The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-21

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that of John Harvard. Yet, notwithstand-
Ing the important part that young minis
ter played in the beginnings of education
IN this country, the founder of Harvard
University has had to wait till the present
year fora book devoted to his llfe-story
and memory. Thissblank in American lit
efature has been filled by Henry C. Shell
ley. whose JOIN Harvard and His Times"
now on the eve of publication by Little,
Brown. & Co., represents wide research
and careful coordination of results. One
of the most attractive of Mr.. Shelley's
chapters is that in which he formulates
a novel theory to show that the probable
tiles are all in favor of Harvard's parents
having been introduced to each other by
Shakespeare. Mr.. Shelley is the author of
LITERARY By-PathE in Old England"
l Among the fiction of the fall, one of the
important and interesting books will be
a new novel by A. t. Quiller-couch. to be
called Major Vigoureux.' This will prob
ably be published this month.
Cyrus Townsend Brady's new novel,
which Moffat, Yard & Co. will publish
under the title of THE Blu Oceans
Daughter" goes back to the Revolution
airy time for its setting. Mr.. Brady prob
ably never made a, heroine so life-like, it
Is said, as the girl who controls the des-
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this story.
In Anne Warmers new Susan Ciegg'
book, entitled Susan Clegg and a Man IN
the House." the inimitable Susan Is per-
suaded to take a boarder, Elijah Doxey,
nephew of Mr.. Kimball, the village grocer.
Elijah, says Susan, lis so smart, that he'll
be offered a place on one Of the biggest
city papers in a little while, but In the
meantime he's inst Lost the nlaCp that ne
did have on one of the smallest" Elijah
having been paid off with an old printing
press, his mother sends him to the country
to visit Mr.. Kimball. who proposes to
utilize Elijah ana his printing press by
publishing n village newspaper. Elijah
Doxey's move! ideas as to the conduct of a
newspaper, a visit by Susan Clegg to a
woman's convention, her views on Demo-
cratic and Republican parties, the material
experiences of Grandma Mullins son
Hiram. a celebration Of Independence Day,
Mrs Macey's Trials, etc., are among the
principal chapter.
The Century Company will publish Sep
TENDER % a new edition Of Boutet de
Monel's Joan of Arc;" six volumes of
Geographical Stories" retold from st.
Nicholas; another of Mrs. Frances Hodg-
son Burnett's Queen Silver-bell," fairy
stories. THE Cosy Lion "Abbie Ann
by George Madden Martin. author of the
Emmy Lou stories; Alice Hogan Rice's
first juvenile, Captain June" and a
story of an Oregon lumber camp, by
Beatrice Mantle, 'Gret, the Story of a
Pagan"
The first of General oliver o. Towards
Recollection of Distinguished Men will
appear in the October Century, giving his
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in his last illness. General Towards final
= interview with Grant was a brief meet
ing on March %, 1885, when the TWO talked
of seriousN subjects and bade each other
good-by. with the knowledge that 1t was
for the last time.
Among the announcements for fall is
one to the effect that Agnes and Egerton
Castle will have a new book ready-"My
Merry Rockhurst." The Castles are
known as rapid workers, yet 1t is more
than two years since their last book, IF
Youth But Knew" was published.
George sylvester Viereck's first work in
fiction has just appeared under the title OF
THE House of the Vampire This is a
story symbolic of literary ~Nampirism, in
much the same way that Stevenson's DIR
.Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde is symbolic of the
dual nature in man. Mr.. Viereck holds
that most great writer's, from Shakespeare
down, were, in greater or less degree,
vampires.
Halle Erminie Rives, the author of
Satan Sanderson." is in private life Mrs.
Post Wheeler, having become the wife or
the poet and secretary of the American
embassy at japan.
John Lane Company announces for early
fall publication Abraham Lincoln, an APP
preciation,'' by the late Robert G.. Inger-
soil.
1t has become so common to speak of
Marion Crawford as n story-teller that 1t
is quite impossible to forget how much he
is besides that Although it has never
been his habit to load his books with I'M
digested learning, Crawford is undoubtedly
a learned man, who might have held high
rank as a linguist or historian. In his
latest novel, "Arethusa," which is to be
published shortly, he has turned to good
account his knowledge of the Middle Ages.
The story is laid in Constantinople in the
fourteenth century, and the book gives a
picture of the romantic, adventurous life
Of the time.
Thomas L. Masson's new book. "a
Bachelors Baby will suggest, in general
contents and appearance, his successful
OcOk Qk IWO years d6ot n COihcA "a
Women 1t contains his very latest
humor. which means his very shrewdest
and best work. for Mr.. Mason has been
growing greatly of late.
One of the books of "reminiscences OF the
year will be Walter Cranes. IAN Artists
"Reminiscences which The Macmillan
Company will publish his month. Mr..
Crane has had an exceptionally large n
interesting circle of friends as a result OF
the various activities in which he has been
concerned. AS an artist he was in touch
with almost every distinguished English
painter Of the last generation. and par
t~icularly with the pre-Raphaelite group,
with which he had strong ~sympathies. He
has achieved no mean reputation as a poet
as well. His book contains a wealth Of
letters and anecdotes of his famous con-
temporaries. Among these are William
Morris. q. z. Watts, Lord Leighton, Ros-
setti. S~winburne, Frederic Harrison, Sir
Richard Burton. John Morley, Holman
Hunt. George Moore, Bernard Shaw, John
Burns. Whistler. r. l.. Stevenson. w. B.
Yeats. York Powell and Richard LEGAL
nenne.
The late Jer smiah Curtin. the we'll
known translator Of Sienkiewicz's Polish
works, one of the most remarkable lin
GUSTS the world has produced, and a
deep student of Eastern history. gave the
greater portion of the last years of his HE
IN m hfaf0rfcaI study NJ the Mongolia