The Washington herald., 1909-01-10

e-atu-e which the present intense inter
est IN psychicai matters las called forth.
Now that John Trevena's .'Armiuel Of
tie West Is just issued IN tu.s country.
news comes from London that another
story u his IS almost ready for publ
cation Its title is The house That Jack
Built- and reintroducing many OF the
characters Of a Pixev in PetticOats. &c
viii be- much less sOmher i1 plot and mo-
tive Tan either OF his two latest novels.
The chapter entitled scientific Prog
ress in Paris in Lillian Writings Paris
the Beautiful" recently published b.
Little Brown and Company. offers. per
hapS, the most comprehensive panorama
.of recent activities in many directions
that can De- found wi-hin such definite
limits in L. Miss Whiting presents the
essential aeh.evemen;s Of Pasteur. OF NJ.
and Nine Cure, the experiments in Iight
made by Chotin and BrOca. the recent
atmospheric discoveries Of Flammariou.
CharbouneTs curious Invention Of the
parolograph, Poincare's marvellous dis
coveries in electrical phenomrnl. Beiiu-s
picture telegraph and Prof. AiicheIs0n's
researches in light she presents in their
fullneSs the remarkable discoveries OF Dr.
LeBon in establishing HIS new theory OF
the dissertation Of matter which is
leading modern science TO the very portal
Of the ethereal world. II is one OF the
most interesting chapters in a book Of
delightful description and comment.
A distinguished writer said the other
day. in speaking Of Mr.. Ray Stannard
Bakers book. Following The Color Line
AS Mr.. Bakers articles are now worked
together into a volume. they strike me
as being. on the whole the most impor-
tant contribution 20 the literature on the
negro problem that have seen-and I
think I have seen most Of II. am i'm
pressed by his candor and by his inclu-
sion OF warning facts Too many men
have written seeing only the facts they
want 10 see"
Some people contend that We are not
much good at what is commonly called
literature meaning, mostly. fction-but
that We are doing big things in journal
ism. Certainly. Mr.. Ray Stannard Ba-
ker'S articles on the negro problem. which
azine. and are now issued in book form
by Doubleday. Page & Co. are notable
journalistic achievements. a professor in
a Southern university has announced his
intention OF using Mr.. Bakers book in
connection with his lectures on economics
Holman Day, author Of king Spruce"
and The Eagle Badge" was recently
called 10 Washington by President Roose-
welt to discuss the subject Of forest pres
ervatiOn. which Is touched upon in his
book. and 10 give information in regard
to other subjects in which the President
is interested.
Messrs Henry Holt & Company have
just had TO send Miss Marion Ames Tag
CARTS ''Nut-Brown Joan TO press for the
third time. Miss Taggart has been herald
ed by some discriminating critics as n
new Louisa Alcott. In addition 10 her
kindly humOr. she certainly manages TO
get more heart interest into her stories
than do most other writers Of books for
the young
Selma LagerIof Is one OF the best
known characters in Sweden to-day. Her
books run al once into enormous edi-
tons She has popularity that is ma
tional On her recent birthday. November
%. her works were read in the schools
all over Sweden and in many cities
speeches were made in her honor. Up To
TIE very time OF the award Of the Nobel
prize. Miss Lagerl0f was very strong
candidate and had many staach sun
porters in the Swedish academies. II
was generally supposed that either she
or SWinburne would receive the award.