The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-24
BOOkS AND AUTHORS.


Remus and the Little Boy was the last
work 81 Joel Chandler Harris before his
death Interspersed among the stories
are typical Uncle Remus rhymes which
sing themselves into the memory. and
the stories themselves hear such char.
acteristic titles a. The Story Of the
Doodang.- How 'er Rabbit Saved Br ~
Bars Life and The Story Of Br'er Eos
and Little Mr.. Cricket
James Luhy. author ~ The Biac X
Cross Glove lays the acme 81 hs stor '
in "a mountain country not far from
New York The plot involves q New
York artist, a young New York girl OF
/ the simple. old fashioned typo. and a
mountain girl Who. though unlettered
and primitive. has yet. a. the artist hero
| Of the tale puts IL. "a touch 81 genius
in her The most characteristic feature
! 81 the book is the strange Wild love Of
this girl for the mythical spirit Of the
mountain. winnesook. to whom she Is
at last united in a sufficiently startling
manner
! Small MAYNARD A Company. Boston.
have on their fall fiction list Down Home
with Jennie Allen by Grace Donworth
and with sir illust raiions by Frederic
Griger. a book which. like its predecessor.
The Letters Of Jennie Allen ran Serially
in the Ladies Home Journal; Tho Prodi-
gal Pro Ten by Frederick Grin Bartlett
and illustrated by Howard Chandler
Christy. a Catskill romance involving a
young woman and a New York artist who -
improvised into a brother from Alaska;
] ssr
n tale Of Virginia like the authors pre-
ceding novel The Scar; and for young
readers Uncle Rcmus and the Lutte
Boy by Joel Chandler Harris, with
fify-fvs illust raiions by j. NJ. Condo.
eight 81 them in full color.
Among he miscellaneous books Of these
publishers are " J Moors's With Steven
son in samoa with a pho, ogravure
frontispiece and fouy-two other illusira-
tions from phot ographs. proof sheets.
letters. &c: Winthrop Packard's Wood
Wandering. illust rated by Charles Cope
land. completing the New England Year.
composed of Woodland Paths" tsprinRl.
wild Pastures tslmmep. Wood Wan
derings- Iautumni and Wildwood DAYS
IwintsrI: Florida Trails. nv Winthrop
Packard At the New Theat re- and On hers.
by Walter PrichArd Eat on, including an
int rodnctory chapter on the theai neal
svndcate. the first years work of the New
Theatre. discussion ~ various PLAYS
such a. The Fastest WAv.- The Harvest
Moon. -Herod. The Man from Home.
Mid Ihann.l.- The Pillars ~ Society.
&c. and q variety Of more general thea'
rical topicr: What Fight Million Women
Want 10y Rheta Childe DoTr. the title II
which 10 derived from the fact that the
a affiliated societ les 81 the International
o,Incil - Women number eight million
This. Conservation IL Water by John L.. I
Mathews. AN account II the problem 81
conserving the water resources ~ the .
rulntry: This. Confessions 81 "A Reheilt0I- ,
Wife Anonymous. two additions To the
8 BACON Biography Series. -G"org"
on 10y Wort hing one Ford, and
BENJAMIN Franklin by Lindsay swift
and Provence 81 Ezra Pound Icing
poeni- - Ie,t 81 from -Prr-"nir. -ENul'a-
ions and -Canzonlrrr. and the first
American edition of Mr. Puund'- work
-Th. S,nurgs- Warrington DaNSnn'-
new bolk d-alS with life IA ~" lat" W.
in a small Virginia city winch - sad 10
le Petersburg
When Stevenson arrived a. Samoa
he brought "A letter of Introduction to
u J Mourz. whose with Stevenson ~
samoa - among the autumn punlich
ions For some time ia" novelist ana
his family made Mr. MoOrs'- house their
home. aud after Stevenson rented
Tt,Ir cottage not far from II b. still spent
a large part ~ his time With Mr.. M"ur-
at.r At St-yrusun' request Mr.. MUor-
negotiated for hun the purchase ~ ~"
yauima propsrty aud built a little cot
ave. for him Their" Will. the novelist
Sas on a visit - sydney and still later
h. NarlIma house was built m oun~ulta-
.iou With MIR Moors. from whom also
stevenson bought h,s brown pony Jack
made famous 10y the -Nailima Letters
The two men talked over Stevenson
South Sea literary work intimately and
we're involved together IN all the exciting
political Developments Of the tim" m
samoa Mr. Moors tells the story -
he tomb ~ Stevenson and 81 The Road
y Gratitude. aud he closes hiS account
4 Stevenson in Samoa With an app-al
% Stevenson lowers 20 keep IN" tomb
md the pathway 10 It mp Mount Ndra
u good c"nditl""
The chapter heads oi RheIa Ihildr
Dorr. What hight Million Women
n ant are Of interest ~ these days ~
agitation FROM Culture Clui- To Social
,ervice.- European Nofn~n and the
,aIiC Law American " omen and the
'omnon Law -Mom"n- Demands on
h. Rulers ~ Industry Making over
n. Factory From IN. lnsid" The In
sII.ctual Accent ~ Women. 'Br"aklng
IA. Great Tahoe Woman.S Helping
Hand for the prodigsl Daughter Tn"
servant IA Her House" and Votes for ,
\ omen The frNt ~ IN" authors r"a-
nns advanced for this presentation 81
h. status Ind'IrtTially. socially and
,olitically. 81 the twentieth century
yoman - that il - matter ~ SELF ~.
crest Tor men to examine the pr".'-nt
.i.als 81 women and th1t. A. IN" voting
= r.ngth 81 the world - aInut 90 h.. d
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