The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-07

IT is significant in this connection to note
that the picturesque village of boswell.
Georgia. the home of the Presidents
mother. is the geographical centre of Mr..
Harben,s literary territory. and this vii
laee has been the scene of several of Mr..
uarhenis novels. Bullock Hall, the old
Colonial house which was the home OF the
Presidents mother, is the type OF house
Mr.. Harden pictures often in his books.
In fact, it serves as the model OF the
cover illustration of Mr.. Harhen's latest
novel, Nam Linda"
The author of Under the Crust,"
Thomas Nelson Page, is a Southerner, ana
comes of an old Virginia family. The
Nelson's and Pages have lived in the DID
Dominion for generations and played
prominent parts in both the Revolutionary
and Civil Wars, as well as in times OF
peace. In this new book Mr.. Page writes
of love and adventures abroad as well
as at home for the first time in his liter
airy career.
One of the most important books on
Africa is Across Widest Africa" by
A. H. Savage Lander. Mr.. Lander has
had Almost unusual and adventurous
career. He has travelled extensively in
Japan, China and Korea, and lived for a
number of years in Tibet. He knows the
East better than most men know the
West. Wherever there is danger and adj
venture it is always safe to say that Mr.
Landor is there or at least on his way. He
was the first white man to reach both
sources OF the great Brahmaputra River
and establish their exact positions (Tibet,
1880; the first white man to explore Cen
trail Murclanas Island, where he discovered
the White Tribe and he also holds the
worlds record in mountaineering, having
reached an altitude of S,490 feet on Mount
Sumpa. In 1900 he accompanied the allied
troops on the march to Pekin, and was
the first A~ng1o-Saxon to enter. the For
hidden City, side by side with the Rus
sian General Linevitch, on the day Of the
allies entry. His books are as interesting
as his adventures, and Across Widest
Africa" tellsi Of a hitherto almost ur-t
known country. sE
James Branch CabelI has departSd from
his more familiar role as d0Veaiet 3 COM
pile a careful and somewhat romsnNc work
on genealogy. This is known as Branch
lana and is thA lineage of the Branch
family, particularly in its close ~assccis-
ton with early American history. Sinful.
taneously with It's appearance is Mr..
Cabel's new novel, "Gailantry,' which,
by curious coincidence, the Harpers pub
lished on the same day that a Southern
house issued the first copies OF "Branchi-
ana" Certain footnotes in the novel would
show that Mr.. Cabell in his romancing has
not been unmindful OF the genealogical:
methods of work. Mr.. Cabell has been oc-
cupied with this critical work for some
twelve years, which is a somewhat longer
period than is customarily given TO a novel;.
Alfred M. Downes, secretary of the New
York Fire Department, the author. of
Fire Fighters and Their Pets CHar-
pers), a book descriptive of the f1remen at
service and pastime, is a lawyer and
newspaper man. Born In New Haven, he
took his degree from the Yale Law School
in 1884, afterward served for four years
as court reporter of the New Haven
Register, and then came to New York TO
be associated for ten years with news
papec life. Mr.. Downes's active literary
career began with. his appointment as
secretary to the Mayor in 1891. Mr..
Downes's, who was appointed to his pres
ent office in 1904 by Fire Commissioner
Nicholas j. Hayes, has been retained by
succeeding Commissioner John H.. O'Brien
and Francis ]. Lantry.
Mr.. Basil King. author of "The Giant'st
Strength" has been spending several daya3
in New York. He is engaged at present.
In writing a new novel, which will be
published in the spring.
Moffat. Yard & Co. announce the pub
~lication, early in March. of Religion and
Health; the Moral Control of Nervous Dis
orders the first official book growing out
OF the now celebrated Emmanuel Church |
movement in Boston. The authors are
Eiwood Worcester, d. D., Rh. D., director
OF Emmanuel Church class for nervous dis
orders, formerly professor of philosophy
Samuel McComb, M. A., b. D., associate
director Of Emmanuel Church class for
nervous disorders, formerly professor OF
church history at Queens University,
Canada, and Isador II. Coriat, NJ. D.,
second assistant physician for diseases OF
the nervous system at the Boston City
Hospital. formerly first assistant physiciaIT
at the Worcester Insane Hospital.