The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-25
ROCKS AND

Katherine Cecil Thurston's Gambler
heads the list of popular books in England,
according to the London Bookman, at the
same time that Traffic the latest novel
by her husband, E. Temple Thurston, is
reported as the volume most in demand
in Scotland. Mrs. Thurston's first impulse
to write came from her husbands advice,
and in her literary work she has been much
assisted by his able counsel and sympathy.
Mrs. Wards novel @Fenwick's Career
now approaching conclusion as a serial,
has already gone into a second edition as a
book. In advance OF publication, as the Or
ders for the story OF the Westmorland
painter, whom every one knows now is
founded on the life Of the painter, George
Romney, have already exhausted the
original edition.
All lovers Of Dickens will be interested
to learn that the original of Little Dorrit
is still alive. She Is Mrs. Cooper, the sister
of Diokens's school chum and his playmate
in the days when she was Mary Ann Milton.
She has lived for more than half q century
in the south OF England, and though now
more than ninety years OF age she still re-
tains full possession OF all her faculties
Mrs. Austin, the author Of "Isidro' and
4Tbe Land OF Little Rain" is now engaged
in writing a play Of Indian life. She has
known the Paiutes of the California desert
for seventeen years, and her feeling for the
| Indian race is the feeling OF one human
being for another. Her field Is a broad one,
| and as she herself describes it, life runs
large and motives are as simple and methods
az direct among these people as Is found
in the reading Of Macbeth or the old Greek
ira Mrs. Austin is assisted in her
work by Elmer Harris, a dramatist we'll
! known abroad and a graduate OF the Uni
! versity Of California.
Philip verrin Mighels is soon to start on
a Western journey which has for one OBJ
iect a romantic adventure involving a
search for a lost mine. Mr.. Mighels be-
lieyes he has hit upon a clue which may
lead to the discovery of certain valuable
deposits known to exist, but Of which all
trace has beer lost for some years. The
expedition will take the author into q
number OF Nevada mining camps, where he
expects to gain valuable literary material
for the Western novel upon which he is
now at work.
The last book published by the late Prof.
| Shaler Of Harvard, and one which sums
ND much of his teachings for many years
mast. is that entitled Man and the Earth.
His final conclusions stated in the follow
inc words are OF special interest: "The
earth ia still in it's youth. The geographical
changes will not be such as to menace thu
U,ccess of man. Man himself will moi
change structuraIly, but through his physi'
cal development he will become a geologi-
oal agent OF singular capacity. He will &C
az one vast economic sympathetic creature.
Harrison C. Rhodes, the author Of the
social satire, The Lady and the Ladder,
saws that he reverses the usual order Of
things by being a disappointed Critic
turned novelist and playwright Mr.
Rhodes has returned to London after spend
ing the winter In Rome and Algiers.
I,,tber Burbank believes that he has
found-through years Of investigation intC
I liant life-a method by selection and the
;nerencea of environment Of developing
, in the United States the finest race the
world has ever known. His startling ana
radical theories regarding the training o.
the human plant as he himself expresses
it, are fully discussed in the May Century.
Special interest attaches to Miriam MI
ohelson's new novel, Anthony Overman
in that 1t is a story Of the destroyed Sal
francisco, a locality which Miss Nicholson
knows well. The author will be remem
bered as the writer Of SIN the Bishop'i
Carriage"
Upton Sinclair recently lunched with the
President at the White House. 1t is sale
that MIR. Sinclair's charges against the
packers, in the Jungle, have no impressed
President Roosevelt that be has ordered