Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-12-12


Florence Scovel Shinn and Elizabeth
Finley have made the Illustrations for
"Dandelion Cottage new story for
girls by Carroll Watson Rankin.
when Little Boys Sing" "A quaint
juvenile, has been published by A. C..
McClurg n Co., Chicago. Twelve
songs. composed by John Alden Car
penter, with colored pictures by Mrs
Carpenter, and original verses, which
are the joint work of both.
Half a hundred new volumes OF
verse-largely volumes of new verse,
no doubt-are part of the output for
ton. Marian Longfellow. niece Of
Henry W. and Hildegarde Hawthorne,
daughter of Julian and granddaughter
Of Nathaniel. are among the poets.
1t is a queer coincidence that on
tle same day. without any knowledge
of each others purpose. Harper ~
Brothers. New York, announced for
publication some months hence a new
novel by Sir Gilbert Parker entitled
The Overload" and William Richie,
another New York publisher, actually
published a novel with that title by
Allen Mclvor, whose "Ride of Glen
dearg" was popular last season.
katharine Holland Brown. author OF
Diane recently published by Dou-
hleday, Page X Co.. lives in Quincy,
H.. where her father is II successful
bridge engineer. Although "Dane" is
her first novel. she has served an APP
premiership as writer of short
stories for the magazines. Her DO TX
is founded on Cabot'S attempt to os-
tabliSh II French communiStic settle
ment i'm this country at lcaria. near
NauvOO. the old Mormon town on the
Mississippi. 70 gather material for
her book the author made several
journeys to visit the few widely seat
tered lcarians who are still living,
and of whom she could find traces.
Where are our American play
wrights? OF course. we know where
some of them are-Clyde Fitch. Au-
gustus Thomas and a few others; but
they cannot supply all the plays to
keep all the theaters going and all the
actors employed. The dearth of writ.
ers for the stage is indicated by the
announcement of the Appletons that
within n single month they have re-
ceiNed applica tons from managers for
permission to dralnatizc three of their
recent novels" Nancy Stair" by Eli
nor Mccartney Lane: Miss Daydge'
'"rhe Misfit Crown" and Thomas f.
Watson's BETHANY" 1t is not to bt
supposed that American writer's are
not writing plays. There is probably
not one of them but has from two tc
dozen in his desk. Whence. then
the dearth? Is the fault with the
would-be playwrights or with the
managers?
Emerson Hough pleads mot guilty
to the charge of anitnus against the
negro, for which some reviewers have
Law of the Land He says he comes
OF Quaker family in Virginia. who e
home was more than half suspected of
being station on the underground
railroad. and all the traditions of his
career have been friendly to the
negro. 81 am Republican" he re-
Gently remarked to Il friend. but not
that sort of Republican which thinks
that all the sweetness and light all
the wisdom Of the country dwell
north of the Ohio River In
The Law of the Land my VIII lie in
terest was in the solution of the race
prOblem-the whole book was in the
lawyers closing speech. wanted to
show that this thing cannot be solved
by politics. Legally the black rules
the white. hut actually he does not
and cannot. and never will in our
time"