Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-07-06
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AhC heAt NoluIlle W appear IN the
American Sportsman's Library. which
Caspar Whitney is editing, will be
BASS. Pike, Perch and Others" by
DR.. James A. Henshall.
Hall Caine has taken new house at
Wimbledon. Hitherto he occupied the
cottage there in which Mrs. Oliphant
died. Henceforth he will divide his
time between this residence and the
Isle of Man.
Maurice Hewlett has just finished n
novel upon which he had been engaged
for the past two years. 1t concerns a
love story of Mary, Queen of Scots,
and Is based upon recent historical
lights. They regroup some incidents
In the life of the queen. so Hewlett has
an old theme with new variations.
In "Old Testament Criticism and the
Christian Church" Professor McFad-
yen deals with the whole question Of
the higher criticism In singularly
lucid and impartial fashion and from
the point Of view Of the latest develop
ment of the subject. His book is said
to be the higher criticism in a nut
shell.
According to a Chicago professor the
four leading literary men Of the coun-
try are William Dean Howells, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, Edmund Clarence Sted-
man and Henry Van Dyke-three New
Workers and one Bostonian. Yet we
had been led to believe that the liter
airy center has gravitated to Indiana.
Boston Transcript.
Elizabeth Bisland. author of A Fly
ing Trip Around the World. has writ
ten love story Of Mississippi and
New York. beginning just after the
war and carried on ten years later.
1t Is story of parted hero and hero
Inc. who come together again in the
last chapter. The novel will be called
From Generation to Generation.
Mrs. Wigs Is parsonage that will
live as many Of Dickens people have
. lived. She will go on down to poster
ity and among our children and our
children's children will inspire the
same whole-souled sympathy and
healthful. cheerful optimistic spirit.
And with Mrs. Wigs will go "Lovey
Mary" for she, too, is an individual
to win her way into countless hearts.
In Capt'n Smeon's Store. by George
s. WATSON, the title is taken from the
favorite haunt Of the ancient sea cap
tains. who sit around "Cap'n Simeon's"
hospitable fire and spin their yarns
of life and death on the great deep,
and Of the witchcraft and other
strange happenings on shore. 1t is
book soaked with salt water and
full of startling truth to human ma
ture.
for a long time an earnest student of
birds. both in their native haunts and
in her own house. where she has kept
many species, making them, in fact,
her best friends. She has an enva bic
reputation as a close and sympathetic
observer of their most intimate habits,
an Interpreter Of bird character, and
writer of entertaining accounts Of
what she has seen.
1t seems that Miss Annie Flint, the
author Of "A Girl of Ideas" which was
recently published by Charles Serb
ner's Sons. Is the daughter of DR.. Aus
tin Flint. Evidently taking as her
model De Maupassant, to whom Flau.
bert for many years proved relent-
less literary censor, she has worked
diligently for some time without aspir-
ing to have her work published. She
therefore enters the field with her first
book enjoying more or less literary
training in which public criticism has,
until now. played no part.