The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-11
BOOKS AND

In Tho HOOK dns list OF Best Sellers
The Hours Of n Thousand Candlea' holds
the hrst place, followed by 'The wheel Of
Life. '"The Hou~e ~ Mlrth, the Conques,
~ Canaan 'The Truth About Tolna' and
Barbara wlnslo Y. Rebei.' Il 10 interest
M 20 follow this D~ooksellers' tally Of popu-
lar tales and 90 find that while The House OF
Mirth' stands first on h list In Cleveland
Richmond and Cincinnati, second In New
Orleans and Philadelphia, II does not enter
into the list read In New York uptown OF
downtown nor IA II included among the
Boston ~favorites. New York has also fin
ished the wheel OF Life which 10 sill
being read In Boston, and stands first In the
line there, az 1t does In New Orleans and
Spokane. The geographical movements
Of these favorites In fiction are as interesting
as they are unaccountabls.
Eugene p. Lyle, Jr,. the author Of "The
Missourian.' is in Mexico writing a novel.
which will be called Tho Lone Star 1t
is q story Of the early days In Texas, with
the defence Of the Alamo as the central
dramatic incident.
How to Choose a Farm IL the title
Of a new volume by Prof. T. +. Hunt Of
Cornell, which will be of interest to the large
number Of people who are turning back
10 the land and picking up abandoned
farms for summer ~pleasurings. 1t Is a
book Of advice for those wanting to buy
land, to estimate the va lue of farm property
and to know what the agricultural re.
sources and possibilities are Of the different
portions OF the United States.
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Miss Florence Kingsley, author OF The
TRANSPORTATION Of Miss Philura and Res
direction OF Miss Cynthia, = has a new book
ready for May publication, entitled The
Intellectual Miss lamb
At Moscow, Mile. Tamara has been sing
ing topical songs In Esperanto with much
SUCCESS. In France classes in Esperanto
have been formed in spite Of the prejudice
against them, based upon the fear ra pidly
gaining ground that Esperanto and English
would become the world language to the
exclusion of French and its time honored
prestige. In America the new universal
language Is being taken up seriously as one
Of the practical necessities of the extension
Of foreign trade.
Mr.. Rupert Sargent Holland, author Of
'The Count at Harvard, has an interesting
college career Of his own. He was an
editor Of The Crimson, The Ldmpoon and
The Advocate. Three years he acted in the
Cercle Francois plays, he managed the
Deutsoher Verein play in his Junior year and
had a cast part in the 1900 Hasty Pudding
play. He was president Of the Harvard
Shakespeare Club and while at college
wrote a play In collaboration with e. Law
renee Dudley. Since leaving college Mr..
Holland has published several legal papers,
which have appeared in "The Green Bag
and "The American Law Register
Tho second volume Of 'Harper's Novel;
ettes, published this week under the editor.
ship OF W. d. Howells and II. W. Alden, is
devoted to phases Of Western life-not the
primitive West made familiar by Bret
Harts, but the more complex Western life
as interpreted by such writer's as Grace
Ellery Claiming, Thomas A.. Janvier. Philip
verrill Mighels, Elmore Elliott Peake, Zoe
Dana Underhill and others Of the new
The volume bears the title Of
under the Sunset
Alexander Filippini, the noted chef, and
compiler Of the International Cook Book,
ira yelled from Delmonico's to the Orient
and back TO obtain material for his book.
Mr.. Filippini was horn In Switzerland. At
II lie was scullery lad In a cafe in Lyons:
at " he was mana ger. When he was ?l be
took the place he maintained at the original
Delmonico's for nearly q quarter OF q CEN
fury. During that time we met most Of the
moneyed kings Of the country who son.
suited him with reference TO the where
withal they should be fed. He started on
his remarkable journey In 1909 and was
zone more than a year, returning with a
souvenir from every country In the shape
Of q eavory dish. He has more than
four hundred ways for cooking eggs alone
one for every city he visited. He has aa
more for making soup, anda different
lish formula for every day in the year
Filippini lives In New York.
Marshall Saunders's new book. 'Alpatok,'
the true adventures Of an Esquimau
dog, stolen from his master and turned
adrift in a strange city, The frontispieoe
s from a photograph Of the real dog, who
10 one Of Miss Saunders's four footed
The authdA Of 'Alpatok, ''Beauti-
ful joe &C., IL known throughout the
and breadth Of her native province Of
Nova Scotia as an enthusiastic lover and
champion Of animals. No animal Is too
wretohed to appeal to her sympathies, nor
TOO unlovely for her care and protection.
Tsmrle Bar for May will contain q paper
'Honora de Balzac' by Miss Mary F.
followed by a newly translated
letter from Balzac himself to Nine, Hanska,
containing q condensed autobiography. L
Through India With the Prince 10 the
hrst crop TO be gathered from the large
Of books which will be cleaned
from the recent royal tour In India. Mr..
the writer, ven as q special cor
respondent TO a Calcutta newspaper when
the Prince Of Wales made his tour Of India