The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-04

great detectives methods 70 the case
Of a man condemned to death IN Eng
whom he feels 10 have been
wrongly convicted.
Two Harvard professors who have
closed their careers as teachers
Professor George Herbert Palmer
and Professor Francis Greenwood
Peabody. Professor Palmer has been
at Harvard for IS years and Professor !
Peabody for 81 years. Both men are
widely known as authors.
Arthur S%tringer, author Of The
Shadow, has just been added To the
active writer's making up the Council
OF the newly formed Authors League
Of America. Among the other anne
on this Council are Augustus Thomas,
Gertrude Atherton, Winston Churchill,
Prof. Sloane and Arthur Train.
Harper & Brothers have just issued
reprints of two recent books: Your
United States, by Arnold Bennett: Lin.
coins Own Stories by Anthony Cross.
They are also reprinting I~nnccents
Abroad, The Prince. and the Pauper,
\ Connecticut Yankee at King Ar
thurs Court, The Personal ReCoiec-
ions OF Joan OF Arc III The Nan
Who Corrupted Hadleyburs. by Mark
Twain.
The delightful works Of Anatole
France continue to find their way into
English. The John al Company has
just brought out The Aspirations of
jean Servien in a translation by Alfred
Ailnson. Jean Servien, son Of a book
binder, born in a back-shop in the Rue
Notre-Dalne des Champs. began at an
az - O. ~ Two 1900 o~x--~
life OF adventure. AS a character
sketch this Is one Of Anltole Frances
InaS tex- pieces
In his next novel Tie Mischief Max.
eF. announced for March Is. r. Phil
lips OppenheiYn will return to the type
OF story that has achieved for him his
great POPULARITY blending Of love.
romance and diplomatic intrigue. Mr..
Oppenheim is said to lave written no
thing more strikingly dramatic than
the climax OF this story OF Low and in
ternational politics. in which two
strong men match wits against each
other and & wOman'S words decide the
deStiEies of nations.
Mcssrs. Henry Holt and Company
are already having to send Mr.. John
l.. Given's Making z Newspaper to
press for the sixth time. Evidently
Mr.. Given's experience on the New
York Evening Sun stood him il good
stead. His book Is not only interest
ing to prospective newspaper men. but
to the general reader, and especially
at this time. in such chapters as '"The
Police as News Gatherers' and "Po-
lice Courts as News Centers."
New Lear Mills a novel by William
Dean Howell, has just been published
by the Harpers. It recounts the expe-
rlenceS Of an unsuccessful city book
seller h bought q paper mill in the
country, enthusiastically certain thai
fate would help hin turn over a fin.
ancial new leaf. Onnosition and dis.
appointment could not sour the Iowa.
bic Optimist. In addition to it's hctiona
country life in the Middle West during
the period following the Mexican war
James FenfmOre Cooper, by Mar
e. Phillips, was published by the Joh1
Lane Company last month. AS a mon
! umental record Of the man, Jame
|, Feninlore Cooper, his volume vii
! prove itself invaluable, for Miss Phil
; lips has obtained permission from
, some members of the Cooper family t,
: use excerpts from letters. portraits
. and pictures which have never befor
, left their hands.
I It is now definitely announced tina
4 The Amateur Gentleman. the ney
{ novel by Jeffrey Farnoi, whose Til
Broad Highway is in its 1i0th thou
sand, Will be published in this countr
: March Is. Mr.. FarnOl here in hi
e characteristic style tells of the adven
d lures that befel q sturdy country-bre
youth who sets forth for london I
become a gentleman" The Amateu
Gentleman is the first story Mr.. Far
mol has written since the publicatio
Of The Broad Highway. and is said [
possess the Sd me qualities which CAV
that book its universal appeal-th
charm of style. the fresh, unusual III
hor. the vigorous yet whimsical char
- acterizations. The period is in m
early nineteenth century.
In The Love Dream. by George Yan