The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-08
BOOK NEWS

BOOK NEWS
| The ideal model library is set forth in
the new American Library Association
ment printing Office at Washington. The
| New York state library and the library
OF congress Joined forces in selecting out
lish literature the books that should go
to make up an ideally good small public
library llors,j @ for the general reader which
!, would also serve the needs of most special
students. It is of interest to know that
Of the 1920 volumes declared by these
authorities the best for the purposes of
the. library and the. general reader, 1851.
or little more than Is per cent, are
published by the Macmillan company
In the Days of Shakespeare, Mr.. Tu-
@ aor Jenksl5 g. L new. book, is being published
Lives of Great Writer'S SERIES If is
, uniform with I'm the Days of lChaucer''
which is meeting with SO marked well
come in this country and in England,
| A. soul Is tried before no tribunal be-.
cause it has not lived up to the level of
some other souls ideal Each life must.
aed ee f. by its own IDEALS the horizon
henslon.-Charles Brodie Patterson in
The Measure of Man.
| Gertrude Atherton has received another
mission to translate her novel, Rulers of
Kings into German. One of her books,
Senator North, has been translated no
less than three times in Germany.
The Blue Sky Press announces a new
and authoritative edition of Oliver Gold
smiths biography of Beau Nash. This
remarkable piece s: Of writing has been un-
| ton of the authors works that has an
peared in the past eighty years. SO that
so far as we are able to learn, the present
edition is the only one in which the COLI
lector can secure the famous Life in a
| volume of its own.
''Thei Secret Woman, =. the new novel
I by Mr.. Eden Phillpetts, is announced for
| publication in January by the Macmil-
Ian company. Rude and romantic char
acters. descriptions of lonely and pictur-
plot in which love and passion play
| strong parts explain to some extent the
| very strong hold which Mr.. Phillpotts
has gained on the reading public His
| characters have human faults, but in
general they are of high, mind and pur-
pose, and are worthy of respect; and his
descriptions OF nature are done with
feeling and knowledge
| Hall Caine maintains that moments of
the greatest Inspiration come in great SOL
itudes He was alone half way up a bleak
and rugged mountain in Iceland when the
thought came ITO him to end his latest
novel, THE Prodigal Son. by having Os-
! car die in an avalanche instead OF being
killed by his brother Magnus as he had
originally intended. He then and there
resolved to make the change d. Appleton
4 & CO., his publishers, say that the book is
/ having remarkable sale.
Cal Blount, the real hero of Emerson
Hough's new novel .The Law of the
Lane" is a Southern planter with
quaint way of looking at things. Here are
nr3 Qro rrn hIcv,,
IF you'll let me say so, there amt no
1 law higher than the law of poker Now
we, We've let Mr Niger .s Into into the game with
| gives him a few chips. He don't buy 'en
! for himself, and he don't know the value
of 'em. His chips ought to be good as far
is he's wanting to get into every jack
pot with less'n a pair of deuces, and want
ing to play on the ground that his white
chips are as good as the other fellows
i blue ones. Now that amt pokeri''
There has been some discussion concern
ing the pronunciation of Cenrad's new
novel. .Nostromo. as to whether the ac-
i cent should fan on the first or second
syllable. 1t has been suggested that as
the character is that of a Genoese. the
homo.v In.that case the accent would fall
on the second syllable. That at any rate
appears TO be the accepted pronunciation.
a Song OF Courage
If the world has gone wrong, and life is =
song i
Where the minor chords given to wall
ing; -s
j If the skies have weptS tears, and at
trouble and fears
The souls in our bosoms are quailing;
| If we look through maze unto desolate
4 days
When our hearts shall be weary. so
weary; 81
If we've thrown and have missed, and are
dropped from the list
OF the ones who are happy and CHEEKY;
Why. stin, do you know, we may fight as
4 we go
A battle. that's stalwart and onward;
We may rise, though we fall, unto error
no thrall,
Cleaying upward and starward and sun
ward,
And the light of our eyes. though 1t
fiickers and dies,
We may see reappear in another's,
For the God-giyen light that viii scat
ter the night
Is the smile on the face Of our BROTH
Alfred J. Waterhouse.