The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-01

anonymous author. with some intimate
and amusing pictures Of Boston sooiety.
The Opal is young girl Of French and
Kentuckan parentage, who has all the
varied attractions Of the gem for which
abe Is named, but has lost all distinctive
individuality in her evolution toward social
perfection
The series OF Twelve English Statesmen
will be brought TO a conclusion by Mr.
Frederick Harrison's biography OF Chatham.
which the Macmillan Company announce
for publication some time In March.
Mise Mary Johnston, author OF TO Have
and TO Hold is spending the winter In the
far South, and Ia now at Nassau.
John Burroughs has quit his homo on
the Hudson for few weeks OF early
Summer in Bermuda. One OF the chapters
OF his latest work, Far and Near, describes
a similar visit which he made several win
ters ago in Jamaica.
DR. Edward W. Emerson, son OF Ralph
Waldo Emerson. is spending the winter
In Southern France, where he went last
autumn after he finished editing the new
centenary edition of his fathers works. lie
will probably take journey through Greece
before his return TO Cambridge
The increased interest In socialism In
this country will no doubt give vogue to
Mr. Edward Carpenter new book. The
Art OF Creation; Essays on the Self and Its
Powers recently brought out by MacMi-
Ian. Mr.. Carpenter Is perhaps the most
prominent Socialist among the literary
folk in England indorsing the street corner
propaganda and writing much on pure
ideals OF democracy
An unusual novel written by Alfred
T. sheppard. under tho title of Tho Red
Crayat,' is announced for publication
The plot turns upon the kidnapping Of
young E9glishman. who happens to DO
very tall. for service In the famous Grena- !
dlers OF Frederick William. father Of Fred |
enck the Great The story is one Of adj |
venture and peril somewhat In the lines OF
'The Pride of Jennlco.-
Tommy Cartaret.' Justus Miles For
mans new book had It's origin in curious
incident. When Mr. Forman was in Vienna |
a few years ago he met an Austrian who |
was besieged by remarkable obsession. |
The man maintained that his wife, who |
had died shortly before and TO whom he |
was devoted. accompanied him al over !
Europe and was to him a real and living |
presence. II was simply case Of self
hypnotisn, but the incident so impressed |
Mr.. Forman that no made IL tho basis Of |
the new story OF the young New Yorker |
who assumed his fathers dishonor and |
became self-e1ile, in the Land OF Egypt,
where he encounters the woman who is
killed and who follows him in his fancy |
and affords the author much opportunity |
for dramatic effect and ingenious plot weav-
ing Mr.. Forrnnn is New York man but |
he has spent much time in foreign ateliers, (
for he was an artist before he became (
an author and studied under Julien, Bou
guereau and Baschet. He is a great trav-
eller and has lived great deal in England |
as well as on the Continent, which gives
convtn cling touch to the portraits Of Eng
lishmen and foreigners, which no is fond Of |
introducing in his stories,
Readers Of James Lane Aliens book |
'The Reign Of Law win remember David,
the young divinity student who found it |
impossible TO keep his faith in the old dog |
matte creeds after no had come in touch |
with the modern philosophers, and will be |
interested to know that the suggestion for !
the character was offered to Mr.. Allen by
friend and college mate, William B. Smith,
whose name just now ls prominent In con-
necton with his new book expressing the
Southerners' and the scientists view OF the
race problem, The Color Line Prof
Smith now holds the chair OF mathematics
in Tulane, although his first purpose as
with David, was the study Of theology
His keen interest in all branches OF science
and philosophy turned him from his early
ideals 10 the study Of such modern branches
as anthropology and biology, pure science
as represented in mathematics and the
modern German philosophers,
Booth Harrington. whose new book.