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Book Notes
AdrT-n Savage. novel by Lucas
Naiet is announced by the Harpers for
Immediate publication. The scene Is
laid both in France and England as
Adrian Savage. editor OF Partisan
journal, is the son OF an English ia
Their and Il French mother. Traditional
British gloom and traditional French
saiety are here given d new signin-
canoe In many brilliant scenes. Two
women. French and English. love
Adrian.
The Fair Irish Maid" novel by
Justin Huntly Mccarthy, is announced
for immediate publication by the Har-
pers. II is the history OF country
beauty who became the toast OF Dublin
and London. The Fair Irish Maid" is
the fourth of Mr.. McCarthy's Irish
stories and follows his Jacobean ro-
nance. The King over the Water"
in chronological order. with a lapse Of
about century, the action taking
place in the days of the gay Prince
Regent and Beau Brummcl.
y letter written by MRS Elizabeth
Custer from London to friends here
mentions the fact that fifty scout So
cieties in America have been named
In memory OF her husband, General
Custer Thus the movement. which
the recent book. "Harper's Camping
and Scouting" likens TO modern re-
vtval OF the old chivalry. Will tend to
perpetuate the names and deeds OF
famous men OF the past. as we'll as
TO develop our citizens OF the future.
Among the attractive new publica-
tons to be Issued this fall by Paul
Elder & Company. San Francisco. are
the following:
''Tony's White Room" a sympathetic
story OF college settlement work by
WinifrNd Rich. The illustrations are
TO be in color. reproducing bas-rcliefs
modelled by Elizabeth Ferrca.
Square Beasts and Curved"
whimsical exposition Of the line of
beauty a s depicted in the animal world.
Written and illustrated By DR.. George
A Harker
Recipe for Happy Life" the ia
nous royal recipe for happiness, by
Margaret OF Navarro Ampl.fied by
selections from other writer's by Marie
West King.
Good Things" ethical recipes for
feast days and other days. with graces
for all the days, by Isabel Cioodhue
Walter Francis has prepared for rho
volume series of graceful .llustra
tons and decorations in old time style.
Few contemporary novels retain
their vogue s long and as well as the
late Paul Leicester Fords The Honor
able Peter Stirling" which Is NOV,
fourteen years old Nessrs. Henry
Holt IL Co. have just received n nota
OF inquiry from French admirer resi-
dent in Belgium. in which he asks
whether the author wrote other books
= made a sequel or suite to that
splendid biography of Peter Stirring
and whether he is still living
Grace Margaret Gould. author O;
The Magic Dress" one OF the October
publications OF Doubleday, Page e Co.
Is one of the best known and most sue
cessful fashion editors in the United
States. She edits the fashion department.
OF one of the big New York women,
ma gaines. and has become the unrail-
ing oracle of = large part of the femi
nine world Miss Gouid comes from a
family that has made Albany their
home since the coming of the Dutch
PATRONS.
Miss Mary Johnston. author of The
Long Roll" arrived in New York on
the Cincinnati, after spending tho
summer travelling in Europe. She has
returned to Richmond where she viii
continue work on her new hook. the
title OF which is to be Cease Firing"
This is to complete the story of The
War Between the States. which sh.
left with the death Of Stonewall
Jackson in The Long Roll"
The latest addition to a popular
"Hour Glass Series" brought out bv
Funk e Wagnalis, Of New York. is
Mary Stuart" (Mary. Queen of Scots).
by Una Birch. The price of this de-
lightful little book is 40 cents nee
Interest in the life of Mary. Queen
of Scots, never dies, never even fades
Thirteen pages of the catalogue OF the
British Museum attest to the import
ance in which her life is held Not
withstanding all that has been writ
ten, nearly all biographers develop in
to partisans: hardly one has been able
to avoid weighing the balances in one
direction or another. This account will
be unusual in that it is short md
popular. and based on the latests re.
searches.
Copies of Little Gardens for Bows
and Girls" by Myrta NJ Higgins
Uoughton Miffiin Coz were given az