The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-21

Henry CRDoJ LOOkc uOW UV0A' NNANN
tier Town and Essays contains q com
prehensive and able account Of the Senate,
what powers it has gained and lost and
il a disnihed answer to the attacks made
upon that body in sensational literature.
The book will be published in September
Mia Mary Johnston, the author Of TO
Have and TO Hold and Audrey, who has
been i'll for some time, her com-
plete ~recovery. Miss Johnston Is a Viz
ginia woman still on the right side OF forty,
and her home is in Richmond, where she will
spend the winter.
The anonvmous writer Of The Secret
life. throws down the gauntlet TO the
much lauded American woman In q spirited
attack which should arouse the champions.
NV observation leads me TO think writes
the daring critic, shat American women
hold a position far inferior to the women
Of Europe. Why Is American social life
composed almost exclusively Of womenr
What place has the middle aged or elderly
woman in America save as the mother OF
her daughters OF the dispenser OF her hus-
bands hospitalities and oharities3 After
thu period Of sex attraction has passed
women have no power In America. Who
ever sees here, as is 80 often seen In Europe,
an elderly woman's drawing rooms filed
with politicians, financiers, artists, who
come for the refreshment and stimulation
Of her IDEAS and conversation Mentally
the American does not interest the
American man.
sDisenchanted," the graphic picture OF
harem life In ~Constantinople which Pierre
Lott has been publishing serially in the
Revue des Deus MondOs. viii be Issued In
book form simultaneously In France, England
and America
American subscribers have contributed
over $4,000 to tho fund REQUIRED Tor the
purchase Of the house on tho Piazza di
SuaRna In Rome whore Keats died. The
movement to secure this house and 10 estab-
lish there a permanent memorial Of Keats
and Shelley 10 OF American origin. but Ia
Of international interest. : Even the most
belpleas tourist f0undsring about Rome
in the wake Of q Cook guide n wrapped
up in his scarlet Baedeker vista the grave
of Keats in the Protestant cemetery and
finds his way TO the Spanish steps, At the
ton OF which in the Church Of Santa Trinita
de- Mont the nuns still sing at vespers the
music written for them by Mendslssohn.
Mr.. Joseph Glider and Miss JeannStte L.
| Glider. who founded the Critic, are TO Be
tho editors Of the new Putndn's Magazine.
the Critic began its career a. q fortniGhtly.
then became q weekly, and finally settled
down into . monthly under the manage
msnt Of Miss Glider alone. Mr.. Glider has
been connected with publishing houses IN
New York and in London, but for the last
two years has lived in New York writing
for the magazines. OF course, everybody
who has anything to do with literature
knows Miss Glider. She IL . business
woman, a writer. a reaGer for and adviser
OF publishers Of books. IL was she who
introduced in translation tho Journal OF
Marie Bashkirtsef 10 the publisher who,
INV Hing to accept the responsibility OF
the book, refused to pay for the trans
Iation outright, but offered IN rlacs Of the
nominal sum charged q royalty on the book.
This royalty amounted 70 several thousand
| dollars IN q feW months.
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