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Miss Mary Johnstone, author of "To Have and to Hold," has just written a new and charming romance, "Sir Mortimer," which will begin publication publi-cation in Harper's Magazine for next May. Miss Katherine Hooker has just given to the world of literature a volume of rare interest in "Wayfarers in Italy," Charles Scribner's Sons. It is replete with only such idealistic pictures as can be obtained under blue Italian skies. That the Italy of the author is too much tinted with rose colors cannot be doubted, with the squalor beggary and vice which the modern traveler finds facing him at every turn. It is a work of beauty but as unreal as would be the idealizing of a New York longshoreman into the picturesque garb of a vel-vetclad vel-vetclad gondolier. |
