The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11

| Women" series.
William Butier Yeats, the Irish poet, has
| written a new play. 18th Unicorn from
the Stars" in collaboration with Lady
Gregory, which has stirred Dublin, and. in
deed. England, to unwonted interest. Mr..
| Yeats has many admirers I'm America, and
they viii welcome the appearance of this
new play in a volume which is TO be pub
lhshed within a few weeks. 1t is TO appear
along with two of his early prose plays,
Kathleen Nj Houiahan'' and '"The Hour
Glass; the latter play having been revised
for this edition by the author.
May Robson having made a great success
in the stage version of Anne Warmers
'The Regeneration of Aunt Mary" that
versatile author is szid to be making ar
rangemeuts for putting her original cnarac-
ter. "Susan CIegg,@ behind the footlights.
Apparently it is hazardous for any writer
even MaTk Twsin-wio is humorous, nor
70 be. Not long ago fhe Harpcrs published
a little stosy by Mark Twain Gales "A
Horses Take" which involved very doll
cate humor in the telling. but involved
also as a climax q Sudden and startling
rush Of pathos centering upon a child.
FOR this the London Spectator dnds II
impossible to focgive him. He Mark
Twain) has no right" accuses the critic,
ito make an abrupt Transition to the great
emotions OF life Whether the writer
limits this edict to this story, or whether
he intends 10 cut Marx Twain off forever
from the great emotions of life, is in
definite. Any reader Of "A Horses Talk"
however, could explain this critics atti-
ti,le, Nc mar was ever vet surprised into
tears without experiencing some indigna-
ton at the cause. 1t is really a kind Of
~resentfui compliment.
Paradise Nadine a novel by CHRISTIAN
Reid. is TO make its appearance soon. The
scene is laid largely in Italy, and tie Story
opens with an account Of The Battle OF
Flowers in the carnival at Nice. The
heroine is a Russian princess, daughter
OF a Russian prince and an American
woman. The hero is a preposterousFv -icn
and daring young American, who has made
his immens fortune by taking a hand in
South American revolutions. The Princess
Nadine is about TO become engaged 10 =
German serene higbness. The young
American falls in love with her at first
sight on seeing her sniothered in flowers
in Der carnival carriage, and enters he
lists as her sutton. The Putnams will pub
fish 1t.
A list Of fiction to be published by the
Macmillan Company ia the course o. The
spring season proves that this will oe in
many respects a notable year fG novel
readers. When the announcements Of \
single firm contain the names of Gertrude
Anterior. Barbara" Biornson, the
Castles. Winston Churchill, Marion CrTW-
ford, Frank nauby, Robert Herrlck, Albert
Kinross, Jack London and John Luther
Long, it is evident that the years pub
locations in this field will have plenty OF
variety and interest. Mr. Crswford's OFFER
fer 1900 is the long awaited "Prima Donna :"
a sequel 10 Fair Margaret Jack fSs7-
don's The Iron Heel" which is to appear
in February, is a story of the social revo-
luton, and may be expected to cnlocHy
some OF the social theories for which Len-
con is well known. The title Of EtSert
Herrick' book, Together" is said TO
signify that it Is the story OF a married
couple. In The Gulf" John Lntircr Long
has turned from japan To America. and
from the tragedy Of The Way u tiie
Godsr' to comedy. '@fa1es OF the Months,
by the arthor OF ''Ihe Garden OF q Com
muter's Wife" is a connected series or
thirteen short stories, the number corte-
spending with the thirteen months of the
Inohan calendar. Agnes and Egcrt9n
Castle are represented in this list by a new
novel in their w~ell-known style.
the title OF the new story by George
Barr McCsutchecn. to be published this
spring by Dcdd- Mead K Co, is Tho Hug
bands of Edith
The acyS novel OF Katherine Cecil Thurs
ton will begin in the February number oi
the Bookuaan. The title s. ''Tle Fly ON the