The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-26
Literary Notes.

Hamlin Garland. whose new novel,
money Magic the Harpers published
last week, has been devoting himseiI 10
writing for the greater part of twenty
wears. He began his career shorty
after he was 20 by teaching
in Boston. One autumn he went out 10
Dakota to visit his parents, and during
the brief space of fall and winter wrote.
two books which gave MIN his hrst
prominence. Mr.. Garland has been l1V-
ing in Chicago. with time out for his
travels about the country, since he lett
Boston fifteen years ago. He is Il ma
five Westerner, having been boru in
La Crosse County. Wisconsin, and has
a wisconsin summer home.
G. p. Putnam's Sons are now putting
through the press "The Emily Emmins
Papers,' a book in which Miss Carolyn
Wells offers sketches of travel and Of
the social and other experiences that
the young lady who gives the book its
title met with in London and elsewhere.
DR.. George r. Shrady, one of General
Grants physicians in his last illness,
and in frequent attendance upon him,
has written for early publication in The
Century of General Grant, Last Days"
putting on record details relating to
Grants last months
Readers of Owen Wister's THE Vir-
ginian" remember as one Of the curious
facts in relation to hat book that the
hero's name was never mentioned. A
somewhat similar trick has been played
by Messrs. Merwin and Webster in their
new book, "Comrade John" In the re-
Ueious community about which this
story centres, the members are known
only by their first names, prehxed by
the title ''Comrade." So 1t happens
that the heroine is introduced as Com
rade Cynthia, and it is not until the
end of the book that one realizes not
only that the reader has never heard
her last name, but that Comrade John
himself, on his way to his marriage
book closes before the secret is di-
vulged.
The latest book of Agnes and Egerton
Castle, my Merry R~ockhurst," is not a
novel, but, rather, a collection of stories,
all dealing with the same character and
presenting a series of pictures Of life in
ono of the most romantic periods i'm Eng
Iish history. All of them have to do with
Lord Rockhurst, a typical Castle hero
the intimate friend and faithful follower
of the Second Charles of England, the
ideal of q clever, gallant gentleman, so
reckless and daring that the popular desig-
0dIlDH VI Hilu ~ IAdhAAltl IAOtkllOIELs
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Jeanette Lees 'The 1bsen Secret
which has been running in Putnam's
Monthly, is now about to be issued in
book form by the Putnams. The value
and influence of Ibsen's work and per-
sonality to all who are in touch with the
modern form and spirit In the arts, is a
fact that Is only beginning to be reckoned
with. Mrs. Lee, as professor of English
at Smith College and the author Of
"Uncle William and other readable
novels, is in a position TO interpret Ibsea
both from the creative artists and the
scholars point Of view. Mrs. Lee, IT will
be remembered. is the wife Of Gerald
Stanley Lee, author of THE Lost Art of
Reading"
In reply to an inquiry from a friend
asking the definite object he had in view
in his sympolical novel. The House of the
Vampire" George Sylvester Viereck writes