The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Life believes it has found in Edward
Box, the editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal, the author of the much talk
ed-of personal pronoun novel, 81; In
Which a Woman Tells the Truth About
Herself" Commenting upon it in its
issue of April Il, it says THE smart
est bit of advertising of the year is
found in the title of what is called the
personal pronoun, L; in Which a Wom-
an Tells the Truth About Herself The
improbable is always alluring; more
over, the book is not a bad bit of fic-
ton. The authorship is said to be a
mystery, but we are inclined to be-
lieve, since it is evident from the text
that a woman did not write the story.
and quite certain that no man could
have written it, that the author is
Edward Box"
After you've shot your rocket don't
play with the stick; start something
new"
"a professional reformer is some
times only an appetite for power that
mistakes itself for moral courage"
"a double riveted political pull can
taper off into thin air and an empty
stomach mighty easy
1T doesn't take a guide post or a
special spiritual adviser to point a
man to the right road in law making
any more than in plain business of
any Sort
"A woman may be as attractive as
a lost bargain and as tactful as
brook trout and still warp your politi-
cal destiny until it cracks"
There's nothing I know of that loses
so much size in the seasoning process
as a politician, excepting a humble
bee and a Eastwood board"
These epigrams and hundred others
brighten the pages of Forrest Crissey's
new book, "Tattlings of Retired Poll
tician" (Thompson & Thomas, Chica-
go), which will be read with interest
this year, when the very air is satu-
rated with politics.
The title of Marmaduke Pickthalls
adventurous story of the Orient, "Said
the Fisherman is so frequently print
ed without the diaeresis and the COM
ma that it is quite commonly known
as Said the Fisherman" A New
York bookseller writes the publishers
(McClure-Phillips) that he has had
number of inquiries for the book from
people who, misled by the title. have
thought it was a volume Of fish sto-
ries. The book has now gone into
second edition.
The lecture delivered by president
Cleveland last week at Princeton, on
The Government in the Chicago Strike
of 1884," will appear in full in the July
McClure's. The meager details of the
lecture appearing in the newspapers
have served to arouse widespread pub
lie interest in the paper itself which,
besides giving the inside story Of this
dramatic event, sheds important light
on the whole question Of executive ac-
ton in industrial crises.
Henry Wysham Lanier, son of the
poet Sidney Lanier, has a novel, "Ro-
nance of Piscator," appearing with the
imprint of Henry Holt & Company
who received the story from Henry
Wysham" and had no idea who the
author was until after their literary
advisers had said it was a good enough
romance to publish.
The novel reading public of Japan
appears to be hungry beyond even
American precedent. Two japanese
publishers have already applied for
the right to issue in Japan the English
translation of "Namiko," the Japanese
novel of divorce which Herbert B.
Turner & Company published here two
or three weeks ago.