The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16

The late Lafcadio Hearn passed by
cable the final proof Of the last chap az.
death. 1t was a singularly dramatic
ending OF life unusually full of dra-
matte incidents, that he should have
died. His new book, Japan; An
Attempt at interpretation will be pub
lished at once by the Macmillan COM
pany. This Interpretation of the .Japa-
nese. their history and their place in the
modern world has peculiar timeliness.
George Meredith's startling predictions
regarding the future of the marriage
some day it will be made a limited and
not enduring contract, is not the
first published suggestion of the kind.
preme o published f by the e Har
pers in their American novel series, there
is theory of marriage which is no less
iconoclastic and supposedly reformatory
than that of Meredith's. Indeed. it goes
further. and is in way plausible, but
whether it would obviate any existing
evils and raise marriage to its ideal pos,
reader to determine for himself.
Four new Macmillan novels went into
second editions either before publication
or Immediately after The Common
be published this week: "The Mastery"
Mr.. Mark Lee Luther's political novel;
..Sabrina Warham," by the author OF #
An Englishwoman's Love Letters = !"
K Webster. who wrote Roger. Drake;
Captain of Industry Several other
books published by this house We're out
to unexpectedly heavy advance orders.
Mr. H c. Marilliers illustrated volume
on the art and life of Dante Gabriel
Rosetti." appears in third edition.
abridged and revised. The authors gem
of Rossettis life with a detailed account
of his artistic work. The present edition,
issued at greatly, reduced price, onaits
reproductions of sketches and studies.
but retains between eighty and ninety
half-toneS and photographers showing
RoSSettiS finest works.
Mr. Hamilton w. AIabies backgrounds
of Literature" will be published present
ly by the Macmillan company in a new
and enlarged edition. A new chapter on
the Hawthorne country, with illustrations,
will be added TO those on the country of
Whitman, Goethe and Blackmore.
Anyone who could write such sweet
and sympathetic child story as My Lii
Angelo" recently published by the APP
pletons must needs be lover OF chill
Qren, ana Anna u COnulct cOnnilnS tniS
hypothesis In LII Angelo" she has de-
picted all the sweetness and naughtiness
of child, but she is equally felicitous at
catching the humor of their sayings. She
running breathlessiy to his mother and
frightened her nearly to death by ex-
Mamma, mamma, Use swallowed a
sGood gracious, child. When did you
do it? Oh, hope it won't kill you. Send
for Dr. Brown immediately
Its all right, mamma. it was safety
PIN
ing by an artist in place of mechanical
coloring is one of the original features of
Mr.. Gouverneur Morris forthcoming TO
nance 1.-THE Pagan's Progress" which is
being published the middle OF this month
by A. S. Barnes & Co.
Doubleday. Page & Co. published the
first week of the month group Of books
widely differing in interest and locailty-
The list includes ''Traffics and Discov-
cries." by Rudyard Kipling, which gives
the remarkable story They. and others,
a permanent form; .Recollections and
Letters of Gen Robert F. Lee" edited by
his son, Capt, Robert E, Lee; Letters OF
Renan," written while he was writing
1.-THE Life of Christ; THE Eagles
Shadow" a sparkling Virginia romance,
by James Branch Cabell; new and en-
larged edition of Camera Shots at Big
Game" by Mr.. and Mrs William. and
1.-The Hills of Freedom, a stirring slave
story, by Joseph STARTS.
Jim Leith is a big New York police
man who belongs to the Broadway squad
and has been saving lives at the corner of
Eighth street for the last seven years.
Leith is a Scotchman and Bobby Burns
is his great hobby. and every man on the
squad knows better than to say anything
derogatory of the Scotch poet in his pres
ence Nancy Stair" by Mrs Elinor Ma
cartney Lane, is the most successful novel
published by D. Appleton & Co this year.
The scene of the story is laid in Scot
land, and the heroine meets the poet
Burns and swaps rhymes with him. Leith
was presented with a copy of the book
and read it with great interest.
81 think it is a very meritorious piece
of work. he said, land couldn't put it
down until had finished it., That would
sell by the thousand in Scotland. Burns.
Scott and Carlyle were the three great
Scotch writer's; and then,of course. there
is Stevenson; but I'm mighty glad that /
read that book by Mrs. Lane.