The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-30
BOOkS AND AUTHORS.


Miss Helen A. Clarke. the author Of |
-Longfellow's Country -Browning's
Italy &c. IL also a musician and hAs
written an opera, The May Queen.
which 10 To he given next month. Miss
Clarke lives in Cambridge and IL now at
work upon n companies volume 60 Long !
fellows Country which will be called
-HawthOrne's Country
George Sylvester Viereck's new book. !
The Confessions % a barbarian will he
published in April. IL will he recalled
that Mr.. Niereck came 20 America at the
age % 10 and got his education here.
Reccntly he returned and discovered
Germany. he secs German percentages.
from the Emperor down to the waiter.
with a Cleamess almost disconccrting.
and he does not hesitate To express exactly
what he sees and exactly what he thinks
u things American a. well as things
German
4 Kate Douglas Miggin kinder arten
was dedicated ia Denver. Col. last week.
The Corona School. where ihis new kinder
garten ~ established. il one Of the inject
and best equipped in Denver The dedica-
ton exercises were participated in by all
the scholars. who gave dramatiLed scenes
and readings from Mrs Virgins books.
A {. Fox avies. the English harristeT
whcse forthcoming tale ~ mystery and
Imagination 10 to be published under the
title The Duplicate Death has led an
active literary life. Although still well
under forty Mr.. FOx-Davies has been
responsible a. editor and author for more
than sixty volumes. Though much Of his
work has concerned itself with heraldy.
he has written considerable amount OF
detective fiction. being especially well
fitted for the production II that form of
the novel hy reason If his practical ex-
perience IN the Central Criminal Court of
l. ondon.
The second volume 10 biographies IT
prominent Americans - To 10 leading
American Nov elists This book. which
wiil he published next week. 10 written
by Prof John Erskine ~ Columbia The
author will consider IN this volume Charles
Brockden Brown. James Fenimore
Cooper William Gilmore Simms. Nathan
iel HG wthorns Harriet Beecher stowe.
and Bret Harte The book will he fol-
lowed by another m the same series writ
ten by DR. William Morton PAYNE on
Leading American Essayists
Max Vernon In and out ~ Florence.
to 10 published Ia May - a personal mar
rEt,vs which contains all kIuds II IN
formation concerning the Tuscan city
villa life servants gardening A. we'll as
lgh'seeing - and around m" town
spectral charters cover present day he
streets shops 81. Ramhlers N the
country and - nearby Iucan villages
reveal unusual outdoor possibilities of
Fiorentlns s,ghts-- ng
Miss Mary Johnston has come out with
an earnest plea for womens rights IN an
article IN the current i'lGErc entitled
The Nomans War The woman
movement did not begin to-day or last
night or Yesterday or the day before
YESTERDAY. she says IT began an I'M
certain number IT millions ago
II began when the masculine movement
began They began together. I.
II would seem that there 10 an inference
20 be drawn from two simple facts First
child labor. tho brib~d politician. the
contemnor ~ education, the liquor in
tare~t. the hrothel interest. every in
tersst that sets it, face against reform is
opposed tn the political liberty ~ woman
second the biologist. the political econo.
mist. the statesman. the socioIogist. the
eugemist. the physician are to he found
N ever increasing number advocates 81
her @nfrsnch,s~r;ens. The arm
the women want - the standard one ~
tested efficiency. II II called the ballot
y Lorraine Petrie. writing ~ Simon
Bolivar. says for the correct understand
ing Of the heterogeneous population of
South America and Of the miserable period
81 revolution and anarchy which has for
nearly . century stun'ed their progress
there can he no better study than the re-
volt against spain. IN which simon Bolivar
played 20 great a part. and the character
~ the man who. starting life full 81 hope
for his country. died reluctantly con
WINGED ~ the terrible vicissitudes u was
about Co pass through. With such
materials concludes Mr. Petrie. Wash
inEton could never have evolved the
United States and Napoleon could never
have conquered the greater part OF
Europe simon Bolivar has been
publiahed IN England ami has recently
been brought out by the John Lane Com
pany IN this country.
The still anonymous Author ~ The
MArtyrdom 81 an Empress mas written
another novel. Snow Fire which will
he brought out soon. The story 10 set
ia the brilliant world Of diplomatic and
social Europ. 80 intimately known to this
I writer. and u deals with the loves Of
e, allied percentages. A. IN the case %
1 two Of the authors recent novels. The
Cradle Of the Rose and Emerald and
ErInine.' she has been her own illustrator.
! and SNOW Fire will contain several 81
/ the water color drawings which have re-
ySaled IN former books the writer's skill
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