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The Robinson. Luce Company Is 8
new book publishing corporation or
ganized in Boston.
Mildred Champagne. author OF
Love Stories From Real Life" is en-
gagged upon novel Of society life il
Newport.
John II. Whitson. author of Bar
CARA. a Woman of the West" has writ
ten another western novel entitled
"rhe Rainbow Chasers."
Robert ShnckeltOn has written q
story of trusts gigantic beyond pre-
redent which will bear the title OF
"'rhe Great Adventurer."
Dwight Tilton's new novel, my
Lady Laughter" has for its heroine q
character as fascinating as Agatha
Remer in Miss Petticoats."
A History of Modern England
from the pen of Herbert W. Paul will
he issued in five volumes by the Mac
milan Company at an early date.
Books about Japan are much in de
Mand. Two of the best are "A Hand
book Of Modern Japan and the 1.-The
Heart Of Japan" published last fall
Thomas Hardy's new book soon tc
Oe published will come forth bearing
an odd title, "The Dynasts: A Drama
Of the NapOleOnic Wars in three
parts. nineteen acts and 100 scenes.
Thomas Wright. of Olney. is engaged
IN a Life Of Walter Pater' 1t is
stated in the Athenaeum that owing
TO the large amount of material in his
hands 1t will take him two years to
finish his task
Some new manuscripts of TassO
nave just been discovered in Italy
They form part of a collection of docu.
ments bequeathed to the city of
Modena by the late Marquis De Fro
sini Among them are letters hitherto
unpublished.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, whose life OF
Henry Ward Beecher," recently pub.
lished by HOughton, Miffiin & Co.. has
had marked success. is preparing a
volume of quite different character to
treat OF PRIESTS and Prophets of
Chrlstia nifty"
A rather interesting book Is Lille
Hamilton French's Homes and Their
DecOra ton. in which are given sug-
gestiOns to the householder. The book
is the result of the authors correspon-
dence with women in this country,
Canada and abroad, by means of
which she discovered that for the
most part these women were harrassed
by sense Of their own limitat ions and
confused by a medley of suggestions
and by various prOclamatiOns relating
to infallible standards in household
decora ton"
J. NJ. Barrie is very much to the
front in the world of English letters
these days. His mOdesty. his fond
ness for children. his confessed lack
of practically, his liking for fairy
tales and the sports of childhood. his
shrinking from nOtOriety are much
dwet upon. Yet Mr.. Barrie has shown
himself one Of the most practical of
living authors. with a knack of find
ing a market for the products Of his
well-trained imaginati ton which some
Of his always avowedly wide-a wake
and popularity seeking contemporaries
cannot acquire.
Ought books for children to have a
moral. and ought that moral to be
evident: The real moral in Mabel
Osgood Wright's new story. Aunt jim
my's WILL n book for girls of ten to
sixteen. relates to the happiness and
pleasure and satisfaction you gain
from the sunshine which you spread
around you. Bird, Mrs. Wright's hero
inc. is brought from her happy country
home to live in a cramped New York
tenement with some cousins who do
not know how to live happy. reason
able lives. After the first disappoint-
ment is over she devotes herself to
taking care of the little cripple but
incidentally and unconsciOusly she
makes all the others happier by her
presence. She is brave and cOntented
and does what she can to make life
nicer for the others; and in the end
she has her reward indeed.