Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-12-08


Florence Scovel Shinn and Elizabeth
Finley have made the Illustrations for
"Dandelion Cottage" a new story for
girls by Carroll Watson Rankin.
The Russo-Japanese Conflict: It's
Causes and Issues by X. Asakawa,
,Fh. D.. an authoritative account by
one Of the most eminent Of Japanese
scholars. now member of the faculty
Of Dartmouth College.
when Little Boys Sing" quaint
juvenile. has been published by A. G.
McClurg 4 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 hundred new volumes OF
verse-largely volumes OF new verse,
no doubt--are part of the output for
this year of Richard &. Badger. Bos-
ton. Marian Longfellow. a 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
the same day. without any knowledge
Of each others purpose. Harper Il
Brothers, New York. announced for
publication some months hence q 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 McIvor. whose "Bide Of Glen
dearg" was popular last season.
Katharine Holland Brown. author Of
"Diane," recently published by Dou-
bleday, Page 4 Co.. lives in Quincy.
ILL.,, where her father Is a successful
bridge engineer. Although diane" il
her first novel. she has served an ap
premiership as writer Of short
stories for the magazines. Her book
Ia founded OH CabOt's attempt to es-
tablish French communistic settle
ment in this country at Icaria, near
Nauvoo. the old Mormon town on thu
Mississippi. To gather material for
her book the author made several
Journeys to visit the few widely scat
tered Icarians who are still living,
and of whom she could find traces.
Where are our American play
wrights? or 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 Ia indicated BY the
announcement Of the AppletOns that
within single month they have re-
ceived applicat tons from managers for
permission to dramatize three Of their
recent novels-"Nancy Stair" by ELI.
nor Mccartney Lane: Miss Davidge's
1.-The Misfit Crown and Thomas 70.
Watson's Bethany" 1t is not to be
supposed that American writer's ara
not writing plays. There is probably
not one Of them but has from two tn
dozen In his desk. Whence then,
the dearth? Is the fault with the
would-be playwrights or with the
managers?
AIHiCIo OH I1Vuku pieHuk DOI guilty
to the charge OF animus against the
negro, for which some reviewers have
found fault with his new novel. ",The
Law Of the Land" He says he comes
OF Quaker family in Virginia, whose
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. IL am a Republican" he re-
Gently remarked to a 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 whole in
terest was in the solution Of the race
prOblem-the whole book was in tho
lawyers closing speech ! wanted to
show that this thing cannot be solved
by politics. Legally the black rules
the white. but actually he does not
and cannot, and never will In our
time"