The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
PROMISE OF BOOKS
FOR THE FALL IS
NOT QUITE ROSY
Well Known Writers Do Not
Figure Very Largely in the
Advance Sheets of the Pub
Iishers-Forman Attempts a
NoveI-Lillan Bells Book.

The publishers are getting out their
autumn catalogues and prospectuseS
and while there are not as many books
to be issued by we'll known writer's
as appeared in the spring, there are
many good things promised. Justus
Miles Forman, the transplanted Mime
apolitan, is bringing out "Monsigny'
as a novel. 1t is a very clever, IN
tensely dramatic story that appeared
in the Smart Set a few months ago,
and it is believed that Mr.. Forman
has already disposed of the dramatic
rights "Monsigny' is the most am
bilious work Mr. Forman has done.
If Lillian Bells last book, "The
Dowager Countess and the American
Girl" doesn't create talk both in this
country and England, it will certainly
be strange, for the writer has handled
the English without gloves and has
drawn a picture of the higher classes
that to judge by stories of return
Ing travellers, is not oVerdraWn. Inc
story in itself is a very painful one,
but it is well done and the CONVEX
sations of the characters are very nat
ural. The author has explained the
attitude of the Southerners toward the
color question and lynching in this
book remarkably we'll
Speaking of Lillian Bell reminds one
OF some of her eccentricitieS which
seem to be the result of overeStimating
her fame. 1t is said that on her Wis
iting cards, under her mearried name,
is Lillian Bell" in brackets. But with
all that she writes we'll and is making
name for herself. The craze for
dramatizing successful novels contin-
ues, and many of the new plays being
prepared for this winter are made
from books. Among these are Lady
Roses Daughter" "A Japanese Night
ingale," and Jerome, a Poor Man,"
by Mary Wilkins.-The Book Lover.
Books.
The Master of MilIions-By George c.
Lorimer. Fleming H. Revell COM
pany, publishers. For sale by st.
Paul Book and Stationery company.
DR.. Lorimer has written a book
about as opposite to his last one as
could be imagined. "The Letters of
Self-Made Merchant to His Son" made
a hit; it is doubtful If this story does.
1t is long, verbose, complex in plot, too
numerous as to characters and alto
gether strange. But it is well written
and exceedingly interesting. The story
concerns Dawney Macgillivray, a
Scotch lad, who has fallen in love with
Angelica, his playmate The poor boy
is honest, but is unjustly accused of
theft and is forced to fly for his life,
and he sails from England for South
America and the ship goes down and
supposedly all hands are lost. But
DaWney is saved, and under the name
of Pitsligo Tysford he goes to Austral-
ia and discovers a diamond mine.
After fifty years, when he is forgotten
and supposed to be dead, he goes back
to Scotland in search of his sweetheart
and his sister. and to try to re-estab-
Iish his own honor. 1t turns out that
the thief of his early years and for
whom he had to suffer, was the broth
er of the woman he loved, and for her
sake he spares him. There is q Monte
Cristo tone to the story, as Dawney is
fabulously rich and is able to play the
fairy godfather to all his old friends
and to those who receive him kindly
There is a most bewildering number of
characters in the book, and it is hard
to keep track of them all and to find
the connecting links which held the
story together. The seamy side of
London life is well portrayed, and
there is much to commend in the con-
illusions of the writer, and in the end
the good are rewarded and the wicked
punished Some of the glazing incon-
sistencies in the tale are the stilted
manner of speech of the street char
acters, and the lack of contrast be-
tween the inhabitants of howell and
palaces. On the whole it is an inter
esting story, but one that would have
appealed to the reading public very
much more twenty years ago than
now; it is too rambling and long
drawn out to suit the present jaded
palate, which likes it's fiction we'll and
quickly done.
Ahead of the Army-By o. w. Stod-
dard. The Lothrop Publishing COM
pany, Boston. For sale by ST. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
Here is book which will delight
boys of all ages and will not be unin-
teresting to grown up children as well.
1t is stirring narrative of the expert
ences of an American boy who arrives
in Mexico just as the war with this
country is beginning. He becomes a
guide of the American army and comes
much in contact with such young Of
fcers as Capts. Lee and Mcclellan and
Lieut.. Grant, all of whom later became
famous in his own country. Fact and
fiction are delightfully."- blended in this
lively story, and there is much of
sound instruction as we'll as interest
ing incident in the tale. 1t is written
In a natural hearty manner which ap-
peals to boys, and is totally lacking in
what we call cantor want of a bet