our country and that these same
men would never even think of enter
ing into such escapades in American
waters"
r. E. Young is a name almost syn
onymous today with Missouri in ffc-
ton. 1t is non committaI enough to
arouse curiosity and probably few
readers know that 1t belongs to a wom-
an. Miss Young has just brought out
her first novel Of Missouri life sally
of Missouri" but she has assured her
position as a writer of Missouri fiction
by many short stories published in the
Atlantic and elsewhere. Miss Young is
MlSsourlan, as would naturally be
supposed, and spent most Of her life
in Lexington, little river town not
far from Kansas City. But being
somewhat of an idealist of child, she
rebelled at her environment and longed
to get away, as she expresses it. to
places where she could find fkings and
queens and palaces" and things worth
writing about, for she always had the
desire to write. But the laugh is on
me in this" she says; II must confess
that l took the first step toward sue
cess on the day that I decided that 7
would write about Missouri. Good-by
kings and queens and palaces / went
back and lived Missouri up and down
in buggy and on foot, and 1t was
when 1 began to write Missouri into
II4O o(OIlCSb Illdl tie WENT
The dedication of Nina Rhodes book.
"Silver Innings" is to Helen Keller
tribute from blind girl to a blind girl.
Few people are aware that this charm
ing young writer has been blind since
early childhood, fact that gives an
added interest to her book about a
blind girls life, since it is the only ex-
preston of the life of the blind from
the inside.
Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin the
one known for his work in 1.-THE Lark"
and the other for his clever and anus
ing Stanford stories, would be expected
to produce something original in COL
liberation. Original is certainly the
word to be applied to their new book,
1.-THE Reign of Queen Isyl." 1t is both
a novel and collection of short stories.
The main story concerns the disappear
ance of the queen Of California flower