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that Houghton, Nif1in & Co. have marked for
immediate publication. There is plenty of hu-
morous suggestion in the title that should be
borne out in the story, which is said to relate
the complications resulting from the we'll mean
ing but too jealous efforts Of a benevolent
matchmaker to marry on three attractive young
women.
The announcement by A. Conan Doyle in the
last-he said It was to be the last-of his Sher-
lock Holmes stories, that the famous medico-
detective had retired to farm In Sussex. where.
in Maeterlinckian fashion, he would devote
himself to beekeeping, has stirred up a good
deal of trouble for the author and even threat
the peaceful and to-be-hoped permanent
seclusion of the hero. DR.. Doyle has already
received two letters from the editors OF agrl-
cultural journals with offers Of assistance and
suggestion in regard to the raising Of bees. and
another communication containing offer Of
marriage This from a gentleman who
wrote. stating that his former hOusekeeper
was looking for position. She had had great
experience with bees. and IN fact knew all
about them. and he would be very glad to rec
ommend her to Mr. Holmes If his address was
supplied. The writer also limited that as Holmes
was advancing in years and the hOusekeeper
was a woman of about middle age. well pre-
served, and possessing all the domestic virtues
perhaps there might be still more happy results
from the meeting than the mere supplying of
the detective with hOusekeeper. DR.. Doyle
says he proposes to keep Holmes a bachelor II
he can. and there is no doubt OF his ability to
DO so II he is content to leave him with his
bees in Sussex.
Signora Grazia Deledda, author Of After
the Divorce" published by Henry Holt & Co.
is but thirty years old and has already achieved
marked success with her In Jfalv
Franco Her novel. ELIAS Portulu." was pub
lished a serial in the Revue des Deux
Mondes." The scenes Of her stories are laid in
her native Sardinia, a hitherto little exploited
field in fiction.
Charles Scribner's Sons publish to-day no fewer
than seven books Of their spring list Among
them are Robert Grants new novel, THE Or
chid,' described as a "sprightly' story of the
smart set' In American society; volume Of
short stories by H. G. Wells, Twelve Stories
and Dream" the grotesque and humorous
character OF which are indicated by two of the
titles Tho inexperienced Ghost and Mr.
Skelmersdale in Fairyland"; a new edition of
W. c. BrOwnelrs French Art" to which has
been added a chapter on 'Rodin and the Insti-
tute." which takes up the chief phase Of French
art developed since the book was first pub
hshed; Mary Platt Parmele's "A Short History
OF Russia" in a edition brought down to
the siege Of Port Arthur. and 1.-THE Van Dyke
Book" collection Of the essays. poems and
stories OF Henry van Dyke, selact~d and edited
by Edwin Norris. Phi. D. Next Saturday the
Scribners VIII publish John Fox's Following
the Sun Flag Vain Pursuit Through Man.
chur1a"; Z. w. Mornings new novel Of Aus
tralian Gfventure 'Stingaree" and William
BarTy's The Life OF Ernest Renan."
Another story Of Western life, by John II.
Whitson. author OF THE Rainbow Chasers," Is
promised this month by Little, Brown & Co. It
will be called Justin Wingate. Ranchman." and
will deal with Colorado politics and the fight
between the cattle men and the irrigationists
for control Of the State legislature.
The 81 haven't but 1 wilr' Of the mischievons
little boy who told not to pinch the baby
to make it cry, is amusingly paraleled by a re-
cent experience Of S. E. Kiser the author Of
Charles the Chauffeur" When the story was
appearing serially in The Tribune Sunday Mag
azine he was visited one day in his office by a
well groomed young woman. who accused him
of writing up her own experiences for the
amusement Of the public She insisted that she
was the real Juliet Thurlow." and was positive
that somebody who was jealous OF her had been
disclosing facts concerning her adventures in
tho automobile. Mr.. Kiser succeeded in con-
vincing her that her suspicious were unfounded,
but during her stay she unwittingly recounted
a number of exploits that are related in the
closing chapters.
In New knowledge" volume published this
week by A. S. Barnes 6; Co, the author, Robert
Kennedy Duncan. professor of chemistry in
Washington and Jefferson College, treats OF the
recent discoveries in chemistry and physics in
the form Of a popular synthesis The expert
ments of Becquerel. the CURES. Ramsay Crookes
and others have been sensational in them
selves, and have been made the subject of so
many sensational articles OF a more or less
pseudo-scientihc character in the periodical
press, that Professor Duncan was inspired to
obtain the actual facts from the scientists per-
sonally In preparing his work he has had in
view the enlightenment, not only of the student
Of science, to whom the original reports. scat
tered through files Of foreign scientific Journals,
may not be readily accessible. but Of the layman
as we'll whose curiosity may have been slim
uiated by the suggestive. but not always accu-
rate. accounts in the native unscientiio jour
nails.
The seventh series Of the Right Hon. Sir
Mountstuart E. Grant Duff's Notes will be
published shortly IN this country by E. P. Dut-
ton & Co.. IN two volumes entitled Notes from
a Diary. 1s06-January o. 1901 bringing these
gossipy memoirs down TO the end Of the half
century preceding the reign Of King Edward
VII The present series will contain a number
Of new anecdotes OF Tennyson. Matthew Arnold.
Gladstone, Cecil Rhodes and many lesser lights.
wits and men about town
Next Saturday the Colonial Press. OF Boston,
win publish a story OF New-England country
mia entitled s,Ths 4Ygybseksrs.a BIZ Ees 4Cms,