Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
NOTES OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS;

-. cohatiar author of Religions OF
',,sor,ty, fNacClure-Phillips), always had
On his desk when writing niue ofohAo
6e,,re of an Alsatian woman lie was d
o;tizan esnecially loved by the people OF
h1soce because of his efforts to preserve
the French spirit and language IN Aisaco
after the Franco-Prussian war by preaeh-
ing and lecturing. When he was driven
out of the town by the German authorities
the people held large meeting ana Vo'eu
him a testimonial which took the form oi
the little bronze figure which ne Always
kept with him.
..,rba shame of the Cities is the title
rnder which Mcclure Phillips Will publish
in hook form the articles on munlcipai cor
rrntion nv Lincoln Steffens. which appeared
II, McCIure's Magazine during the last year
and aroused so much interest. inc Voiun,o
is announced for publication ABOUT lae ilii u,
die of this month. 1t will have preface IN
which the author surveys the subject OF
municipal corruption as whoie-
The announcement came from Boston
during the current week that the Lothrop
Company which has been for some time
ma ct supplying the book market with ex-
cellent material has been forced 70 maj mai
an assignment, with liabilities estimated
at s15OO0O. A material cause OF the iail-
ure of the house was the collapse a shorl
time ago of a Boston bank with whlcn the
Lott
1t is believed that arrangements VIII Do
made to continue the business after the in
debtedness has been readjusted
The show windows of Brentano's. in this
eity have for several days held an at
tractive display consisting OF the orlginai
drawings by w. Benda from which me
successful romance, luther and Igra1ne,
by Warwick Deeping Outlook Company.
was illustrated. These drawings are IN
scrayon and have proved of much interest
to students of the illustrative art
The admirers of that charming novel.
s'Our Lady of the Beeches," published last
season. will welcome Baroness Won Hut
TENS new story "Violett" which has just
come from the press of Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. 1t deals with the career OF young
musician, and is said to be intensely sym
pathetic in it's development of fascinating
theme.
Popular interest in the far east, stimu-
lated by the war between Japan and Rus
STA has already resulted in an unusually
large output of books concerning both OF
those countries, and now the turn or ko-
rea has come The publishers announce
ments at present in hand include no less
than three books, either just off the press
or about to issue. One of these Is de-
scriptive and two are works of fiction. The
Queen of Queiparte, by Archer Butler
Hubert little, Brown & Coz, is a story
of Russian intrigue in the far east, de-
scriptiye in that form of the Russian tenn
porary acquisition or Korea IN 1871 Inc
author was editor Of the Korean Independ-
ent published at Seoul, and thus gained
his acquaintance with the politics of that
now war-ridden region at first hand. His
novel was one of the successes OF the lat
ter part of last year.
The other story of Korea. by James 8.
Gale, is soon to from the press OF
Fleming HI. Revell Company. 1t also is
based upon foundation of personal OBJ
servation, and deals with the trials of a
missionary in the land of the hermit ma
ton. 1t does not trend upon the political
field.
From the Scribner press is to APP
pear a book by Angus Hamilton under the
suggeStively inclusive title .All About ko-
rea.v Mr.. Hamilton was for two years
correspondent in the far east of the Pail
Mall Gazette. and in this work describes
the country and people of Korea with a
direct bearing upon the important part that
region is now playing in the politics of the
world
Miss Mary Johnston. author of Audrey"
and To Have and to Hold" plans to sail
for the Mediterranean this month and ex-
poets TO spend year or more in Sicily.
Richard Harding Davis says that he IL
going to devote the next i've years to play
writing.