The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has re-
turned from her summer home In Maine
to New York, where the first metropoli-
tan performances of her successful play,
"Rebecca of sunnybrook Farm" took
place.
An unusual order just received by
Messrs. Page for Prof. VIII s. Monroe's
new work, Bohemia and the Cechs,"
which, by the way, Is already in Its
second edition. is one for rs copies
from his honor DR.. Karel Gros, lord
mayor of the city of Prague, for dis
tribution among prominent and leading
Bohemians.
Gerald Stanley Lee has returned TO
this country from four months trip in
Europe.
Sir Gilbert Parker is making the final
changes and additions to a volume of
short stories which has been announced
for publication during this season.
"Juggerjook'! Funny kind OF a
name. isn't it? 1t is the name OF
delicious, whimsical story which The
for one of the magazines. L.
Frank Baum. Is one of the most
widely known OF living writer's for
young folks and his latest story has
many clever bits of rhyme and will be
beautifully illustrated by Gunner
Barnes.
frank Dandy" the pseudonynn under
which Mrs Julia Frankau publishes her
novels, is the result of a printers
blunder. When casting about for a
name, she decided on Frank Berni."
but the printer made it Dandy. She has
won renown in two widely separated
branches of literature, her beautiful
and costly works on color prints hav-
ing brought her, it is said, $4,000 in
royalties
Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne, grand
daughter of Americas most famous
novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, will
continue her department of books and
reading in st. Nicholas during the COM
ing year, pleasantly and wisely guiding
young folks to the best works of the
best authors.
The return of Richard Harding Davis
to short story writing this last year
has shown a decided advance in his
capacity for form of fiction in which
he has always excelled The comment
on his recent volume OF nine stories,
"Once Upon a Time" has been most
enthusiastic and. in the Christmas
Scribner. he had a story, The Consul"
which for fine feeling and dramatic
intensity he has not surpassed
An unusual attraction in one Of the
Christmas magazines was "a conyersa-
tion," set down by Maurice Hewlett.
between himself and two ofshis charac-
ters, Senhouse and Sanchia, in which
the three talk of town and country
and what the two oaer their followers
John Steventon. author of the re-
Gently published book, The Hermit of
Capri" who is In real life Judge Tark-
ington, father of Booth Harrington
was married this month to Miss Linda
II. Schultz, a director in the public
schools of Indianapolis. his home city.
The author and jurist is in his 10th
year.
Percival Pollard, author of Their
Day in Court" after two months in
Wiesbaden. is at Milford, Conn, en-
gagged on a book in appreciation OF
certain modern German authors.
The Comprehensive Modernized Rapid
Calculator" by j. ID. Delp OF the COM
mercial department of Springfield high
school in Springfield, Mo-. is complete
in every detail. 1t is a method original
with the author and is intended to sup
plement other texts on arithmetic where
the short methods are neglected. The
copyright is applied for and all rights
reserved. The author has every conf
dence in the perfection OF his method.
Katherine Cecil Thurston, whose
latest novel. Man" was published this
fall. is the only child OF Paul Madden,
mayor OF Cork, and was born in that
town. Educated at home by q
governess. she showed no further quaIi-
fications for future authorship than a
love OF reading. However, 1t was at
Yougal. near both Cork and her pres
ent home at Ardmore, that the poet.
Spencer. lived Following the publica-
tion OF Mrs. Thurston's first novel The
Masquerader," she attained a recog-