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Russia's endeavor to tighten her grip
| on Manchuria is foreshadowed in HUI
bert's Queen of Quelparte," in which
| political conditions in the Far East form
the basis of this presentday romance.
Mr. Hulberts story. is founded on a Rus
sian intrigue to throw Korea into the
! hands of Japan as a sop for the posses
/ sion of Port Arthur by the car. and the
efforts of the Chinese, directed by Prince
| Tuen, to prevent it. The author who
was at one time a Korean journalist
witnessed Russia's territorial advances,
which has resulted in her practical con-
! troll of Manchuria.
The Manual of Statistics for 1903 is
| valuable to all business men, but partic-
ularly for newspaper offices, where fig
| ures are constantly quoted: The present
| edition is the most complete that has yet
appeared 1t is issued from 220 Broad
way, New York.
Nine. Sarah Grand is a very young
looking step grandmother. Her step
son, Mr. Haldane MacFall, has a baby
daughter whose own mother is dead; and
as they all live together at Nine. Grand's
beautiful English country home near Sew
enoaks. it follows that the author of
'Babs the Impossible is devoted to the
motherless step grandchild. Indeed Nine.
Grand, despite her continual criticism
them, is known by her intimates to be de-
voted to feminine pursuits Her domestic
surroundings are very charming, and to
her friends she is most Hospitality in
clined.
Miss Josephine Daskam. whose Me-
moirs of Baby" in Harper's Bazaar, has
made H such hit: is described by. an aG7
slender and chic. Her dusky crown of
hair, her black eyes set far apart, denot-
ing the reflective temperament; her olive,
have been born in one of the peninsulas
jutting into the Mediterranean. But this
is only a misleading, accidental resem-
state. in the town of Stamford, and has
lived there all her life. She talks as she
Wrltes-crisply. often bitingly; and, her
the name, that is a corruption of
| D'Ascam. are proof of the strong Hugue-
not strain in her blood. -
THE conduct of a modern church in
big city is a business in itself, like the
management of a huge industrial enter
prise-a railway or a factory-requiring
unusuaT business aptitude technical skill
| and financial and executive ability"
writes David Graham Phillips in Harper
Magazine for July. Mr.. Phillips describes
the wonderful methods now in use among
modern churches, which will be a revela-
ton to many of his readers AS an in
stitution of practical and far-reaching
influence the church of today, so far from
diminishing in activity, seems to have
outgrown its prototype.
Robert Morris: Patriot and Financier,''
IS the title finally selected 113 for the fourth
coming biography DY Ellis HdXSOn OD0r-
holtzer The Macmillan company an
nounce the volume for publicat ton during
June or July. There will be two portraits
Of Morris and one of his wife, besides
Anna Chaplin. Ray, author Of E'rhe
writer Of the Teddy. stories for. Older
g gfs of an Ray ad Is 81 tng
Born in Westfeld Mass, she migrated
to West Haven, Conn, in 1867, where her
o Of The savins Of the teddy + y beoRs
She graduated from Smith college with
an A. B. in 1885, and took the degree of
A. NJ from the same college in 1885, for
work done in modern European history,
under the direction of Prof. John Bates
Clark, now of Columbia to whose train
ing, both in her graduate and under
graduate days, she states she is greatly
indebted. Since her first book Teddy:
Her Book was published by Little,
Brown & Co., she has written almost con-
stantly. one critic stating that Miss Rays
work draws instant comparison with the
best of Miss Alcotts.
Of. o. Jones and How He Earned His
Living" is the title of a volume which
ported. Mr.. R. S. Warren Bell avows that
his book is ostensibly for boys. 1t records
the experiences of a young Englishman
whose father somehow failed to provide
for his future, and who made his way by
pluck and perseverance and keeping his
head, to nice position and happiness. 1t
is very. thoroughly, British indeed; a
story of boarding school life that fairly
runs over with the atmosphere of the
British school and the British school boy
and his doingS.
Interest has been expressed in more than
quarter concerning the identity Of the
author of "A Prairie Winter" recently
published by the Outlook company The
author is announced as IAN Illinois Girl, .
but the indebtedness of her style has
caused the comment that she may not be
an unknown writer The simple fresh
ness OF the book may in part be ex-
planned by the fact that the material was
first written In the form of letters to
friend, when no thought of publication
was in the writer's mind.
The appearance of Mr.. DeWitt's elabor-
ate monograph on The Impea chment and
Trial of Andrew Johnson, has revived dis
cussion of this famous and unique in
etdent in our history. The Kansas City
Ross, who cast the deciding vote in tae
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Mr.
Ross gave it as his opinion that such a
series of events as those in the Johnson
case could not occur again in this country,
because people, and consequently politi-
cal parties and their ideals, are on a
higher political plane"
Frances Charles whose first novel, I'm
the Country God Forgot was one of the
noteworthy novels of 1902 has gone
farther west-from Arizona to California
Siege Of Youth. The theme, too. is a
different one. I'm the Country God For
got sought to show how the arid soil and
the parching winds of those alkali lands
wrought corresponding change in human
character, blighting and drying up the
natural springs of human tenderness and
affection. This new story is an agree
able comedy Of life and modern manners
The story deals with art and Journalism
and with human nature. The local color
is. particularly true TO life. the love
episodes are full of human interest and the
dialogue is brisk and epigrammatic Miss
! Charles is native OF California, and at
present lives in San Francisco. Before her
first book she was unknown to the read
ing public.
The vogue of Mrs. Ely's "A Woman's
Hardy Garden seems only to be in
creased by the coming into the field of
rival volumes. OF the flood of garden
books that followed Elizabeth and Her
German Garden" most were Of English
origin; and the American gardeners who
| followed them came to grief because an
English winter and a New England winter
are not the same, and because English soil
| is not American clay and dirt, and be-
cause American gardens cannot be made
with the help of English books Mrs
/ Ely's book was the first American volume
| to contain just the practical instructions
which the amateur gardener seeks; and
| it has been in greater demand than almost
any volume of fiction published this wear
i with the exception of perhaps half q
| dozen. Mrs. Ely's middle name. by the
/ way is Rutherfurd, and not Rutherford
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