The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-11-23


r. II. Chlttenden
Literary Notes.
A new book Of short stories by Thomas
Nelson Page called Under the Crust" will
be published this month.
Charles N. Caffin's 1.-THE story OF Amer
lean Painting" just published by Stokes.
is a clear account of the development of
the painting art in America. and its rela-
tion to all other phases of national life.
It is written for all kinds OF intelligent
people who like pictures and not alone for
students of art or people with especial
knowledge. Mr.. Caffin concerns himself
more with the story of painting than with
comments upon individual painters. At the
same time there is abundance of such
comment and adequate treatment of most
of the leading artists OF America. In
selecting paintings for reproduction d43 In
number-more than any other book on
American painting) Mr.. Cafin has used
great latitude of choice.
''Vers de Societe," by Carolyn Wells, has
! Just been published. This book. the fifth
| in Miss wells's popular series Of antho-
logies. contains the cream of that depart
mont of verse which can be described ade-
quately only by the French term. From
Francois Villon to the present time al
most ell the great writers are. represented.
From the publishers standpoint Ger
onimo. the Apache chief, whose autobi
ography was issued last year, proves a
desirable author With great versatility
the old warrior contrives to keep him
! self before the public with the result
/ that the sales Of his book are constantly
stimulated Quite at variance with one
/ of his recent escapades, when he in
dulged so freely in firewater that he was
placed in the guardhouse, Is his latest
published interview from Indian Terri
tory. Speaking of a recent war dance, he
says, THE celebration at Collinsville is
religious rite, and not bloodthirsty
affair. l will discuss questions of vital
concern affecting the fullbloods in the new
State and their spiritual welfare The
Spirit Father in the clouds has sent a
message to all Indians. and I will deliver
it to them while thee dance goes on. l
have made peace with my Master. and my
mission is to lead my people safely across
the broad field of peace to eternal happi-
ness. l am no longer an old Apache
warrior who killed and scalped white men
merely for pleasure, but am an old man,
full of sorrow and regrets"
Indiana as storehouse for Stevensoniau
adventure seems not yet exhausted, for
the Bobbs-Merrill Company announce that
the heroine of Meredith Nicholson's new
novel, "Rosalind at Red Gate" which they
will issue late this month, is a near
neighbor to the House of a Thousand
Candies" Once again, the publishers In
innate, strange craft cruise Lake AMMAN
dale dark villains watch their chance for
knife-thrust In the dark-once again
heroes are bold and maids are fair, and
the happiness of love crowns all.
The new novel by A. E. w. Mason, the
| author of -Four Feathers" is called THE
Broken Road. The influence OF the road
ON the lives of the two men who are the
central figures in the book gives a curious
character to the story. The scene Is laid
in England at first and then in India.
The laureate of green fields and running
| brooks James Whitcomb Riley, has writ
ten long poem entitled Boys Of the Old
Clee Club which the Bobbs-Merrill Com
pany will issue soon. perhaps
days in simple country homes--the rhymes
of this unpretentious singer seem TO touch
the hearts Of the people. The exotic. the
affected. the inslncere appear suddenly IN
their true colors when placed besid Mr..
Riley, who stands for all things real, hu-
man and worth while. Boys of the Old
Gee Club is written in the famous Riley
dialect. and presents such village charae-
ters as the title Observation-Disclosures
storekeepers farmers. whose gift for song
ued to thrill the gathering" at "sociables
J G. A. RS, campaign meetlns." and thu
} like.
The story Of the "Dreadnough." her tri
umphs against the Spanish Armada, he
captains knlghthood on the quarterback
of the admlrals flagship, and many thrill
ing incidents connected with the captain,
and men-of-war in the days that helped L
make the British empire. will be fount
in Mr.. Fraser's book. Champions of tbs
Fleet" shortly to be published by Johr
Lane Company. The work gives mucf
precise information as to the actual shar,
each county undertook in the constitution
of the British navy hundred years ago