The farmer and mechanic., 1906-09-25

Marie CoreIli. the novelist, is
Italian. born in Italy Of Italian par
entS. and was educated in England by
Dr. Charles Mckay, poet, She lives
q kensingtOn, IN London She is
a Romanist The famous Spanish
author Calderon's S real. complete name
was Calderon de la Barca. | repeat
here the full name of the mastery
French author and skeptic Of the
eighteenth century, who did a world
of evil while accomplishing some
good, is known as Voltaire But that
was not his real name. 1t was Fran
co.'s Mario Aroelet and he was born
i'll 1924. gifted French writer,
resident in England Mrs. CraiGie,
was a native of the United States. She
| wrote as John Oliver Hobbies. she
recently died very suddenly. and be
! fore she had attained to her fortieth
year, she was not Il great writer, |
suppose, but a popular one. | never
read q line by her or Miss Corelli.
The New York saturday Review, ,"
says of her as a novelist: 1T is true
that John Oliver Hobbies was not one
of the great or even the most stirring
forces of modern literature, but she
had a peculiar place of her own. an
| originality of view and Of expression
| that were evidently not yet developed
i'll the height Of their possibilities,
| and there was every reason to hope
! Ioi a. Hlltf ana flCnef dchlSNelle1lt Tor
| her"
Somebody wrote u booll-a novel
| perhap apS-caled THE Jungle" which
is very popular. 1t is approaching its
hundred thousand mark, and has
been translated into sixteen Ian
suages. There is city in the great
Northwest that has thirty-six nation
ALT es among its population. That
clever and once popular Southern
novelist. Miss Murfrce, of Murfrees-
boro. Tenn. has Il new novel ready,
called THE storm Centre" 1t is
commenced with d plot in 1863. when
| some English soldiers had to deal
with Cherokee Indians. There was
| one novel not long ago issued that
l would read when my year for
novels had passed / only read after
waiting quite a year before touching
a new novel. There are only some
! 5000 to 10000 novels a year now
publlShed This novel referred to is
called Tho Awakening Of Helena
| Richie and is by good writer. Mrs.
! Margaret Deland. Years ago | read
| two of her books and I know she is
pure, gifted and very interesting
writer The papers praise it, but
| that Is no positive sign of excellence,
| A newspaper of the character of the
| New York Times says it is "a perfect
Dook. That is saying a great deal.
| MRS. Deland is perhaps the best of
| American female nOvelists of
whose books l have any knowl-
| edge. She is absolutely clean.
| BY the way. in a recent
7 reference Of mine to Quo Vadis." a
| novel of power and originality. | wrote
| 1t was clear. and it appeared-"it is
| Clean "a thing it is not. 1t has two
| scenes marVellously executed. but the ey
! deface the book. I made in the \. y.
| Saturday Review mention of new
| book by Prof. Charles Lee Raper, OF
| the University of North Carolina. on
| the production of wealth and welfare
| and called: The Principles of Wealth
! and Welfare; Economies for High
/ schools" The Review says Of it:
| ut is a simple and elementary dis
/ cuSSlon of the more important pTln-
| pies lnOIVed in the COnSumptiO pro
| duction and distribution of wealth.
! such topics as demand. value and
price. labor. land, capital. agriculture
| manufacture. transportation and eX
change, demand and supply, rent
wages, interest, and business profit.
are discussed. An attempt is ais
/ made to show that the State is pro
ducer of wealth by the protecuoi
which it gives to the lives. liberties,
and properties of the people