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with the first mad rush OF the gold seekers
and brought impressions OF the country
and n picturesque vocabulary which no
has used to advantage in his new novel,
"pardners." He holds the indoor record of
100 wards in swimming and was the winner
of the mile handicap swimming race at the
Olympian games in st. Louis He Is classed
among the new school Of humorists, brin ging
out in breezy, hearty style the moro
amusing side OF existence in the frozen
North or on the Northern cattle plains.
Miss Mary Cholmondeley's father, who
has recently died at the age of IS years,
was one Of the few remaining specimens Of
the hunting parsons. 1t is distinguished
family, of which the head is now Lord Della
mere. 1t was the late Mr.. Bentley who
discovered" Miss Cholmondeley, whose
book Red Pottage" caused q literary
sensation when 1t appeared. Mr.. Bentley
was 90 impressed with short story written
In the Temple Bar that he invited further
work from her pen, upon which she pro-
duced sir Charles Danvers' and 'Diana
Tempest" Seven years later she wrote
Red Pottage,' spending three years over
the book, which had an enormous sale and
established the popularity Of the author.
Amelie Nves is another Of the auth OTIS.
like Gertrude Anterior, Kate Douglas Wig
who find the atmosphere ofNew York not
conducive to literary effort. 'Oh, what
distracting, fearful grinding place. she
said recently. Il feel when I'm here,
which Is very rarely, az II we're in net-
work Of GROSS currents, Intangible, unat-
tainable, nothing that the mind can seize
or settle upon. There is nothing here but
a great hollow metallic roar Amelie
Rives's visit to New York was brief one.
made on her way to Europe. She divides
her time between the home Of her ohildhoo
In Virginia, and tho estate Of her husband,
Prince Troubetzkoy. on the shore Of Lake
Maygiore in Italy. where she wrote her re-
Gently published poem, 'seleue.'
.The Little oons@ipt, by Ero s. Brudno,
which will be published on May ~, 10
novel Of Russia at the present time and
gives an intimate picture Of Russian mill
tary and peasant life, the conditions In
the army and the methods adopted to re-
cruit it by force and fraud, There Is also
an analysis Of the Russian peasants char
acter, which reveals him as slave Of tenn
peramental weakness and superstition. Mr..
Brudno will be remembered by his first
book, THE Fugitive
The biography Of John Knox, by Henry
Cowan, d. D., In the Heroes Of the Re
formation Series. appears this month on
the 4Ooth anniversary Of the birth OF the
famous Scotch reformer. The day will be
celebrated in Edinburgh by great as
sembly Of the Church Of Scotland.
Felix Adler's new book THE Religion OF
Duty" will be printed May ~. This volume
of selections from the speeches and adj
dresses OF the founder and leader Of the
Ethical Culture Society gives to the ideals
and principles Of the ethical culture move
ment the most complete expression they
have yet had and points out the essential
difference between ethical culture societies
and the churches.
Frederick Upham Adamss new golf
novel. entitled John Henry Smith, will be
published on May n. The action OF the
story takes place in the open and romance
develops on the links in which millionaires,
philosophical farmers, remarkable hired
man and pretty girls figure. An incidental
feature Of the story which Is told with the
whimsical humor which characterized 'The
Kidnapped Millionaires' Is duel between
Panhard motor car and bull, In which
the result belongs to the story and not to
the announcement.
Mr.. Rider Haggard's "A Gardeners
Year. Is Of peculiar interest In that it Is
a record Of the years work done in his own
gardens at buckingham and Kessingland.
The author is his own head gardener and
nothing Is done in the garden without
his personal supervision, while he often
lends hand to the carrying out OF his
plans. With three acres Of garden under
cultivation, Mr. Haggard's staff consists
only OF three regular men, with frequent use
Of fourth-the owner himself. There are
six glass houses in which he grows prize
orchids; highly cultivated kitchen garden.
orchard, tennis court and croquet ground,
and two ponds in which the author-gardener
grows aquatic plants.
Literary explorers after fresh material
seem to have settled upon Labrador and
northwestern Canada and Alaska as most
rich in possibilities 80 far as America is
concel ned, while in the opposite hemi-
sphere the Far East still focuses literary
attention. Having exha listed Japan in the
great wave of war books, the leaders, with
prophetic foresight, are pushing on with
China. 1t is surely not simply coinci-
dence but rather a significant fact that
three efforts to interpret the Chinese mind
in terms Of fiction should have been made
simultaneously. Mr.. Norris in Rice
Papers" finds the Chinaman with his strange
mineling Of childishness and shrewdness,
eauanimity and cruelty an extremely in
teresting study. Mr.. Oliver S. Ready's
tale Of Chinese love and tragedy, "Chun-
Kwang," is written with an intimate knowl-
edge Of Chinese manners, etiquette and
supersttion and is illustrated by q, Chinese
artist with excellent examples OF Chinese
art. The third book. THE Mirror Of Kong
Ho." purports to give in the form of letters
to the writer's father in China the expert
ences OF Chinaman in Bloomsbury board
ing house, and is reallya yelled satire gainst
British insular limitations.
An important forthcoming art book is
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