The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-25
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selma LAgeriof IL described by q writer
in ReTErr'S Bazaar a. sths leading figure
in the so-cAlled New Renaissance In
Swedish culture and national life. which
has been stimulated more than retarded
BY the separation from Norway in 1876.
She IL q tireless worker and gives little
time 10 social recreation. She sttains
her graceful style only after considerable
effort and a liberal U.s. az the eraser.
II took her thirty-three years % write
her first hook. MUre than sixty thousand
copies have been printed for q nation Of
only 5000. 900 inhabitants, II IL estimated
that one Swede in every twelve owns a
copy.
Geunany's hope that II has found the
Key 10 air navigation in the discovery
that migrating birds never cross the
seas and oceans except ON storm currents
and sometimes on the storms themselves
is the basis Of an article 70 appear in the
June G, HfHry on Bird Flight and AIR
NAVIGATION T.R. MacNIechen and Carl
Dienstbach, the authors. will also de-
scribe how the birds art in mastering the
air has become important in the study
Of that new element in international
politics AIR power.
A new contribution 10 the discussion u
slang 10 made in Mr.. Owen JohnsOn's
The Hummlng Bird The hero under
takes to explain his original vocabulary
to the instructor % English as follows;
Minds soaked clover-kiSaer TO the
Tar stati0n.'
4 don't get that. Finnegan.' said the
master. what IL a clover-kisssr''
why. a dAisy-schoruher, sir
you mean a grounderi'
A certain kind Of grounder. sir. very
lOw-One that doesn't rise from the grass.
Quite different from a bronco buster or q
dswdrop. sir
The game was tucked away when
Dennis unmuEzled q humming bird
indicates the origin of tho title Of Owen
Johnson'a new book, The Humming
Bird Readers oi classical English may
be puzzled by the phrase. but Il viii de-
hght the soul Of every fan from Boston
10 San Francisco. The author has re-
oeived many letters from correspondents
who feel sure that they are the actual
persons described in his stories Of Law
renoeville life. and enc or two Of them in
sist that their nicknames are wrongly
spelled. Mr.. johnson pretends that he
was not conscious Of drawing from life
in any Of these cases.
Martin W. Beck offered a prize Of $3.50
some months ago for the best one act
play 20 he presented a. one Of the attrao-
tons at the recent Actors Fund fair.
Out Of 1000 manuscripts submitted c. !.
Dasey's The Old Flute Player won the
prize. Mr. Darcy. II will be remem-
bered. 10 the author % In Old Kentucky
and One % the Family His play con-
Germs the fortunes Of a German nobleman
who has iallen upon evil days and has been
reduced 10 the necessity Of becoming a
hute player IN a New York beer garden.
The author Of the play and Edward
Marshall have been writing a novel TO-
Rether upon the theme Of the play and Il
viii be published Immediately.
The story Of the life Of Yoshio Markino
AZ told by himself under the title Of "A
japanese Artist in London will be pub
Rshed IN this country Immediately. In
quaint English. broken bat readable. this
talented son Of the Past tells Of his work
among the British people who have re-
ceived him 80 cordially. II is the real
story Of real life Of the artists fight
with poverty when he gladly undertook
any work obtainable hrs slow rise 70
fortune and his final remarkable success
The project now on foot 10 raise the
Maine lends much interest 10 Schroeder
Daviss new novel IJhe Storm Birds
announced Tor immediate publication
The book deals with the diplomatic in
trigues eliminating in the spanish Amer
can war The scene IL laid In Washing
ton. and in a series Of realistic pictures
Of great diplomatists in action the book
gives the inside story Of the blowing
up Of ths battleship Maine and the
events that led 20 the war with Spain
Daniel Boone. as every schoOlboy
knows. il the typical American back
woodsman He was never 40 much az
home az when treading the painless
wilderness, rife in hand In quest of
game or the Wild Indian Always Boone
Kept ia the forefront Of civilization.
pointing the way for its advance. but
never allowing Il quite 70 oyertaks him.
Not city streets. but the mountain. the
forest and the prairie were bis habitat
These are the opening words Of n Ad-
dinRion Bruce's Daniel Boone and the
wilderness Road In this volume the
youth Of Daniel Boone. his first cam
paien. his explorations in Kentucky.
the building Of the Wilderness Road.
Kentucky after the Revolution and
Boone's last years are some Of the topics
which the author discusses
Mr. HG Wells describes the American
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