Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-12-06
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Waltz'S last novel, "The Ancient Land
mark" has been immediate and wide
spread.
Miss May Sinclair, author Of ''The
Divine Fire." will visit this country.
The book has met with considerable
success with American readers.
-E. P. Dutton & Co. publish "The
Russian Revolutionary Movement" by
KOnni Zilliacus. 1t is a careful his
tory of the long struggle against Rus
sian despotism. originally written in
Finnish and translated by the author
ity Of the author.
George III. Warner, whose book,
"The Jewish Specter," has caused a
storm Of criticism and comment among
Hebrews, is spending the winter in
Tryon, n. G. Mr.. Warner is brother
Of the late Charles Dudley Warner,
and this is his first book.
Frederick Chamberlain, Boston
lawyer, has written a book Of travel
sketches and impressions under the
caption Round the World in Ninety
Days" 1t is the outcome Of trip to
the Philippines and is illustrated from
photos taken by the author.
"Told by Uncle Remus'' is the title
Of new sheaf Of stories by Joel
Chandler Harris. The stories are sup
posed to be told to the son Of the erst-
while small boy, to whom the first
series of tales was told. AS he is a
youngster of the modern school he sets
Uncle Remus some new problems.
"Some Ethical Gains Through Leg
islation," by Mrs. Florence Kelley, Sec
rotary of the National Consumers
League, is published by the Macmillan
Company in the Citizens Library. Its
four divisions discuss the gain achiev-
ed in legislation, and also that remain
ing to be achieved, in the particular
right named in the title: 1.-THE Right
to Childhood" "The Right to Leisure"
''The Purchasers Right to Knowl-
edge" "The Right of Women to Vote"
Arthur Stringer, the author Of
Lonely O'Malley," works at unique
desk. 1t is made entirely from the
oak and pine Of a wrecked schooner
washed ashore on the north coast Of
Lake Erie, where Mr.. Stringer has his
fruit farm and summer home. A por-
ton Of the schooner's deck, worn
smooth by time and water, was kept
intact, and now serves for the top Of
the writing table, while four Of the old
oak ribs have been neatly turned into
substantial table legs.
The new collection of poems by Miss
Edna Dean Proctor, entitled Songs Of
America" contains among other we'll
known pieces the song of the maize,
"Columbia's Emblem" This poem,
which is here for the first time obtain
able in book form, was sung in all the
public schools in the country on Co.
lumbus Day, October q, 1892, having
been written especially for that oc-
casion. 1t has since been widely re-
printed in America, and several times
set to music and sung both East and
West. 1t has been copied in Europe
and used at harvest homes in Aus
tralia.
The American Unitarian Association
has issued the second volume of it's
series on "True American Types" en-
titled Augustus Conant," by Robert
Collyer. This sets forth the simple
but significant life of true New Eng
lander who went West in the early
days to become an Illinois pioneer, lat
er entering the ministry and finally the
Union army, where he met his death in
the Civil War. This series Of books,
the first Of which to be issued was
Johnny GiIley," the story Of Maine
farmer and fisherman, by President
Charles w. Eliot Of Harvard, aims to
portray in brief but significant vol
umes short sketches of the true Amer
lean manhood which travels along the
bypaths Of life rather than in the high
ways Of fame"