The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-03

tiful drawings and decorations for Miss
Margaret Sherwood's THE Story of King
Sylvan and Queen Aimee" which the
Macmillan company will publish next
week. Miss Sherwoods royal lovers es-
cape from the conventional bondage Of
court life into unmoleSted freedom, and
the tale norrates their adventures through
forest and town and in a lodge of boughs
by a southern sea. The book is described
as "a contribution to the litera ture of
pure joy haunted by the spirit of glad
ness"
Mrs. John Van Worst, whom Woman
Who Tolls brought out Mr. Roosevelt 5
vigorous phrase race suicide" has ready
who does not toll: The book, entitled
The Issues of Life was published in
March by Doubleday: Page & Co.
A collection Of essays by Robert Louis
Stevenson, which had never been brought
together in book form outside of the
subscr1ption edition. was published last
fall by Herbert B. Turner & Co., of Bos-
ton, in their dainty edition of Stevenson.
The publishers announce second edition
OF this volume to which they have added
Illustrations.
modern japanese literature, will be pub
lished April ?.
Stewart Edward White the author of
perience in connection with something
that he wrote in one Of the chapters Of
this book. In giving directions for pre-
pairing an outfit for wood life he mem
toned kind of tent as being the best he
had ever seen, and said that he knew of
but one place where it could be obtained
At last accounts, some time ago, he had
received 487 letters, asking for the name
of the makers of the tent. These were in
addition to a flood of other letters, asking
advice on all sorts of Diet 5 in connec-
tlon with camping and canoeing.
Dick Brewster, cowboy, land Spectator
and lover, the hero of John II. Whitson' $
new novel, The Rainbow Chasers," with
cut being in the least a copy, is said
to have many of the attractions of Mr.
Wister's hero, The Virginian." Mr.. Whit
son is as familiar with the country of
which he writes as was Mr.. Wister, for
was one of the participants in the West
ern Kansas land boom of 1885, and he
has drawn his vigorous characters partly
from life.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard, whose recol-
lectiOns will be published by D. Appleton
q Co, i'll the early autumn. reserved the
right to publish a part of the papers Sc
summer feature of one of the popular
magazines and will doubtless attract wide
attention.
D. Appclton & Co. announce for publi-
cation two novels, THE Vineyard by
John Oliver Hobbies, and 81" in which
a woman tells the truth about herself. by
an anonymous author; Dollars and De-
mocracy," by Sir Philip Burne Jones.
Dodd. Mead & Co. will bring out short
~ a curious book. entitled When Maid
MarTies." This book is we understand the
result of certain articles which have been
running Serially in Golfers Weekly. The
author is Lavinia Hart. In 1t she has
tried to set forth some of the problems
which confront the young woman of to-
day who is contemplating matrimony.
CuriOusly enough, these articles in Col
erS to be far and away the most popular
features of Golfers monthly numbers;
and they so remained as long as they
continued in the magazine.
In these days Of annual who's Who's
it is strange that there should be any
doubt about the facts Of an authors his
tory But it has been recently circulated
as information that Joseph Conrad the
author OF 'Falk' and Youth Mcclure
Phillips) began life as a newsboy in Paris.
This is not so. lie was born in Poland
educa ted at a Polish university and was
for some years an officer in the French
navy, later entering the British marine
service, where he picked up his knowledge
of English.
The twenty sixth annual edition of Ap-
pleton's Dictanarys of Greater New York
the standard guide book to the CITY and
neighborhood. has just been published,
revised to Jan. /, 1904.