Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-26

.en stars OIL the stage.
The Mcclure company has just issued
a new and beautifully Illustrated edition
of the Poems OF wordsworth" edited
by DR.. Stopford A. Brooke. The volume
contains all the shorter work which in
DR.. Brooke's estinqti is worthy of the
poets high reputation. The illustrations
are forty in number and are grouped
around the four north country homes of
the poet.
Mrs. Lucy Fitch Perkins, already well
known as an illustrator and writer of
happy rhymes for children. has seized
upon the inmost spirit of ultimate New
England life for her new work "A Book
of Joys announced for publication by
A. c. McClurg & Co. Seen with western
eyes the older civilization develops hui
morouS situations as well as marked
charm, the scenes in a little old-fash-
ioned village in which quaint individuals
ties thrive sharing the attention Of the
reader with family reunion and the
buoyant life thereat. Mrs. Perkins has
designed five illustrations In color for her
book, which has the interest Of fiction
with the additional element of verify.
Mllen Velvin's ''wild Animal Celebri-
ties" which Moffat, Yard & Co. will pub
lish at once, Is dedicated by permission,
to John Burroughs, the celebrated nat
uralist who Is leading the fight against
mature takers" The title of the book
was suggested to the author by William
T. HIornaday, director of the New York
Geological park, who helped her plan it
and assisted her in many ways in its
production.
One of the assured successes of the
London literary season Is ''The Strong
est Plume" by the author of IA Boys
Marriage" John Lane Cocpany an
nounces that both of these books have
met with favorable reception in
America, as well.
The life story of a celebrated story is
found in John Habbertons Introduction
to the Authors Edition of ''Helen's
Babies" on Moffat, Yard & Co.'s list for
immediate publication. More than mil
lion copies of this story have been cir
culated In America alone during the
thirty years of its life, and yet this edi-
tion is the first that can be called fitting.
It Is illustrated in colors by B. Corey
Kilvert and in black and white by Clare
Victor Dwiggins.
A happy idea for children's book is
embodied in The Peter Pan Picture
Book" by Alice B. Woodward and Daniel
O'Connor. Mr.. Barries delightful crea-
ton has a secure place in the hearts of
children of all ages. and Peter Wendy,
Tinker Bell, Capt. Hook and his pirates
are as familiar to the child Of today as
the most time-honored lore Of fairyland.
The new book Is to contain the story
briefly retold by Mr.. O'Connor. with the
authors consent, and twenty-eight oolored
illustrations by Miss Woodward, an Eng
lish artist of much sympathetic charm.
The Macmillan company announces the
publication, about December 1, of Faust:
A Drama" by Stephen Phillips.
A new novel by the author Of ''The
Magnetic North" and "A Dark Lantern"
will be an event to a great many readers.
The title of the new book by Miss Eliza
beh Robins, which is to be published this
month, Is .'The Convert" and 1t Is a
story of the woman-suffrage movement III
London-a theme offering plenty of op-
portunity for the display of Miss Robins
undoubted gift for the dramatic and pic
turesque.
Marion Crawford is the subject of an
article by DIR. Frederic Taber Cooper, in
the series of Representative American
Story Tellers" which the Bookman has
been publishing. DR.. Cooper dwells on
the satisfaction to be found In dealing IN
such series with the author whom he
calls the prince of story tellers'' Sum-
ming up Mr. Crawford's literary creed
he says: 'In theory he is a romanticist;
in practice he is in turn realist, psyche
logue, mystic, whatever for the moment
suits his needs or appeals to his instinct
of born story teller The truth of this
varied Characterization, and the cosmo-
politanism of Mr.. Crawford's genius, are
curiously illustrated by the fact that his
latest story, "Arethusa," is a romance Of
Constantinople in the middle ages, while
its Immediate predecessor was a tale of
modern Rome, and it's successor, THE
Little City of Hope" is to be Christmas
story with an American theme and char
acters.
The sixteenth century country houses
had no formal visitors books, but they
had custom which answered tho same
purpose, so we are told by Mr.. Escott In
his Society in the Country House." re-
Gently issued by George w. Jacobs & Co.
Famous guests were In the habit OF leav-
ing behind them some tribute to their
hosts qualities This might take the
form of an epigram, stanza, or a prose
sentiment Sir Philip Sydney, on leaving
'Knole" attached to q copy of his hosts s
Mirror for Magistrates" prose compli-
ment to its notable morality. Spenser, a
more frequent visitor dropped metrical
panegyric on the private virtues of 'its
truly noble author" who" he asks,
more loving to his wife, more tender to
his little ones. more fast to his friends?"
A pretty custom this. which might we'll
be copied in this more prosaic twentieth
century.
THE average workingman.' says Will
liam Gamble in his Straight Talks on
Business just published by Jacobs & Co.,
'is a postmaster in the art OF waiting,
He will walt under any conceivable pre-
tence or excuse so long as he is paid
for his time. He will wait for material,
for tools. for Instructions and for the
arrival of a mate 70 help him to wait for
something or someone else. True. there
are certain things he doesn't wait for;
you don't find him waiting for the last
stroke of the clock at knockingoff times
or meal times; and he has rooted OBJ
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