The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-27

Bazaar an photographed article which ap-
pears in the July number, and is illustrated
from private photographs. The Countess
has always ranked as one of the loveliest
of the American beauties who have married
foreigners. Her present husband is the
Count Won Waldersee. successor to Won
Moltke as the head of the German army.
The Countess relates anecdotes of Bismarck,
Won Moltke and various royal persUnages.
and gives her opinion upon the interesting
subject of marriage between American girls
and foreign noblemen.
Professor George P. Garrison brings out
the interesting fact in his popular history
of Texas just published by Houghton.
Mlfflin & Co. that the first official name for
the region which now comprises the Lone
Star State was Nuevas Fflipinas or New
Philippines. So We now possess both the
new and the old Philippines. but only New
Mexico as yet. 1t is said. by the way. that
President Roosevelt is greatly interested in
the history of Texas and hopes sometime to
write book on that subject.
Mr.. II. L. Wilson's striking novel. THE
Spenders.' published by the Lothrop Pub
fishing Company OF Boston, and now in Its
fifty-fourth thousand, has been dramauzed
b. Edward Rose for Mr.. William H. Crane,
who will open with the play at the Savoy
Theater. New York. next September.
Followers of artistic matters will remem-
Der the stir created in Chicago this spring
by the exhibition of Miss Hazel Martyrs
drawings. Unusually active in social af-
fairs she had not been suspected of seri-
Gus leaning towards an artistic career. In
fact. the knowledge OF her decided talent
was confined almost entirely to her more
intimate friends.
The interest in Miss Martyrs work has
been SO active. both during and since her
exhibition. that Messrs. A. c. McClurg &
Co., of Chicago. have arranged to bring out
some OF her delightful sketches of girls
heads in portfolio form. They lend them
selves with unusual success to reproduction.
and it is believed that they will create a
distinct stir in artistic circles.
Interest has been expressed in more than
one quarter concerning the identity of the
author of "A Prairie Winter" recently pub
lished by the Outlook Company. The au-
thor is announced as AN Illinois Girl but
the indebtedness of her style has caused
the comment that she may not be an I'M
known writer. The simple freshness OF the
book may in part be explained by the fact
that the material was first written in the
form OF letters to a friend. when no thought
Of publication was in the writer's mind.
Thomas DiXon Jr. has finished his new
novel, THE One Woman" and Doubleday.
Page & Co. will publish it this summer. 1t
is significant that some of our publishers
no longer GEEK to issue their best novels in
the months preceding Christmas. Perhaps
3 600 or 1850 new books are published in Sep
TENDER, October and November, and prac-
tically none in January and none in sum-
mer Doubleday, Page & Co. Issued THE
PITT on January Is. and the CLOSED season"
did not hurt the sale. rather. they believe.
the reverse. since THE Pit" was the best
selling book in the United States almost
from the day Of publication. The new novel
by the author of THE Leopard's Spots"
now selling in its second hundred thousand.
they consider quite as important. and they
have selected August for the day Of pub
LEGATION.
The literary war which John Burroughs
Seton's animal books as sham natural his
tory has ragged so fiercely that Casper Whit
ney comments at length upon 1t in July
Outing. He joir.s neither faction. hut takes
the common sense middle ground that there
Is place for fiction about nature. as writ
ten by Seton and Long. as we'll as for the
pure natural history which Burroughs and
his school write Mr.. Whitney does not as
sUme to utter the final word on the scien-
tific side of this discussion. but what he
does say is of interest. for no man has
studied more kinds of animals in more diff
ferent countries than he. from wolf to ele-
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