The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-15

There will shortly be published an H.
 lustrated book of considerable historical
 interest, entitled Stories of Old New
 Haven" The author, Ernest H. Bald
 win. Ph. D., is a lecturer in history at
 Yale University ,and himself native of
 New Haven. Being a descendant of one
 of the original settlers of Quinnipiac, he
 has spent most of his lifo amongst the
 scenes which he describes. Dr. Baldwin
 has made many contributions to histori- cal literature. amongst the most import
 ant being the biography of Joseph Gal
 loway, the Loyalist Politician
 Dr. Lyman Abbott ,s now at work on
 a biography of Henry Ward Beecher, | which will be published next September. "A Daughter of the Pit'' is the first novel by Mrs. Margaret Doyle Jackson, whose father was an English army off, cer. His early life was spent in the north of England, where he saw a great deal of the colliery life which her novel DOT trays. She now lives in New York city. The importance of the part which is be- ing played by the American representa- tfves in the Venezuelan affair makes timely the new book on American Dip
 lomacy in the Orient" by John W. Fos- ter. former secretary of State. What our diplomacy has accomplished in the East is largely responsible for the respect in
 which it is now held by Europe.
 March 10 has been settled upon as the
 publication day of '"Tito." the novel by William Henry Carson. A very interest ing incident Is promised the reader of the
 book when the Italian youth, Tito, fln- ally discovers in New York his aristo- cratic American father whom he had been sent over here sworn to kill. He | has been searching for his father without | knowing his name or address. The dis covery that the man who has hefriended | him Is his father, occurs in a sick room. | The thought of taking the revenge for | his fancied wrongs under such conditions | Is repugnant to him. He has sworn to kill him, however. Not daring to trust himself, he fled from the room. He wan dered into the country and spent the night in the woods In a storm. MT. Car sons word picture of this incident, and l also of the awakening of the sick father, | Is said to be vividly realistic and intense | ly pathetic.
 Charles Felton Pidgin, author of books
 dealing with the life history of Aaron | Burr, has been appointed by Governor
 Bates to be chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor to succeed Horace G. Wadlin. who resigned to ac' | cept the office of Librarian of the Bostor | Public Library. Mir. Wadlin was the sue
 cessor of Carroll D. Wright as Chief oi | this bureau. The appointment of Mir | Pidgin is a most deserved one, he hay | ing served in the Bureau for the past thirty years, the most of that time as Chief Clerk. and on frequent occasions as acting chief. He will soon bring out his latest and greatest mechanical device in
 vention for practical use In statistical
 tabulation. It is promised as an abso-
 lute novelty in mechanical computation
 and is expected to revolutionize the hand l ling of figures.
 | The titles of the stories in Bret Harte's
 new Condensed Novels" burlesquing the | authors of the day. are amusing in them
 selves For example, Rupert the Re
 sembler," 'Golly and the Christian
 "The Stolen Cigar Case" and ''Dan'