The Washington herald., 1912-08-04
LITERARY NOTES.

Augusta Kortrecht has Just finished re-
visIng the proofs OF her new story,
Dixie Rose in Bloom" and is now spend
ing her summer in GARRISON, Ontario.
Natalie Lincoln. author Of The Trevor
Case" a detective story that has already
run through five editions. has left WASH
ington for the New England hills. where
she Is completing her new mystery story.
E. r. Lipsett. a new writer in the field
OF fiction, whose first novel. The House
of a Thousand Welcomes" has just been
published. is OF Irish birth, but was edu-
Gated at Heidelberg. For the last five
years he has been engaged in newspaper
work in this city.
Ida TarbeIl having completed her book.
THE Business of Being Woman"
which will be published in September,
sailed for Europe last Monday. expecting
to spend the next two months travelling
on the Continent, and returning to this
country early in October.
George Middleton, the dramatist, is
spending the summer at the farm OF his
father-in-law. Senator La Toilette. Mad
ison, Wis. putting the finishing touches
on a new volume OF plays which will deal
mainly with phases of the social and eco-
nomic problems of the day.
The Century Company will publish in
book form in the fall DR.. Maurice Fran
els Egan's "Everybody's St Francis"
with twenty illustrations by the noted
French artist, Boutet de Monvel.
Alice Hogan Rices new story, "A Ro-
nance of Billy-Goat HILL" Is set in the
South. and is pure romance. The Cen
fury Company will issue 1t in the fall.
attractively illustrated.
Fitz Roy Darlington. editor of the
Print Collectors Quarterly. has gathered
and etchers, old and modern, by notable
authorities, and the Century Company
is making a handsome edition. with 200
of interesting and valuable
prints.
There are few people in the United
States who have not at some time
chuckled over the phrase, The smile
that won't come on 1t Is not
generally known that Miss Carolyn
Wells, the brilliant originator of
Fleming. Stone. who figures in her
new novel. "A Chain of Evidence"
is the author OF this phrase and was paid
800 for II. and II she has any grievance
in life it is the fact that she has never
been given the credit for this sentence,
which she considers one of the funniest
she ever wrote.
July "a Edward Bayard Moss contrib
utes an article upon the American VIC
tories at the Olympic games at Stock
holm arff N har
clude: The Baseball Scout" by Edward
Lyell Fox; Bidding for the Transconti- |
mental Trade" by Edward Hungerford; |
THE Last of the Viking Poets" by |
James Huneker: Sciences Challenge to |
Business by Henry NJ. Hyde. This is |
sue contains the customary editorial, hu- !
NOR. fiction. and financial features, and |
many other articles Of interest.
There circumstances when. upon the |
advice of scouts. tremendous prices have |
been played for the promising ball player |
Of the minors" writes Edward Lyell Fox I
In the issue. of Harper's Weekly for July |
a. The telegraphed dispatch to the head |
quarters Of the American League Base
ball Club in Detroit, Transfer your OPP |
lion on Pitcher Cicotte. of Augusta. to |
Outfielder Cobb of the same club"
brought Ty Cobb TO the league for SO !
The scout is a spy and purchasing agent |
combined. He must move secretly from
city to city and have the instinct for a |
shrewd business deal"
F. Hopkinson Smiths new novel, The 4
Armchair at the Inn which the Scrib- |
ners publish in August, is probably the /
most Characteristic he has produced. |
Readers know that he excels in creating |
The atmosphere which pervades places