The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-10-15

Harper & Bros. say that 1.-THE Orig.
inal Sherlock Holmes Stories," which
they publish in three volumes, are the
best sellers" on their subscription list,
with the novels of William Black close
ly sharing In their popularity.
1t is said that Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps Ward has finished the best
novel she has ever written. Hough-
ton, Mifiiln G. Co., Boston, will publish
1t, and "the proof of the pudding is the
eating" according to very old and
homely proverb.
In one Of his recent literary notes
Mr.. Alden, usually impeccable in his
facts, calls Mr.. London John" and
hopes he will soon stop calling himself
by the absurd Jack" So he might,
IL his name were John, or almost any
thing but what it is, and that is just
Jack" no more nor less nor other.
Mary Austin, whose novel of the
great Southwest, 1.-THE Land Of Little
RAIN" mertted more notice than it re-
ceived from the public, has finished a
| ACW A5AAOS LdlS VA
ern California and Mexico, which has
been accepted by the Atlantic for Sc
rial publication. Mrs Austin will also
publish volume Of short stories Of
the California desert, under title, 1.-THE
Basket Woman"
Although as poet the late Guy
Wetmore Carryl was perhaps best
known through his Fables for the
Frivolous and Mother Goose for
Grown-Ups," he nevertheless contribut,
ed considerable serious verse to the
magazines. This has now been col
lected and G. P. Putnam's Sons will
make a volume Of it, publishing it in
the fall, with the title, Tuition Of
Time and Other Poems"
That Joseph Conrad is a Pole il
well known to those conversant with
literary gossip. Why he happens tt
have such an "easy" English-sound
ing name was not understood unit
it Is known that his real name |!
Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski. Whe1
he was a sailor on an English mer
chairman he found his messmates I'm
able to pronounce his name, SO h
dropped it. Another Jaw-breaker'
has thus been spared us.
Will Irwin and Gelett Burgess, au
thors OF THE Reign of Queen Isyl
and 1.-The Pioaroons," have left their ma
tive California for the East. Som
say that they draw their character
so close to life that each became pei
soma non grata in the Golden State
But they are not the first authors t
desert California for New York. Bre
Harte set them the example years agt
and lived, as some think, to be sorr
, for it Certainly he went further cas-
The Bobbs-M Merrill Company, Indiar
apolis, prompted by the success of Ha
1 lie Erminie Rives 1.-The Castaway,
" based on the life and loves Of Byron
Is urging authors to dip into the re
4 nance in the lives of dead authors
I pointing to the wealth of romance
e the lives Of Sir Thomas Overbury, 81
John Sucking, Marlowe, Lodg'
Greene, Decker and several other
Much Of it would be called by harsl
er name than romance in this day an
= generation.
Leo Wiener, assistant professor {
q Slavic languages at Harvard, who NJ
a long ago published through the Pu
mans an Anthology Of Russian Lite
= ature" in two volumes, has undertake
to produce a complete translation {
Tolstois works. His edition will ru
TO twenty-four volumes and will il
clude much material which has not y
appeared in English, and the best OF
can say for the ambitious professor
that he might have put his time al