The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-27

ries. A leading American weekly has
acquired the American serial rights to
the work, and the rumor that it has
agreed to pay at the rate of 81 a word
has gained the paper considerable adj
VertiSing, is we'll as turned the heads
of many young ambitious American
writer's. The dollar a-Word story can
not be vouched for; doubtless Sir Ar
thur is to receive 81 a word, more or
less, for the serial rights of his fur
Their Sherlock Holmes adventures not
alone in this country, but including
England and its colonies. If the Amer
lean publishers of the SEAL matter
are paying 20 cents q word, they are
perhaps paying all they should, though
no character in fiction has such
vogue as this remarkable detective Gre
alton of Doyle's. It is understood that
the matter will not appear serially be-
fore next spring; the book publication
will probably take place in the fol-
lowing fall and will be managed in this
country by the same h Use that
brought out The Hound of the Bas-
kervilles."
Writing of Sherlock Holmes brings
up the question Of an authors prop
erty rights in his characters. Ger
tainly, if an author is entitled to the
sole use of his characters, provided
his book is duly copyrighted, DR.. Doyle
Cor Sir Arthur, which he prefers not to
be called) has been a much abused
man. Though Sherlock Holmes has
not been bodily stolen, he has furnished
many an author with caricature.
The Adventures of Shylock Homes"
is one example. "Shedlock Holmes" is
another. Not only has the thing been
done by writer's; the comic artists have
freely appropriated the character
However, after all, the copying of the
character in various guises has only
added to the fame of the original de-
tecuVe, and now that Dr. Doyle has
brought him back to life and is re-
cordlnS his further adventures, he
should not object in the least
Probably the most trying phase of
the fame which has come to DR.. Doyle
through Sherlock Holmes is the Oft
repeated suggestion sent to him by So
iicitous friends and admirers that he
collaborate with his brother-in-Iaw.
Z. w. Hornung, the creator of Rallies
the great criminal, on a story of crime
and detection in which Holmes shall
be pttted against Rifles. Dr. Doyle has
received hundreds of times this same
suggestion, and doubtless Mr.. Horn
ing has been offered the same idea
more times than he wishes
A Modest Journalist.
There will shortly begin serial pub
LEGATION in England and this country
remarkable series of papers called
The Confessions of a Journalistic The
author Of the article is unknown to
anyone save his London agent. This
latter person explains that the au-
lhor is well known author of books
and writer for the magazines, who.
owing to the frankness of the confess
slons, deems it wise to remain I'M
known.
We have had many confessions.
m1nV of them tho of
1maginatiOns, but these papers are
unique. The author shows a remark
aDle familiarity with affairs which in
terest not only European readers but
Americans as well. For example, one
OF his articles deals with his connec-
1lon with the Spanish American war.
lie makes the astounding claim that
he brought the war on by cabling an
interview with a leading Frenchman
on the subject to leading New York
newspaper. In another article he at
temptS to show that the election of
cardinal Gibbons to succeed Leo Kill
is the only sure way to continue the
power of the Catholic church and to
satisfy all of the warning factions in
Europe. 1t is not at all unlikely that
these confessions will create much talk
IN this country. They are written by
man who knows his subjects we'll
and who has an interesting inside story
70 tell IN almost every case.
A Hoosier Abroad.
Mr.. Booth Harrington has decided
to spend his summer in Europe this
year He will sail in the latter part
of June, and as his father, mother and
wife will accompany him, it is like
~ that he does not plan anything
more than a pleasure trip. If Mr..
Harrington does find time however. to
gather the material for another story
like Monsieur Beaucaire," he will be
doing the reading public a great good
service, for during the past five years
no other book has appeared with the
same charming qualities for making
pleasant couple of hours of a read
er's time. His little story, Cherry"
is to be brought out in book form this
fall, but no long novel may be ex-
pected from his pen before next spring
A Guide to Fiction.
Few men would dare attempt to pre-
pare a guide to books of fiction; Mr..
Ernest A. Baker is an exception. He
has not only attempted but he has also
accomplished a difficult task. In a
single volume he has compiled a mass
of information about over $500 works
of fiction printed in the English Ian
guage. 1t is the first book of it's kind
and should be of much value to Ii
brarians and writer's. If for nothing
else 1t would be worth while if it pre-
vented the duplication of titles which
Is common thing nowadays.
A Newspaper Mans Success.
Less than two years ago there APP
peared story of newspaper life call
ed The Great God Success" which
was so much better than the general
run of novels of the kind that readers
began to wonder who the author might
be. 1t did not develop until some
months later that he was David Ora
ham Phillips, and then came the I'M
usual news that Mr.. Phillips had left
an editorial position on one of the New
York papers which paid him $4,000 a
year for the purpose of making his
living writing books. Since he began
the experiment, Mr.. Phillips has made
great strides; his last novel, Golden
Fleece" seems likely to place him in
the front rank of the younger gen
GRAFTON of American noVelists
Mr.. Phillips's identity in connection
with the authorship of The Great God
Success" was suspected first because
the author had been little too faith
full to fact in one of the incidents of his
story. His hero made a great hit with
his employers and secured a beat"
over the rival papers in exactly the
same manner as the author himself did
several years ago.
Besides writing novels Mr. PhiIlins
devotes much of his time in writing
special articles for the magazines. He
has for some years made millionaires
q special study, and his Confessions
OF Croesus," on which he is now
working, is story which he has based
very considerably on facts, In the cur
rent number of Success, Mr.. Phillips