Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-03
BOOK WORLD NOTES

The first new novel of the year Will be
OR Ellen" by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins.
Particular interest is attached TO thls
story because, in the first place, IL is u
first novel by one of the best known writ
ers of magazine articles in America AL
though Miss Tompkins begins her novel
writing career with DIR. Ellen she Is
very well known indeed as contributor
to the various magazines, in which sne
may be said to have a large following
The scene of the story is laid in the call
fornian Sierras, and, as the TUE Wouiu
indicate. the heroine is a doctor, who sac
rifces a brilliant future in the east to live
in the health-giving Sierras in order TO
combat the progress of a lung disease
with which her only sister, Ruth, is
threatened The inevitable man arrives
on the scene and promptly fans IN loVe
with Ruth. who is a tender and engaging
personality. The story will find its inter-
est in the development of the contrasting
personalities and the very vivid picture
of life and love in region which has not
so far been overdone in fiction.
Admirer of Arnold DAILY will be much
interested in hearing that it is his lnten-
ton to appear as the hero of owen hli-
dares dramatic version of MY Mamie
Rose" 1t is an interesting fact tha% this
book. published several years since. has
run through many editions and continues
as a large seller. 1t appears that the
interest lies in the fact that the story
has a strong spiritual appeal the nero
having emancipated himself from the
thralldom of the Bowery to respected
position as a New York newspaper man.
g.
Frederic Mistral, the poet of the Prov
ence whose memoirs have been puoushed
this season by the Baker & Taylor COM
pany, Is one of the talented individuals
who have been so fortunate as TO WIN inc
famous Nobel prize His career mas boen
typically that of a romanticist and cul-
minated recently in his refusal to accept
seat in the French academy HIS
memoirs are an Accordingly interesting
picture of French and Provencal letters.
Though rs years of age, he still continues
active literary work.
1.-THE Magnet" a new novel by Alfred o.
Crozier, is on the press and will be
issued by Funk & Wagnalls company in
few days. Mr. Crozier created something
of a sensation by his views on current
financial topics at the recent meeting in
New York of the National Civic fedora
ton. His book, although written in the
form of fiction, with much philosophical
humor amplifies these views For twenty
years Mr.. Crozier has been a prominent
lawyer. He is also a manufacturer and
a gentleman of wide business experience
and careful student of financial and
political affairs. Active in civil, chari-
table and philanthropic matters, for five
years he was treasurer of the National
Conference of Charities and Corrections
of the United States. He started the
modern movement for a Delaware ship
canal and the Atlantic coast inland
waterway from Cape Cod to Carolina. He
was an influential delegate at the recent
National Rivers and Harbors congress
at Washington and at the waterways
convention. Philadelphia. 1t was a de-
sire to render what in Mr.. Crozier's
judgment would prove an act of public
service which induced him to write THE
Magnet" The book is designed to reach
the minds of all serious. thoughtful
Americans. 1t is illustrated by Wallace
Morgan.
A new book by Winston Churchill is al
ways an event of prime Importance in the
years literary affairs. Ever since the
publication of "Coniston," nearly two
years ago. Mr.. Churchill has been at
work on a novel, the title and subject of
which have not yet been divulged. and
his publishers, the Macmillan company,
now announce that it will appear in the
course of the first half of the year.
A. L. Wister has laid down her pen.
She announces that THE Lonely House."
which she has just translated from the
German of Adolf Streckfuss, is her last
1.-THE Lonely House will be read not
alone by the children anu grandchildren
of those who welcomed Mrs. Wister's
first translation long ago. for the pleas
ant memories of Gold Elsie;" and "Old
Nam selles Secret will induce many an
older to take UP with pleasure this de-
lightful story of the adventures of
a German scientist in the Ukraine.
While down in the Texas Panhandle
recently, Eleanor Gates, author of Gu
pid The Cowpurch" (the Mcclure COM
pany), had an experience which would
hardly have been regarded as amusing
by a tenderfoot--even by a tenderfoot
of the opposite sex-although Miss Gates,
who won her spurs Ions ago on the
roundup. and who has recently been
elected to honorary membership in the
Long Horn Fraternity" in the 101 ranch,
writes of her adventure lightly enough.
She says:
"I rode in herd of buffaloes and one
of the herd charged me, driving my
frightened horse almost into fits. I
thought it was rather amusing (for out
distanced the animaD, until 1 was shown
a cowpony in the corral with his hind
quarter ripped open for six or seven
inches, as clean and deep as If it had
been done by a knife. That pony hadn't
out-distanced the huffalo-Gt was the
same one)-that look after him."
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