Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-11
AMONG THE LATE BOOKS

the book board of the New York state
| library said 1t has to an unusHhl de-
gree the qualities which delight little
girls and may be approved by older
readers" has just returned from visit
to Paris. She has written another ju-
venile "Theodora," for fall publication,
in collaboration with Laura Spencer
Portor of the Woman's Home Compan-
ion. Miss Pyle is the sister of Howard
Pyle, the artist-author.
| Miss Caroline Fuller, author of "Brun-
hides Paying Guest which the Century
company published September 5. is a COM
| poser as well as q writer She herself
/ says that the two help each other, espe-
| cially in the case of poetic drama.
But the publishers told me-" she says
I" There Is no demand in America for po
etic drama. You must write a novel;
$50 wrote .Brunhilde.'
Lovers of shorter novels in dainty dress
with special emphasis upon illustration
| and typography, will be attracted by
Crowells new "Entre-Nous" series, which
will include the following titles by well
known writer's: "Allee Same" by Frances
| Aymar Mathews; GOOD Night" by Ell
eanor Gates; Schmidt" by Lloyd Os-
bourne; In the Deep of the Snow" by
Charles G. d. Roberts; Dawn" by Kath-
arine Holland Brown, and "Araminta and
the Automobile" by Charles Bottell Loo
mis-.
Charles Clark Mum has placed with his
publishers, Lothrop, Lee g. Shepard Co. of
Boston. the manuscript of a new book
''BoShood Days on the Farm" which will
be published November l with plentiful
illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. This
book Is not a Juvenile, but rather for all
ages, and will be of particular interest to
the many successful men who have passed
a similar boyhood. Common sports and
merrymakings, the pleasures of woods
and waters, and the life of a country boy
with its tasks, enjoyments and ambitions,
have never yet been SO fully and i'm
pressively told as they will be found to be
by Mr.. Mum.
Mistaken reference is so often made to
what is termed the "epitaph written by
Mark Twain for his wife" that 1t is worth
while to set the matter straight.
The epitaph referred to was not placed
upon the tombstone Of Mr.. Clemens wife,
but upon that of his daughter Susie. 1t
was not original with Mark Twain, but
was taken by him from little poem writ
ten some fifteen years ago by an Austria
liam poet named Robert Richardson. 1t
appeared in a book of poems by Richard
son, which was published in Edinburgh
in 1898, under the title of Willow ard
Wattles."
The verse used as the epitaph is as fol-,
lows:
WARN summer sun,
Shine kindly here,
Warm southern wind
Blow softly here.
Green sod above
Lie light, lie light.
Good night, dear heart,
Good night. good night"
The verse has so often been referred to
as being Mark Twains own composition
that he has recently had the name of the
actual author of it carved upon the stone
Elinor Glyn has cabled to Dufieid &
company that she will provide a preface
to the American edition of Three
Weeks" which they are publishing. The
storm of discussion which the book has
reused In England has provoked the au-
thor to deny some of the unconventional
views imputed to her by her critics.
Mrs. Glyn, who viii shortly visit Amer
lea, is a sister of Lady Duff Gordon,
whose daughters engagement to Viscount
Tiverton has just been announced.
Jack London's new book, Love of
Life" is another instance OF his aptness
in selecting striking titles for his works.
The making of a good title Is an art in
Itself, and no one among living authors
has practiced it more successfully than
London. In the entire list of his books
there is starcely poor title, and most of
them are wonderfully strong and attract
i've: 'The Son of the Wolf" THE God OF
His Fathers" "A Daughter of the
Shows" 'The Children of the Frost"
People of the Abyss 1.-THE Call of the
Wild, "The Faith Of Men" "The Sea-
Wolf" "The Came" ''War of the
Classes" Tales of the Fish PATROL"
white Fang" "Moon-Face." Before
Adam" and Love Of Life" These titles
not only sound well, but almost invariably
they denote the savage, elemental setting
in which London places all of his best
work.
Mark Lee Luther, author of "The