Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-01-26

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Francis Newton Thorpe, author OF
several constitutional histories, has
written "A Short Constitutional His
tory Of the United States" which Lit.
tie, Brown & Co.. Boston, will pub
lish.
1t is said that Gertrude Atherton's
Rulers of Kings will not be pub
lished in Germany because "Tauch'
nitz dares not publishes it." 1t may
not be the precise truth but 1t is a
fairly good story and much better
advertisement.
1.-THE Wolverine" by Albert l.. Law
renee, Is a new romance Of love and
politics. 1t scenes are laid in Detroit
just before Michigan became a State.
when that Territory and the State OF
Ohio were nearly at open war over
the boundary line.
Tudor jerks, who was for many
years on the editorial staff Of Isl
Nicholas" has written the first vol
ume In A. s. Barnes new series OF
Lives of Great Writer'S" under the
title Of I'm the Days of Chaucer.' to
which Hamilton Wright Mabie has
contributed an introduction.
Owen Kildare. who has sprung into
wide fame in very short time, has
written a new book with the striking
title, "The Good OF the Wicked" Il
story of Bowery life in New York,
which the Baker 4 Taylor Company.
New York. will publish. together with
The Party Sketches" here ,ofore pub
lished serially.
Frederick S. Isham. author Of
BLACK Friday" just published by the
BObbs-Merrill Company, Is native ct
Detroit. After he was graduated from
the high school he devoted himself TO
travel abroad, setting down at the end
Of that migratory period to student
life in Munich. Twelve months later
Bohemian London became his next
place of abode. For two years he ct
tended the Royal Academy Of Music
In Hanover Square. From this fra
ternal and artistic atmosphere Mr..
Isham came home to the busy life o:
newspaperdom. He served in various
capacities on the Detroit Free Press
and other papers. Mr.. 1sham's pre-
vious novels. 1.-The Strollers" and "Un-
riy successful and BLACK Friday"
seems destined to an equal popular
ity. The actual writing of the book
was done in villa overlooking the
sea on the north coast Of France.
Maarten Martens. the author Of
"Dorothea." lately published by the
Appletons, and of many other novels.
related recently an anecdote Of his
boyhood days, when he was spending
the summer at Barbizon, the home Of
Jean Francois Mi.let. The future nov
elist, who was about ten years old at
the time. was sitting on gate-post
watching a dog fight. The partici-
pants were his landlords dog and
neighbours, in which the stranger was
eventually killed. Young Martens
was so excited at the tragic outcome
that he fell Off his perch on top O.:
the animals, just as the neighbours
wife rushed out of her house across
the road. and accused the boy Of kill
ing her dog. The old woman saw the
marks Of the teeth on her dogs throat,
and then glanced suspjciously at the
little foreigner. 'Come here, little
boy" she called out, land show me
your teeth But they didn't fit"
Mr.. Martens hastens to explain when
! he tells the story.
1t Is only few months since the
veteran actor manager, John Coleman.
was buried: He died before the last
proof-sheets of this book reached him.
! Its two volumes must have given HIN
great satisfaction. had he lived to see
| them in print. Rarely Is such vast
| array Of interesting narrative and I'M
usual incident packed into the space
Mr.. Coleman gives to his life story
Fifty Years of an Actors Life is
one rapid succession of Illuminating
pictures Of such people as the Kem-
blcs. the Keans, the Siddons, the Cush-
mans, Macready. Charles Dickens. Sic
Robert Peel, the Queen even; Lady
| Blessington and Count D'Orsay. Dis
raeli, Louis Bonaparte. Edwin Forrest,
the Terrys, Kate and Ellen. Henry
Irving. \ thorough gong Londoner.
man of high ideals for the sage, one
whose name is inSeparably connected
with the Shakespeare memorials at
Stratford-onAvon, Mr. Coleman I'M
derstood in the writing Vt his auto
biography what would interest the
most casual reader.