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many to hear that Dodd, Mead a Co. are
shortly to bring out another volume of
Maeterlincks miscellaneous ESSAYS Not
only as mystic. but az an essayist has
MReterlinck gained an extraordinary hold
In this country during the last few years,
and In this new work we are promised es-
says on the Deeper Life" 1.-THE Inner
Beauty" Silence and 1.-THE InvisIhle
Goodness" The book will be uniform with
Wisdom and Destiny and "The Treas
ure Of the Humble
The March Century will contain the
conclusion Of the letters telling Of Thack-
eray's Friendship With an American
Family" Three of the letters are address,
ed to Miss Libby Strong, niece of Mrs
Baxter, and one Of the family at the
Brown House during both Of the visits
Of the novelist to America. Miss Strong Is
now Mrs. Alfred Leonard Curtis, Of New
York. The other letters give glimpses of
Thackerays long and trying illnesses, of
and sorrow in the Baxter family. Repro
duction of some quaint pen sketches add
to the interest Of these last letters.
THE Day Before Yesterday is the title
Of a little book by a new author Mrs.
Sara Andrew Shafer, which the Macmillan
company will publish next week. This
modest and unpretentious story tells how
little girl and her brothers and sisters
and cousins and friends grew UP in a
village somewhere in the Middle West
dAAu dDOuI lD01T lives anu lT1SnuSDlDS and
pleasures, and reflects the color of life
among quiet, happy, genial people who
have not learned to hustle through life.
Stone Of Destiny" will be published by
Harper & Bros on Feb. 16. Mrs Mackay
Is the wife of Clarence Fl. Mackay, who
has succeeded his father, the late John
mercial Gable and Telegraph company
Mrs. Mackay was Miss Duer, a member
of the well known New York family Of
that name. A few months ago a dramatic
poem from her pen attracted favorable
attention in the North American Review
"A Stone of Destiny" is her first publish
ed volume. 1t deals in romantic form with
an unusual problem. The moral strength
of a man, while vindicating the character
of one woman who had faltered and re-
trieted herself upholds and preserves that
OF another. The two women are his
mother and his wife.
A remarkable case Of books instant
success is that OF lux Crucis-A Tale
lished this novel on Jan. %. In one week
afterwards it appeared on the list of best
selling books in New York city. OF course
the book had been announced before its
publication. and the advance orders were
such as to forecast the success now svi-
dent.
Mr.. Jack London's 'The People of the
Abyss" which has made a very strong
impression since its issue last fall ia to
appear in a new and cheaper edition this
month, with all the original Illustrations
1t describes picturesquely the conditions
Of life among the poor of the British me-
tropolis, and shows wildly the hopeless
ness of life in London's East end.
The title OF John Fl. Wilson's new
Western novel, 1.-The Rainbow Chasers"
refers to the pursuit of the elusive pot
of gold,' by the Western Kansas land
boomers in 1885. Mr.. Whitson was one OF
the participants. and when the vision Of
wealth which he, in common with the 9TH
er land boomers, cherished, failed to ma
terialiZe, he returned to his literary pur-
suits with a fund of experience, IL moth
ing more tangible.
Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York
Evening Post. has prepared for the March
Century an essay on THE Making of
Public Opinion" the discussion being
thrown into the form Of a Unbeatable
talk between a senator, a college presi-
dent. doctor Of divinity and an editor
In which there Is good deal OF genial
recrimination, IL so harsh word may be
used.
A volume that should prove Of interest
at the present time Is Cruising in the