The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-13

berry Finn" by Samuel l.. Clemens
C"Mark Twain').
Henry James: 'The Family by Elsie
Clews Parsons; Power Through Repose,"
by Annie Payson Call; BIRD Neighbors, =
by Mrs. Nellie B. Doubleday; The Gate
of Death" by Arthur c. Benson; The
Book of the Automobile" by r. T. Sloss.
August Magazines.
In the Peoples Magazine for August the
leading number Is a novelette, by William
Wallace Cook. Mr.. Cooks latest venture
is entitled millionaire Pro Tenn" and has
for a background the fight opposing titanic
moneyed interest. The scenes shift rapidly
from New York to the deck Of an ocean
going steamer, and later to a tropical island
where the chief characters are marooned.
The Popular for August contains the Sec
ond instalment Of The Devils Pulpit" by
H.. B. Marriott Watson, which gets a
| tighter grip on the reader as the story
progresses. 1t is an even more brilliant
achievement than the authors previous
success, Hurricane Island" Treasure
hunting by modern devil-may-care adven-
turers and their success is the theme Of
MI. watson's new serial. In the same
number there is a sea story by T. jenkins
Hams. The Shang-haiing of the Tong"
which relates an episode in the life of a
sea rover off the Bahama Banks. Two
short stories dealing with Western life,
"Sound-of-Many-Guns," by Bertrand w.
Sinclair, and THE White Horse of Drown
ing Ford" by B. NJ. Bower, make an APP
appeal to those who like to read of the life
Of the plains.
Ainslee's for August has more than Its
usual variety of contents. Robert Hichens
leads with the second instalment of Bar
barry Sheep The novelette,, "The Cousin
from Paris is by Elizabeth Duer. Roy
Norton, Edith Macvane. Owen Oliver, Rob
ert e. MacAlarney. Will Lexington Com
fort, Carolyn Wells and Leo Crane are
among the contributors.
A summer story, entitled Mrs. Clev-
enger." is the leading feature of the
August Smart Set. The author is Grace
Eleanore Towndrow, a new writer. The
scenes are laid at a Long Island Louise
party. Maarten Martens, the Dutch
novelist, is represented by a powerful
short story called Prayer" There are
many others.
DR.. Henry van Dyke, who has just re-
turned from his trip to Palestine, has. in
the August Scribner, a paper on "Gulls,'
tracing them from their haunts In New
York Harbor to the coast of Maine, where
he VISITS I0e famous Guli lSidliu "a AAHS
a fight for a big fish in 1.-The Cults Bath
Tub, which is Jordan Pond, Mt. Desert.
Among the stories Is the tale of a famous
old army horse at a government post near
the Mexican border. The author is Lieu
tenant Hugh Johnson, of the U. s.
Cavalry. Nelson Lloyd, the author of
MRS. Radigan,'' has a satire on modern
ancestor worship. entitled THE Grand
fathers of the Evolution" Frank ii.
Spearman, Jesse Lynch Williams and Mrs.
Wharton are other contributors to this
fiction number.
Notes of the Books.
Richard Harding Davis has been so sue
cessfully occupied with writing plays and
librettos for light opera and assisting at
their production that 1t is nearly six years
since he has published a book of fiction
Captain Macklin." his last novel. was
a story of adventure and fighting, the
scene of which was laid In Central Amer
lea. ''The Scarlet Car" which has just
been published, is a tale of automobile ad-
venture and romance and the scene Is laid
in New York or on the roads near 1t.
That Katherine Cecil Thurston has a
great love for Ireland, and spends much or
her time there, follows naturally from the
fact that she was born in Ireland ana
lived there during her girlhood. All three
OF her successes, THE Masquarader.
THE Gambler and her most recent book,
THE Mystics,' were written in great
part at Ardmore, a secluded seaside VII
lage, not very far from Cork, the city OF
Mrs. Thurston's birth. The Vicinity OF
Ardmore has delightful literary associa-
tons, fer II was In n little church, stiil
standing. not many miles from there. that
Edmund Spenser was married, and 1t was
In a house not far from Ardnnore that
Spenser read to Sir Walter Raleigh the
first part of the then unpublished 'Faerie
Queene."
Among the publications announced by
the Baker & Taylor Company FOR the
fall of 1907 are Autobiography Of Oliver
Otis Howard and the second volume OF
Russell Sturgis's History Of Architec-
ture.' This house will also publish the
Appreciation Of Literature" by Professor
George e. Woodbury.; The Appreciation
of the Drama" by Charles II. Caf1n'
mond. editor Of the Architectural Record
"Browning's Italy by Henry A. Clarke
and The Story OF Joseph Illustrated II
color by George Alfred Williams, with ar
introduction by Fletcher Harper swift
For the Young folks pleasure and prom
next winter The Century Company an
%nounces fall publication of another o.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's fairy stories
THE Cozy Lion;' a new story OF schoo
life. "'Tom. Dick and Harriet" by Ralpf
Henry Barbour; Captain June, by Alice
Hogan Rice. and "Abbie Ann, by tn
Madden Martin and a book OF play pic
lures and rhymes, Father and Baby,,'
by that authority on child culture, EMIL
PouIsson.
Thomas Nelson Page. the delightful por
trayer OF Southern life, is the subject o
an interesting article by Professor Edwl
Minis. of Trinity College. Durham, n. g
Y in the July number of the Atlantic month
ly. A short biography preceding an ap
preciative study OF his writings SHOWS ina
In many respects he Is the hawthorne o
: the South. Through the medium OF IN
old-time negro, Mr.. Page strikes deep int
the very essence of plantation life. ana I