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~ nction, from Sherlock Holmes and Martin
Hewitt 10 the old Slcuth and Mich Carter
n tho penny dreadfuls, hut the pretty
and intellectual IN man detective IL u new
creation and has beon chosen ma the heroine
Of Reginald Wright Kaunman'R new mystery
story Frances Baird, Detcotive.' The
author has added fresh complications by
causing hia detective 10 fall IN love with the
man who, upon pain Of dismissal, her chief
has commissioned her to arrest.
Fortune certainly smiles on Rex Beach
just now. His new novel Ia ceiling well,
the now play with which II has been made
will be brought ont in tho autumn by Mr..
Frohman and a gold mine which no had
thought valueless IL suddenly found to have
rich deposits OF ore, Mr.. Beach has just
quit his home in Chicago TO catch the first
steamer to Nome, Alaska. Several years
ago he went there in search Of gold and
adventure and though he found the latter
In plenty all the gold he carried away with
him was in the form Of a small button on
his coat lapel and an interest In a gold mine
in which he had sunk more money than
he ever expected TO get back. Now the
supposedly valueless claim is yielding
enormo returns.
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Why is an author POPULAR What is the
secret Of success in fiction? Those are the
questions The Literary World proposes to
nave answered by persuading It's readers to
tell why certain writer's have gained wide
popularity. Only novelists of high standing
are to be considered and to the person who
best discloses the secret of popularity a
prize of two guineas will be given. The
name offered for the first contest Is that of
Mrs. Humphry Ward and the answer which
best points out the qualities in her work
that have gained for her 80 large a circle
Of readers will be printed in the July num-
Der.
The members OF the literary colony OF
New York are just starting for their sum-
mer homes or for European wanderings.
Mr.. Howells Is at Kittery Point. Me-,
In his picturesque and rambling home
stead, surrounded by fine trees and with a
superb view of the bay and sea. Mark
Twain, from his high perched home at Dub
lin, n. H., has a fne view-what he calls a
contented outlook. Mr.. Clemens will re-
main away longer than usual his year, as
he does not intend to return to New York
until December.
Van Tassel Sutphen Is an author who
graduated from golf into literature. The
story that first brought him into promi-
hence was entitled the Hong Kong Medal
and is said to nave been the first tale in
which the golfng craze supplied the motive.
Later Mr.. Sutphen wrote The Golicides,"
THE Nineteenth Hole and a novel, The
Cardinals Rose Mr.. Sutphen still retains
his enthusiasm for golf, dividing his leisure
time between that sport and music. The
D~oomsman,' his recently published book,
Is in quite a different vein from his other
Charles Haynes Haswell, probably the
oldest living engineer and author, has just
celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday. Mr..
Haswell takes a keen interest in all recent
developments in science and engineering
and brings up to date each new edition Of
his Mechanics and Engineers Pocket
book" first published in 1912. The oon-
tinuous reprinting OF this standard refer
ence work has already worn out three sets
Of plates and the book Is in its SEVENTEEN
edition. About ten years ago Mr.. Haswell
published his memoirs, "Reminiscences of
an Octogenarian," a book Of interesting
recolleotions Of famous people.
Warwick Deeping has written a new
novel full of picturesque romance which
will be published June IL under the It'll Q Of
-Bess of the Woods The scene is set in
England 100 years ago and the plot is based
upon the struggle between a band Of snug
glers and a young country squire for the
possession Of the beautiful young girl wit h.
out whom no romance could be written.
Mr.. Deepipg is the author of luther and
I~graine"ah "The Slanderers."
That the interest in psychicll phenomena
still possesses the public mind is lemon
strated by the fact that Prof. James H.
Hyslop's two volumes, Science and a
Future Life and 'Enigmas Of Psychical
Research are in such constant demand
that the latter volume has just gone into a
second edition.
J.C. Snaith was scarcely known in America
until his excellent novel, Broke Of Coven-
den, appeared last year and attracted the
Of readers Of good taste. This
book has now gone into its fifth American
and a new novel is promised for the