The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-21

he has Illustrated his own book with pictures
Of the fur traders, Indians and wild animals
Of the Canadian northwest.
William Sage's new romance Of love and
politics, entitled BY Right Divine will
be published this week. The book derives
the name, according TO the publishers.
from the fact that the central character,
Senator Fordyce, has held his State in his
own hands for 90 long that he has almost
arrived at the conclusion that he has q
divine right TO be its ruler.
Mr.. A. M. Kirby, the author Of the forth
coming book on "Dafodils.' has for the
last thirty years been collecting dahodils
in hia own home garden In New Jersey.
paying high prices for rare specimens
and making data from his own experience
from which to judge the most successful
varieties for this climate. One Of Mr..
Kirby's interesting methods In growing
IL to protect his flowers from the sun by
tiny umbrellas, especially made for the
purpose Of tobacco cloth.
Among the early summer publications
will be a book on the water lily family,
called 'Water Gardens,' by Henry 8.
Connard and Henry Hus. Mr.. Connard
10 the author Of the monograph on the
water lily family published by the Carnegie
Institute. MIR. Hus is connected with the
Shaw Gardens Of St. Louis and has gained
much Of his material through association
with Mr.. James Quincy. Mr.. Quincy
was at one time In charge Of the gardens
OF the Duke Of Devonshirs at his old ooun-
try place. Chatsworth. 1t was there that
Mr.. Quincy brought TO It's first flower the
water lily OF the Amazon. the Victoria
Regia.
Mr.. Leroy Scott, whose new novel, TO
Him That Hath will be among the sum-
mer publications, 10 now Ia New York pre-
pairing material for q Russian publisher,
Mr.. Scott has recently returned from Rus
STA, where he has been studying social and
economic conditions.
'Beatrix Of Clare" John Reed SCOTS
new story, will be published next week.
About THU time, as the old almanacs
might announce, expect disturbances Of the
English language says a writer on School
boy English in The Outlook. Three in
structors in English at Harvard have pre-
pared a classified list OF the linguistic
disorders that manifest themselves during
this period, he informs us. Among the
amusing examples may be quoted the fol-
lowing bit OF ~grotesque English which only
a sub-freshman could turn out: Antonio
is direct, a little harsh and yet his friend
ship for Bassanio and Bassanio'e love for
him are characters that no one who has
read the play cannot help from recon-
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1.-THE South's Intellectual Expression
Edwin Minis contribution to the Southern
Number" Of The Worlds Work, treats OF
the development Of the literary tendencies
in the South before and since the war. Many
names Of note stand in the lists OF the South
ern writers-such names as those Of Hous-
ton, Garner. Bruce, McCrady, Hannis Tay-
lor, Woodrow Wilson. William CARROT
Brown among tho historians; Of Sidney
Lanier and Edgar Allan Poe among the
poets; Of James Lac Allen, Thomas Nelson
Page, Joel Chandler Harris, George w.
Cable, Hopkinson Smith and May Johnston
among the novelists.
simultaneously with the visit OF E. Phil
lips oppenheim, the English novelist, to
this country comes the announcement
OF an eighth printing Of A Prince of Sin
ners," the novel that first won him his
great popularity with American readers.
Mr.. Oppenheim's visit to America was one
for both business and pleasure. His wife
is the daughter OF a manufacture who
lives in the suburbs OF Boston.
One OF the new books of last week is The
Gates Of KANT" by the Baroness Orczy,
author Of The Scarlet Pimpernel." The
story describes the efforts Of an Egyptol-
ogist to prove that the ancient race Of
Egyptians. the builders Of the pyramids
and the great temples, did not lie out or
lose their identity by being absorbed in the
races that later inhabited Egypt. In the
interior OF the Libyan Desert, hundreds Of
miles from any caravan track, he discovers
a country where this ancient race OF Egypt
lives exactly as it did four thousand years
ago.
Robert Schackleton will contribute one
OF his attractive studies OF odd hooks in
Europe to the July Horper's. The Island
Guernsey, where the King OF England lie
still Duke Of Normandy. is the subject
where the people resent having
their island named as British and resent
with equal bitterness being accounted
for they are Norman. Magma
.harta has never touched Guernsey, Mr..
Schackleton says; there is no trial by jury,
the whipping post is in constant use mot,
for wife beatingl, indefinite i'm
prisonment for debt is still in force and he
OF Punishment remains, Guern-
sey is ruled by q court and parliament,
date back their forms and powers
/ thousand years.
Mr.. John Bennett. the author Of The
treasure Of Peyre Gaillard, " writes that he
las got himself into a predicament by
,ersimilitude. There is a woman in Phila-
hunting through all the libraries
or the French edition OF lie Monticule du
which the title page Of the story
10 be in Ms. There is a santee
who fears that his mind is failing
ecause though he knew the place 80 we'll
Ie couldn'tf for the life Of him place II exactly
n memory anywhere on the river. There
} an old gentleman in Charleston who was
.onvinced that he could name all the people
n the story while he read it, but was dashed
end that they eiuded him uhen ha hid