Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-07-15
MR.. SAMUEL MERWiN.


Mr.. Samuel Merwin, the author Of
"The Merry Anne" and Calumet X"
was born at Evanston, ILL.,, thirty years
ago. and was educated at the public
schools of Evanston and Detroit, and
at Northwestern University. He
grew up on Lake Michigan" and
knows the Lake itself. its shores. the
schooners that ply Its waters. and the
men that sail them. as you cant know
q region except by growing up in II.
With Henry X. Webster he originated
the novel of business life in THE
Shortlinc War" and followed up its
success with Calumet X" zone of the
best stories for q man ever written"
which has Just appeared In vacation
edition In paper covers.
His new novel. 1.-THE Merry Anne"
is a breezy tale OF smugglers, contra
band whlskey. pretty girls, and love
making,-crisply told. ingenious and
well constructed. The story sails gal.
lantly. like Dick Smiley's lumber
schooner under a freshening breeze,
and It's stir and dash arouse In the
reader a responsive excitement.
Mr.. Mcrwin was married June rs,
1901. to Miss Edna Earl Flesheim, of
Evanston, and has since moved TO
Motherhood, N. J. Since Mr.. Webster
went to Paris, Mr.. Merwin has written
novels alone, and the curious have
amused themselves noting which ele.
ments in "The Short-Line War" and
Calumet X" each supplied.
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Though the action of Mr.. Churchill's
new novel, "The Crossipg." takes
place in the Great Wilderness, and the
tale is full Of the woods atmosphere.
three charming women grace its
pages. First there Is Polly Ann, a glo.
rious specimen of pioneer young won.
anhood; then Antolnette. who capti-
Yates the dashlng young daredevil
Nick Temple; and then Helene, who
might have governed a province and
still have been d woman" splendid in
her power, yet always womanly.
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Almost alone among writers on
Mary Queen Of Scots, Mr.. Maurice
Hewlett has sought the truth by seek
ing Mary's heart. He has made Mary
of Scotland as she was to herself, to
her intimates, and to her enemies the
theme Of 'The Queens QUAR-" 1t was
wild age. and Mr.. Hewlett's tale Is
the more vivid because It Is mot a
genteel exercise in the romantic"
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Barbara, Evan and the twins reap.
pear in the new story by the author
OF The Garden of Commuters
Wife," which the Macmillan Company
announce for issue June 10. The hero.
inc OF THE Woman Errant" is Ivory
steele, a brilliant, beautiful girl. the
confidential secretary of a man holding
high position in professional life.
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'The Island of Rugen becomes one
of the Islands Of Desire under the mag.
&c of Elizabeths PEN" says the liter
airy editor of one of the largest wom'
ems magazines In this country. Eliza,
beth's adventures in Rugen might
have happened to anyone; II is Eliza
beth's point of view that endears her
TO her readers. Her wit, her clever.
ness are not so charming as that hap.
by temperament that finds the world
an interesting and beautiful place OF
abode, and like a perpetual gift.
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Mr.. Maurice Hewlett was born at
Shaw Hill, Kent, In 1851, was educated
at the London International College.
and became barrister In 1891.
"Earthworli Out of Tuscany" made his
fame on its publication in 1895, and
this was followed by "The Masque Of
Dead Florentines," "Songs and Medi-
tations," "The Forest Lovers" which
established him in the first rank OF
living writers; Pan and the Young
Shepherd" ".;.tle Novels OF italy"
Richard Yea and Nay" and New
Canterbury Talea.' His now novel,
"The Queens QUAR-" is the first work