The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
BOOK NOTES.

Just the book for holiday reading, easy
to slip into ones bag and light in the
hands, is Margaret sidneg's new charac-
| ter sketch, "Sally, Mrs. Tubbs,' Lethrop
Publishing company, Boston, Mass 1t can
be read through in an hour or SO and is
study of typical New England old
maid full of humor and lively delineation
and not. without touches of true pathos.
| 1t is not a juvenile story, but will APP
peal to a wide audience of grown-ups.
1t has picture cover and is attractive In
/ all the points of book-making.
1.-The Travels of John Wryland,' after
lying many years in manuscript, is now,
for. the first time, given to the world.
self of the incidents of his journey to
Tibet of his there becoming king of the
island of Paltf, and of the war
The narrative thrown new light upon
the geography of Tibet and upon the
history, laws, institutions. architecture
and inhabitants of Patti The inhabitants
of this island, from the narrative, appear
to possess knowledge of war and states
manship that may well inspire our own
statesmen and warriors to emulate them.
The Macmillan company has issued it's
regular monthly list with notes of forth
coming autumn publications.
The very large first edition of Mr.. James
Lane Aliens 1.-The Mettle of the Pasture
was exhausted soon after publication, and
the second edition Is already on the mar
ket Discussion began to rage around the
story almost as soon as the first copies
came into the hands of the reviewers, and
it has been growing warmer ever since.
Bliss Carman's review in the New York
Times, which virtually said that the right
sort of man would not have told the
woman to whom he was offering his love
of his early sin, reused chorus OF pro-
tests, the Times made a feature of the
replies in its next issue. Evidently Mr..
Aliens meaning is that a man ought to
tell a woman, the whole truth; that they
ought not to begin life together with lie
lAfr1 how 10 lra6 QrlIr
other people think differently; but it
seems to be practically settled, by the
overwhelming majority of opinion, that
Mr.. Allen was right.
Messrs. l.. c. Page & Co, of Boston,
are issuing in the early fall a work en-
France" The text is by Francis Miltoun,
and the very unique and elaborate series
of illustrations in pen and ink, wash. and
monotone of all the grand and lesser ca
thedrals of Northern France, some eighty
in number, are the work of Blanche Nc
Manus (NIrs. NJ F. Mansfield), well known
throughout the American publishing
world.
Harper & Brothers are publishing new
edition of Constance Fennimore Wool
sons well-known novel Anne. 1t will
be remembered that Miss Woolson was a
grandniece Of James 'Fenimore Cooper.
She was not at all sure of her powers
as novelist, lack of confidence which
her later success did not justify, and
MI. Henry Mills AlQ6n, editor Harper
Magazine, recalls her once saying to him
that if he had not accepted her novel
Happy Valley which appeared in Har
per's Weekly. she would have abandoned
was followed by Anne "Rodman the
Keeper Horace Chase" and others. and
her last work was some delightful Italian
stories completed not long before her trag-
ic death at Florence.
Anne Carmel, the heroine of Miss
Gwendolen Overton's novel of the same
name, is described in an English review
as "a strong, silent, beautiful, intense,
Joan-of Arky girl In general the Eng
lish reviewers like the book though not
quite so well as the American; the anus
inform their readers and the world at
large that Harnett is not a typical Eng
lishman. Harnett, it will be remembered
is not man enough to marry Anne and
give up the fortune which his uncle has
promised if he marries a certain girl whom
he does not love.
"As exhilarating as a first-class prize
fight is the New York Suns comment
| of the Wild This is one reason why
! the book has been welcomed by men and
women alike-the fact that it is stirnu-
/ lating,. invigorating and full of the quail
| tiles that stir ones blood and brain and
| ambition. Tho air that blows through
this book is. fresh" is the comment of
another critic, while. all the reviewers
speak of the books closeness to life and
! its superb art. One writer has made it
the theme for an article on materialism
in fiction, quite forgetting, or emitting
/ to notice that the book~is rendered fairly
alive by the Imagination behind it.
Grant Allen, than VINO no more per-
spicuous observer has ever chronicled his
observations for the edifcation of travel
| lovers. Just previous to his death, he
wrote this most pleasing and authorita-
tive monograph on Belgium: Its Cities -
Messrs. L. c. Page & Co., of Boston, have
! given this attractive material a most
limo RI nit oil
the luxuriance of superior Typography
and Illustrations.
Harper & Brothers are bringing out a
| new edition of William Hamilton Gibson's
book on "Our Edible Toadstools and