The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-23
BOOK NOTES.

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Company of Boston will issue Mr.. Irving
Bachelors new and third novel, ''Darrel
of the Blessed Isles This book has been
eagerly anticipated and the publishers be-
lieve that it will be recognized as Mr.
Bachelors strongest work in fiction, haV
ing a vital motive, strength OF plot and
all the idyllic charm which is his when
he tells of the North Country before the
war.
Although Mr. Harry; Leon Wilson's very
popular story of the West and of New
York life, The Spenders," appeared near
ly year ago, 1t is selling more briskly
than ever. The book bids fair to be one
of the leaders in the coming fall sea-
son.
Mr.. E. T. Cook, author of 1.-THE Cen
fury Book of Gardening, - Gardening for
Beginners" well known as an authority
on the subject; has published an admira-
English Gardens" which is imported by
the ScribnerS.
A popular, a complete and a truly
constructive work under the title and
cism and the Christian Church" is an
nounced for spring publication by Charles
Scribner's Sons. The author is. John E.
McFadyen. professor in Knox college: To-
ronto, author of THE Messages of the
Prophetic and Priestly Historians"
Mr.. Hornung's forthcoming novel. mo
Hero" had its suggestion in Brownings
poem "A Light Woman" The denoue.
from that of the poem.
There are no breathless incidents, The
dramatic interests depends entirely upon
that of the affections of a young man.
wavering between two opposite types of
woman. and Of one of these women in
like dilemma.
The lines from Browning that proved
SO Subjective to Mr. Horning are these:
And 1, what l seem to my friend, you
What I soon shall seem to his love, you
guess:
What 1 seem to myself, Go you ask of
No hero, confess" ~
1.-The Healthy Woman by William E.
Leonard, M. d, is one of the new pub
porary Publishing Company, N. Y, which
| should interest every woman and girl in
the country. 1t is a plain talk about mat
tiers pertaining to health and hygiene.
Edward W. Townsend, the author of
clure. Phillips & Co. are to bring out this
month. is an expert in constitutional his
| tory. 1t is true that he wrote "Chimmie
Fadden." and the world was delighted
with the characters opening its eyes as
well at the picture of New York pre-
scented; Lees and Leaven." the new
| people who think they know their New
| York, stare. But, whatever praise his
new novel receives. Mr.. Townsend will go
peacefully along his way delving at the
roots of constitutional history. There lies
| his real joy.
Those who are interested in Johnson
! lana will find themselves appealed to by
1 Ppin yOu%e Just issued By M B
! of DR.. Samuel Johnson DR.. Johnsons
custom of composing devotional piece
! at every important time of his life is
we'll known.
His daughter First by Arthur Sher-
| burne Hardy. has just been issued by
| Houghton, Miff1in & Co. Boston. 1t is a
love story of New York and the stock
market sufficiently popular theme.
"a Daughter of the Pit . just published
by Houghton, Miff1tn & Co.; written by
| Margaret Doyle Jackson, concerns life in
! the mining districts, and is founded on
! fact. S'-i
The service problem of women-not ex-
actly the servant problem, but the broader
subject of the nobility of labor in gen
| erals discussed by Miss Clara E. Laugh
lin in the April Delineator. No one is
born with the love of serving, but it is
a daily factor in, our lives, andathe sooner
| that men and women realize the dignity of
| labor, the happier they will be. Now that
woman has gone out into the fields of
! the workers, the lesson of service has
| been more strenuously impressed upon
her. In the industrial fight she has come
by many a hard lesson, and in many
cases has learned to delight in the strug-
gle; but in the end almost invariably she
reverts to the home, and the signs indi-
cate that before long the exodus of
women fro nthe home will in large meas
| ure, decrease.
1t will be recalled that James b. Mar
koe, a young and popular Philadelphia,
! met his death tragically last November
while endeavoring with rare heroism to
stop a runaway team. With this Incl
dent in mind Mrs. Wharton has written
poem of great strength and beauty,
entitled. "A Torchbearer'' which will
appear in the April Scribners.
John Fox's serial, 1.-The Little shep-
| herd of Kingdom Come" is gaining
friends with every installment as it APP
| pears in Scribners. Without exception
| the comment published, and in private
letters. is enthusiastic,
E. H. Sothern, the well known actor,
makes his appearance as a poet in Scrib-
ner's for April. The verses reveal the
most serious side of Mr.. Sothern, and
are poetic and philosophic.
1t is not often that the London Times
speaks of a book in such terms as it here
uses about Gen. Christian DeWet S
Three Years War; For the first time
the public will now be able to know as
facts the things that have hitherto always
been matters of wondering surmise to
trace the moves that led up to those
many sudden and, unWelcome surprises
to follow Dewet's devious path from The
the trail or abandoned it in exhaustion
to study the whole mechanism by which
dust was thrown in the eyes of divisions
In hot pursuit, or of unsuspecting gar
risons or conveys marked down for his
prey"
MICHIGAN IRON MnDK nEcrpaNr1