The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
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New York Herald and Minneapolis Journa
Special Gable. Copyright, 1909
London, Sept. London is in the
arms Of another heat wave. Midsum
mer came back with a rush on Thurs
day, and Friday was another swelter
ing day., being the hottest of the wear
sunshine, and even the most contirm 1o:
grumblers at the English climate are
perfectly silent. E.0.,0~.,.
Book Gossip.
.Perhaps the most distinctive feature
OF the literary output promised for this
autumn is the. absence of anything like
the problem novel. :
"What the public wants now is ro
Fesentative Of " Wbte sa Who p 5eB
fishes only fiction, "There viii BE be
novels Of the occult, such as 'Counscls
OF Night by Lucus Cleve; novels OF
light touch, such as 'Merial of the
Moors,' by r. E. Verned; novels OF
| Afrlcan adventure, such as 'The Ivory
Raiders, by Walter Daley; novels Of
| the sword and warfare in the brave
| ddaays Of old, such as the Viper OF
jorie Bowen; but the problem novel
| tically dead.''
Elliott Stock is about to publish his
book on the old Cornish drama by
| Thurston G. Peter. It deals with the
| old mysteries or miracle plays for
which Cornwall was renowned in the
early middle ages, and gives special
3llustratlons from an unique play re.
lating to tie famous old Cornish saint
Mar doc, with which are woven manyt
quaint legends. Most delightful an
achronisms were cheerfuliy perpetrated
such, for instance, as when St. George
IS made a contemporary of Henry V
There IS 9, great deal Of popular humo1
in these old moralities, in spite Of their
rehglous purpose, and the drama, how.
mately the life and habits of our fore.
fathers, deserves to be better known
A: & c. Black will shortly publish a
work by DR.. E. A. Abbott, entitled
"Silanus, the Christian,' an imag inary
autobiography Of a young Roman
knight !gt; Attending the lectures of
Epictetus in 1l8 A. D., in order to re.
flute. the charges that this master pla.
giarizes from the Christians, silanus
procures St. Paul's epistles. They draw
him toward Christ, but he is subse.
quently repealed by unexpected details
IN the synOptic gospels Finally he is
converted by the personal influence of
a Christian, who lends him the fourth
gospel. These experiences, with re.
HldihS upon subsequent Christian deVel
Gpm9s s9 silanus is supposed to record
Brown, Langham & Co. are publish
Ing Japanese novel, by Baroness AL
bert Dauethan, wife Of the Belgian
minister at Toxic. The writer, who is
a sister of Rider Haggard, has the mer
1t Of knowing Japan thoroly, and the
| book, to which she has given the name
at Happened in Japan,' met with a
cordial reception from the japanese
press when it was published in Yoke
hama year or two ago.
| One of the most important of Con
stables autumn announcements is the
N.Life and Letters of Lafcadic
Hearn,' to be issued in two volumes
Born in the Irnian islands, of Greek
and Irish parentage, with an added
strain of gypsy blood, Lafcadio Hearr
was all his life wanderer. He liveC
at various times with a wealthy aunt
in Wales, in the ascetic atmosphere of 6
Roman Catholic college, in extreme
poverty on the east side Of New York
| in Bohemian circles in Cincinnati anC
New Orleans, in many parts of the
American tropics and finally during the
fourteen years before his death, ii
Japan. His biographer, Mrs. >Wetmere
held Hearn's friendship for nearly
| thirty Yaars