The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24

They will not be disappointed: One OF the
books, whose title Marie OF ne Lower
consideration, is the story. of ranch lie
in Northern Montana told by young
woman, Miss Frances Parker.
Marie of the Lower RANCH bat if
possible one that is likely to excite more
comment It ii is called Love , Stories
Champagne, the young Boston Journalist.
1t is a collection of love stories taken
from different planes of society,". all OF
which have at some time come under the
authors observation.
Halifax Nova SCOTIA society takes
exception TIC Helen Milecetes picturesque
descriptions of life in that garrison city,
which are to be found in her new mover,
"A Detached Pirate" A writer in the
Halifax Evening Mail pays his respects
to "a Detached Pirate in the following
words:
1T is sufficiently hard to have Canada
pictured to the alien eye as land OF
eternal SHOWS, but to have one OF It's
all that is necessary for lady to enter
the best set is an indefinite supply OF
smart gowns and French maid is real
ly quite too bad. The detached pirate,
who gives the book its name, belongs 70
that contingent whom fippant Worid is
accustomed to call grass widows She
is divorced and having burnt her bridges
in England comes to Halifax with TEL
determination to be the fashion,, once
she is beyond the sky line. On her Jour-
ney over she meets with distinguished &C
quaintances of earlier and decenter days;
and is beset by fears that these VIII
recognize her from paper corresponding
in character to that 5exquisitely hlgh-
class periodical known as the Police Ga
of ladies and gentlemen with a past or
present. However her fears prove
groundless, and with the courage born
of a good conscience she descends on
EaI; Tc in local society for
a gentleman, on a very slight acquafnt-
ance, to express desire to KISS lady;
as he has often thought how he would
like tor Ours may be the point OF view
of the merely respectable, and not
smart but we believe the picture OF
local society given in this volume is
calumny on it which should not De al
lowed to go unchallenged.
The August Century is entirely out OF
print except for few copies in the hands
of some dealers. The time required to
reprint the colored illustrations makes "a
second edition impossible.
Country Life in America is to have a
double-siZed Country Home Number for
October to deal with the most attractive
and distinctive types of our country
homes, the country over, showing in a
comprehensive way the present tendencies
has to do with country houses, even to
the Kitchens, furnishings, plumbing and
water supply, and the grounds generally,
will be illustrated in the large and superb
way characteristic of this beautiful maya,
zine.
Ample evidence that many of the
scenes in 1.-The Sacrifice of the Shannon
We're not overdrawn was given in the
Strait of Northumberland last March.
One of the gigantic ice-crushers of the
Canadian government was fast IN the ice
for five weeks: another, the Minota, in
n ynrir TO f~na hp cd
blades of her propeller.
The Lothrop Publishing company. Of
Boston are about to publish book which
they regard as of special Importance,
Gorge" a romance of old Athens. by
Prof. Charles K. Gaines, Of the chair of
1t is brilliant and dramatic study Of
the age of .Pericles and covers a ground
never before put into fiction. It's literary
quality is exceptional, and charming
presentation of material and political
events of that wonderful era. ,
It's little bit early to talk about cal
endars for next year, but advance sheets
of Lies Gibson Calendar for 1904
show that 1t is not only fully up to the
standard of former years, but in many
artistic ways is an improvementt. , Each
and gold by A. p: Blashf1eld or John
the best style of his art, and altogether
the Gibson Calendar Is one of the best
of similar productions. In each year of
its publication the entire edition has been
sold out before the first Of January.
AS one of the notable phenomena of
modern life is the advancement of the
millionaire into the Millionaire, book
treating of the Millionaire as monarch
of society will be received with inter-
est The ]. S. Ogilvie company have
in press on the subject 1.-THE Monarch
Billionaire,'' by Morrison I. Swift, which
is a study of the bearing of the uns
folding Millionaire upon American liber-
ties, and upon the ideas Of equal oppor-
tunity for which the nation is supposed
to stand. 1t offers those who have. Sc
cured so much wealth a plan for making
themselves benefactors of the race in a
large sense The author shows how the
/ trust may be used as an agency of evo-
| luton for removing every element of
servility from the laborer while on the
other hand avoiding the tyranny of an
industrialiZed state.