The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
Notes and Gossip

klpHngs new book is nearly ready
for publication. It is to bear the odd
title of Rewards and Fairies.
Meredith Nicho1son,s new novel, .'The
Siege of the Seven Suitors." is an
nounced for publication in the autumn
by Houghton Mifiin copany.
Maurice Maeterlinck, it is rumored,
may come to America this fall as a
guest of the New theater. His Mon
, ma Wanna" is said to be in far greater
demand as book than it is as 4 play.
Dr. Bernard Hollander, author of
"Hypnotism and Suggestion" is psy-
chologist of distinction and a physician
for mental disorders and diseases. He
is well known for his original investi-
cations into the functions of the brain
and their relations to mind and char
acter.
Anne Warner has returned to Ger
many and is again hard at work, while
THE Regeneration of Aunt Mary" is
performed at Terrys theater, London,
with Miss Robson in the part which
she assumed in this country. The au-
thor's novel for 1911 is already COM
pleted
Ray Stannard Baker now lives at
Amherst, Mass. in a fine old ivy COW
cred house, half hid from the street by
hedge, on a tWo-acre tract that has
been planted with a variety of trees
and perennials, and for many years
carefully cared for. The place was once
the home of Eugene Field, and for a
long time it has been the home of
Mary Heaton worse.
We are glad to note that Calcutta, in
which city Thackeray was born, will
formally commemorate his centenary
next year. A public fund is to be gath
cred with which to obtain a replica of
Deville's charming bust of the novelist
Calcutta cathedral wherein Thackeray
was baptized.
Edwin Milton RoyIs has dramatized
his story The Silent CALI which will
be produced this season by Liebler &
Co.. ION or about November l. Royle
was a drapatist before he took to
writing novels. being the author of
"The Squaw Man., Friends Marry
ing Mary" Captain Impudence. THE
Struggle Everlasting" etc., and like
most successful dramatists, Royle was
an actor before being writer.
George Schock" tKatherine Riegel
Loose), author of Hearts Contending.'
is described as being tall. perhaps a
little above medium height. has well
rounded figure, and Is rather dignified.
Her hair is chestnut brown, nearly
auburn, and is worn parted and drawn
back from her face, entirely guiltless
of puffs. She has bright brown eyes.
and her voice is low and even. with
ring of firmness. In fact. her person
ality suggests the character of her
novel, for Hearts Contendfng'' Is set in
a Pennsylvania valley and the people
are Pennsylvania Germans, the stock
from which George Schock has come.
DIR. William Edgar Cell, author of
"The Great Wall of China" ETC., has
just returned to this country from
trip which took him to the 20 capital
cities OF China. He has brought to-
gether and had translated collection
of the historical annals of these cities.
accounts of which have never before
been accessible TO the English reader
Doctor Cell brings with him besides
1000 photographs of interest to the
student of Chinese archaeology. his
tory, etc.
How strangely sweet the nomenoia-
trre of rural New England Pawtucket,
Poquonock, Poquetamick-they drip
like honey from the tongue. And Cut
tyhunk. Cos Cob Nanepashemet. Wat
tequeogaugum. outset. Leekonk. and
Sisladobsisis--are sounds that mellifiu-
ously caress the ear! To these precious
place names Frederic p. Ladd adds an
other, that of the lovely village in
which the charming heroine of his
latest novel. which the Sturgis & Wal
ton company has brought out. resides.
Shenipsit this town is called, and titles
quite contagious" to the city of Hart
ford. The title of the novel in ques-
tiou is THE Lady of Shenipsit