The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
REVIEWS AND NOTES OF NEW BOOKS

written by the author OF THE House on
the Hudson and The By-ways of
Braithe." The pursuit of the American
Leress by the fortune-hunting noblemen
resident in the hotel and the resulting
adventures are treated with absorbing
interest. 1t is all invested with the at
mosphere of mystery which is so char
acteristic of the authors preceding nov
els and one of the strongest holds on
the attention of the reader.
a group of typical, wel-bred Americans
abroad, brought together in a love story
that carries the reader through some
startling adventures in Sicily and else
where, are introduced to the reader of
The Secret Book" by George Wemyss,
which Sturgis & Walton Company will
publish this spring. The story has its
starting point in the hero's finding of a
secret diary left in the room of a hotel
by a young girl whose identity the jour-
nal does not betray. The intimate reve-
lations of this secret book" plunge the
hero deep in love with their mysterious.
author. The story tells of his strange
search for the girl, and of how. after
discovering her identity, his pursuit of
her becomes even more adventurous
than before. The couple, drawn together
in so extraordinary a fashion are, in
fact, the center of such surprising COM
plicauons that the course of their love
scarcely for moment runs smooth.
That human and humorous book, IneZ
Haynes Gillmore's phoebe and Ernest"
CHolD. seems to be repeating the sue
cess that the stories originally had in
the American Magazine, as the publish
ers are already having to send it to press
for the third time.
Brant Harbeck. the hero of Caroline
Fuller's forthcoming novel, The Bran
BILE Bush," is said to be one of those
men whose talents seem to be divided
between two arts. His work is iuustrat-
ing books and drawing cartoons. and his
passion is for music. Any strange or
funny incident prompt him first to draw
a picture and then to embody il in the
words and music of a song. He and
Noel Gordon, who Is a much greater
artist than he, join a summer colony of
artists and writer's, whose doings are
amusingly related. and there results the
working out of Brant's talents into a
third and greater one.
Messrs. d. Appleton & Co. announce
for early issue a book on the "Preven-
ton of Infectious Diseases" by DIR. Al
yah Ii. Doty, health officer of the port
Of New York. The splendid work which
DR.. Doty has been doing for years in
saving New York from the spread of in
fectious diseases gives his book consid-
cradle Importance. The authors object
Is to deal with the subject from a prac-
tical standpoint and to present the latest
knowledge relative to the transmission
OF infectious diseases and to the means
by which this may be prevented.
1t Is curious coincidence that Jules
Eckert Goodman and Margaret Mayo, |
who is the author of Baby Nine" were |
brought up in the little town of Gervais, |
Greg. and were childhood acquaintances.
They both left Gervais at an early age. |
and the whirligig of time finally brought |
them to New York. They did not meet. |
however. until their latest successful |
plays were produced, and yet by a curl
ous coincidence both selected subjects
relating to the home. Baby Mine" tells 1
the humorous side of the story, Mother
exhibits the sweetness and the tragedy
n maternal love. Another curious coin
cidence is the fact that both PLAYS were
accepted by William A. Brady about the
same time and produced simultaneously:
and still another curious coincidence Is
The fact that both plays were novelized.
submitted to the same publishing house,
ind accepted. Mother" is published this
spring, while Baby Mine. Is 10 be
ssued in the fall by Dodd. Mead & Co.