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his meals, though the royal cellars OF Dan.
mark contain some of the choicest wine q
in the world. He never stumbled, he never
dealt in passion or tempted trouble.
THE Colonel Of the Red Huzzars' is the
first novel Of a new author, a lawyer by
professionalism Reed Scott. In writing
this story during his leisure evenings the
author aimed to construct a romanoe in
which there was no bloodshed and no
killing. The heroine Is the only character
drawn temperamentally over an original,
The book is announced for spring publica-
ton.
: Carl Joubert, the we'll known writer on
Russian subjects, who died recently in
London, had written within the space Of a
year and a half three books which met with
widespread popularity, and all dealing
with Russia and her Government. His
works are published in this country under
the titles of Russia as It Really Is @The
Truth About the Tear" and @The Fall Of
Tsardom."
Sir Algernon Vests biography Of Harry
Keppel," the Little Admiral who died
two years ago at the age Of 95, is the story OF
n Of the last specimens Of the old time
type of British officer belonging to an ago
before scientific inventions had substituted
exact technical training for individual
initiative and superiority. b tale is
frightened with unexpected little sallies OF
jolly, breezy English wit and humor. like
his speech to Mrs. Parker on coming home
from uhoofinn. at hn ua hid nm nrpaIlant
days sport; I nave shot two woodcocks, ten
pheasants. a rabbit and your SON." or in the
telegram to his wife when he had gone Of on
his own account and she had wired to know
How are you, and where can l find your;
Am quite we'll; you cannot find me- or, In
answer to his doctor, who had declined to
take the responsibility Of his going to
Greenwood before he had recovered from
an accident, who the devil asked you to
take the responsibility
The report that Myra Kelly has turned
her attention to stories Of devotional char
acter, tales Of the little mothers and Of the
black robed sisters who carry on their good
work in the slums, turns out to be untrue.
Miss Kelly is still devoted to the Little
Citizens" she has made famous and a new
story to be published in McClure's Magazine
called "A Soul Above Buttons" marks her
progress half way through the number Of
stories needed for the second volume.
Mrs. Alec Tweedie has written "A life OF
that remarkable man "Porfrio DiaZ, Seven
Times President of Mexico"
Mr.. Arthur l.. Salmon in his Literary
Rambles in the West Of England accom-
panies Borrow to Cornwall, Keats to leigh
mooth, Wordswo nth to the Quantocks,
Coleridge and Tennyson to Clevedon. He
dwells with Herrick at Dean Prior, with
Hawker at Morwenstow and with Richard
Jeffriee at his Wiltshire home.
Among the specimens Of printing in the
exhibition Of ancient and modern print
ing, engraving, 60. held at the Boston
Public Library in homo Of h bi~oentenAry OF
Franklin's birth was the Riverside Press
Declaration Of Independence. II was ar
ranged in the form of a broadside and
printed on a single sheet Of Whitman paper,
the text set as an almost solid block OF Mon
taigne capitals, surrounded by rules and
with small medallions Of eagles in the COR
ners. The names OF the signers were ar
ranged in an inverted pyramid at the bot
tom, and the simplicity Of the work sug-
gested an old Roman inscription. So much
interest was aroused that a limited number
of copies of it are being made.
George Horton makes his contribution to
the great literary aftermath of the Russo
japanese war in a volume entitled The
Edge Of Hazard" The scene is laid in Japan,
Siberia and Russia. and the time is immedi-
ately preceding the conflict between Russia
and Japan.
The poems Of Louise Morgan Sill, which
nave appeared from time to time in various
ma Magazines, nave beer collected as the
of a volume Of poetry which will
verses hitherto unpublished. The
book will be published in April under the
an Sun and Shade"
Another revelation of the methods OF
craftsmanship comes from Mrs.
Katherine Cecil Thurston, who told an
interviewer lately that she worked con-
ti~nuously during the morning hours, keep
ing her afternoons free for the many social
of London. at is not easy to
describe how the plan Of a book first comes
to me-" she says. when once the primary
idea, the dramatic centre, you might say,
has occurred to me. it often lies in my
mind for weeks and months before a word
is written. But during all this time it
and develops, characters and Incl
dents are added and the balance Of things
il adjusted Everything is carefully worked
out before the paper is touched. The
whole story is in my mine almost to the
detail before I start to write at
all"
A new book by Charles Wagner will
Ne brought out this spring under the title
'Wayside Talks" Wagner's earlier book,
The Simple Life" has had an UMPIRE
,edented sale. OF the authorized edition
nearly 100000 copies have been sold, and
be pirated paper edition sold on the street
s said to be half az large again.
Susan 3. Anthony is known among the
'eformers as the great leader ard ad-
iocate of eqral suffrage and woman rights,
Jut she has also a place among the writers
If America as the founder and editor Of
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