The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-12
BOOK NEWS

'OAJ yO0Al6
BOOK NEWS
Of The Journey of, Coronado by A. S.
Barnes & Co in the Trail Makers Series,
is the revival of interest in the tabled
Urea treasures 1 OF Qulvira. George McAllister
engineers of Mexico and the Southwest.
have gone in search of the treasure con-
fident that If 1t is stiIl there they have
genuine documents which will bring 1t to
light.
Houghton, Miff1in & Co. announce that
the Life of Walt Whitman In the Amer
ican, Men of Letters Series, will be written
by Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic
Monthly 1.-The Life Of Holmes in the
same series. will be written by Samuel
er, and THE Life Of Lowell" by Ferris
Greenslet, associate editor of the Allan
tic. Two. new volumes are also an
nounced in the American Commonwealths
Series: Massachusetts" by Prof Edward
Charming, of Harvard. and Rhode ISL
and, by Irving B. Richman. author of
Rhode Island: Its Making and Its Mean
ing"
Besides the regular Cambridge edition
In one volume of English and Scottish
1. Kittredge and the late Helen Child
Sargent, which is just published by
Houghton, Mifflin 81 Co., there is also is
sued special edition Of this work printed
on genuine Oxford India paper and bound
in full, flexible leather. This beautiful edi-
tion has an additional interest from the
fact that the genuine Oxford India pa
per has never before been used in Amer
fca in a book of this sort, and in Eng
land its use is confined to books produced
by the Oxford University Press.
Advance reports for the coming theatri-
cal season indicate the good dramatized
novel is as much in demand as it ever
was. The latest story to be considered for
tens "Araby." 1t is difficult to see how a
long play could be constructed from this
little story, though it might make very
powerful one-act tragedy.
Gertrude Atherton, author of Rulers
of Kings" has left Munich and is now
travelling in Spain. She wrote recently to
a friend that she did not expect a single
favorable review of her novel in London,
on account of its rampant AmericaniSm.
It has, on the contrary, been received in
England with a great deal of interest.
A prophet Is not always without honor
in his own country. Virginia Frazer Boyle
has sent to her publishers, the Harpers,
Of copy of her Devil Tales given her,
in exchange for new one by the Ii
brarian of the public library at Mrs
Boyle's home, Memphis, Tenn. Since
of their two copies of Devils Tales,
says the librarian, has been on the shelf
two days in succession, and there has
long been, and stiTl is. lengthy waiting
list. The stories are unique and weird
tales Of negroes. of old "mammieS. their
hoodoos, superstit1ons and relations with
the white families whom they served.
Many of the features of the stories Mrs.
Boyle acquired from her own old negro
nurse.
itId0 g
America is very clearly indicated in a.
private letter which he recently wrote
to Archibald r. Colquhoun concerning the
latters book Greater America" (Har-
pers) Mr. Chamberlain, after a refer
ence to the pleasure he has had in read
ing the work, says: Il most gladly sub
scribe to your conclusions, and JOIN you
in the hope that the relations between the
United States and ourselves may be, in
the future, those Of continually increas-
ing sympathy and appreciation"
Rupert Hughes; the author of The
coming book as something more, and
eat deal fss than nehine gdie Of The
usual guide book characteristic in this
lively and informal description of the
metropolis. 1t is the record of an ex-
haustfve sightseeing tour of New York
under the guidance of the author, who.
being a Western man by birth, knows
the city better than any native could
pOSSlOly pe 6ApSCtSu W hhOW At'
In his biography of whistler as 1
Knew Him. just published by The
Macmillan company, Mortimer Menpes
tells a curious story of the famous artist
At the little breakfasts which he used to
give in Paris and in London he was some
times forced to be very economical He
often said to me: Look here, Menpes.
1 wish you would go and buy a bottle of
18-penny white wine from the Victorian
Wine company. We will decant 1t care
fully and what with my brilliant con-
versation and the refined atmosphere Of
the studio, these men will never know
whether 1t is good or bad. Somehow
men understand red wine. II you give
them a cheap vintage, they recognize
vinegar; but with the qualities of white
wine they are not so familiar. So 1t
always proved to be- This 18-penny white
wine was produced at the famous Whist
ler breakfasts where it was pronounced
to be perfect. A very sound wine, very
sound indeed l have heard men say
as they held it up to the light, hand
ling it carefully as though 1t were price
leSS-in exactly the same way have seen
them caress blue-and- -white-plate. l
have heard intelligent men dilate for
hours upon the beauty and rarity of GER
tain porcelain which I myself have seen
Whistler buy at cheap shop round the
corner, or which has been presented at
our doors in company with pound of
Oriental tea"