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A widely known publishing house
opens a book announcement with the
shocking statement that "the only
good reason for publishing a book il
| that the author has something to say"
No publisher has any right to muzzle
people that way. e&- YfE9 y
Crowell s. Co., New York, had cali
lately for a copy Of their Getting
Square With the Creator" which, be.
ing Interpreted, was found to mean
copy of Trine's I'm Tune With the In
finite" Some time before an English
woman wrote for it as 1.-THE Tune OF
the Infants" .@I @j e.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills new
book, THE Quest Of John Chapman,
is stirring peculiar interest in the Mid.
die West, where this quaint, heroic
personality was especially active, and
there are many curious stories Of the
orchards he planted and others that
sprang from them.
I'm the Days Of Shakespeare" by tn.
dor jerks, a new number In q series OF
Lives of Great Writer'S" issued by
A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, Ia to
have for frontispiece a reproduction
from Frederick MacMonnies' statue Of
Shakespeare in the congressional Il.
brary, Washington. -" @s....f
William Henry Shelton's stirring
Civil War story, THE Three Prison.
ers," lately published by A. s. Barnes
& Co., New York, the tale of the
schoolmaster and two boys caught In
the bloody swirl of the Wilderness, In
practically a reproduction Of real hap.
penings. Mr.. Shelton himself was a
Civil War boy soldier. .H d..
James jeffrey Roche, poet, novelist.
and the editor Of the Boston Pilot, has
been appointed by the President con-
sui to Genoa. While his new duties
will interrupt his editorial work, II will
not interfere with his literary actIvi-
ties, and it Is his intention to devote
his spare time, of which he should
have plenty, to authorship.
The new novel by Eden Phillpotts
Is entitled 1.-THE Secret Woman Il
deals, as do most of this author'a
stories, with the rude but romantic
rustics of Devonshire, and abounds in
characteristic descriptions of the lone.
ly yet picturesque scenery Of the coun.
try. There is simple plot, in which
love and passion play strong parts.
That Pastor Wagner's doctrine Of
the simple life has taken a hard hold
on US Americans Is evidenced by the
use Of the phrase in advertisements Of
all sorts of commodities and comestt.
bIes. A Boston bookseller finds that Il
apparently appeals to the lower ami.
mails as we'll as to human beings. an
1ncursion of mice into his establish
ment in the absence Of the Office cat
having resulted in extensive damage to
his stock Of The Simple Life"
Sir Gilpert Parker, author of "A
Ladder of Swords" tells the following
story about the growth Of his earlier
novel, THE Right Of Way" He had
planned the story for about 1900
Tort on keeping it short On a steamer
bound for America he met q member
OF the Harper firm, and described the
story to him. They sat on deck most
OF one night talking over the charac.
ter OF Charley Steele, as the author
had studied the original. The story,
as yet unnamed, was accepted on the
spot, and the author hurried into the
Canadian wilderness to write it. He
expected to do 1t in a month, but as
ne worked the scheme changed, and
before that time was past there were
more than the 1900 words, and the
end was nowhere in sight. He wrote
10 MS publishers and explained that
the story had taken the bit in its
mouth and was running away. The
reply came: LET it rum" The result
was a novel of more than 100000
words in length. %&*