The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-03
Literary Notes.


Because of the prominent part played by
Patrick Henry In the history of the State
of Virginia. and of the interest in him
awakened since the opening the James,
town Exposition in that State. the ]. B.
Lippincott Company has been hoping to
AVE George Morgan's volume. THE True
Patrick Henry" ready this summer, but
on account of the amount of work en-
tailed has had to postpone 1t until Sep
tember 1. Mr.. Morgan has had access to
the accumulated Henry papers of a hun
bred years.
Few foreign writers of the day are at
tracing more interest in this country
than Antonio Fogazzaro. the Italian now
elist. His study of foreign life, 1.-THE
Woman now in its second edition. is
noteworthy for the fact that 1t defines
the one,essential difference between Amer
lean and European 1ction-we are elected
with the discovery of life. while they are
resigned to tragedy, sin and death.
The coast of Maine seems to possess
peculiar charms for authors as a place to
live during the summer months. Mrs.
Margaret Deland has gone, as usual, to
Kennebunkport, where she lives in a
charming,\ rambling, many-windowed
house, which is by ~shrubbery
and beds of splendid flowers. For Mrs.
Deland has not only a love for flowers, but
a remarkable gift for making them grow,
and once a year she has a jonquil sale
for the benefit of a charity In which she
is interested. William Dean Howells Is
also at his summer home in Maine 1t is
at Klttery Point, where he has some three
acres of land. with an orchard and a gar
den. He loves to devote himself to work
in the garden, and spends much time in
planting and wedding and hoeing. He con-
tinues his literary work daily, as we'll,
and his library is an old barn which he
moved into the orchard and attractively
fitted up.
DR.. Herbert H. s. Aimes's "a History
of Slavery in Cuba" which G. p. Put
nam's Sons have just published. is an ex-
position of the Spanish policy governing
the slave trade in Cuba. 1t shows the
causes of the trade In Cuba, the. effect of
it on Cuba, Spain, and the civilized world
in general. The effects of the slave trade
have been far-reaching. The Cuba of to-
day can only be understood in the life of
Its past; and 1t is the hope of the author,
as the preface tells us, that his book may
aid in solving some of the islands present
day problems. DIR. Aimes was formerly
professor of history and political science
in Ursinus College, and is now tutor in
history in the College of the City of New
York.
George II. Brooke, the football coach of
Swarthmore College, and advisory coach
University of Pennsylvania, has written a
book explaining in story form the gains of
football as 1t is now played under the
latest revised rules, which the j. b. Lip
pincott Company will publish in August.
Mr.. Brooke was fullback on the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania football team of 1894.
Justus Miles Forman, author of IA
Stumbling Block" is still young, being but
az little more than 30 years of age. He
was born in the town of lie Roy, in
Genesee County, N. Y. Mr.. Forman is
a graduate of Yale. and after leaving col
lege decided to become a painter, AMI
with that career in view studied for a
time in Paris, in the Ateliers Julien, under
Bouguereau, Boshchet, and others. Paint
ing, however, did not long remain the
object of his ambition. He felt impelled
to write stories, and from the first he was
successful in his new field. From being
a writer OF short stories, he naturally de-
veloped into a writer of novels, and pro-
duced a charming story Of the eastern
shore of the driat
He realized. however, that his greatest
efficiency lay In writing of the present
day-in setting forth the romance and
the story interest that lie all about us,
here and in this twentieth century; and
so he writes of American characters In
American surroundings, although he
spends half of each year in roaming to
the most distant and o~ut-of-the-way parts
of the world.