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Florence Scovel Shinn and Eliza..a
Finley have made the illustrations y.
"Dandelion Cottage" a new storv ..
girls by Carroll Watson Rankin.
The Russo-Japanese Conflict. u.
Causes and Issues" by X. Asaksvs
Fh. D., an authoritative account ~
one Of the most eminent of Japans,.
scholars, now a member Of the faep,.
Of Dartmouth College.
when Little Boys Sing" ousi,.
juvenile, has been published by A n
McClurg & Co., Chicago. Twe,v.
songs, composed by John Alden O.,
penter, with colored pictures by M,
Carpenter, and original verses, which
are the joint work of both.
Half a hundred new volumes a,
verse-largely volumes of new versa
no doubt-are part of the output n,
this year Of Richard G. Badger, Pa.
ton. Marian Longfellow. a niece ~
Henry w. and Hildegarde Hawthorne
daughter Of Julian and granddaugbts,
Of Nathaniel, are among the poets.
1t Is a queer coincidence that q,
the same day, without any knowledps
Of each others purpose. Harper 4
Brothers, New York, announced "a,
publication some months hence a new
novel by Sir Gilbert Parker entitled
1.-The Overload" and William Ritchl.
another New York publisher, actual,
published a novel with that title BY
Allen McIvor. whose "Bide of Glen
dearg" was popular last season.
Katharine Holland Brown, author o,
diane" recently published by Dou
bleday, Page & Co., lives in Quincy
ILL.,, where her father is a successful
bridge engineer. Although diane" d
her first novel, she has served an ap
premiership as writer Of short
stories for the magazines. Her boot
is founded on Cabot's attempt to e.
tablish a French communistic settle
ment in this country at Icaria. nea,
Nauvoo, the old Mormon town on the
Mississippi. To gather material for
her book the author made several
journeys to visit the few widely scat
tered Icarians who are stiIl living
and Of whom she could find traces.
Where are our American play.
wrights? OF course, we know where
some Of them are-Clyde Fitch, Au
gustus Thomas and q 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 Is indicated by the
announcement Of the Appletons that
within q single month they have re-
ceived applications from managers for
permission to dramatic three Of their
recent novels-"Nancy Stair" by ELI.
nor Mccartney Lane; Miss Davidges
''The Misf1t Crown" and Thomas 3.
Watson's Bethany" 1t is not to BE-
supposed that American writers are
not writing plays. There is probably
not one Of them but has from two to
a dozen In his desk. Whence, then,
the dearth? Is the fault with the
would-be playwrights or with the
managers?
Emerson Hough pleads mot guilty
to the charge Of animus against the
negro, for which some reviewers have
found fault with his new novel, "Ths
Law of the Land" He says he comes
OF Quaker family in Virginia, whose
home was more than half suspected Of
being a station on the "undergrUund
railroad" and all the traditions of bis
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-aI
the wisdom Of the country-dwel
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 the
lawyers closing speech. l 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
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