The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
BOOK NOTES.

Thomas e. Hills ''St Paul Illustrator
Is meeting with the success 1t deserves.
1t is compact little volume, but the
amount of information 1t contains Is out
of all proportion to it's size. Every bit
of space is utilized and each item of his
tory of the city and every step of prog
ress is here noted.
Much is being said in the newspapers
and literary periodicals of the day in re-
gard to the development of interest on
the part of English readers in American
books. A curious fact in connection with.
this is found in the circumstances at
tending the publication of Burne-Jones.~
Dollars and Democracy. The manu-
script was secured in London for d. APP
pleton & Co. and sent to this house with
the authors own drawings for the illus
ttratiens and then entirely manufactured
here.
Mr.. Arthur Heming, the young Ca
madam artist, whose illustrations of the
wild life of Canada have been so success
full, is now making an extended trip for
the Outlook company throughout the
northern wildS, with a view to writing
and illustrating book on the picturesque
side of the fur trade;
A. S. Barnes & Co. are publishing this
week Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden's new
book. 'Women's Ways of Earning Mon
ey," as the first volume in the Woman's
Home Library, edited by Mrs. Margaret
E. Sangster.
One of the best known literary editors
in the United States in letter to Double
day, Page & Co. about THE Gordon
Elopement' said: ''The authors came
near making this permanent classic OF
American humor."
The ''Tattlings of Retired Politician"
by Forrest Crissey, is a mystery to the
authors friends Even Mr. Crfssey,s In
Inmates have supposed that he would not
recognize a political situation should he
meet 1t in broad day; and how he came to
write book, brimfm of political wisdom
and realism. inside methods and exposi-
lions OF ways that are dark and tricks
that are ValTl, is one OF the literary
surprises of the year Thompson e
Thomas, of Chicago. his publishers, an
nounee q very large advance sale. Mr..
Cr1ssey is fortunate in that the Tat
things" win contain ffty-eight iilustra-
tions by John T. McCutcheon, who as a
deHneator Of political life is very pop
niar and has no superior:
Mr.. George P. Brett, the president of the
Macmillan company, who has just re-
turned TO New York from business trip
d9.,.Ioo1 70 LONDON, s, made arrangements while
trallan agency for the company. The
australian house is to be opened and run
IN connection with the Messrs. Maemil-
ltshed by the Macmillan company will ap-
pear simultaneously in New York, Lon
don, Canada and Australasia, as well as
in India, where the house now has
branches.
The many readers of Dwight Tilton's
Miss Petticoats' VIII watch eagerly for
6s.r,ss MS new q book, 81 MY Lady Laughter: !"
nous poster Miss Petticoats," prom
ises the publishers that he will give them
poster for My Lady Laughter that
viii IN every way equal its rival for RI
vais they are bound to be, both being
pictures of stunning girls, although each
heroine is drawn in a different station
Of life, Miss Pettieoats'' being daugh-
ter Of the people. while MY Lady Laugh
ter was one of the aristocrats of colonial
days.
A new book that viii certainly attract
considerable attention is charming lit
tie story of real life just issued by the
Grafton Press. of New York, under the
title Of 'Tamarack Farm, the Story Of
Rube Woleott and His Gettysburg Girl -
Ine author of this storiette, for 1t is
hardly anything more. has probably set
down the true happenings of his own 1ffe
Born and bred in the country he has
caught much of the charm and simplicity
OF the freedom of the rural life OF chill
dren, and he tells how he was, as he
grew up to. young manhood. confronted
with the relentless call for soldiers for
the great Civil war.
AT one of the leading clubs in Buffalo
d lOp9C Oh CONVERSATION on a~fecHnr even
ing was the Henry Willard Memoirs
One of the gentlemen preSent-an indie
fatfgable reader, with very extraordinary
experience as traveller. and who has en-
joyed unusual advantages for becoming
acquainted with leading men Of all ma
dOnS-Said: "The volumes are as enter
tanning as the most brilliant pages of ro-
nance; 1 have never read more fascinat-
ing chapters"
The Scrfbners have gone to press a sec
ond time with Prayers Written at
Vailima," by Robert Louis Stevenson.
This small and beautiful book was pub
lished just before Easter.