Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-01
BOOK NEWS

One of the earliest of the fall books
will be Miss IONA Gales '"The Loves of
Pelleas and Etarre," novel which has
been awaited with some curiosity. Here
tofore Miss Gale has been principally
known as a contributor of short stories
to the magazines, In which field she has
taken very prominent position within a
year or two. Her novel is understood to
be based on series of short stories
which have attracted considerable atten-
ton in the magazines in which they have
appeared.
A novel published in serial form has its
own way of reaching the public, nor can
any one tell exactly what or why it is.
1t may be a matter of convenience, or 1t
may be matter of psychology, but the
proof of the serial is in the sale of the
book. Gilbert Parker's great story, ''The
Weavers,' which has been running in
Harpers Magazine, will be issued in book
form in late September. 1.-THE Weavers''
has gone into the largest first edition ever
published by the Harpers-forced into it
by the booksellers advance sale.
Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton, who
have secured almost the whole United
States for old furniture brass and china,
and who have made delightful homes in
most uppromising places, have written of
their experiences and their findings; and
the Century company will publish the
work In the early fall under the title 1.-THE
Quest of the Colonial
One of the important literary events of
the season is the publication, this week,
by the Harpers, of a rev novel by Rob
ert Kitchens, author of THE Call of the
Blood and 1.-THE Garden of Allah" The
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Like his other books, it is story of love
and of passion; and again the scene is
laid in the fascinating RECON of the Med
iterraneau-a region which appeals to Mr..
Kitchens insistently and irresistibly.
Frederick Trevor Hill, who has not only
written fiction of a high order, as THE
Accomplish" but who has also distin-
guished himself as an original investigator
along historical lines, notably as shown in
his series of articles in Harper's Magazine
entitled Decisive Battles of the Law is
spending the summer in Europe, engaged
In historical research in the library of the
British museum and in the Bibliotheque
Rationale at Paris.
The Century company has in hand for
fall publication Kellogg Durland's story
of years travel, adventures and obser-
VatlOn III RUSSIA. IL is 10 DC ILLUSTRATED
with over sixty photographs, and will be
entitled 1.-THE Red Reign
The issuing by the Harpers of new
edition of "a Boys Town." that delight
full book by William Dean Howells, writ
ten reminiscently of his boyhood days
long after he had become an author of
distinction, is a pleasant reminder that
his first literary work was written and
published wnen he was a mere lad-and.
1t may be said, published under unique
circumstances. For Howells, as a boy,
worked as a compositor in his fathers
printing office-his father being owner
and editor of newspaper in little Ohio
town-and, as the desire to write, to ex-
press himself in literary form, grew ON
him, he not only produced an essay.
but set it up in type himself for APP
in the paper!
Even now, after his many literary tri-
umphs, up to his recent book, Through
the Eye of the Needle" he cannot forget
the thrill of happiness he experienced on
seeing that first essay in type.