The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

will pay almost any price to have the
names of well known authors in their
magazines. There are some really great
writer's in this country today, but they
do not command the prices that are
willingly paid for inane stories by
Richard Harding Davis, and the poor
quality of the last Sherlock Holmes
tales give evidence that it was not
the stories themselves. for.,which Col
lier's Weekly paid. The magazine re-
marks that these false values are ex-
ceedingly discouraging to the literary
aspirant. The amount of money made
out of literature seems all a matter of
chance, and the merit of the work bears
no relation to its pecuniary reward.
Harvey ]. O'Higgins, whose portrait
is here given, the author of THE
Smoke Eaters" is Canadian by
birth, and of wide and varied news
paper experience in New York. 1t
was while a reporter that he learned to
know and to admire the men of the
metropolitan fire department; and the
result is THE Smoke Eaters"
The Prize TO the Hardy-By Alice Winter.
The Bobbs- Merrill company For sale
pany.
That local writer's need not go far
from home for excellent fictional mate
rial, is proven by this story which is
romance of Minnesota written by a
Minnesota woman. MRS., Winter has
placed the scene of her novel I'm st.
Etienne, a city in this state which
seems to be a kind of consolidation of
the Twin Cities, as ii has the charac-
tQriCtinS IF both flaic In 10
early days came Nicholas Windsor to
make his fortune, and IN the time of
which the story tells, he is the first cit
izen in wealth and Importance in this
region. He married woman who had
Indian blood in her veins and their
daughter Vera is the heroine of this
most interesting story. A very charm
ing young woman and heir to her IA
Tiers millions, Vera is naturally the
belle in the highest social circles of
the city and for a time imagines her
self in love with her fathers secre-
tary, Kemyss, who wants her money,
but loves a married woman. Then
comes Frank Lenox from Windsor's
old home, and is given place and a
chance to prove himself a man, which
he does to the great satisfaction of the
old man" who has taken fancy to
the boy. Lenox of course falls in love
with Vera, but is not hopeful of the
success of his suit. The great forest
fire at Hinckley is very ingeniously
woven into the plot, and il is during
this time of stress when Vera was
caught in the train which was racing
with the fire that Lenox proved his
worth and Kemyss his unworthiness,
and the story ends in the proper man
ner with Vera and Lenox happy. Mrs.
Winter draws her characters well, and
while it is q first book, there is moth
ing amateurish about the style or man.
ner of her work. Perhaps better drawn
and more real than the hero and hero
inc, are the husband and wife, Ned
Lyell, and the woman who only learned
to appreciate him after much suffering
and many misunderstanding
The Hound From the Nortf1-By Ridgwell
Cullom. l.. c. Page & Co. For, sale by
St Paul Book and Stationery company
The reader who expects to find this
a dog story on the order of Jack Lon
don's Call of the Wild" will be agree
ably surprised by its perusal. Though
the dog and his almost human instinct
furnish background for the story, it
in reality concerns some very human
and interesting folk just over the
American border in Canada. The viii
lain of the tale is one Hervey Mailing,
a man so thoroughly bad that one feels
his utter blackness must be overdrawn.
He goes up to the Klondike, accumu-
lates a goodly sum of gold api is
about to return to. civilization, when
he is drugged and robbed of his mile"
Turned into fiend by this i'll luck,
he determines to await the coming of
other travellers and do the same thing.
When two customs officers, Leslie Grey