The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-06
BOOK NOTES.

The Robinson-Luee company of Boston
publishers of Charles Eustace Merriman's
T af6esrs h haqe s s0 sold d hr hrs
Putnam's Sons second English edition
of these clever replies to the "Self-Made
Father A third edition of 5000 copies
in press The English sale of the book is
naia1' for or them. sThe Letters Of the
Son. have gone into their fftieth thou
sand in this country.
The Wiz Publishing company, of, Phila-
delphia, announces a special prize offer OF
$1,000 for the best manuscript of a book
addressed to young women to pc a t toai,
dollar book by Joseph Alfred Convict, en-
titled ''Manhoed's Morning" The manu-
script must have sufficient merit to entitie
the book to live for t ff or hundred d
shape the destiny of oneeming genera
tons. The contest is restricted to Wom-
en-, the manuscript to be from sixty to
mitted by Sept. 1, 1904. Full fnforma ton
can be secured by addressing the Vir Pub
fishing company, 2237 Land Title building,
Philadelphia, Pa.
A collection of short stories by Henryk
Sienkiewicz, the well-known Polish au-
thor, is announced for publication this
spring by Little. Brown & Co., the au-
country. These stories have been trans
lated by jeremiah Curtin, who has just
paid the great Polish author a visit at
his home in Warsaw. The title of the
Legends and Steries,"" the initial story,
Life and Death a Hindu legend, being
Sienkiewiczs latest work. The author
read this legend before an enthusiastic
audience in Warsaw last month.
The original, edition of Angus Hamil-
tons Korea having been exhausted as
evident for an edition at lower price,
we here announce the immediate publica-
ton of a new illustrated edition Of this
most timely and most important work.
The new novel of English political life.
Marlborough, the PREMIER by Agnes
Russell Weekes, will be published by
to their American edition. The author is
an Englishwoman who has produced re-
markably strong novel in Marlborough.
There will shortly be erected in Vienna
a statue of the aSSassinated Empress
Elizabeth of Austria, whose life story is
told in that we'll known book. 1.-The Mar
tyrdom of an Empress" The statue repre-
sents the empress seated in an attitude of
grave and graceful repose. The sculptor
was Prof. Hans Bitterlich.
Highways and Byways in Sussex is
the latest addition to the famous High
ways and Byways series. published by the
Macmillan company. Mr.. E, v. Lucas. a
man of letters. well known and highly re-
garded in England, the author and editor
of many attractive though of no great
books. has written this volume. which is
fully and richly Illustrated with pen draw
ings by Mr. Frederick L. Griggs.
The Robhs- Merrill Company of Indian
apolis are just sending out THE Yoke"
book with great biblical theme and
broad canvas.
Mr. Israel Zangwin is known chiefly
for. novels of power; the chief exception
among his writings is Merely Mary Ann,
in which he for once wrote a sweet and
dainty idyl that comes very close to the
emotions. The Macmillan company has
just published this novelette, in a paper
bound volume by itself, with some good
illustrations from the play which Mr..
Zangwin made of the istory, and which
is to run through the winter in New York.
Heretofore Merely Mary Ann has been
published only in the volume Of stories
by Mr. Zangwill entitled 1.-THE Grey Wig