The sun., 1903-12-09
1t is to be called rTillie. a Mennonite Maid'
and the publishers have great hopes for it.

It ia to be called rTillie, Mennonite Maid'
and the publishers have great hopes for It,
Few Americans know Japan better than
Clarence l.. Brownell, the author Of Tho
Heart of Japan" When failing eyesight
compelled Mr.. Brownel to leave college,
he went to Japan, and there, through the
friendship of Count Okuma, obtained
place as teacher in the schools of Toyama.
For five years he taught in the little vil-'
lagos, where often he was the only man OF
his color, and during that time he adopted
the attire, diet and customs Of the Japanese.
An anti-foreign movement induced him to
leave Japan for London, where he now
lives.
There has been an epidemic recently OF
novels dealing with college life-college
society, politics, diplomacy. as viewed
through the eyes Of the faculty rather than
those Of the undergraduate. Prof. Emer-
| son G. Taylor of the English department OF
Yale is to add another novel to this group.
| Miss Edith Ayrton, who recently was
married to Israel Zangwll, Is clever
writer and comes of an interesting family.
Her father is a we'll known scientist, and
her mother, the first Mrs. Ayrton, was
| WHO toOk IhSn ilieuNoi 'io'AS'S
and wrote several successful books. Mrs.
Zangwill is not. as has been generally
asserted. Jewess. She has, in fact, not
a drop of Hebrew blood in her veins. The
mistake arose through confusing her
mother With her stepmother, who is a
Jewess, was friend of George Eliot and
is said to have been the model for Mira in
1Daniel Deronda"
| Paris is in a fine frenzy over the De Blowitz
Memoirs, presumably because the remi-
niscences are so appallingly frank con-
cerning things French; and the Partisan
| reviewers are huring insults at Nj. De
Bowitz as only Partisan journalists can.
| The poet Swinburne's illness has been
more serious than was generally under
stood, but his remarkably vigorous con-
stitution has pulled him through and he is
now convalescent from double pneumonia.
| In the recent Fetter lane fire the Me-
| thuens lost editions and plates of several
| of their most valuable holiday publications.
| which were awaiting binding in the burned
/ building. Aiken's National Sport and
I Dr. Budges Goods of the Egyptians are
among the Rost serious losses, as many OF
| the plates used for them cannot be replaced.
In the intervals of producing one book
a week for his admiring readers. Cyrus
| Townsend Brady has found time to abridge
the old familiar "Ten Thousand a Year"
cuttin ng out 40 per cent. of the matter, and
theteby--so says Mr. Brady-greatly i'm
proving the book. incidentally. he has
altered the name of the book; but that's
mere detail.
Rumor has it that he will in future leisure
moments bring Tho Wandering jew" and
-Ics Miserabes" down TO capsule dose
! form, ard eliminate all extraneous matter
| from the works of Dickens, Thac keray and
good Sir Walter
Mrs. Wigs is like Banquo's ghost. She
will not down. and is selling merrily among
the Christmas books. Mrs. Alice Hogan
Rice has solemnly vowed, however, that
she shall have nothing more to do with
Mrs Wigs save in the way of collecting
ROYALTIES. and that her next book shall have
a setting located far from the Cabbage
| Patch.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggins's "Rebecca'
is one of the Christmas successes and selling
at the rate of 5000 day.
Much has been written and said con-
cerning the demand for good short stories
and the difficulty in obtaining them. A
significant comment upon the situation is
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