Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-26
Literary Notes

A three-months' tour of America
in 1920 has been arranged for
Maurice Maeterlinck by his Ameri-
can lecture manager. Maeterlinck is
expected to reach New York just
before Christmas to attend the
premiere of The Blue Bird" in op-
cratic form, at the Metropolitan
Opera House. New York, on Decem-
ber q. His initial appearance be-
fore an American audience will be
made at Carnegie Hall in that city
on January .. After speaking in a
number of eastern cities he will start
on a tour of the entire country
which will take him TO the Pacific
coast. En- route he will spend sew
eral days in the Grand Canyon-a
visit which will doubtless inspire
him and give him material for fu-
ture use. For three years no new
essays from his pen have been pub
lished in book form, so that Noun
tain Paths" with the Dodd, Mead
imprint) will command unusual in
terest. The book embraces eighteen
essays by the great Belgian writer.
Berta Ruck, whose latest book,
1.-The Disturbing Charm" is a recent
publication of Dodd, Mead & Co. is
making an extended visit to
America. Several of the New York
papers had printed animated inter
views with her. She tells her pub
fishers that she finds the American
newspaper writers most amusing,
though not always strictly veracious.
Helena" Mrs. Humphrey Wards
newest story, is announced for early
publication by Dodd. Mead & Co. 1t
is called an after-the-war romance.
Helena is described as an English
girl whose natural wilfulness has
been developed by wartime ac-
tivities.
Louis Couperus, the talented
Dutch author, whose Small Souls
novels have introduced him TO
American readers, was born in 1853
and has written many stories. While
the Small Soul" books are some
what tragic in tone, Couperus has
written number of stories in q.
much lighter tone. Some of them
even border on the burlesque. Dodd,
Mead & Co. have just issued
"Ecstacy," which is described as
charming story of love in its most
delicate mysteries.
Up to the beginning of this year
Octavus Roy Cohen was unknown
except to a few devotees of the short
st ory magazines. To-day he has
acquired fame as the author of a
detective story, The Crimson
AUbi." and of polished Ebony" a
collection of humorous stories of the
southern "sassiety" negro. The
Crimson Alibi" was made into a
play by George Broadhurst and has
been running on Broadway for
weeks with prospects of being re-
tanned in New York until the warm
weather comes again. The success
of this play has caused two New
York managers to arrange with Mr..
Cohen for further plays-one of
which will be called Polished
Ebony"
Upon n pedestal she had set love,
as most girls do; and about that
pedestal she had built a bower OF
roses to fence it off from life. Love
was a dream world to her, a place
| of magic happenings, of fountains
playing in the sun, of fairy glens and
midsummer nights ecstacy. Love
was a prince in armor with a sword
forever drawn to assail the slightest
sadness that threatened her. She
COulQ not see Love III an ordinary
pair of trousers that life had
frayed. carrying-only on rarest oc-
casions-an umbrella that had been
| bought for half a crown at "a lost
property sale" Poor Jill, who could
only see the look of poverty in John
| Grey's face. and not the poets
sensitive love behind il. Poor Mary
Ann and Betty and all the other girls
who let the harsh realities of life
crush out all the young wonder in
their world. Let us hope that they
will read and profit by what f.
Temple Thurston has to say about
them in THE World OF Wonderful
Reality"
D.. Appleton & Co. are publishing
this week THE Strategy of Min
erals" by George Otis Smith, direc-
tor of the United States Geological
Survey. The book is a study of min
erals as a factor in the world posi-
tion of America. 1t also describes
the highly essential part which min
erals played in the Great War, The
introduction is by Franklin K.fLane.
! secretary of the interior.