Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-30

all of the writer's recent work. The
stories included have appeared WITHIN
the last two years, and the author is
said to consider them Il representative
edition of his work, which every read
er knows is inimitable. "Options" will
be published under the Harper i'm
print about the middle part of Oc-
tober.
Miss Ethel Stefaue Stevens, author
of The VEIL a pronounced success in
England, which has just been pub
lished by Stokes, is daughter of the
rector of st. Lawrence, Southampton.
When child she was much interested
in GyDsies in the New Forest and
picked up a great deal of their Ian
guage. She is today known to some
of the Gypsies as Ocean Lee, having
lived in caravan and been adopted
into a Gypsy tribe one summer. Her
intimate knowledge of eastern condi-
tions is derived from visits to Tullis
and Algeria. That her knowledge of
the north African races is more than
superficial Is shown from the fact that
she has a good many Arab friends.
Indeed, two Of the Arab ladies whom
she used to visit proposed that she
should marry one of their sons, giving
her the choice. A Mohammedan saint
also honored her with proposals. Her
publishers have various interesting
photographs of her playing dominoes
with Arabs and engaging in some Of
their other favoritc occupations. The
Veil is Miss Stevens first novel, and
is one of the most talked-of books of
the year in England.
New Book by Sinclair
Upton Sinclair, during a winters
residence in California, Texas and
Long Island, has completed a new
novel for B. w. Dodge 8S Co., which
they announce for fall publication. 1t
is entitled Samuel the Seeker" The
scenes are laid in a fictitious inland
manufacturing city; and the novel,
which might almost be considered, al
legorical, strikes an idealistic note
hitherto absent from this authors
work.
New Golden Treasures
The Macmillan company is publish
ing this week a new edition of Pal
graves Golden Treasury, containing
the two volumes in one. The first vol
ume of the Golden Treasury, the one
which made the name famous all over
the world; was an anthology of En-
glish lyric poetry down to 1850 and
including only the work of poets no
longer living in 1864, when it was pub
uShed. BY general consent, this Is
the greatest COLLECTION of lyrics ever
brought together in a single volume.
Years later Professor Palgrave made
another volume, consisting of English
lyrics after 1850 and including the best
words in this form of Tennyson,
Browning, and the other great Victor
ian poets. Later in the season the
publishers promise an American Col
den Treasury, edited by Professor Cur
tbs Hidden Page.
French CathedraIs
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell started
out twenty years ago to make system
attic study of the cathedral towns of
France, and the results will be en-
bodied in the book which the Century
company will publish in October under
the title of French Cathedrals." The
text is Mrs. PennelPs, and the book
will have 1873 Illustrations from draw
ings by Mr., Pennell, the originals of
which are now in the Luxembohrs
museum, the property of the French
government.
The illustrator of Little Sister
Snow" the new book by the author
of '"Fhe Lady of the Decoration" is a
Japanese artist, Genjiro Kataoka, who
happily combines the Japanese spirit
with the technic of the European and
American. schools. He now lives and
paints in Toxic, but he retains his
membership in the Salmagundi club