The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-19

The author of The artyrdo OF an
Empress is publishing a new novel.
through the Harpers, this week, called
Emerald and Ermine."
THE Novels of George Meredith: A
Study by Elmer James Bailey, just pub
lished. is the most complete study yet
made of Meredith's works. IT shows the
a~nalogics between Meredith's fiction and
that Of his predecessors, with the result OF
giving him a firmer anchorage in the reg
ular evolution of English literature than
has he<etofore been awarded his product.
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The winter turning of the tide OF travel
toward Egypt gives Thickness to the series
Of papers on TIN Monuments of Egypt"
which The Century will publish in the i'm
mediate future. The articles are from the
pen of the author of THE Garden of
Allah" Robert Hichens.
Richard Harding Davis's THE Congo and
the Coasts of Africa" is just out. This
rev book is an account Of the authors ad-
ventures and experiences along the Congo
and the coasts of Africa, and will be of
interest to lovers Of big game, hunting
and outdoor life.
A new novel by the author OF THE Mag
netic North and "a Dark Lantern" Miss
Elizabeth Robins. is to be published this
month. 'qThe Convert which is its name,
is said to be a story Of the woman-suffrage
movement in London.
Edith Wharton's novel. THE Fruit of
the Tree will be published today.
The Century COmpany's October 18th
issues include Ralph Henry Barbour's new
book for boys and girls, tom, Dick and
Harriet Emile Poulsson's Father and
Baby Plays" as It's title indicates a book
intended equally for little ones and their
parents; Richard Watson elders new book
of poems. 1.-THE Fire Dlvine;" David Homer
Bates's Lincoln In the Telegraph Office"
personal memories OF the martyred Prcsi-
dents last years; Kellogg Durland's "The
Red Reign the record of n years travel
and unusual adventure In Russia; and
Timothy Coles "Old Spanish Masters"
The new novel by Maarten Martens. tine
Dutch novelist, who has written in Eng
lish "Dorothea," Gods Fool" and other
works, is called 1.-THE New Religion; a
Modern Novel" (Appleton's). It is an odd
book. 1t tries TO work out the deliverance
of two souls from delusion and deceit back
to common sense.
1t bears this inscription on the dedica-
ton page:
For those who are sick.
For those who believe they are sick.
For those who want to live longer than
other people.
For nobody else
The Macmillan Company is publishing
"~Arethusa,'' by f. Marion era wford; "The
Crucible," by Mark Lee Luther; "Comrade
John" by Messrs. Samuel Merwin and II.
*. Webster; ''Nina's Career, by Christina
Gowans Whyte; THE Contest Art" by
u. V. Lucas, and several others.
Walled In" a new novel by Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, will appeal to those who
like their stories with a little bit of tragic
accident, a god deal of quiet heroism and
a happy issue out Of all complication. A
young college professor is the victim of
an automobile accident, and is forced to
spend several months within the space of
four walls. His pretty wife, an egoist, in
capable of devotion, resorts TO outside
diversion, with the Inevitable result-the
mans love is destroyed by her selnshness.
and room made in his heart for a better
woman
The death OF the widow Of General Lew
Wallace recalls me NJ fhaea rara frtand-