The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-26
BOOK TALK.

new volume Of essays by the late
robert Louis Stevenson will be issued this
IAN by the house of Herbert B, Turner &
Co. of Boston. 1t will comprise fourteen
essays, ten of which hayeh been published
only in the subscription editions; the
9other -four have never Tsbeen reprinted
since their first appearance in the Pail
The collection will be entitled, Essays
and Criticisms" The first four deal with
walking tours taken : by Stevenson in
England and Scotland.
The fifth describes his life in the
artists colony at Barbizon, near Fontain-
bleau. The sixth, the town of Monastier,
from which he7 started. on tour of the
Cevennes, so. delightfully."- described in
Travels With a; Donkey"
-Four essays follow upon books and liter
allure and four upon his life in Switzer
land. 1907 1ati"IFtd
These essays were written in Steven
sons prime and no library is complete
without them. Isns fU04lJE. -seff ia
:. Somebody has recently RENTED to the
World S=5Work for ten years Subscrip-
ton in advance, because he knows he
Thomas Dfxon's zone Woman" has
sold 10000 in six weeks and THE Loop
ards Spots" is piling up thousands in
the second hundred thousand.
Prof. William II. Piekering's ''The
Moon" issued by Doubleday, Page & Co.,
tells Of the moons vegetation, its canals,
in a popular way, and in fact of all the re-
cent discoveries
The late Henry Demarest Lloyds re-
Vised edition of his Newest England"
published by Doubleday, Page & CO., is an
account of the labor reform brought about
by arbitration in New Zealand.
Samuel MerwfnS new novel, THE Whip
Hand, published early this month by
Doubleday, Page & Co., is the story of
a seh-made college man in the lumber
Merwin has returned to the strenuous
and dramatic setting of modern business
life, such as in "Calument K"
The readers OF Miss Una L. silberrad's
former books "a Lady of Dreams" and
Princess Puck" two very entertaining
novels which promised great authorship,
will be glad to know that Doubleday,
Page & Co., are about to issue new
love story of rural England, "Petronilla
Heroven,' by this young English au-
thor
lished a limited edition of $50 sets of the
late Frank Norris complete works in sew
en- volumes. 1.-The Responsibilities of the
Novelist and @other Literary. Essays"
Wheat and .'Other Stories of the New
and Old West, each with illustrations.
saw the queen she asked for Miss Keller
1.-THE Story of My Life in England re-
calls to mind the fact that the late queen
was always interested in the deaf-blind
girl, and on several occasions expressed
wish to see her. When Phillips Brooks
saw the queen she asked for Miss Keller
and Bishop Brooks was able to tell her a
good deal about his little blind friend
Many persons in exalted positions abroad
have become interested in Miss Keller.
Mr.. Stewart Edward Whites new story
"The Magic Forest is coming from the
Macmillan company this week. The pub
charmingly introduced into this tale of
the Canadian forest. Besides the pictures
in color, printed by the process used for
the first time in ..The Call of the Wild, 4"
a@@af1, st
ations and pictures in the text. The pub
fishers have taken special pains to make
the illustration of the book appropriate
and attractive in every particular.
Charles Major in his new novel, "a
Forest Hearth. has combined the strong
human appeal of such perfect love
story as made his sWhen Knighthood
Was In Flower so popular with the at
mosphere of the untainted woods which
holds his boy readers in THE Bears of
Blue River. The new book is a breezy.
vigorous story of outdoor life, the life of
the men and women and boys and girls
who conquered the great wilderness
during the eighteen thirties. 1t is pic
possible only when an authors theme
lies so close to his heart as those scenes
of Indian history do to Mr.. Major.
Sir Gilbert Parker's book on Quebec is
said to be a revelation of the amount of
stirring and bloody history that centers
around that famous old city. Into it
comes one of the most splendid tales of
faeroism in the world--the defense of the
Long Sault by Adam Daulac and sixteen
other FrenchInen against seven hundred
Iroquois. Week after next the Mac
milan company will publish Mr. M A.
Devote Howe's Boston: The Place and
the People. " Both or these books are
richly Illustrated.
One of the most appropriate and at
,tractivea cover designs of the season has
been prepared for Long Wir.'' to be pub
author of this book. Miss Florence Con-
verse, was born in New Orleans, La. on
April 80, 1871. Her father and mother
her fathers parents were of old New
( England stock; her great grandfather on