The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-02
BOOK NOTES.

e, Black a.. Evan tale Of the forty
T I'VE IN verse by Julia Ditto ny Young; F.
a young woman judging by the fronts
piece portrait, has dedicated her volume
or verse TO all lovers of Scotland in gen
eral and to the st. Andrews Scottish So
clety OF Buffalo in particular. She GER
talnly has gift for versifying. though
it cannot be honestly said that her tale
OF the brave Evan is very interesting.
1t is story. of love, war, self sacrifice
and the final triumph of love. in that
so far satisfactory, but had Miss Young
expressed herself in prose she would
have found larger audience.
Miss Annie Eliot Trumbul, who has
already written number of short stor-
les for the magazines under the nom
upon a novel entitled "Life's Common
Way" to be published this spring, by
A. S. Barnes q Co.
A memorial volume for George Douglas
Brown is shortly to be issued in this
country and in England. D. S. Medium.
a close friend of the author. has written
sketch of his life and an appreciation
OF his work III addition several essays
and articles written by Brown before
fame came to him will be included in the
volume. 1t is a most unfortunate thing
that the creator of The House With
the Green Shutters did not live long
enough to complete another book, for
those who knew him well enough to see
/ his work recognized as worth while. AT
present his book is selling in its twelfth
edition.
A beautiful young widow, Ellinor Mar
vel, is the heroine of THE Star Dream
err" the latest romance by Agnes ana
Egerton Castle, which has just been pub
lished, by. F. A. Stokes Company.
No new novel from the pen of the au-
thors of The Pride ofenJennieo.,S 1.-The
Bath Comedy" etc, appeared during
W Of
delayed publication in book form and be
cause of the return on the part of its
authors to their earlier manner-that. OF
THE Light of Scart1ey' and "Young
April
The announcement of q new book by
Mary MacLane is an exciting bit of news
since this young woman has been the sub
ject of much4talk during the past year
and half. Miss MacLane's ways in New
J. y OrkJwere most peculiar.%OIt is told of her
that on one of ner visits to a publishing
house she walked into the office sof the
chief editor of one of the magazines, and
pulling out a. silver half dollar demanded
that the editor match half dollars with
her. The editor entered into the spirit
of the thing and in three or four minutes
had won some twenty dollars from Miss
+ MaeLane.J Whereupon the young woman
refused to pay and began at once to talk
of something else. 1t will be interesting
Ito note what form her ideas will take now
that she has travelled thousands of miles
away from Butte and seen a good deal of
the world since writing her Confessions. -
Wallace Irwin. author of "Love Sonnets
of a HoodlLm and 1.-THE Rubiyat of Omar
Khayyam Jr.." is still in his early TWEEN
! ties. The way he came to write the love
sonnets is interesting. Irwin was at the
time student at the Leland Stanford Jr.
university. One day he was reprimanded
by the faculty committee, known among
ment' and after his painful interview,
the young man strolled out on the cam
pus sat down IN the shade and began
| to scribble. In a short time he had eX-
pressed his feelings in the sonnet which
| begins:
Il sometimes think that am not so
warm.
! The verse was published later in one of
| the college papers and Gellett Burgess
! happened to see 1t. Before long he had
! persuaded Irwin to write more of the
sonnets and when the young man thought
! considerably over the matter, he decided
! on The Hoodlum Love Sonnets."
Julian Ralph for perpetuating the only
newspaper ever published on the field Of
war, which was entitled THE Friend -
| issued during the Boer war. 1t is publish
| title of Wars Brighter Side and
abounds with humorous anecdotes.
"a Rose of Normandy" by William
! r. A. Wilson. will be published by Little
Brown & Co. this spring. 1t is a romance
of France in the time of Louis XIV. and
Canada during the days of La Sales eX-
plorations. The hero is Henri de Tonti.