The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-02
WHAT SOME NEW
BOOKS ARE LIKE
These and the Monthly Period
icaIs Are Given a Brief
Examination.


Examination.
One is always sure to find something
unique in the Reader, a new literary
magazine which in the short time OF
a year has made reputation and
place for itself. In the November
Reader are several good things by well
known literary folk, and by Marion
Hill there is a short article entitled
passionate Punctuation" which is ex-
ceedingly clever. He comments upon
the dots and dashes which always ap-
pear in the poetry or prose of the emo
tional sort, and calls attention to the
expreSsiveneSs of stars and blanks.
He says further that he deplores the
fact that this passionate kind of pune
tuation has not a metrical as we'll as
an, emotional value, and suggests as
q means of incorporating dots anu
dashes in emotional poetry the follow
ing verses:
Thine eyes, dear one, dot dot, are like,
dash what?
They, pure as sacred oils, bless and
anoint
My sin-swamped soul which at thy feet
sobs out,
o exclamation point, o point o point.
All, had I words, blank blank, which, dot,
I've not,
I'd swoon in songs which shouldst IL
lume the dark
With light of thee. All, God OTIS strong
to sWear)
Why, why, interrogation mark; why
mark.
Dot dot dot dot. And So dash yet, but
nayi
My tongue takes pause; some words
OF mt col
For fear the world cold hyphen eyed
austere.
Shouldst shake thee by the throat till
reason fled.
One hour of love we've had. Dost thou
recall
The night was ours, blue heaven over all
Dash, God! dot stars, keep thou our
secret dark!
"The Revelation of Herself" in the
November Bookman, by Mary Farley
Sanborn, is something quite out of the
ordinary. 1t is a story in letters of
young woman, who has had to leave
New York to go to the bedside of her
grandmother. The important point is
that New York contains the young
man to whom Madge is engaged, and
the story is, in the form of her letters
to him. They are very clever loving
SELF promises to be very interesting.
William r. Lighton, author of
strong new novel, 1.-THE Ultimate Mo-
ment,' which the Harpers are publish
ing, is a Pennsylvania, born in Will
Transport, whose parents went west
ward when he was a mere boy. Con-
sequently he knows the West intimate
w. and has written about it thoroughly
in articles and H. short stories, of
which, as to the cal Tier ones, he says:
81 have them yet, and look them over
now and then when I think my spirit
needs Christening" After an education
chiefly at home Mr.. LEIGHTON studied
law, and was admitted to the bar. I
don't know why 1 did it," he said, re-
Gently six months of practice gave
me to understand distinctly that law
ing was not for me. But there was a
vast fund of material in law Office
and court room, and at every chance /
tried to get this material into shape
on paper. I drifted around over the
far West for time, in Kansas, New
Mexico, Arizona and California. One
winter l tried teaching school in the
heart of the New Mexican desert, a
hundred miles back from nowhere.
But 1 found that school teaching de-
manded genius and quit it, Then spent
five or six years in court reporting en-
joying 1t immensely-not for the work
itself, but for the matchless opper-
tunity it gave for studying men and
affairs" A direct result of this expe-
rience is shown in Mr.. Lighton's virile
and sympathetic portrayal of the law
yer in "The Ultimate Moment" The
novel appeared serially in Harper's
Bazaar.
Miss Marie Manning is said to have
4ol ~ III
dith of the Palms." character that
will rank with Frank Stockton's Po-
mona and Mrs. Lecks for original
humor. Mrs. Yellett is given to quot
ing from 1.-The Book of Hiram vol
ume whose existence is wrapped in
mystery THE Book of Hiram she
replies to inquiries, "is like the Book
of Mormon, only heap more unde-
filed" Here are some of her quota
tons:
1.-The words of the wise are an ex-
pense. but the lovin' parent don't
grudge EN-
Romance is the loco-weed of hui
mainly"
Its neighborly to ease the check
rein of a gentled husband"
"a skunk may have his good p'ints,
but few folks is takin' the risk of
Waitin' round to get acquainted with
'eln."
There is no doubt that a good
dramatization of novel increases the
popularity of the book; but a bad
dramatization is apt to have con-
trary effect. Hence, there is much
risk in putting novels on the stage, moi
only to the theatrical agencies in
volved, but to the novelist himself and
his publishers. Ben Hur" is a stril<-
Ing instance of the play furthering the
sales Of a book which is still, how
ever, in the class of best-selling books
And the Harpers say that the sales OF
Lady Roses Daughter" are yet on
the Increase by reason of the drama
tization now being acted with Fay Da-
Wis as Julie lie Breton. But there
have been several instances where poo,
plays have cast damper upon tho
books from which they were made
Perhaps. from the standpoint of prac-
.ucal results. Justin Huntly Mccarthy
method is the best; TO make the play
first. and the novel later, as he former.
ly did in the case of IF 1 Were King
and has now done with "Thc PROUD
Prince" in which Sothcrn is starring
The novel of the name however uas