The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-19

jerome, with whom the gave humorous
readings last year in America.
DR.. George A. Gordon dedicates his new
book Through Man to God, ito the Con-
gregational Church in Temple, Me-, where
l began my ministry; to the Second Congre-
g%ational Church in Greenwich, Conn. where
my ministry was continued; and TO the Old
South Church in Boston, where for nearly
three and twenty years 1 have served, sup
ported by the devotion Of a great parish"
In addition to A. E. W. Mason's serial,
-RunningWater and Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett's new novel The Shuttle" which
will begin in the November number OF the
Century, there will be published in serial
form a new novel by Elizabeth Robins
called Come and Fine Me-" In this story
Miss Robins returns to the scenes of her
chief success in fiction, The Magnetic
North and makes the compelling attrac-
ton of h far North the chief motive Of
the narrative.
Robert E.. Knowles, the author OF est.
Cuthbert's,' has a new book ready for this
seasons publication, called "The Under
tow 1t is not a problem novel but a presen-
tation OF the world old struggles between
lofty aspirations and the drawback Of the
senses. The story crosses the atlantic and
returns again in setting forth the expert
enses of the brilliant young minister who
il its hero.
A new book by the writer who calls her
self Victoria Cross, entitled six Women"
Is being brought out in America. Victoria
Cross is an English writer whose personality
Is a mystery. but at the time Of the death of
Lawrence Hope" the author of -India's
Love Lyrics, E" it was announced that she
was a sister OF Victoria Cross, the initials
OF whose real nam are ~. C."-hence
the pseudonym. The work OF the two
sisters is alike in Its expression OF the joy
OF life, the one employing the medium OF
poetry and the other that OF prose. The
povels Of Victoria Cross, although familiar
TO English readers, have not hitherto been
exploited here.
Congressman Theodore E. Burton OF Ohio
in the midst Of his political duties. il hard
at work on the proofs Of his Life OF John
sherman which is to be published the
middle Of November.
The recent printing of a large edition OF
Helen Keller's STORY Of My Life" empha-
sizes the interest taken in this unusual book.
Altogether ten American editions have
been printed and it has been translated
into French, German and Spanish. 1t
will probably be brought u next year
in Japan.
Among the interesting facts related in
Spencer BOrden's new book. The Arab
Horse, lis that George Washington's famous
gray charger was a son Of the desert born
horse Ranger. General Israel Putnam
rode a brother Of Washington's steed when
he ~galloped down the steep declivity of
one hundred steps at Greenwich. The
four famous gray stations that drew Lady
W~ashington's coach to Philadelphia when
Congress convened were bred on the WASH
ingtOn plantation at Mount Vernon and
were half Arabians.
Mary Stewart Cuttings Talk to Wives
the November Bazaar is addressed to
the wife who suffers from incompati-
bility, a matter which she de fines as "a
persistent and irritating divergence of
habit or preference in regard to almost
anything between two people, The
remedy is simple, and like all sirapIe thlnrs