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Negotiations are in progress for a
dramatization of THE Brass Bowl"
Louis Joseph Vances romance. An
actor famous for his success in dual
roles liz Interested.
THE House of Thousand Candles
is soon to run serially in Norwegian
newspapers. Ii has already appeared
in France, Italy, Sweden and Denmark
with great success.
Ralph Hall Caine, the son OF the now
elist. Hall Game, is going into the
publishing business in London. One of
the three books with which the new
publisher Is to start business is new
novel from the pen of his father.
A new edition of s, Barring Gould's
remarkable book. 1.-THE Tragedy of the
Caesars" has just been brought out.
1t contains LII Illustrations from busts
and statues Of the Caesars, which are
reproduced unusually we'll in this, the
fourth edition.
A limited edition OF the poems of
Jacques Nallee des Barreaux has been
published by NJ. Frederic Lachevre.
These poems have been lost since the
time of Voltaire, who read and praised
them NJ. Lachevre has found them
and has written a life of the author.
to whom he gives the title awarded by
his contemporaries of lie Prince des
Libertins du XVII steele"
The Grafton Press of New York and
Boston announce the publication of
The st. John Genealogy," of which
Mrs. Orline ST. John Alexander of
New York is the author. The original
American ancestor, whose descendants
are recorded in this book, was Matthew
or Matthias st. John, who settled in
Dorchester Mass, in 1884, and subse-
quently lived in Windsor, Wethersfield.
Hartford and Norwalk, CT.
Among the distinguished visitors
brought to America as the guests of
Andrew Carnegie Is the eminent Dutch
novelist, "Maarten Martens" who is
known to his neighbors as Joost Marlus
Willem Van der Poortcn-Schwartz
Though born in Holland and living
there he writes in English, a language
which he Yields with the utmost skill
He was born at Amsterdam. and lives
IN a handsome chateau near Doom
BIS best books In the past have been
Gods FOol' and 'DorOthea" This
year the Appletons publish The
WOman's Victory" volume of ex-
eeedingly clever short stories, of which
N''v itflsNfT Sulu lHitt II proved Maar-
ten Martens TO be possessed of the
gift of second sight, so we'll he unders
stood womankind.
Constance smedey, the young au-
thor of Conflict" is an interesting
hsure in the world Of woman's achieve
ment Everybody in London knows her
that Is, everybody who works artistic
ally or reads or thinks. If II We're not
Tor the remarkable spirit bound within
her little body she would be most pa
fhetic figure, for she is sufferer from
spinal and hip disease and has gone
all her life on crutches. But nobody
ever thinks of being sorry" for Cons
stance Smedley. In London she Is par
tlcularly known as the founder OF the
Lyceum club. an organization OF pro-
lesslonal women with a membership OF
several thousand and a clubhouse IN
Piecadily. In the hope OF carrying
this movement into all countries, Miss
sfnedley has Travelled extensively and
Is now planning to come TO America.
Conflict" her third English novel,
was finished In beautiful old vine
covered house at Taplow on the
rhames, which she has fitted up for