The Washington herald., 1912-06-09
LITERARY NOTES.

We would suggest TO the citizens OF
San Diego that It is a poor use for the
American nag to ram II down the
throat OF a professional anarchist, Gays
Harper's Weekly.
THE Home Rule BILL" John Red
Tnond's own account OF the struggle,
with his speeches for the bill. will soon
appear from the press Of cassen 4 Co.,
Boston.
Harper & Brothers announce that
they are putting on sale The Street
Called Straight" the new novel by the
author Of "The Inner Shrine" which
was published only last week. The
same hrm is also reprinting this week
Margaret Deland's latest novel, The
Iron Woman"
Mary Caroline Crawford. whose "oId
Boston Days and Ways" and Roman
tic Days in Old Boston," have attracted
no little attention, Is at work on a
book OF wider scope. II will be called
Romantic Days in the Early Repub-
lie" It will deal with New York. Phil
adelphia, Baltimore, Washington. Rich
mond, and other Southern cities. and
II viii be published In the autumn by
Little, Brown, & Co.
Thomas Hardy, who foreswore nc
tion writing. has made public a poem
on the Titanic disaster which pictured
the twin growth Of the ship and de-
stroying iceberg land contamination
comes and Jars two hemlspheres I"
Verse has been Hardy's only medium OF
writing since he completed the wessex
novels-'The Return Of the Native
Jude the Obscure" Tess Of the dur
berville." and the others.
More than 5000 estates. some Of them
valued as high as s1.5Oo.OOO, are un-
claimed in this country and Europe. In
the issue Of Harper's Weekly for May
8 Lewis Edwin Thelss writes upon some
OF the romances Of missing heirs. One
OF the most remarkable Is the "Rinsey
docks" case. A Pittsburg man had a
claim to q small estate abroad and got
3 friend named Peterman to back him
with some money. One day, when Pc
terman was at the claim agency once
he found that he was being advertised
for, and ultimately he established q
good claim to an inheritance OF $4,000.
Social Insurance in Germany. isSs-
1911: It's History, Operation. Results, s.
has been imported by the Scribners
Its author Is W. Harbutt Dawson, who
wrote The Evolution OF Modern Ger
many" Prepared to show the results
of the -frst twenty-five years operations
Of Bismarcks great social legislation.
and supplemented with numerous H.
lustrations and plans, It stands as the
most complete account OF the German
H1w AaW -
anywhere out Of Germany.
ParadoXical as II sounds, the Indian Is
now learning camp and woodlore from
the pages Of a book. Government au-
thOTities at the Cheyenne and Arapaho
agency school asked the Harpers for
copies OF the books in the Practical Sc
ries. which includes "Harpers Camping
and Scouting and 'Harper's outdoor
Book" The government has also in
stalled the Handy Book for Girls" and
the various machinery and electrical
books In the agency school library.
A Journey by automobile to the palace
OF Fontainebleau is charmingly described
by Charles Johnston in the current Is
sue OF Hsrpers Weekly. There is q
sense Of human life In France that is
equaIed by no other country in the
world" says this author. Other articles
OF interest to automobile owners who
intend TO spend the summer in Europe
will appear in forthcoming numbers Of
this publication.
Marie Beulah Dix. who already has an
evable reputation as a fiction writer for
adults, bids fair to make her mark as a
Juvenile author. too. Messrs. Henry
Holt and Company announce that they
are already having to reprint her
Friends in the End"
c. ]. Cutcllne Hyne. the English au-
thor, whose late novel, The Marriage
Of Capt Kettle" CBobbs MerriIs). has
caused a revival OF interest in sea
stories, contemplates another long sea
voyage in the near future. However"
he says, Il never expect to take another
voyage which will give me the happi-
ness I experienced during my first one.
Now I feel that / must travel as a
first cabin passenger on board the big
liners. On my first voyage I was con-
tented with freight boats and about half
the time worked my passage before the
mast"
Messrs Henry Holt and Company have
issued a notable work Social France in
the Time Of Philip Augustus" by Achille
Luchaire. Edited by Louis Halphen.
Translated by E. B. Krehbiel. Stanford
Three Sorbonne lectures are
oy the author of the volume on the
relgns Of Louis VII, Philip Augustus.
md Louis VIII, in Lavisse's "Histoire
de France. Although death prevented
final revision by the author. the lectures
had been prepared with such care and
that only the slightest edit
Ing was required to shape them for pub
lication.