New-York tribune., 1905-06-24

cat the Sign of the Fox, the new story oS
Barbara" the author OF "The GARDEN OIL "
! Commuters Wife," which the Macmillan COM
pany will publish in July is said to diner win d
her previous books in being a romance with
well developed plot. It's underlying mouVe Is
! the praise of work.
: Hopkinson Smith, in a recent interview, de-
! clared that 5000 is not too much to put aside
on European trip just to give away IN ups
! This is very Iordly and generous, ana no uou'l
! it is true as he says, that he mas the "oi'"
/ of It many times over in the comforts ne en-
lows and the satisfaction he gets. Some people
/ however manage TO have very pleasant httle
trip to Europe on the amount that Mr. Smith
reserves for tips alone. 1t all depends on wnde
you enjoy and how you get your saustactlo"
| Mr. Smith has stated the matter wrongly. Two
/ hundred dollars may not be enough to set ASIDE
| for tips but it is too much.
Maurice Hewletts new novel Will be calleo
| '"The Fool Errant' It will be puohsheo mere
/ in a few weeks by Macmillan and is said to be
| written in the manner OF inc foleS'
Lovers" than any of his later books
The attempt to make the picture of King hal-
azaua drawn by Isabel Strong in her recently
/ published novel of Hawaiian life, the Girl from
| Home" serve as means of rehaplltatlhs MS
! character may succeed with the younger gen
| Grafton Those. however. who were privileged
! (?) to be closely associated with His Majesty
on his visit to the United States. and naval Of
/ fcers who were entertained by him in his own
kingdom. will still preserve a somewhat different
| ironression of him from that gained by reading
,r= Strone's story DE mortuis nihil niSi
bonun1' is a good enough working motto 1or
the unimportanr people of the world who have
passed away; but to tell the truth is the pest
rule in dealing with historical characters. Or
If to tell the whole truth is inexpedient for pur-
poses Of fiction there is no necessity for claim
ing that you have shown all sides Of man
when you have shown only one
Richard Fisguiu who, when not employed in
placing that name on the title pages of stories
Is DR. Richard H Wilson. himself the hero
of an exciting adventure while engaged IN eH-
ploring the remarkable Kentucky cavern IN
which he placed some of the incidents Of his
latest novel THE Ruins of Cadz. The Den
as it is called, happened to be the retreat Of a
noted "moonshiner" rejoicing in the name OF
big Dick" Tagliaferro. Big Dick not un-
naturally took the searcher for local color to
be. a revenue officer, and. without waiting to
verify his suspicious, shot twice at him in rapid
succession Fortunately he shot too quickly to
take accurate aim, and only grazed the authors
ear with his second bullet. DR.. Wilson succeed
ed in disarming the ''moonshiner after severe
tussle and marched him off to police head
quarters matter of some four miles One has
10 be careful in gathering literary material in
Kentucky.
The sixth volume of the Harpers' American
Nation" SERIES which is ready for imme
date publication, is called Provincial Amer
ica" The author is Evarts B. Greene, Phi. D.,
professor of history in the University of Illi-
nois. The period covered is from 1880 to 114O.
Rowland Thomas, the young Harvard gradu-
ate who won the first prize Of 5000 in the
Golfers Weekly short story competition, has
abandoned fiction for the present and will con-
tribute to THE Worlds Work. a series of ar
ticles under the title of 1.-The Railroads and the
Square Deal
Another work which is designed to clear away
the mysteries of authorship, and to open the
field to whoever can WELD pen hammer a
typewriter. is to be published shortly by Funk
& Wagnalls 1t will be called THE Preparation
Of Manuscripts for the Printer" and the author
is Frank H. Vizetelly, Associate Editor of the
Standard Dictionary. If the book were to
confne itself the subject indicated in the
title it could only be regarded boon to
authors editors and publishers alike as ii will
tell how to prepare copy, how to correct proof
and how to reduce the cost Of corrections in
type, matters of which even experienced writer's
are too frequently ignorant. But where Mr..
Vizetelly is likely to meet with opposition from
the Authors Union is when he goes and con-
siders the subject Of selecting publisher, and
treats of the methods of reading manuscripts.
of the usual terms Of publication and royalties.
of the rights of dramatization and translation.
methods of obtaining copyright. and other
topics to know which is to acquire the whole
art of writing for publication
Roger Pocock the author of Curly the new
novel of Cowboy life published by Little, Brown
&, Co seems to have the Southwest from
much the same point of view as Alfred III.
Lewis Speaking of his book he says: THE
only characters drawn from life are some of the
robhers who are friends of mine. The charge
will he brought that the book is too highly
coIored but assure you 1 have been moderate.
Within six weeks while rode across Arizona
in 1890 there were twenty-three men shot and
five cases of robbery under arms. including the
robbfng of coach by young woman
Frost has carried out characteristically
whimsical idea in his illustrations for John
Henry Smith" the golf novel by Frederick
| TTnbam Adams author of THE Kidnapped Mill
,onaires" published by Doubleday, Page & Co
He has drawn the pictures as If they were the
work of the narrator of the story who makes
| NO nratensions to artistic ability. The ustra-
+ions lose nothing in humor, at least on that ac-
coupt although Mr. Frost has never been one
of those artists who believed that bad drawing
was necessary TO or even excusable in a comic"
draughtsman.
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