The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-23

GLOBE. SUNDAY. OC
Co. The theory advanced by Mr.. Smith
is that religion and science stand on the
same rock.
The Harpers will publish on Oct 20
delightful holiday book consisting of a
group of essays on 1.-THE Luxury of Chill
dren. and Some Other Luxuries, by Mr..
q: s.. Martin, author OF Lucid Intervals
The illustrations for the book have been
done in delicate colors by Miss Sarah S.
Stilwel, whose work in child portraiture
is unusual. There are eight full-page pic.
dainty child figures. Miss Stilwen was
formerly pupil of Howard Pyle's.
The announcement is made of the
birth of a little girl to Mrs. Selden Bacon
Josephine Daskam), whose recent book,
ssThe Memoirs of Baby aroused
lively. controversy over the naturalness or
unnaturalnesS of '4Binks,'' the hero Of the
memoirs. A comparison was instituted
among number of correspondents of
New York paper between the Binks
aforesaid and the little boy .Skeezucks,
who figures so alluringly III mans book
Mr.. Mighels 'Bruvyer Jim's Baby"
Some people thought sSkeezucks, :,
child than Mrs. Bacons .'Binks.'' and
the dispute ragged for time without re-
suit.
Miss Alcott's books for girls. Little
Women" and the rest have come to be
regarded as representing. the highest ex-7
cellence in stories for girls. The Louis
vile Courier Journal has this to say of
new book of that class, Ellen Douglas
Deiand's Josephine. just published by
the Harpers: "One of the pleasantest
tales of boys and girls ever published,
being quite as good as any of Miss AL
cottS.H
gentleman from Kansas. having sent
to Mcclure Phillips for a copy of Wag-
ner's 1.-The Simple Life wrote back that
he was not pleased with it because the
book was not finished, the pages not hav-
would you like to have your shoemaker
send you pair Of shoes with nails stick.
ing up in them, or your tailor send you
practice eae little little Christianity. The # Mac
MILAN Publishing company has played me
the same trick. and hereafter will have
to specify that want finished book or
| don't want it at all.
Though this comes from Kansas, it is
ripe with suggestion; and this voice from
the plains of the West is heard with pleas
ure on the question of the machine made
closely cropped book VS.. the uncut book
with its pleasantly irregular edges.
Henry Harland for the first time in
several years spent last summer in Eng
land. He has a permanent home in Lon
don, but usually when the season is over
goes either to the continent or to his old
home at Norwich, Conn. The early part
of last summer Mr.. Harland spent at
Hampton Court, where he had as neigh
bors Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Williamson of
Lightning Conductor fame At the end
of the summer he went to Cranberry,
where he was busy on his new novel,
which. it is said. will be very different
from his recent work. This winter Mr.
Harland will go to San Reno, on the
Riviera.
Hermann Sudermann's fires of ST.
John," as translated and adapted for the
stage by Charles Swickard, will be is
sued by John w. Luce & Co., of Boston
on Oct. Is. Mr.. SWickard has achieved
considerable prominence recently by his
English translations from the leading Ger
man writers of the present day. His
translated and adapted TAPS from the
German has just been produced in New
York with great success by the Schuberts
who present Herbert Kelsey and Efie
Shannon in the leading roles. This. yer
sion of Fires of St. john was played
for the first time in English on any
stage by Nance O'Neil in Boston last jan
uary and this American tragedienne has
arranged with the publishers to present
it as the most prominent play in her rep
ertoire this season.
Charles Egbert Craddock's new novel
will be published by the Macmillan COM
pany in November. 1t is said to resemble
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Noun
tain more than any other book by this
author. The title will be announced later.
Mr.. David Graham Phillips, whose latest
novel, 1.-THE Cost is for the third time
mentioned in the Bookman's list of best
selling books, has just returned to America
from a trip abroad Mr.. Phillips spent
most OF his time in Biarritz, in the south
western corner of France, said to be the
most beautiful seaside place in the world.
For some reason or other the. ali-but- om-
nipresent American tourist does not go
there and the English in winter only. So
Mr.. Phillips found what he was looking for
quiet and chance to work. He is an
indefatigable worker, and it is understood
that he is now engaged upon a theme that
would. .ntesta the tOiling capacity of the
least Conscientious novelist-the religious
side of the war between materialism and
spiritualism in the United States-a
study of the extreme reactionary religious
crazes from the inside Of one of them. 1t
is not, of course, to be supposed that Mr.
Phillips is writing religious novel. The
author of 1.-THE Cost evidently realizes as
few of our younger American writers do
that the subject of every novel should be
human nature, and the medium taken
for picturing it-war, business, politics,
nate-merely the glass to hold the wine
or water-or milk-or medicine.
'Sabrina Warham. the new novel by
Mr.. Laurence HouSman, the author of
AN Englishwoman's Love Letters went
into it's second large edition a few days
after publication. 1t is regarded as
strong. subtle and meaty study Of a wom
ans character and development.
The new novel by Mrs. Alice He
gan Rice, author of Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch which the Century will
print, beginning in December, is to be
called Sandy
Maud Howe (ElIiott), who. with her
husband John Elliott, the artist, has been
summering at Plainfield, n. H., has just
put into book form number of her re-
cent Italian sketches and stories, which
Little, Brown & Co.. will shortly publish
with the title. Roma Beata. The in
spiration of the book was series of let
ters written to her sister, Laura e. Rich
her husbs nd Mr. Elliott then being en-
gagged in ,ainting his mural work for the
Boston public library. Roma Beata' will
be illustrated from drawings by Mr.. FL