Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
NOTES OF THE BOOK WORLD.

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The publishers are now making their fall
announcements. in terms which indicate
that the tendency of the season will be the
Issue of smaller and more select lists of
books of all classes
The Macmillan Company's autumn bulle-
tin contains accounts of the chief books
which that house will publish between mid
summer and Christmas including such no.
table volumes as the new novels by Mr.
Winston Churchill, Mr.. Owen Wister. Mr..
Emerson Hough, Mr.. Charles Major. Mr.
Marion Crawford and Miss Beulah Marie
DIX; Mr. Crawford's long promised book on
venice. with Joseph Pencils illustra-
ions; q. f. Watts: "reminiscences" by
Mrs. Russell Darlington; Life of Oliver
Ellsworth" by Mr.. William CARROT Brown !.
vikings Of the Pacific" by Miss Agnes C.
Laut The Far East and the Great War"
by Mr. Putnam Weale; an entirely new edi
ton of the works of BENJAMIN Franklin
containing much new material: a linn
TIED large paper edition of the works of
Maurice Hewlett; Nero" by Mr. Stephen
Phillips, and The History Of American
Painting, by Mr. Samuel Isham
Mr.. ChurchilPs novel. entitled "Coniston >,
is not of an historical character. but # is q
love story without basis in fact. Mr. Craw-
ford offers as the heroine of Fair Marga-
ret beautiful English girl. daughter of
an oxford don and his American wife. who
since the death of her parents, has lived at
Versailles. She possesses a glorious yoica
which insures for her a brilliant career in
opera. Mr.. John Luther Longs fall pro-
ducGon Will be u book OF short stories
ore breathing ATM the heavenly longing Mr.
Sharies Major, author of When Knight
scene with a story entitled ''YoIanda."
which is understood to resemble his first
success more than the succeeding tales
owen Wister, whose ''Virginian" made
many friends presents Lady Baltimore +"
love story with young southerner for
a hero. -0A
One of the most interesting of the an
nouncements in other lines is that of Miss
Agnes {. Laut's Vikings of the Pacific. F."
which will be styled volume of path
finders of the West" and will deal with
the adventures of Drake, the English nj
rate, who cruised the coasts of California,
shlpWrecked In the hurricanes Of the
North Pacific and dying by inches in a
sand pit; the Cossack banditti, who hunt
ed 5urs from Alaska to California; Led
yard pennlless soldier Of fortune who
with Paul Jones and Jefferson planned
what Lewis and Clark afterward carried
out; Gray, the Boston man, who discov-
cred the Columbia-au these were ami
mated by the same reckless courage that
carried the Norwegian Vikings out to
death in tempest. The book narrates the
first great heroic period of the American
west.
The Century Company's autumn list Is
headed by a work descriptive of Yer
sallles and the court under Louis XIV by
James Eugene Farmer, author of The
Grande Mademoiselle," ETC. The work will
be Issued with especial care as to it's typo-
graphical and artistic appearance, in royal
rNDD
trations. 1t tells the story of Versailles
In the hey-day of the French court of the
grand monarch. Henry Wallace Phillips.
VINO has made Red Saunders" a familiar
Mary Smith, another Red Saunders ro-
nance, described by those who have al
ready had the pleasure of reading it as
one or the breeziest. funniest and most alb
sorb1ng books Of adventure printed in re-
cent years An edition of George Wash
ington's diary for September, 1884 during
his journey in the Ohio basin in the in
terest Of a commercial union between the
great lakes and the Potomac river has
been prepared by Archer Butler Hubert.
author of Historic Highways of Amer
lea and will for the first time permit a
full examination of this important pas-
sage from Washington's writings, to-
gether with a commentary by the editor
yaluably explaining and supplementing
the text A first novel" is on the list,
Jules of the Great Heart" by Lawrence
Mott, dealing with the adventures of a
F'rench-Canadian trapper outlawed by the
Hudson Bay Company. Readers of Mrs.
Helen r. Martins "Tillie. Mennonite
Maid" will be glad to know that she has
created a new character in 'Sabina" to be
introduced in her novel of that title. She.
like Tillie. is Of the plain people," of the
Amish sect. and the story of her expert
ences promises to be enterta lining and
diverting Is the preceding study of Penn
sylvania religionists. An important So
Geological Offering comes in the form of
! 10. Ia 7 T.
an anonymous author. who recounts her
own experiences as Il working girl in New
York. 1t wildly recounts the drudgery of
the factory, the Sweatshop, the laundry,
etc Miss Katherine Carl introduces to
western readers the much-discussed but
seldom seen Dowager Empress OF China,
whose portrait she painted and whose
guest she was for several months in the
palace at Picking. In the list of books for
children the Century Company promises a
special treat in the form of Frank l..
Baum's Queen Zixi of TX, which has
been running serially in the st. Nicholas
The Appleton list contains several impor-
tant features.
Mrs Fremont Older is the only writer,
say her publishers. who has been able to
successfully grasp and portray in fiction the
immense subject of the oil trust. Her novel
entitled THE Giants will be published in
the middle of September. 1t is said that In
1.-The Giants" Mrs. Older out-Tarbells the
original assailant of the oil trust herself,
Miss Tarbells widest utterance being a
mild whisper in comparison to the fiction of
Mrs. Older. The advance sales of 1.-The
Young Man and the World" by Senator AL
bert j. Beveridge,' are especially heavy in
his native state. A large order from Indian
apolis has been received by the publishers.
This series of inspiriting talks for young
men, which is now appearing in the Satur-
day Evening Post, win appear In book form
next month. The announcement that Rob-
ert w. Chambers has written child's book
IN Forest Land will .be welcomed by
those already acquainted with this authors
fascinating style. 1t is understood that Mr..
Chambers has created a slangy bee as a
leading character, which is most delight
full achievement. Two important Juveniles
which the Appletons will publish next month
are entitled "Fifty-two Stories for Boys"
and "Fifty-two Stories for Girls" G. A.
Henty is among the best-known contrib
utors to the former, and Lucy Hardy Is one
of the most popular contributors to the lat
ter.
Doubleday, Page & Company announce
for publication in September THE Jewish
Spectre" by George III. Warner. The pub
fishers believe that this is an unusual book.
and declare that 1t will undoubtedly have
a IN ftt,nn rnh ny,fy, low r. rs bail