The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07
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Florence Scovel Shinn and Elizabet
Finley have made the illustrations Cd
''Dandelion Cottage" new story "a
girls by Carroll Watson Rankin.
The Russo-Japanese Conflict; Ii
Causes and Issues" by K. Asakawa
FIJI. D., an authoritative account b,
Z one Of the most eminent of Japanes
scholars, now a member of the facuIt
} Of Dartmouth College.
when Little Boys Sing" a quainl
juvenile, has been published by A. d
McClurg & Co., Chicago. Twelya
songs, composed by John Alden Can
penter, with colored pictures by Mn
Carpenter, and original verses, whiSh
are the joint work of both. M
Half a hundred new volumes IofI
verse-largely volumes of new veIsa
no doubt-are part Of the output toa
this year Of Richard G. Badger, Bs
ton. Marian Longfellow, niece opS
Henry W. and Hildegarde Hawthof1a
daughter Of Julian and granddaugEhsr
Of Nathaniel, are among the poets!
1t is queer coincidence that ion !
the same day, without any knowles
OF each others purpose, Harper a f
Brothers, New York, announced tor
publication some months hence a DIV
novel by Sir Gilbert Parker emitted "a
The Overload" and William Ritcfa
another New York publisher, actuay
nnhIiShn3 pnuol with hok A9A1a II.
Allen Mc1vor. whose "Bide of Gin
dearg' was popular last season.
Katharine Holland Brown, authoroi
Diane" recently published by Dbl s.
bleday, Page & Co., lives in QUINN
ILL.,, where her father is a successfl
bridge engineer. Although "Diane"h
her first novel, she has served an ali n
premiership as writer of shd4
stories for the magazines. Her hoh
Is founded on Cabot's attempt to d,
tabllsh a French communistic set+li,
ment In this country at Icaria. ned
NauVoo, the old Mormon town on m.
mississippi. TO gather material I'd
her book the author made seward
Journeys to visit the few widely seal
tered Icarians who are still Hvin9
and Of whom she could find traces.
Where are our American nlov
"rlghtS7 OF course, we know whert
some Of them are-Clyde Fitch, AMI
Sustus Thomas and few others. huI
,hey cannot supply all the plays "A
Keep all the theaters going and all thd
lctors employed. The dearth of writ
RS for the stage is indicated by tha
announcement of the Appletons that
'ltnln a single month they have ra.
elVed applications from managers for
ermlss1on to dramatic three of tha,pI
ecent novels-"Nancy Stair" nv MI.
or Mccartney Lane; Miss Dayidge'sl
Inc Mtsfft Crown" and Thomas M IN
Bethany" 1t is not tn IA
that American writer's ara
OF writing plays. There is probably
OF one OF them but has from two to
dozen in his desk. Whence, then
le dearth? Is the fault with I'M
'ould-be playwriShts or with thu H.
lanagers?
Emerson Hough pleads mot guilty.
the charge Of animus against tn. tS
egro' for which some reviewers have
una rault with his new novel "'rhs
aW of the Land" He saws he coma,
a Quaker family in Virginia, who's.
'me was more than half suspected O,
eng station on the underground
llroad," and all the traditions OF. bla
reer have been friendly to tia
gro. II am a Republican" he "a
ntly remarked to a friend, "but not
at sort of Republican which th,nkS
at all the sweetness and light-au
wisdom of the country-dwelI si
rth of the Ohio River. In
ne Law of the Land my whole in.
est was in the solution of the roco
oblem-the whole book was In thu Z
"yer's closing speech. wanted NJ VI
ow that this thing cannot be solved
politics. Legally the black ruIas
white but actually he does not
q cannot and never will in our
ae." 40 OA