The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-05
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Leslie w. Quirk, author of Baby
Elton, Quarter Back" story of col
| lege athletics, is University of Wis
consin man and writes Of sports from
the Western standpoint.
Walter Pulitzer's "a Cynic's Medita-
tions," lately from the press of the
Dodge Publishing Company, New York,
is proving very successful book. The
New York World
! DR.. Guy Carleton Lee Of Johns Hop
kins University pronounces Ernest AL
fred Vizetellys authoritative biography
of Emile lola, with which John Lane,
New York, heads his fall list of an
nouncements, to be ''indispensa BILE to
the student of litera ture."
A Canadian edition of Florence
/! Brooks Whitehouse's "The Effendi,"
first published by Little. Brown & Co.,
Boston, has been brought out by the
Musson Book Company, Toronto, and
was so Immediately popular as to be
already nearly exhausted.
1t is reported that Maude Adams has
been studying the Mennonites in Penn
sylvania with a view to starring in a
dramatization Of the popular novel,
Utilize: Mennonite Maid" and also
that Richard Mansfield will stage a
play based on Jack London's story,
1.-The Sea Wolf."
In the little north country village Of
Knutsford Mrs. Gaskell found the
scenes Of her Crawford" and it fig
ures also in other pages of hers. The
| place is to be made the subject of a
book in Mr.. Dents series Of Temple
| Topographies," and it will, of course,
be lavishly illustrated.
George Wharton James, whose elm
dams Of the Painted Desert Region"
was published year ago by Little,
Brown & Co., Boston, is at work on a
! book on the Colorado desert, in the
midst Of which he and his artist have
esta blished a desert home near a con-
stantly flowing hot spring.
Some Of the literary critics have
| mixed up" two Conrads. Joseph Con-
| rad some years ago wrote story call
ed Lord Jim" and the critics appar-
emily thought "The Second Mrs. JIM"
recently published, must be Lord Jim's
second wife. But it is another Jim and
another Mr.. Conrad, to-wit, Stephen
Conrad.
In the new Life and Letters" Of
'"Trelawny" Hawker full account will
be given Of the visit which Tennyson
paid to the Vicar of Morwenstow, in
his Cornish home. It is said that they
talked poetry and kindred matters for
a whole day, that Hawker recorded all
that the laureate said, and that this re-
port Of his has never before been
printed. Much other new material will
also be given In the book.
The custodians of the National Lii
brary at Brussels have recently discov-
cred that systematic robberies of books
have been going on under their very
noses. Several hundred volumes, some
of them Of great rarity and all of them
valuable, have been stolen from the IL
brary and sold to foreign booksellers
The police have gone upon the track
Of the culprits, but have not yet re-
covered. any Of the missing treasures
The hero Of w. e. Norris last novel,
Natures Comedian" was an actor.
The hero Of "Nigel's cation," which
he is now bringing out, is young man
who, having joined the Church Of
Rome and been admitted into a mo-
mastery as novice finds himself re-
called to the world by the inheritance
of large estate. The schemes of many
persons to supplant him and the COM
plicatons which arise from his love af-
fair form the substance of the story.
'The Confessions Of Marguerite, the
story of country girls struggles to
earn living in Chicago while hoping
and planning to continue her art
studies, was published anonymously
last winter and excited a good deal of
interest for It's unusual qualities and
treatment. Now 1t turns out to be the
work of Opie Read, whose style may
be distinguished in this pathetically
realistic tale in the form of an almost
brutal frankness, coupled with a ten
der perception of the qualities of q
throbbing girlish heart. The book has
been reissued in new edition bearing
Mr.. Reads name on the title page The
trick Of writing novels anonymously
may yet become popular. "Brewster's
Millions" whose authorship has just
been admitted by George Barr Nc
Cutcheon, Is another instance in point.
Neglected Education.
Oliver Herford was entertaining
some man friends in his fiat one even
ing, when a servant from the apart
ment below his brought a message to