Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-09

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Mark Ashton, the author Of She
Stands Alone" has written another
biblical romance.
Doubleday, Page & Co. announce
! 'The Fugitive" a picture Of Russian
Jewish life, by Ezra S. Brudno.
"Swinburne' is the new title an
nounced by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. In
their Contemporary Men Of Letters"
series. The biography will be written
by George Edward Woodbury..
Mrs. Alden's book, "Women's Ways
of Earning Money" will be the first
volume in the Woman's Home Library,
which Mrs Margaret e. Sangster Is
editing for A. s. Barnes & Co.
Two weeks after the date Of issue
| the American Unitarian Association
found it necessary to go to press with
second edition of David Starr Jor-
dams new book, "The Call Of the
| Twentieth Century"
A new book by M. F. Waller, emit
tied "a Daughter of the Rich" tells
of the adventures of wealthy New
York girl who went to live in a happy
Vermont family. 1t is said that the
story is told with genuine Louisa M.
Alcott sympathy"
Dwight Tilton's new novel, "My
Lady Laughter" the latest announce
ment Of the G. M. Clark Publishing
Company of Boston, will have as it's
background a location and period
which has been hitherto practically
neglected by novelists.
In her latest novel, "The Pine Grove
House," Ruth Hall turns aside from
historical fiction and gives a realistic
picture Of the life Of city people at
summer hotel in small country town.
The story has an abundance of inter-
est, mystery and incident.
This has been a prosaic season In
| fiction, on the whole, and the reaction
brings it's comforts. 1t is pleasant to
pass out of the garden of rose-per-
fumed titles and meet such homely
thistles as sally of Missouri" But
ternut JONES'" and Tennessee Todd"
1t speaks we'll for Mr.. Van Tiles
chara cterization of his English noble
in A Duke and His Double" that
Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., Of London
have just purchased the English rights
in that book from Messrs. Henry Holt
& Co. It also speaks we'll for the good
nature of Mr.. Van Zile's satire that, al
though Flint and his family of newly
rich Chicagoans are satirized, the book
is popular in Chicago.
D. Appleton & Co. have issued a
new edition of Andrew D. Whites
History Of the Warfare of. Science
with Theology" This edition has
is bound in a new style Of cloth, max
ing it more strictly Of the library form.
It is the fourteenth edition that has
been printed since the work first came
out in 1896. Editions have been pub
lished in England, and among the
TRANSACTIONS is one in Italian.
A large part Of the elaborate edition
of Dr.. Mudge's great work, ''The Gods
Of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyp-
tan Mythology" which is to be
brought out soon by the Open Court
Publishing Company was destroyed
by fire in the bindery, thus reducing
the total number Of copies to 1000, Of
which 800 are reserved for the Ameri-
can market Owing to the great cost
Of making the original color plates,
which were also destroyed, it Is doubt
full whether the work will be under
taken again.
Though Lillian Bell is now Mrs.
Arthur Hoyt Bogue, of New York, she
retains her maiden name for literary
purposes. She is the daughter Of
Major William w. Bell, of Chicago,
and was born and educated in Chicago.
Her first successful book, issued just
ten years ago, was '"The Love Affairs
of an Old Maid" which, with "a Little
Sister Of the Wilderness and '"The
Under Side of Things" established her
reputation as writer Of clever fiction.
Her more recent books, dealing with
her impressions Of European life, have
been severely criticised. Her latest Is
''The Dowager Countess and the Amer
lean Girl"