Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-09
Notes of Books and Authors.


Guy Wetmore Carryl one of the most
promising Of Americas younger fiction
writers. died in New York city on the LIST
of this month, after a brief illness. con-
tracted, it is believed, through the expos
ure from which he suffered on the occasion
of the burning Of his country house at
Swamscott. Mass. Mr.. Carryl had just
finished the manuscript of a new story,
and. in undertaking to save this. with other
valuable properties. he suffered severely
from shock, and shortly after the fire was
taken ill. He was thirty-one years Of age,
and had achieved marked reputation
within a comparatively short period of lit
erary activity. After his graduation in
1895 from Columbia University, New York,
he became editor of Munsey's Magazine.
Two years later he resigned to become the
Paris representative Of Harper & Brothers.
During 1898 and 1899 he was foreign cor
respondent for several magazines. Among
the books he has published are Fables for
the Frivolous" Mother Goose for Grown
ups" Grimm Tales Made Gay" THE
Lieutenant Governor" and 'Zut and other
Parisians." The last named of these was
highly praised upon its appearance last sea-
son. and some of the tales were likened to
the best Of Guy De Maupassant's work. The
story which he had just completed before
the fire is shortly to be published by Henry
Holt & Co. under the title THE Transgres-
sion of Andrew Vane." 1t is regarded by
the publishers as the strongest of Mr..
CarryPs creations, and a pathetic testi-
mony to the fact that his life was cut short
just at the period Of its greatest promise.
An interesting display of photographs in
the window of Brentano's in this CITY ha :
attracted attention this week. They repre-
sent more fully than do those reproduced
in Around the World With King" the
pictorial record of the circumnavigatine
voyage of Kalakaua of Hawaii of which
hos
lightfully.
Onoto Watanna's new Japanese novel,
Daughters of Milo" has been postponed
orders exhausted the very large first edi-
ton; and the books appearance is de-
layed while another edition is printing, on
account of the time needed to make the col
ored illustrations.
Edgar Jepson. the author Of "The Admir-
able Tinker" is one of those rare men who,
having manifest literary ability and liter
airy ambitions, has made no haste to rush
into print. Mr.. Jepson went to Ballot Col
lege in its palmy days when Jowett was
master, and Jowett even then marked him
as coming writer. But Mr. Jepsou took
his time saying that he would like to learn
something of the world and human nature
before he began to write about them. He
went travelling, had adventures in the West
Indies, and school mastered some time in
Wales before he began on "a Passion for
Romance" which brought him about two
years ago his first fame. His Admirable
Tinker" shows that he has a real knowl-
edge of the true English boy nature.
Mr.. Francis L. Wellman's entertaining
book on 1.-The Art Of Cross Exa nina tom
relates an amusing incident leading to the
exposure of fraud. The damage suit on
trial grew out of collision between two
electric cars. The plaintiff laboring man
had been thrown to the street pavement
from the platform Of the car by the force
of the collision and had disiocated his
shoulder. He had testified In his own be-
half that he had been permanently injured
in so far as he had not been able to follow
his usual employment for the reason that
he could not raise his arm above point
parallel with his shoulder. Upon cross
examination the attorney for the railroad
asked the witness a few sympathetic ques-
tions about his sufferings, and upon getting
on friendly basis with him asked him ito
be good enough to show the jury the ex-
treme limit TO which he could raise his arm
since the accident" The plaintiff slowly
arm to the parallel Of his shoulder. Now,
using the same arm, show the jury how
high you could get 1t before the accident, "
quietly continued the attorney; whereupon
the witness extended his arm to its full
height above his head. amid peals Of laugh
ter from the court and jury
The latest novel from the pen of Louis
Tracy. author of THE Wings of the Morn
Ing" Is to be published by e. J. Clode &
Co.. in about a month under the title. ''Tiie
Pillar of Light"
Mr.. W. F. Boogher. who has given much
attention to genealogical matters, has just
secured the copyright on ten volumes
which will give an account Of as many
Maryland families, namely. the Richard
sons. Burgesses. Bealls, Belts, Brookes
Beattys, Dulaneys. Du Wales. Fenwicka
and Magruders.